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Incredibles 2 is a 2018 superhero action-comedy film and a Pixar animated sequel to The Incredibles. It was released on June 15th, 2018.

Plot[]

The film's story continues from where the first left off, and starts with the Incredibles preparing to fight the Underminer as he makes his way towards City Hall, while also grounding buildings and robbing the city bank. Meanwhile, while Violet and Dash were meant to watch Jack-Jack, her love interest, Tony Rydinger, discovers her superhero identity, forcing agent Rick Dicker to erase his memory. The Underminer manages to rob the bank for a large amount of money and escapes in his tunnelling machine, leaving the Incredibles and Frozone (Lucius Best) to stop his drill machine from destroying City Hall. While the Supers succeed, they are arrested by the police for breaking the anti-Super law. Despite the Incredibles and Frozone preventing the Underminer's drill from inflicting more property damage, the authorities are more concerned with the level of damage caused by the incident. Dicker informs the Parr family that his department in the Super Relocation program is being shut down as a result of the battle with the Underminer. As a result of this, Supers are once again forced to permanently adhere to their secret identities.

At dinner, Violet brings up what happened in their fight against the Underminer and their arrest. The family argue over whether they should fight crime, with Helen (Elastigirl) arguing against since it is illegal to and the others minus Jack-Jack arguing for it since it is the right thing to do. By the pool, Bob (Mr. Incredible) and Helen are met by Lucius, who tells them he was offered by a mysterious man to change the law banning Supers. Bob and Helen leave the motel with Lucius.

The three Supers are chauffeured to Devtech, a world-famous telecommunications company headed by Winston Deavor and assisted by his sister, Evelyn Deavor, declaring that he wants the Super Relocation Program revoked as much as they do. When, Bob, Helen, and Lucius visit Winston, he proposes a plan to help give back the superheroes public support by setting up missions and publicity stunts to better their reputation. He enlists Elastigirl due to being the least destructive out of the three to which she agrees. Winston offers the Parrs a new home as a sign of appreciation and giving Elastigirl a new suit and bike, leaving Mr. Incredible and the kids to embark on her first mission.

Flying out to New Urbem, Elastigirl stops a newly built monorail train from crashing after it unexpectedly goes backwards at a high speed. She discovers that the train driver was under the influence of the Screenslaver, a villain who hypnotizes people through any monitor he hacks into. During an interview with Chad Brentley, everyone minus Elastigirl is hypotized by the Screenslaver. Through Brentley, the Screenslaver reveals his plans to kill the Ambassador by hijacking the escort helicopter she's on. However, Elastigirl quickly comes to her rescue, and brings her down to the ground, where she faints.

Meanwhile, Bob struggles with his new role as a stay-at-home parent and his kids have problems of their own. Dash has trouble with math homework while Violet becomes withdrawn after Tony unintentionally fails to show up at their date due to his memory wipe. Jack-Jack wreaks havoc with his burgeoning superpowers after seeing a raccoon outside that resembled a criminal on TV. When Bob accidentally lets slip Tony's memory wipe, Violet is furious at him. He takes the family, minus Helen to the Happy Platter, where Dicker told Bob Tony works, but ends in embarrassment for Violet as she squirted water out of her nose when she saw Tony.

Elastigirl's recent actions have caused a movement of superheroes stepping out into the public, wanting to help out others like Supers did in the past. These include the likes of Voyd, He-Lectrix, Reflux, Screech, Krushauer and Brick. While participating in another TV interview, Elastigirl manages to figure out the Screenslaver's location by pinpointing the signal where he broadcasts from. Elastigirl arrives at his lair, and the two briefly fight before the Screenslaver attempts to escape. Elastigirl manages to capture the villain, although the suspect claims to be a pizza delivery boy, but is arrested anyway.

Exhausted, Bob takes Jack-Jack to old friend and supersuit designer Edna Mode to look after him. Initially refusing to babysit him, she agrees upon seeing the baby’s superpowers. After Bob goes back home, he has a chat with Violet, apologizing for the ordeal he put her through, thought she tells him he is 'super' just as he falls asleep. Bob wakes up after sleeping for 17 hours, and goes to Edna's to pick up Jack-Jack. Edna shows Bob how the baby's suit works, and that he can use a device to control his powers.

A victory party is held at Devtech to celebrate Elastigirl's capture of the Screenslaver and the global legalization of Supers. Winston Deavor announces the televised signing of the International Supers Accord by the ambassadors of the United League of Nations to be held at the Everjust superyacht the following morning. Elastigirl then investigates deeper into the identity of the Screenslaver , and as she ends up in Evelyn's control room, she notices something strange in one of the monitors. It turns out that one of the Screenslaver's monitors during the fight earlier was connected to her suit-cam. As Elastigirl delved deeper into truth, Evelyn enters and played along until Elastigirl figured the pizza boy was being hypnotised. Evelyn immediately slaps a pair of hypno-goggles on Elastigirl's eyes before she could alert anyone, rendering her unconscious. Later, Evelyn reveals to an awake Elastigirl that she is the mastermind behind the Screenslaver, stating that she despises superheroes and sees her brother's mission as a threat to humankind's independence. She claims that she will use Elastigirl to make Supers illegal forever.

Back at home, Bob demonstrates Jack-Jack's powers using his new supersuit and device to his elder children, who are excited by the array of his powers. Bob then gets a call from Evelyn who claims that his wife needs help, but is using the call to lure him so she can hypnotise him. Bob tells Lucius to come over to babysit the kids while he is home. The kids suit up and Lucius arrives, but are then greeted by the hypnotized wannabe Supers. They manage to hypnotize Lucius, but the kids escaped in the Incredibile that Dash summoned. Meanwhile, Mr. Incredible meets Evelyn on the Everjust to ask about Elastigirl. After initially attacking him, Elastigirl kisses her husband to make him an easy target to place a pair of hypno-goggles on.

Meanwhile, Dash, Violet, and Jack-Jack use the Incredibile to get to and sneak aboard the Everjust. On the superyacht, there is a hearing of leaders to re-legalize superheroes, with Ambassador Selick being the first to sign the International Supers Accord to legalize Supers. Violet leaves Jack-Jack with Dash and looks for their parents, but knocks over a pot plant and alerts the hypnotized wannabe Supers. Voyd finds and fights Violet, but fails to put a pair of hypno-goggles on her. While the kids are trying to find their parents, Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and Frozone are commanded by Evelyn to give a speech that puts Supers in a bad light, tarnishing their reputation forever and thus preventing Supers from ever being legalized. Everybody else on the superyacht including Winston is hypnotized so that the three hypnotised Supers can divert the vessel towards shore unopposed, putting many lives at risk and further tarnishing the reputation of all Supers.

The Parr children find their parents and Frozone. Jack-Jack removes the hypno-goggles from Helen's eyes, who then frees Bob and Lucius and reveals Evelyn's plan to them. The wannabe Supers are released from their hypnosis as well, and a plan to stop Evelyn from escaping and stop the ship from crashing into the city is put in place. Winston is taken by Evelyn to her jet to escape, but Winston refuses and instead saves the guests from hypnosis. Mr. Incredible turns the ship using the rudder since Krushauer blocked access to the bridge with pipes, while Frozone attempts to help steer the ship using ice. Meanwhile, Elastigirl stops Evelyn from escaping and saves her from falling, even after Evelyn broke free from her grip. The ship reaches shore just as it is about to stop, but Frozone lays a thick layer of snow as a buffer against the nearby buildings to prevent any structural damage. The Supers are thanked and the Supers Relocation Program is finally revoked, making Supers legal once again.

At school, Tony Rydinger agrees with Violet to a date with her at the movies. He leaves for the theater with the Parrs, with Bob and Helen engaging in awkward small talk with Violet and Tony. However, at the theater the Parrs witness a car of bank-robbers armed with machine guns being chased by the police driving down the street. They leave Tony at the theater as Violet promises to be back in time for the movie. The Parrs don their masks, ready to pursue the criminals.

Voice cast[]

  • Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible, who possesses super strength and limited invulnerability.
  • Holly Hunter as Helen Parr/Elastigirl, who has the ability to stretch her body into many shapes and forms.
  • Sarah Vowell as Violet Parr, the family's daughter and first child, who can become invisible and create force-fields for limited lengths of time.
  • Huckleberry Milner as Dash Parr, the family's troublemaker first son, who has superhuman speed. Previously, Dash Parr was voiced by Spencer Fox in the first film.
  • Eli Fucile as Jack-Jack Parr, the infant son of Bob and Helen who has a large assortment of powers.
    • Nicholas Bird provides the vocal effects of Jack-Jack Parr's monster form.
  • Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best/Frozone, Bob's best friend, who has the ability to form ice from humidity and a new member of the Incredibles.
  • Bob Odenkirk as Winston Deavor, a superhero fan who leads a telecommunications company with his sister Evelyn, and wants to bring back Supers by revamping the public's perception of them.
  • Catherine Keener as Evelyn Deavor, Winston's younger sister, the mastermind behind Screenslaver, and a technological genius who has never encountered a problem she could not solve.
    • Bill Wise as a pizza delivery man converted into a villain by the real "Screenslaver", who hijacks screens to project hypnotic images in order to hypnotize civilians.
  • Brad Bird as Edna Mode, a fashion designer for Supers and models alike and a close friend of the Parrs.
  • Jonathan Banks as Rick Dicker, a government agent responsible for helping the Parrs stay undercover and unremarkable. When his department is shut down, the Parrs are left to their own devices. Previously, Rick Dicker was voiced by Bud Luckey in the first film, who died in 2018 and to whom the film is dedicated.
  • Michael Bird as Tony Rydinger, Violet's love interest and classmate.
  • Sophia Bush as Karen/Voyd, a young Elastigirl fan who aspires to be a true superhero, with the power to create wormholes.
  • Phil LaMarr as Krushauer and He-Lectrix, two Supers, alongside Voyd, who aspire to be true superheroes. Krushauer has the power of telekinesis while Helectrix has the power of controlling and projecting electrical currents.
  • Paul Eiding as Gus Burns/Reflux, an elderly Super (alongside Voyd, Krushauer, and He-Lectrix) who aspires to be a true superhero, with the power of heaving hot lava.
  • Isabella Rossellini as the Ambassador, a dignified foreign official committed to the support and legalization of superheroes.
  • John Ratzenberger as the Underminer, a mole-like supervillain who seeks to bring war and destruction to the world.
  • Charlie Day as Screech (uncredited), a superhero who has owl powers. Day records one line in a whispering voice.
  • Cobie Smulders as Concretia "Connie" Mason / Brick (uncredited), a superheroine whose powers are super strength and metamorphosis.

Reception[]

The film received mostly positive reviews and an approval rating of 94% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 173 reviews. It's consensus reads, "Incredibles 2 reunites Pixar's family crimefighting team for a long-awaited follow-up that may not quite live up to the original, but comes close enough to earn its name."

Robert Abele of TheWrap gave the film a positive review by stating "Whatever the opposite of phoning in a sequel is, that's Brad Bird's progressive-minded, thunderously fun mix of super saves, throwback aesthetics and family comedy."

Trivia[]

  • Incredibles 2 is the first official Pixar sequel to pick up directly right where its predecessor ended (a minute after the first film ended), rather than having a sequel take place a while later.
  • This film marks the final Pixar film with John Lasseter as the CEO of the company. Pete Docter replaced him for Toy Story 4.
  • It is unknown how the Parr family (minus Jack-Jack), appeared in their supersuits and Jack-Jack being in a stroller as soon the Underminer appeared during Tony's flashback to Dicker, despite that at the end of The Incredibles.They only put their masks on as soon as he appears.
  • The Incredibles is the fifth Pixar film to become a franchise, after Toy Story, Cars, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo.
  • By exploiting a modern-day human's addiction to screens through hypnosis - "the horizontal" and "the vertical" - the Screenslaver's plan is akin to a story from The Outer Limits.
  • Incredibles 2 is the first Pixar sequel directed by Brad Bird (his second overall) and the third official Pixar movie to focus solely on a human cast (following both the first film and Brave).
    • This is also the first film directed by Brad Bird to be a sequel of a film he previously directed.
  • Incredibles 2 is the seventh Pixar film scored by Michael Giacchino following The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up, Cars 2, Inside Out, and Coco.
    • It's also the first Pixar sequel to a film he has previously scored.
  • The fourteen-year gap between the first film and sequel is the longest waiting time between a Disney/Pixar film and its sequel (with Finding Dory's thirteen-year gap being the second longest, and Monsters University being the third longest with a twelve-year gap), the long waiting gap is likely a direct reference to the original film's fifteen year later setting.
    • The switching of the sequel's original release is very similar to the first film's original proposed release of 2006 being switched with the first Cars film with The Incredibles being moved to 2004 with Cars being pushed back from 2005 to 2006 (in regard to the sequel, which swapped release dates with Toy Story 4).
  • Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks were both in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, as Saul Goodman and Mike Ehrmantraut, respectively.
  • He-Lectrix and Krushauer do not actually mention their names, nor do they introduce themselves to Elastigirl.
    • Krushauer is the only Wannabe Super not to interact with Elastigirl. He instead interacts with Mr. Incredible.
  • Voyd is the only Wannabe Super with lines in more than two scenes she is in, and also has the most focus out of the six Wannabe Supers.
    • Brick speaks in two scenes which is her introductory scene and at the end.
    • Reflux, He-Lectrix, and Screech only speak once, in their introductory scene.
    • Krushauer only speaks two times in one scene which is at the end, making him the only Wannabe Super not to speak in his introductory scene.
  • This film prompted warning messages throughout movie theatres for scenes involving the Screenslaver. These scenes include rapid flashing lights that can cause seizures to many viewers who were susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy, mainly the scene where Elastigirl fights the Screenslaver in his strobe cage. In response to this, the UK released a re-edited version of the film with all affected sequences altered so that any flashing lights and strobe effects now pass the Harding test.
  • With a running time of 118 minutes (1 hour and 58 minutes), this is Pixar's longest film, overtaking 2006's Cars, which ran for 116 minutes.
  • To date, this film marks the final Pixar film to be accompanied by a short film, due to Disney+ launching their own series of Pixar shorts simply titled SparkShorts.
  • Incredibles 2 holds the record for the most profanity in a Pixar film.
  • This film marks the second Pixar sequel to be rated PG by the MPAA, after Finding Dory.
  • This is the last Pixar film to be streaming on Netflix, as the following Pixar films from Toy Story 4 begin streaming on Disney+ onwards.
  • This is the third Disney's computer-animated sequel to be rated PG by the MPAA, after Planes: Fire & Rescue and Finding Dory.
  • This is the last Pixar film to be accompanied by a short film until the upcoming Pixar film Elemental, due to Disney+ launching their own series of Pixar shorts simply titled SparkShorts.
  • This is the first Pixar film since Monsters, Inc. that was at the time of its release the highest-grossing Pixar film but not the highest-grossing animated film of all time worldwide. Coincidentally both films were the second highest-grossing animated film of all time at the time of their releases (Monsters, Inc. was second behind the original version of The Lion King and Incredibles 2 was second behind Frozen).
  • This is the first Pixar sequel to be at the time of its release the highest-grossing Pixar film without any of its predecessors holding that record.
  • The Hanna-Barbera action cartoon Johnny Quest is shown on a television in the Incredibles mansion.
  • This film was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 76th Golden Globe Awards and 91st Academy Awards, losing both unfairly to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
  • This is the second film where the 2011 Walt Disney Pictures logo is animated in 2-D, the first being the live-action version of The Jungle Book.
    • This is also the second film where the Pixar Animation Studios logo has a variant exclusive for this movie, first being WALL-E where the titular character is also featured in the logo after the credits and teaser. The third would be Toy Story 4, where the opening logo transitions into a thunderstorm as the film begins and the closing logo where Duke Caboom takes the place of Luxo Jr. in the logo.

Transcript[]

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Videos[]

(1) Incredibles 2 FX reel (animations) - YouTube

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