He was one of the artists who helped define the look of R&S. He also storyboarded the never-completed John K Flash cartoon Weekend Pussy Hunt, which say what you will, I think looked pretty great for a Flash animated project in 1999.
The first one was the only really good one I still wonder how the fuck these movies got several sequels and spinoffs.
Meltdown honestly isn't a bad movie since its purpose is to heal Manny's heart so he can have a future, it just suffers from pacing issues and Crash and Eddie needing to be better characters than just "annoying brothers".
I truly dislike the sequel for what it did, and that includes I legitimately liked the concept of the twins if nothing else: both the obvious would-be villain actually being a genuinely good man wanting heroes back after all and his push for them legitimate, and the actual villainess having a decent motivation to protect her brother/said seeming bad guy clearly not excusing her evil. Actually a really good nuance for a superhero film, ya know?
The plot was so bad and forgettable that I barely remember that part. The issue is that the villainess' plot was suicidal and pointless (the idea that heroes were unnecessary and too destructive for their own good IIRC). Syndriome wanted to replace heroes by making everyone one and render them mundane, but he didn't want them to completely eliminate them, as that's stupid, as shown by the mole man from the start of the second movie and how he was basically unstoppable despite being a guy with a giant machine that merely robbed banks. What's the police meant to do the next time a supervillain rampages? Or a mad scientist creates a giant robot of mass destruction? Unless you have power armors nearby or gadgets for everyone, you're screwed. Plus it's implied that either heroes could be made artificially, or there were A LOT of them, so the villain's idea of demonizing heroes and getting rid of them sets you up for a painful end.
It was an alright movie, but something was off about it. I think it was the lack of nuance handling the oppression of the supers. In the first movie, the main text is "superheroes are oppressed because they're dangerous," which is done in a bunch of different superhero media already and is normal to expect. The subtext makes it feel more human, more real, more tied to actual things that happened not too long ago irl. It's impactful and doesn't have to smack you upside the head to stand out. The sequel, however, smacks you upside the head and ends up not being impactful at all. It feels like propaganda, and even if you agree with it, it's hard to enjoy watching propaganda.
She did also make gadgets, like those goggles that brainwashed the supers for 5 whole minutes (anyone else feel like that was rushed/too obvious at the end?) Maybe she assumed she'd get some kind of contract with the authorities to suit them up to take down supers/regular villains.
Sorry for doubleposting, but I'm still thinking about it and that would've made an interesting point in the story. If Elastigirl was somehow able to show Evelyn that even if she rids the world of supers there will still be superpowered people, good and bad, and banning good supers means only the law-breakers will be super (wow sounds like an argument about gun control...), to kind of show her WHY she's wrong before she gets defeated. They could even illustrate how arming normal people with weapons like the ones she can create, like the goggles, creates overpowered people who are just as dangerous, just as unregulated, just as unsafe, as the supers she hates so much. Like Syndrome, who had no powers and almost wiped out an entire town. It's almost like Evelyn's line of thinking isn't completely thought out and leads to even more problems because it's not that she hates people having superpowers, she hates that her parents died, and that's not something you can fix by killing more people.
We all know the true sequal and the real way the Underminer was taken down:
A timeskip is a given because one decision that baffled people was just continuing off where the original ended at instead of showing a competent super family with an older Bob and Helen, preteen Jack-Jack and with Dash and Violet as older teenagers or young adults. The overall plot? I bet they're going to introduce some Magneto inspired character who rallies the hero/superpowered community especially after Syndrome's attempted genocide and the glowniggers treating them like second class citizens or erasing their memories.
I remember someone made an interesting point about none of the villains are actual supers.
I wanted 2 to be a time skip with the focus on the kids so badly. Jack Jack has so much potential to go from comedic relief baby to complex character because of his OP powers. He would make a very interesting villain/antihero if he went the way of Gamma Jack.
Incredibles 2 has moments but God it was a let down.
Incredibles 2 should have been a time skip where the kids learn to follow in their parents footsteps.
Right, I forgot about that, it was such an after-thought it barely counts.
But there were supervillains mentioned and shown on-screen.
Instead, we had Bob sit at home and be ridiculous in a bad way because "screw hetero men!" mentality, I suppose.
The best scene of the Incredibles 2 wasn't even in the film:
