Like pretty much every other year in Hollywood, 2018 will see the release of a large number of sequels. As usual, some of them are fairly pointless and mundane, but there are a good deal of follow-ups that I can't wait to see. At the top of the list is Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War, the penultimate chapter in the saga that began with 2008's Iron Man. But just a notch below that epic, groundbreaking superhero team-up is Disney/Pixar's Incredibles 2, the long-awaited sequel to the 2004 classic. For people who grew up in my generation, this has been a very long time coming. Finding Dory and Toy Story 3 were great and all, but no Pixar film left room for a sequel quite like this one. After 14 years, an eternity in Hollywood, director Brad Bird is finally assembling the Parr family for a second adventure. After a brief teaser that played in front of Coco in November, Pixar released a slightly longer look at the new movie during coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics. Watch it below!
So I have a lot of things to say about this trailer, and they're not all very positive. To start things off, look, we all wanted to see the Incredibles face off against the Underminer. That was a brilliant cliff-hanger, one that left fans clamoring for a follow-up for over a decade. But picking up right at the end of the original feels limiting in a way, like we're still tethered to the events of that story. Helen's emphasis to Dash that superheroes are illegal is also a little bizarre- that was a thing the last time around, but didn't the climax of the last film kinda deal with that problem? And then the rest of this so-called "Sneak Peek" shows Helen taking a new mission with Bob Odenkirk's Winston Deavor, while Bob is left to stay at home and take care of the kids. It's fitfully amusing and the animation looks excellent, but I'm not sensing much drama or tension here. This isn't a proper trailer, and we're likely to get our first full and complete look at the sequel when Ava DuVernay's A Wrinkle in Time arrives on March 9. Nonetheless, I have to admit that my excitement for the project has dimmed just a bit- Incredibles 2 feels like a blast from the past, but not necessarily in the way I had hoped.
Incredibles 2 will hit theaters on June 15.
So I have a lot of things to say about this trailer, and they're not all very positive. To start things off, look, we all wanted to see the Incredibles face off against the Underminer. That was a brilliant cliff-hanger, one that left fans clamoring for a follow-up for over a decade. But picking up right at the end of the original feels limiting in a way, like we're still tethered to the events of that story. Helen's emphasis to Dash that superheroes are illegal is also a little bizarre- that was a thing the last time around, but didn't the climax of the last film kinda deal with that problem? And then the rest of this so-called "Sneak Peek" shows Helen taking a new mission with Bob Odenkirk's Winston Deavor, while Bob is left to stay at home and take care of the kids. It's fitfully amusing and the animation looks excellent, but I'm not sensing much drama or tension here. This isn't a proper trailer, and we're likely to get our first full and complete look at the sequel when Ava DuVernay's A Wrinkle in Time arrives on March 9. Nonetheless, I have to admit that my excitement for the project has dimmed just a bit- Incredibles 2 feels like a blast from the past, but not necessarily in the way I had hoped.
Incredibles 2 will hit theaters on June 15.
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