Sequel to 'The Incredibles' Announced! (And to a Lesser Extent, Cars 3)

[Casual Shinji]

I fucking loved the Incredibles. I think it's arguably the best super hero movie ever, seriously. But I don't think it's necessarily a good thing for it to have a sequel. Just because the first one was open ended doesn't mean that world is an ideal place to tell another story. A part of me is worried the reputation of the first will be tarnished if it's bad, as often happens with movies that have tacked on sequels. The story in the first one was like a perfect jem, and it doesn't feel (to me) like it needs anything more.

I wouldn't say the first movie was open ended at all. It was supposed to be a joke. Some random super villain pops up thinking he can just start some shit, not knowing that the Incredibles are ready to kick his ass. And it was also to show that they can now be the superheroes they've always wanted to be.

And yes, I also think The Incredibles is one of if not the best superhero movie ever made. About 40% of that though is likely due to it's medium; Superheroes will always work best in animation.

 

[Abomination]

Took them long enough... I get the feeling it's because of the staggering success of the Marvel franchise movies. Or maybe it was the Marvel franchise movies preventing them from making another Incredibles? I mean, they're essentially competing with themselves.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Oh Joy.

You know what I'd like, a Pixar movie that isn't a sequel.
Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur sound promising, but too many sequels. From 2001-10 Pixar produced exactly one sequel, from 2011-20 we're already up to five, it really does look like the days of Pixar being the animation studio are over and it's steadily moving back towards the Disney method of farming merchandise and sequels ad-nauseum.

 

[MysticSlayer]

After the first Incredibles, all I wanted was a sequel. I've still wanted a sequel, but unfortunately felt that none would ever come. Now that it looks like we're getting one, I...really don't care.

The problem is, outside of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3, Pixar simply hasn't released a good sequel as far as I'm concerned. I loved Cars, but Cars 2 was really mediocre, and it only managed to reach that status because of some funny antics throughout the movie. Monsters Inc. is one of my favorite Pixar films, yet Monsters University was just a bore, and any enjoyment I got from it was basically me struggling to like it because it was set in the Monsters universe. Then again, Cars and Monsters Inc. felt like completely contained stories that didn't need a sequel, whereas The Incredibles at least left things open for a possible sequel, so maybe it will follow the Toy Story route of actually not sucking.

Still, with the knowledge of Finding Dory and another Cars sequel, I can't help but feel apathetic about this one. I'm just worried that Pixar has run out of a lot of their creativity and is failing to really improve on what made their older franchises good in the first place. Granted, I love Brad Bird's work, so maybe he can pull them out of the creative slump their sequels have been in recently.

I'll just wait and see, which is more than I can say for Finding Dory or Cars 3. I'm not expecting much, but maybe it will be good.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I like Finding Nemo and The Incredibles.. I don't like... pretty much anything else they've made, except from Toy Story, which I'm otherwise pretty neutral about. I enjoy it, but it's not my kind of thing.

I just hope they don't start riding the cancerous wave of recent, newly sprouted tropes that are already bordering cliche... like The Minions, for example. Walking pieces of corn that speak in mangled Spanish-sounding wahtever aren't funny; papercuts are funny. Falling down a manhole is funny. A skirted woman climbing a ladder is funny. Cabbage is funny. So is the word pororoca. Corn isn't funny.

 

[scorptatious]

I didn't really like The Incredibles myself. But I don't mind there being a sequel.

Cars on the other hand... No. Just no.

 

[ihavetwo]

Why do people make Sequels to movies that don't need them.
Finding Dory sounds like the most stupid thing ever.
Incredibles 2 isn't necessary.
Cars 2 sucked and doesn't warrant a sequel.

 

[Neverhoodian]

A sequel to my favorite Pixar movie?!

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I just hope they don't screw this up. Having Brad Bird at the helm is encouraging, though.

Oh, and yet another Cars movie...that's a thing, I guess...

 

[Movitz]

I've never seen cars, nor do I plan seeing it, so couldn't care less for a third movie.

A sequel to the Incredibles, however, that's another breed. One that I got a bad feeling about.

I liked the Incredibles. The animation, the characters, the humour, the morals - it's a pleasent movie experience.

But was it sequal worthy? I didn't leave any loose ends or in any other way hinted at there being a sequal, and the world everything happened in is just your average superhero universe.. which is just our world with some INCREDIBLE PEOPLE IN IT! *BADUM-TISCH!*

Sure, you can make a sequal, but why?

 

[DrOswald]

Hmmm a sequel to The Incredibles is something interesting. But I wonder, the first one was about superheroes winning back the society that hated and feared them. So what will this sequel bring to make it worthwhile? I mean, I did like the first one but only because of the supers fall from grace.

The original idea they had for the Incredibles was very different. Basically, Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl retire from heroing and went to go make a family, no superhero disgrace stuff at all. The main conflict of the movie was that these super humans have to pretend they are normal not because society does not want them but because of all the enemies they made back in their heroing days would try to attack them and their families. They had a completely different villain planned and designed for this purpose.

Syndrome is actually a carry over from that idea's pre Title sequence - An old enemy of Mr. Incredible, Syndrome, locates Mr. Incredible when he accidentally reveals his invincibility. Syndrome breaks into their home with the intention of murdering the couple and kidnapping the baby Violet (to revenge raise her as his evil minion.) This only fails because Syndrome is surprised when the baby suddenly disappears and loses his focus on neutralizing the parents.

This route was ultimately abandoned because it was feared the subject matter was too dark for a movie children would be seeing, but I feel that this idea has potential and the Incredibles universe is a perfect place to explore that idea. And now that the Incredibles has established itself as a PG franchise they might have more freedom in the regard.

There are tons of ideas that fit well into the overall theme of the Incredibles, which is exploring the often overlooked aspects/consequences of superheroism. The first movie was all about exploring mundane aspects of the world and the super's lives effecting their heroing. Even minor scenes like Frozone looking for his super suit are within this theme. This next movie could be about unintended consequences of heroing - villains created, risk to family, collateral damage. Does costume vigilantism actually cause more damage than it prevents on a personal and cultural level?