Bird laces in subliminal messages, but the main attraction of Incredibles 2 is the focussed storytelling, the clear and uncluttered animation and unadulterated fun.

| Jul 29, 2019

Brad Bird's Incredibles 2, while a solid follow up, lacks a clear vision of where to take the story next.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 27, 2018

What thrilled me the most ... watching these characters do the thing they were born to do [and] fully be themselves instead of repressing something fundamental about themselves.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2018

You'll gawp. You'll ponder. You'll laugh. A Pixar flick would be nothing without the last.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2018

Brad Bird not only directs with the same assured inventiveness he brought to The Incredibles (and Ratatouille, and The Iron Giant), but has written a script every bit as smart, witty and touching as the first.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2018

There's a serious movie lurking at the heart of all this hi-tech adventure that takes timely swipes at gender inequality, family stress and the modern triumph of salesmanship over substance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2018

The result is hugely entertaining and often visually audacious...yet it doesn't quite pack the emotional wallop of the original.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2018

More disappointing than the lack of inspiration here is the taint of corporate bias... A studio that has billions of dollars' worth of skin in the game of flogging sequels, merchandise and theme parks is in no position to issue moral instruction.

| Jul 12, 2018

A gorgeously curated scrapbook of sharply observed household comedy, sublimely staged action, a pinch of Chuck Jones-era slapstick, and enough modernist eye candy to induce a sugar coma in design buffs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2018

The movie is funny, exuberant, inventive. It's even wise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2018

How great to see them back in this funny, exciting, if less audacious film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2018

The visuals, voiceovers and music are all in perfect sync. Brad Bird creates an immersive, mesmerising world that you flow into unquestioningly instead of pausing to crib about the sundry plotholes and twists and turns.

| Jul 10, 2018

Incredibles 2 is the second best superhero movie of the year, after Black Panther.

| Jul 6, 2018

The Incredibles 2, like the original, is a first-rate animated movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 6, 2018

Incredibles 2 regresses to a time when any power women managed to acquire was carefully controlled so as not constitute a threat to the male order. Such nostalgia is self-defeating.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 29, 2018

Incredibles 2 spins like a pop-art pinwheel because [Brad] Bird boasts a coherent and scintillating vision. He turns an action comedy about superhumans into a jamboree of human possibilities.

| Jun 28, 2018

Craig T Nelson and Holly Hunter in particular are on top form, and the laughs are genuine and well-earned.

| Jun 25, 2018

It may not be groundbreaking but Pixar's latest Incredibles film... is a wonderfully lively, very witty affair.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2018

It's a nostalgic vision of total power of a local minimum that echoes sickeningly with the nostalgic pathologies of the current day, nowhere more than in Win's enthusiastic declaration of his plan to "make superheroes legal again."

| Jun 21, 2018

Both films in the series combine farce with highly tuned stunts and a delicate way with characterisation once seen only in hand-drawn animation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2018