Very much agreed. He was an admirable character.
Right. I had this same conversation with my wife. The movie certainly acknowledges the “fathers are doofuses, har har” stereotype, and plays around its edges, but I think fairly ends up with Bob not falling into it.
He’s probably in Paris, watching Bomb Voyage do his mime show.
Disney issued a warning for photosensitive epilepsy. There’s flashing lights.
We plan to see the Incredibles 2 later this week.
It was realistic but still annoyed me that what delayed helping Violet was Violet and her stubborn refusal to even discuss the problem with Bob, the only person who could guess what happened. Her reaction in the restaurant got the biggest laugh in the theater for my showing, even more than Jack-Jack’s fight.
I liked the callbacks to the “Jack-Jack Attack” short, and would have liked to see babysitter Kari make a cameo.
Anyone else notice that the Parr’s temporary mansion looked a lot like Tony Starks house from Iron Man, especially the interior? Wonder if that was on purpose, or am I just reaching.
The loaner house supposedly “belonged to a billionaire who liked to be able to leave secretly”, so it has lots of hidden exits. Sounds like a Batman-type, which I thought they were going to acknowledge, maybe by having the kids find hidden weapons. (Or possibly a supervillain, heck, maybe the Underminer, who would again have hidden weapons.)
The other thing I noticed was that Dash forgot he that he can run on water. (My husband said he wouldn’t be able to bring Violet and Jack-Jack with him, but I was surprised he didn’t impulsively run off without them anyway.) It seems like they could have improvised a boat with Violet’s force field for a hull and Dash’s kicking feet as an engine. (Didn’t they do something like that with their mother in the first one?)
I did like the reference to Common Core math.
Yes I thought that too.
Sorry if this is something I’m whooshed by, but is the character of Dicker deliberately meant to resemble Tommy Lee Jones?
I agree. From the trailers I thought it’d be leaning a lot more on the “incompetent dad” trope, but it was mostly subverted. Bob actually did quite well when you consider everything he had to deal with.
Anyway, I saw the movie with my 9-year-old and 6-year-old. We all loved it. Jack Jack was the biggest hit with the kids, especially the 6-year-old.
The short before hand kind of went over everyone’s heads a bit. My 6-year-old was still horrified at the end that she’d eaten the bun, and didn’t really understand that the mother and son sitting next to each other crying were reconciling – to her it seemed like an entirely sad ending, and I had to hurriedly whisper some explanation. My 9-year-old thought the bun had turned into the son somehow, and found the whole thing thoroughly weird. And I thought the mom imagined the whole thing with the bun because she missed her son (I guess including imagining the bit where the other kids could see him and wanted to play with him?) But I’m not 100% sure I have that right.
I also found it a bit disturbing at the start when she finds the crying baby bun at a bottom of a bowl of others she’d just eaten. Were they all babies, and in her haste she consumed all but one of them? (The ending makes that seem unlikely, but that was a long time to wait to figure out if she’d committed cannibalistic infanticide.)
He looks like Nixon to me.
Winston Deavor looked like Walt Disney to me though…
The no-nonsense government agent with a memory eraser certainly struck me as a Men in Black reference back when I saw the original Incredibles.
“No one ever asked me to uncrush something before” Hee-Hee
The funniest part to me was the restaurant scene. Violet’s reaction was hilarious!
I also liked Voyd “helping” Elastic girl into the plane, the raccoon scene, the fire retardant scene… yeah, I liked the whole thing.
The opening short was okay right up to the end where only the woman could make a good dumpling. That bothered me. Yeah I know the idea was to show that the new woman would also be able take care of the son, and it still bothered me. Men can make dumplings!
Yeah, the “Bao” short animation seems to be a case of “good concept, but delivered poorly and ended up confusing or horrifying instead of awww-ing.”
Another thing about the movie I liked was that during the runaway train scene, Elastigirl was making rapid, intelligent suggestions about possible ways to stop the train with technology before she did it physically. Considering that she was talking to Evelyn, is it possible that one of Elastigirl’s suggestions would have worked, and Evelyn was lying about it? Wouldn’t surprise me.
I think you’re reading an awful lot into a sample size of 3 dumpling makers… and in particular, note that if the dumpling making conformed to gender stereotypes it clearly shattered race stereotypes.
I agree. And although I knew the son had to come back after being “eaten” I was horrified by how that might happen.
I figured that it made a certain amount of sense that a woman trying to impress her mother-in-law might try a bit harder than a young adult who had been resisting his mother’s traditions for some years.
Nitpick from the trailer: I didn’t like Elastigirl going off on the motorcycle without a helmet. It’s a kid’s show ferpetesake.
Hmm, I’m not sure. The way I see it, at this stage Evelyn wanted her brother’s plan to succeed. This would 1) bring a lot of supers out of hiding (so she could mesmerize them), and 2) provide a pretext for a gathering of world leaders and supers in a highly publicized setting (so she could sabotage it with maximum impact).
Although the identity of the villain was telegraphed, I was surprised at the sudden, almost casual way she got the better of Helen. A nicely animated scene. I also found her interesting in that her beef against supers is that they make the rest of us weak, and they contribute to the larger overall problem - we’re spectators instead of doers. Slaves to the screen, if you will. And yet, she could be talking about herself. She’s all about safe rooms, with walls between her and risk; always using proxies to fight her battles (including her brother, in a way). And when in the final battle she loses her supers, her instinct is to flee - to another safe room no doubt - instead of, say, donning some Syndrome-esque tech and fighting directly.
Speaking of Syndrome, the bad guy in both Incredibles movies was an emotionally isolated genius inventor with unresolved Daddy issues. Is Brad Bird trying to tell us something?
Finally, my favorite bits were Jack-Jack, Edna, and especially Jack-Jack & Edna. My favorite Violet moment, however, was Invisible Girl getting the ice cream. I sure hope we don’t have to weight 14 years for The Incredibles 3.