"The Incredibles 2 is undoubtedly Pixar's best sequel after Toy Story 3, and it's also the best superhero movie of the year. It has once again completed the perspective change on the basis of "The Incredibles 1", bringing a new point of entry for the audience to think. ”
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Remember Pixar's animated film The Incredibles fourteen years ago?
This work was born in the heyday of Pixar, not only won the 77th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Sound Editing, but also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, which can be described as unlimited limelight, making Pixar a unique feature surpassing Disney in the mainstream animation film market in the entire United States.
Today, 14 years after the first "The Incredibles" was born, "The Incredibles 2" has landed in mainland Theaters in China.
According to Xinhua Network reported on June 18, local time on June 15, "The Incredibles 2" was released in North America, and the first week of box office earned 180 million US dollars, refreshing the first weekend box office record set by "Finding Nemo 2" in 2016 for $1.35.
At present, the film has won the A+ North American audience rating, the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is as high as 94%, the IMDB score is as high as 8.4, and the Douban score of the domestic release day has reached 8.5. Arguably, this is definitely the most worthwhile movie to go to the cinema this weekend.
In the past fourteen years, the world has changed dramatically, Pixar has long been acquired by Disney, Joe has died, and the audience who was still a child has now reached the age of worrying about taking care of children.
However, in the timeline of "The Incredibles 2", the stories of the two films are closely linked and seamless. Not only has the baby in this superhuman family not grown up a bit, but the villain character who appeared at the end of the last episode also caused a lot of trouble for the protagonist at the beginning of the second part.
Don't underestimate this underground man who looks like a big rat, in the beginning he not only brings a lot of trouble to the city, but his appearance also exposes the Mr. Ba family as a superhero, leading to the main story of this episode.
In the first "The Incredibles", due to the serious destructive power of superheroes, the government made a bill to no longer recognize the legal identity of superheroes, resulting in superheroes in the world having to hide their identities and live a "retirement" life for fifteen years.
Bar Bob, known as "Mr. Super". Incredible), he is the head of the family, has super power, and is a bit of machismo, and is the pillar of the family.
Barjorie, Bob's wife, was once known as the "Elsatigirl", whose body can stretch and change like a rubber band, and whose prototype is Spider-Man and Mr. Fantastic.
Ba Xiaoqian, the eldest daughter of Ba Bob and Ba Heli, is in adolescence, sensitive and in urgent need of recognition, so her superpowers are invisible and create protective force fields.
Ba Xiaofei, the eldest son of Ba Bob and Ba Heli, is mischievous, at the age of a standard cat-hating dog bear child, and has a strong curiosity and action for things, so his superpower is Scud, fast enough to easily run on the water.
Ba Xiaojie, the youngest son of Ba Bob and Ba Heli, is a baby who can't speak or walk shortly after birth, with unlimited ability space. At present, the superpowers that have been demonstrated include fire-breathing, power generation, change, invisibility, floating, laser eyes, becoming a demon, entering the four-dimensional space, etc., it is said that there are 17 kinds of superpowers, but now due to the young age of the superpower is still unstable.
Fourteen years ago, the superhero genre didn't bloom as much as it does now, and The Incredibles, as a work about Superman, was an anti-Superman genre film on another level. It dissects the mundane problems of Superman's life from a novel perspective: the midlife crisis, thus opening up a new and more interesting entry point for Superman's story.
When a once-glorious superhero is forced to hide his name, bow to reality, be an ordinary and unproductive clerk, have nowhere to vent his strength, have a sense of justice that is difficult to implement, and even want to give help to those who need help, they have to sneak, such a day is torture for him every day.
Although Bob is "Mr. Super", he is extremely powerful but difficult to break the barriers of life, forced to face the helplessness of reality, enduring the anxiety of midlife crisis and the ridicule of belly fat. However, compared with the traditionally flawless Superman, such a superman image is more realistic, closer to life, and easier to win the empathy of the audience.
In an interview at the beginning of "The Incredibles", Mr. Ba once said that he envied the lives of ordinary people, but later when he really lived such a life, he was difficult to accept.
In contrast, the "elastic superwoman", who once spoke wildly and advocated freedom, was the feminist representative of the liberation of women. However, such a strange woman, but after marriage, completely accepted her heart, dedicated herself to the family, and became a housewife who was resistant to ordinary. In this fifteen years of "retreat" life, she not only enjoyed this kind of ordinariness of not having to fight and kill outside, but even regarded superpowers as flood beasts, completely forbidding her children to use superpowers outside.
It can be said that in the first part, Bar Bob and Bahori form a contrast and rebellion against each other, they show two very different attitudes, through a series of experiences, and finally the two reach a certain reconciliation and self-consistency.
As an animation, "The Incredibles" not only has interesting stories and cool superpower displays that attract children, but also involves the discussion of midlife crisis and personal values, involves family conflicts, educational concepts, self-knowledge, and more importantly, involves the ordinary people's concerns and doubts about the superpowers' abilities, which is a major proposition of superhero movies, and constructs a complete superhuman worldview.
On the other hand, "The Incredibles" breaks away from the simple binary opposition or the theme of "family love finally wins", and intervenes in the adult perspective, which has a very important impact on the subsequent superhero movies, especially the Marvel series of movies, making the superheroes take the pro-people route from the altar to the world.
We look back at the old story because the new story is somehow subverting the previous one. In The Incredibles 2, how to tell the story to the point of being untouchable became Brad Bird's main problem, but his solution to this problem was to replace the identities of Bar bob and Barhley.
So we see that Bob, who secretly became a superman in the first part, incarnated as a "housewife and man" in the second part, wholeheartedly taking care of Ba Xiaojie, who was still unstable at home, solving Ba Xiaoqian's emotional problems and Ba Xiaofei's mathematical homework; and his wife, Ba Heli, acted as the image spokesperson for the superhero, flying outside to save the world and fighting against the new villain screen slaver.
As the identity of the superhero becomes no longer legal, the exposed Mr. Ba family faces an existential crisis, but fortunately, the exposed Mr. Ba family has gained the attention of winston Deaver, a rich and ideal telecommunications tycoon, whose desire is to help the superhero become a legitimate citizen again.
In order to achieve their goal, they chose Stretch Supergirl as a spokesperson for a crime-fighting propaganda campaign, so Ba Bob had to take care of the children at home. In the family, he is physically and mentally exhausted in the face of his daughter's adolescent rebellion, his son's psychedelic math homework and the ability of the little baby to be anytime and anywhere.
On the contrary, Helen, who was diligent and dedicated to her family in the previous film, after returning to the glory of "Elastic Supergirl", was too busy fighting against the evil forces and did not return home for a long time, but gradually broke up with her family.
At this time, after the first "irony" of themselves, both husband and wife have become the kind of people in their words at the beginning. For external reasons, Barber began to raise his family with peace of mind, while Barholi was on the front lines of saving the world. Reliving the thrill of being a hero and becoming a spokesperson for superheroes, the story shifts from superhero's "midlife crisis" to superwoman's feminism of "who says women are inferior to men", and also leads to the social topic of "gender division of labor".
From the male work of the previous part, the female supporting the family, to the female work of this part, the male with the child, in fact, the perfect performance of the society's preset position on the gender division of labor between men and women - men are not good at taking children, lack of psychological expectations of family responsibility; women should not be in the workplace, should be at home to teach their children.
The film first throws out this proposition, and then gives the corresponding position and refutation. At the same time, the situation of the wrong gender division of labor on the one hand successfully creates jokes for the film, on the other hand, it also constitutes a more profound and worthy of consideration topic in this work.
However, the biggest highlight of this episode is undoubtedly the super-powered baby Jack-Jack who was not fully displayed in the first part. Don't look at this little baby babbling and cute water, in "The Incredibles 1" and the extra part can be seen, Jay's ability is complex and unstable, often randomly rampage, in this episode is to make his father hurt his brain. So Bob dumped the hot potato to Moyina, who helped them make clothes in the previous episode, and equipped Jay with a special combat suit and surveillance device.
Speaking of Moyina, the role in the first part is small but vivid, and her "fashion taste" in making Superman combat suits is even more impressive, and the "cape" section even lays the groundwork for the death of the film's villain.
What's even more interesting about Moyina is that in a trailer released earlier, a group of real-life fashion darlings and supermodels are touting Moena, all proud to wear the clothes she designed, highly praising her fashion acumen, and even calling her "the contemporary Andy Warhol".
Another major supporting character in the first film, Frozone, will also return in this episode, voiced by the audience's old friend Samuel Jackson. When he covers one eye, he is Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D.; when he covers both eyes, he transforms into a "cool ice man" who is good at condensing water into ice.
However, in this episode, in addition to going out with the protagonist couple to save the world, as Bob's good friend and neighbor uncle, he also has to be on call to help Bob with the children, and he and Bob bob to become a "housewife and boy" brother.
Not only the characters have all returned, but the dubbing team of the previous part has basically returned. In addition to greg greg in the previous film, In addition to T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Warwell, and Samuel L. Jackson, director Brad Bird also played a small role, with Ingrid Bergman and Rossellini's daughter Isabella Rossellini playing the role of Ambassador in the film.
Whether it is the plot that is closely connected with the first one, or the voice actors who have returned from the blockbuster, it is proved that this "The Incredibles 2" not only maintains the production level of the previous story, but also maintains the Pixar animation's consistent original intention, and the laughter and anger are always touched.
I believe that such a true "superman family fun" movie can bring real happiness, courage, and the power to become a "superman" to the families watching the movie
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