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The Incredibles 2 - film review
The Incredibles 2 - which I saw courtesy of On-Demand for $5.95. Eh, it's worth $5, but not much more than that. Granted I'm probably not the right audience for this movie -- it's targeted towards families with small kids, not middle-aged single women who well, do not have small children nor any desire for them. That said, it was sort of fun and breezy. I liked the first movie better, more entertaining -- better plot, better dialogue, better jokes. This one relied a bit too heavily on two jokes...which got stale fast. (Well, unless you have kids, then, maybe not.)
[As an aside the annoying hammering upstairs is back. For reasons that escape me -- they hammer between 4:30-6pm on Sunday. If it happens next weekend, I'm complaining.]
The plot is basically Elastica Girl (aka Mrs. Incredible) is asked to be the spokesperson and selling point to bring Supers back into the public eye, change how the media regards them, and make their powers not illegal nor their existence. (Basically rights for superheros who save people without asking for any rewards, even though they do have a tendency to leave a lot of property damage in their wake. Those pesky villains. Reminds me of the Marvel Verse, but not done quite as well. Civil War and the X-men dealt with this issue much better.) Has a nice commentary on marketing and technology, although the bad guy here is the technowhiz not the marketing guru, which I annoyed me.
Whoever is writing this felt a need to make a statement about how technology and marketing get a bad rap...it got a bit lost, mainly because they pretty much deserve to get a bad rap - we pay them too much.
Anywho, the bad guy aka villain is the screen slaver, who hypnotises people into doing their will.
Their evil plan is to make the supers do their bidding in order to show the world that supers are evil and that everyone relies too much on technology.
What's good about the movie is the relationships between the family members. There are a few decent comic moments, most of which involve Baby Jaks and his powers. A stand-out is Baby Jax fighting a wiley Racoon. Jeeze Racoon's are scary, I would not fight a Racoon. To give you an idea? It was a draw. Also, Elasta Girl and TechnoWhiz Gal's budding friendship was interesting. (It doesn't really go anywhere...but it was interesting.)
I found the story to rather predictable. I know who the villain was pretty much fifteen minutes into it or the moment they were introduced. (I think they borrowed the plot from something else, because I could have sworn I'd seen it before.)
But the baby Jacks bits are fun. I will say that. And it has a little suspense.
Overall not a bad effort. But not really worth the price of admission either. I've seen better.
[As an aside the annoying hammering upstairs is back. For reasons that escape me -- they hammer between 4:30-6pm on Sunday. If it happens next weekend, I'm complaining.]
The plot is basically Elastica Girl (aka Mrs. Incredible) is asked to be the spokesperson and selling point to bring Supers back into the public eye, change how the media regards them, and make their powers not illegal nor their existence. (Basically rights for superheros who save people without asking for any rewards, even though they do have a tendency to leave a lot of property damage in their wake. Those pesky villains. Reminds me of the Marvel Verse, but not done quite as well. Civil War and the X-men dealt with this issue much better.) Has a nice commentary on marketing and technology, although the bad guy here is the technowhiz not the marketing guru, which I annoyed me.
Whoever is writing this felt a need to make a statement about how technology and marketing get a bad rap...it got a bit lost, mainly because they pretty much deserve to get a bad rap - we pay them too much.
Anywho, the bad guy aka villain is the screen slaver, who hypnotises people into doing their will.
Their evil plan is to make the supers do their bidding in order to show the world that supers are evil and that everyone relies too much on technology.
What's good about the movie is the relationships between the family members. There are a few decent comic moments, most of which involve Baby Jaks and his powers. A stand-out is Baby Jax fighting a wiley Racoon. Jeeze Racoon's are scary, I would not fight a Racoon. To give you an idea? It was a draw. Also, Elasta Girl and TechnoWhiz Gal's budding friendship was interesting. (It doesn't really go anywhere...but it was interesting.)
I found the story to rather predictable. I know who the villain was pretty much fifteen minutes into it or the moment they were introduced. (I think they borrowed the plot from something else, because I could have sworn I'd seen it before.)
But the baby Jacks bits are fun. I will say that. And it has a little suspense.
Overall not a bad effort. But not really worth the price of admission either. I've seen better.