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Compare that to the Parrs, Bob and Helen (a.k.a.

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Bob might even have to get a menial job to keep the family where it is.

So Helen, its assumed, will stay with the kids while Bob wins the bread.

Elastigirl having been in Mr. Incredibles shadow needs liberating.

Her opportunity comes in the form of the rich-boy capitalist-showman Winston Deavor and his ironic sister, Evelyn.

He has to help Dash with that frustrating New Math.

Hes a cartoon Objectivist, literally.

People will trade quality for ease, says the villain.

Its not unlike the world envisioned by another Pixar movie,Wall-E, only this time its suspect.

As Birds creepy but undersung live-action sci-fi filmTomorrowlandmade explicit, the enemy isnt technology or nukes or global warming.

Its the kind of angst represented by Elastigirls new costume.

So, theres that … As in the firstIncredibles, the characters designs and voices capture both their personalities and their powers.

Keeners is a voice that can stand back, a voice that has secrets.

(Boys are jerks and superheroes suck.

I renounce them.)

Might I say how well these characters have aged.

To look at them, youd hardly know 14 years have passed!

As with everything else, Birds timing makes even whats expected galvanically funny and whats unexpected volcanically so.

May they learn from the Bird to fly high!

An earlier version of this review referred toIncredibles 2asThe Incredibles 2.

Incredibles 2has been nominated for a 2019 Oscarin Best Animated Feature Film.