'Incredibles 2' review: Piling on the action in a 14-years-later sequel
When writer-director Brad Bird made "The Incredibles" (2004), the superhero movie genre looked nothing like the overcrowded youth hostel it does today. The "X-Men" movies, the fledgling "Spider-Man" franchise and that was about it. This was pre-"Iron Man." This preceded the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Comics afflictions, if you can remember such a time.
Bird's movie, about a family of "Supers" banned by the government from their calling and forced to integrate into unheroic middle-class life,
