It’s good. I liked parts of it, while other bits made me roll my eyes. It was fun enough, anyway, I guess. It just needs a clear mind with no burden, that can take it lightly and not question how stupid the male-lead is.
I certainly liked the bits with the woman and the kids, though.
This is the story of a family of superheroes, but for some reason they have retired and can’t be discovered, they’re in hiding, a sort of protected custody, and must lead a normal life in order not to be found out.
The husband Bob can’t get used to a normal life, he misses the days where he was the superhero Mr Incredible, and can’t think of anything else, while his wife struggles to raise three children and keep them all safe.
He gets fired but hides it from his family. He lies to them when he goes out once a week with a super-friend hoping there might be some kind of disaster or crime and they could get some action. When his secret identity is found out and a woman approaches him saying they need his help for something important, he doesn’t ask question and is all too happy to lie to his family and run towards whatever she tells him to do.
His wife Helen also misses her Elastigirl days, but she has a family now. She’s hurt when she finds out that he lied to her, and borrows a jet from a friend to go find him. Her older children, Violetta who can become invisible and create force-fields and Flash (he’s fast, of course), hide in it and join her.
This last mission didn’t go as Incredible thought, on the contrary it turns out that every mission was a fake. It was all a plan: a wanna-be-superhero built a dangerous robot and tested it against superheroes. Every time a hero won, he’d upgrade the machine, and kill the hero, and on to another hero…
The villain has other dangerous gadgets too, and traps him. When Helen approaches the island, he fires missiles at them, and Bob thinks his family died… and I was like: happy now? Was it worth it, just to feel young and super again???
But of course they don’t die, because mom is there to keep her family safe :-) Together they fight their way out of the island and then fight off the bad round robot and save the city and are superheroes again.
Not the end yet, though, because as they get home they find the villain is there to take their youngest child away, still a baby. They don’t even know if he has any power at all, yet, but we do because when the bad man flies him off away from his mummy, the baby cries, then turns to flames, then turns really really heavy, then becomes a sort of devil, fighting him off and setting himself free, which of course means falling down since they were flying. Mummy goes to the rescue and the baby’s happy again :-)
I liked the family scenes with mom and kids, I liked the scene when Flash came to protect his sister, and when insecure Violetta showed a great power when it mattered to protect her brother, and all the ingenious things their mom did to protect them… of course the fact that Bob was so good in breaking things was useful too, sometimes..
It was a good movie, I was only annoyed by the big dumb man, messing things up and then saying the usual ‘I didn’t know what I had before I lost it’, same old same old… I honestly think that worthy men should rebel against this stereotype, because I’m sure that there are men in the world who are smart and not stupid, and who love their children and don’t need any end-of-the-world or near-death-experience to understand it, that only need to look at their children to understand how important they are in their lives…
ITA gli incredibili-una normale famiglia di supereroi
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