ANI-MOVIES, The Incredibles 2

Despite there being 2 sequels and 2 spinoffs to Cars, Pixar took its sweet time to finally come up with a follow up to The Incredibles. The Fantastic Four-inspired animated film was about two superheroes who were forced to retire from being active crimefighters and raise their superpowered kids, only to be dragged into a scheme where most of all the other heroes had been killed off during their retreat. Brad Bird returns to bring the superhero family back to the screen.

Taking place right where the previous one left off, The Incredibles try to stop the subterranean villain The Underminer, only for him to make a clean getaway, leaving our heroes to clean up after the mess they made confronting him. Their activity gets the attention of Winston Deaver, the rich head of a telecommunications company who wants to have supers being legalized again. Along with his sister Evelyn, they contact Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and Frozone about their plan, but choose Elastigirl to be the figurehead of their campaign. Elastigirl saves a runaway train, while Mr. Incredible, Dash, Violet, and Jack-Jack move into a new estate provided to them by Winston. A mysterious new villain called Screenslaver who can hypnotize people with screens is responsible for the train accident, and an attack on an ambassador, so Elastigirl manages to track the bad guy down with Evelyn's help. However, Elastigirl realizes the man she caught was just a fall guy, and that Evelyn was the one setting up all the attacks, getting back at supers for having the public relying on them too much instead of fending for themselves. Evelyn takes control of Elastigirl and Mr. Incredible, then sends a group of hypnotized heroes to round up their kids, who are having enough problems after finding out baby Jack-Jack has come into his own multitude of powers. The kid Incredibles have to rescue their parents along with Frozone and the other heroes from a plan Evelyn had for sabotaging the heroes legalization ceremony on a huge yacht. Evelyn is eventually captured, and the Incredibles continue their crusade as a superhero family.

After seeing this film after the first one, its clear that the animation is of a better quality, but still keeps the look and motif of the original using a mod/art deco style to the times and characters fashion. Not a lot is referred to the original movie, which makes it slightly convenient for those who didn't watch it and just wanted to see a good superhero film. Most of the previous cast is back, and hopefully will be around to voice a third chapter! If Avengers: Infinity War gave you such a downer, then Incredibles 2 will take you back up and away!