The Incredibles 2

The (long awaited?) return of an animated classic from 15 years ago Much ado is being made about the "long-awaitedness", so much that it reeks of a publicity seeking, marketing campaign. Regardless, the story picks up where the last ended. Supers are banned and the Incredible family is basically jobless. When they open the film with an attempt to prevent the Mole guy from robbing a bank, the destruction to the city is huge. Nobody wants supers to be super. But then a local billionaire media mogul approaches Elastic-girl to go public and begin a global image makeover to make supers acceptable. Mr. Incredible becomes Mr. Mom, with a teen girl, an adolescent boy and a toddler just coming into his powers. Insert some pretty clever humor here playing on the stereotypes of these situations/people. But not everything is as it seems and the family has to overcome some surprising challenges. In general, these animated films are either kids films (that throw a bone once in awhile to the adults) or adult films (that have enough action/silliness for the kids). This film is closer to the later, but I would say even falls short in the "enough for the kids" category. This is entirely based on the family with 5 kids in the 6-12 age range that sat next to me in the theater. The kids were entirely bored for 80% of the movie. Too much dialogue, too much plot, too slow. But for the adult, who saw the first and remembers it fondly, nice job.

4 stars (out of 5)