A fun but not incredible sequel

With Incredibles 2, writer and director Brad Bird has returned to deliver a sequel that doesn’t build on the first film so much as painstakingly remake it

A still from Incredibles 2

Cinema

Incredibles 2: Directed by Brad Bird, Nationwide, PG,Rating:***

Racer & The Jailbird: Directed by Michaël R Roskam, IFI, no cert ,Rating:***

Fourteen years ago, in that happy time before Marvel and DC became the sticky lipids clogging the arteries of popular cinema, Brad Bird’s first Pixar feature The Incredibles was a visually dazzling, gaspingly funny upending of the tropes and clichés of the superhero genre. Like Watchmen for pre-teens, it told a ...