It’s got a touch of the first film’s let’s-try-it-on spirit, and it’s a perfectly snappy and chucklesome and heartfelt entertainment, with little retro felicities you latch onto, yet something is missing: the thrill of discovery - the crucial sensation that the movie is taking us someplace we haven’t been.
That’s a lot to live up to, and I wish I could say that “Incredibles 2,” which Bird also wrote and directed, is the great sequel “The Incredibles” deserves. Written and directed by Brad Bird, it was a superhero comedy of daffy corkscrew wit the most poetically extravagant action caper since the James Bond ’60s a portrait of middle-class American domestic life that took in its joys and its perils and the most exquisitely designed animated feature since “Yellow Submarine.” That’s because “ The Incredibles,” which came out 14 years ago, was an extraordinary movie - an instant Pixar classic, bedazzling and humane, a virtuoso act of computer-animated showmanship that spoke about things like work, family, ego, and the passion of ambition in ways that few Hollywood movies have before or since. And I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that many viewers will be hanging that same desire for greatness on “ Incredibles 2.” In the case of each follow-up, the original film’s vision was sustained, enhanced, even enlarged. The movies listed above all got the sequels they deserved (“The Godfather Part II,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Toy Story 2”).
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