| Incredibles 2 | |
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| Directed by | Brad Bird |
| Written by | Brad Bird |
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| Edited by | Stephen Schaffer |
| Music by | Michael Giacchino |
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| Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures[a] |
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Running time | 118 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $200 million[2][3] |
| Box office | $1.243 billion[4] |
Incredibles 2 is a 2018 American animatedsuperhero film produced byPixar Animation Studios forWalt Disney Pictures. Written and directed byBrad Bird, it is thesequel toThe Incredibles (2004) and the second full-length installment ofthe franchise. The story follows the Incredibles as they try to restore the public's trust in superheroes while balancing family life.Craig T. Nelson,Holly Hunter,Sarah Vowell, andSamuel L. Jackson reprise their roles from the first film. Newcomers to the cast include Huckleberry Milner,Bob Odenkirk,Catherine Keener, andJonathan Banks.Michael Giacchino returned to compose the score.
Following the success ofThe Incredibles, Bird postponed development on a sequel to work on other films. He attempted to distinguish the script from superhero films and superhero television series released since the first film, focusing on the family dynamic rather than the superhero genre.
Incredibles 2 premiered inLos Angeles on June 5, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 15, 2018. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its animation, humor, voice acting, action sequences, writing, and musical score. The film made $182.7 million in its opening weekend, setting the record forbest debut for an animated film, and grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide, making it thefourth-highest-grossing film of 2018, thesecond-highest-grossing animated film, and the15th-highest-grossing film of all time during its theatrical run, along with being Pixar's third film to gross $1 billion afterFinding Dory andToy Story 3. It also became the highest-grossing animated film in the United States and Canada as well as the highest-grossing Pixar film until the release ofInside Out 2 in 2024.Incredibles 2 was named by theNational Board of Review as theBest Animated Film of 2018. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the76th Golden Globe Awards and91st Academy Awards, but lost both awards toSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The film was also the winner of the 2019Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie. A sequel,Incredibles 3, is in development.[5][6]
The Parrs (The Incredibles) and Lucius Best (Frozone) battleThe Underminer in Municiberg.[b] The superheroes prevent the villain from destroyingcity hall, but fail to stop him from robbing a bank and making his escape. The resulting massive property damage prompt the government to shut down the Superhero Relocation Program, ending financial assistance for the "supers".Violet's classmate and love interest,Tony Rydinger, discovers her superhero identity; AgentRick Dicker accidentally erases Tony's entire knowledge of Violet instead of just this incident.
Wealthy siblingsWinston andEvelyn Deavor, who run the telecommunications company DevTech, propose secret missions to Helen, Bob, and Lucius, which are to be recorded and broadcast in a movement to regain public trust in superheroes. Winston chooses Helen for their initial missions as she has caused the least property damage. Initially reluctant to be away from her family and risking getting into trouble with the law, Helen accepts after a talk with Bob. Meanwhile, Winston rehouses the Parrs in a luxury mansion.
Bob struggles in his new role as a stay-at-home parent, left to deal with Violet's dejection over Tony forgetting their first date,Dash's math homework, and the chaos of babyJack-Jack's burgeoning superpowers. He suppresses envy for Helen and, at Lucius's advice, calls onEdna Mode to babysit Jack-Jack. Meanwhile, in the city of New Urbem, Helen encounters the supervillainScreenslaver, a hacker who can performhypnosis through any screen. After preventing him from destroying a crowdedhovertrain and thwarting his assassination attempt on an ambassador, she tracks his signals and infiltrates his base. Defeating him, she unmasks him only to discover a disoriented pizza delivery driver. At a party celebrating Helen's success, Winston announces a summit of world leaders to legalize the supers on live television, hosted aboard his luxuryhydrofoilyacht, theEverjust, and attended by all "supers" coming out of hiding.
Helen realizes Screenslaver lured her to a decoy double, and the pizza delivery driver was under the control of hypnotic goggles. Evelyn reveals herself to be the true Screenslaver and hypnotizes Helen, restraining her using her goggles and a freezing cell that negates her self-stretching superpower. Evelyn blames society's overdependence on the "supers" for the deaths of her and Winston's parents, as their father was shot by burglars after the newly outlawed supers Fironic and Gazerbeam did not answer his calls for aid, and their mother died of grief. Evelyn plans to sabotage her brother's summit to ruin the reputation of all "supers" once more and keep them outlawed in the hopes that the public will be safer with self-sufficient crimefighting.
Evelyn lures Bob into a trap on theEverjust, goggling him too, and sends six hypnotized supers to subdue Violet and Dash. Lucius arrives to protect them but is overwhelmed and goggled as well. Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack escape in the Incredibile, the supercar once owned by Bob, and, deducing their parents are in danger, stow away on theEverjust. Onboard, Helen, Bob, and Lucius are forced to broadcast themselves, giving villainous speeches, subduing the ship's crew, and locking its course towards Municiberg at a disastrous pace. When the children arrive, Jack-Jack removes the goggles on Helen, who in turn frees Bob and Lucius. They work together to release the other mind-controlled supers and safely prevent theEverjust's collision with the city. Evelyn tries to escape in the yacht'sparasite jet, but is then caught by Helen and arrested.
With another disaster averted and the positive publicity surrounding this, supers around the world regain their legal status. Sometime later, Tony is picked up by Violet and her family in the Incredibile for their reinstated movie date. They spot apolice chase; Violet leaves Tony at the cinema, promising a quick return, before the Parrs don their superhero masks and join the pursuit.
While publicizingThe Incredibles (2004),Brad Bird had already conceptualized the eventual approach of asequel where Bob and Helen Parr would switch roles and Jack-Jack would develop multiple powers unknown to the family.[19] FollowingThe Incredibles, Bird directedRatatouille (2007), his next film forPixar. Near its premiere in June 2007, Bird said he was open to an idea of a sequel toThe Incredibles, but only if it could be better than the original. He stated, "I have pieces that I think are good, but I don't have them all together."[20] In a May 2013 interview, Bird reiterated his interest in a sequel: "I have been thinking about it. People think that I have not been, but I have—because I love those characters, and love that world ... I have many, many elements that I think would work really well in anotherIncredibles film, and if I can get 'em to click all together, I would probably wanna do that."[21]
At the Disney shareholder meeting in March 2014, Disney CEO and chairmanBob Iger confirmed that Pixar was working on anIncredibles sequel, and that Bird would return as both director and screenwriter.[22] Bird started the script around April 2015,[23] and said that theIncredibles sequel would be his next film afterTomorrowland (2015).[24]
One challenge in writingIncredibles 2 was how to deal with the large number of superhero films and television series that had been released since the first film, such as theMarvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).[25] To try to differentiate the sequel, Bird wanted to avoid tropes related to the superhero genre: "I don't think that kind of idea stays interesting for very long. For me, the interesting thing was never the superhero part of it. It was more the family dynamic, and how do superhero things play into that."[26] He said he wanted to include some unused ideas from the first film,[27][28] and that the new story would focus on Helen Parr / Elastigirl.[29]
Though the sequel was released thirteen-and-a-half years after the first, Bird did not want to use a narrative element like anellipsis or to come up with new characters, and instead continued from where the first film left off. This allowed him to keep characters with the same superpowers and not have to develop new ones, nor did he need to figure out how to deal with Violet and Dash being adults. This also allowed him to keep Jack-Jack as an infant with an array of powers, which Bird likened to howinfants are able to understand numerous languages.[30] While the plot of the 2005 follow-upvideo game toThe Incredibles,The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer, begins at that same point of time,[31] the film discards the game's continuity. The film was produced with a production budget of $200 million.[2][3]
In November 2016, Pixar announced thatHolly Hunter andSamuel L. Jackson would reprise their roles.[8][9] During the 2017D23 Expo, it was confirmed thatCraig T. Nelson andSarah Vowell would also reprise their roles,[7] and thatSpencer Fox, the original voice of Dashiell "Dash" Parr, would be replaced by younger newcomer Huckleberry Milner.[7] Later that month, Bird andJohn Ratzenberger were, also, confirmed as reprising their characters from the first film.[10][29]
In November 2017, Pixar announced thatBob Odenkirk andCatherine Keener had joined the cast.[10] In January 2018, it was announced thatSophia Bush andIsabella Rossellini would voice new characters Voyd and The Ambassador, whileJonathan Banks would voice Rick Dicker after the character's original voice actorBud Luckey retired in 2014;[12][11] after his death in 2018, the film was dedicated to Luckey's memory.[32]
One advantage that Pixar had withIncredibles 2 was the advancement of technology the company had seen since the original film and a team of much more experienced animators. ProducerJohn Walker said, "I think that one of the things that excited Brad andRalph Eggleston, the production designer, was that the technology existed now to finally realize the designs in the way that they had hoped to realize them in 2004. There were no notions of, 'Well, we don't know how to do long hair, we don't know how to do humans, we don't know how to do muscles.' Everybody knows how to do it. It's just now about doing it quickly."[33] Because Pixar no longer used the same systems from the first film, all the characters had to be created from scratch on the computer again. The studio also used physically based human eye models for the characters for the first time, which possibly made the eyes larger and more stylized than that of real humans.[34]
In 2015, Bird confirmed thatMichael Giacchino would return to compose the score.[35] Giacchino began work around May 2017.[36] The soundtrack album was released on June 15, 2018 and onCD two weeks later. In addition to the film's score, it includes the vocalized theme songs for Mr. Incredible, Frozone, and Elastigirl heard in the credits, as well as bonus versions of the songs sung by Disney's a cappella group,DCappella, and the latter's version of the track "The Glory Days" from the first film.[37]
A 53-secondteaser trailer premiered on November 18, 2017 duringESPN's broadcast ofCollege GameDay. It received 113.0 million views in its first 24 hours, becoming the most-viewed trailer for an animated film up until the release of the teaser trailer forFrozen II in February 2019, which surpassed it with 116.4 million views in its first 24 hours. It is also the 14th-most-viewed trailer overall.[38] The studio spent a total of $150 million promoting the film.[39] In the month of the release of the film, Elastigirl's new costume inIncredibles 2 was added in the video gameDisney Magic Kingdoms, along with a limited time Event to unlock Jack-Jack.[40]
AnIncredibles 2 graphic novel and comic miniseries was published byDark Horse Comics in 2018. The graphic novel, titledIncredibles 2: Heroes at Home, was written by Liz Marsham and illustrated by Nicoletta Baldari. A comic miniseries, titledIncredibles 2: Crisis in Mid-Life! & Other Stories, was written byChristos Gage andLandry Walker, and illustrated byGurihiru,J. Bone, Andrea Greppi and Roberta Zanotta. Christos Gage also wrote (with Jean Claudio-Vinci as illustrator) another series titledIncredibles 2: Secret Identities. The series, like hisCrisis in Mid-Life! & Other Stories, focuses on what happens after the film. This particular series is about Violet, published in a single graphic novel by Dark Horse Comics on October 1, 2019.[41][42][43]
In May 2018, a prose novel was released entitledIncredibles 2: A Real Stretch: An Elastigirl Prequel Story, which focuses on the life of the character Elastigirl before the events of the first film.
ALego video game adaptation of both films was released on the same day asIncredibles 2.[44]
Funko released several Pop! figures including a chase (1/6) variant of Violet in her invisible form, and several retail exclusives toTarget andHot Topic.[45] There was a Jack-Jack as Edna Mode Pop! figure that released exclusively atSan Diego Comic-Con in July 2018.[46] In addition, Funko released several blind box mystery minis of characters from the film.
Figpin released a boxed set of 5 characters (Edna "E" Mode, Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, Dash, and Violet) limited to 1000 pieces, which was released exclusively at the D23 Expo in August 2019.[47] Numerous attendees camped out overnight to purchase the box set at the Figpin booth, which sold out quickly.
The official premiere ofIncredibles 2 took place in Los Angeles on June 5, 2018.[48][49] It was theatrically released in the United States on June 15, 2018.[50][51][52] It was accompanied by Pixar's short filmBao.[53] The film's release was originally scheduled for June 21, 2019, but the date was moved forward to 2018 as it was ahead of schedule, and Pixar handed the 2019 release date over toToy Story 4.[50]
Incredibles 2 was releaseddigitally on October 23, 2018, and onDVD,Blu-ray, andUltra HD Blu-ray on November 6, 2018.[54] The film made a revenue of $66.7 million from home video sales with 3.4 million units sold, making it the sixth best-selling title of 2018.[55]
Incredibles 2 grossed $608.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $634.2 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $1.242 billion.[4]
On July 1, 2018, the film passed $648 million at the worldwide box office, surpassing the $633 million the original film made in its entire theatrical run.[56] It ended its run as theninth-highest-grossing film of all time domestically and the highest-grossing animated film domestically.[57][58] The film crossed the $1 billion mark on July 30, 2018, becoming the seventh animated film and the 36th film of all time to reach the milestone. It was also the fifth animated Disney film, the third Pixar film, and Disney's 18th film overall to gross $1 billion worldwide, as well as the fastest animated film to gross $1 billion, doing so in 46 days, surpassingMinions (49 days), but later being surpassed byThe Lion King in 2019 (21 days), also made by Disney, andThe Super Mario Bros. Movie (25 days) in 2023.[59] On August 12, the film surpassedToy Story 3 ($1.067 billion) to become the highest-grossing Pixar film worldwide, and held this record until being surpassed byInside Out 2 in 2024.[60][61]Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $447.4 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues, making it the third-most-profitable release of 2018.[39]
In April 2018, early box office projections hadIncredibles 2 grossing $110 million in its opening weekend in the United States and Canada.[62] In May 2018, a month before the film's release, tracking revised to an opening weekend of $140 million or more.[63] A week prior to the film's opening,Fandango reported that pre-sale of tickets for the film had exceeded that of previous mid-year blockbustersFinding Dory,Wonder Woman,Spider-Man: Homecoming andSuicide Squad at the same point in their release cycles.[64] By the week of its release, opening weekend projections had reached upwards of $150 million.[65] A day before release, it became Fandango's top pre-selling animated film of all time, outselling the previous record-holder,Finding Dory.[66]
The film grossed $18.5 million from Thursday night previews, increasing weekend projections to as high as $174 million. The previews set the record for an animated film, doublingFinding Dory's $9.2 million, and were higher than the likes of fellow superhero filmsSpider-Man: Homecoming,Thor: Ragnarok andJustice League. It made $71.6 million on its first day, including previews, the best ever for an animated film (bestingDory's $54.7 million by 31%) and 14th-highest all time. It went on to debut to $182.7 million, the eighth-best opening of all time, far ahead ofFinding Dory's animated record of $135.1 million and more than the entire lifetime gross of Pixar'sA Bug's Life ($162.8 million),Cars 3 ($152.9 million), andThe Good Dinosaur ($123.1 million).[67][68]
The film set animated records for its Monday and Tuesday grosses, making $23.9 million (beating the $23.4 million made byShrek 2 in May 2004)[69] and $27.1 million (beatingFinding Dory's $23.1 million), respectively. Its Tuesday gross also set a June record, toppingJurassic World ($24.3 million in 2015).[70] By Thursday, its seventh day of release, the film had grossed $269.4 million, topping the entire lifetime domestic gross of the original, not accounting for inflation ($261.4 million). In its second weekend the film dropped 56% to $80.9 million, finishing second behind newcomerJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ($148 million), marking the first time two films opened to over $100 million in back-to-back weekends.[71] It remained in second place in its third weekend, grossing $45.5 million and third in its fourth weekend with $29 million, respectively.[56] On July 7, its 23rd day of release, the film crossed $495 million, passingFinding Dory to become the highest-grossing animated film and Pixar's highest-grossing film of all time domestically,[72] and the following day became the first animated film to gross over $500 million domestically.[73] On September 2, its 80th day of release, it became the first animated film to gross over $600 million domestically.[74]Incredibles 2 ended its run at the box office as thethird highest-grossing film of 2018 behindBlack Panther andAvengers: Infinity War.[75]
Outside the United States, the film made $51.5 million from 25 countries in its opening weekend, for a global debut of $231.5 million. This made it the biggest international opening weekend for an animated film, surpassingIce Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.[76] Mexico was the largest debut with $12.3 million, followed by Australia ($7.7 million) and Russia ($5.4 million).[77] In its second weekend of release the film made $58.6 million from 28 countries, bringing its two-week total to $134.7 million. Its largest market was China where it made $21.2 million, the best-ever opening for a Pixar film in the country. It was also released in India where it made $3.3 million.[78] In the United Kingdom, the film grossed $12.6 million in its opening weekend, the second-biggest opening for Pixar afterToy Story 3.[79][80] As of November 18, 2018[update], The biggest markets in terms of total earnings are the United Kingdom ($73.1 million), followed by China ($51.5 million), Japan ($43.9 million), France ($41.7 million), and Brazil ($37.6 million).[81]
On review aggregatorRotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 390 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Incredibles 2 reunites Pixar's family crimefighting team for a long-awaited follow-up that may not quite live up to the original, but comes close enough to earn its name."[82] OnMetacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has aweighted average score of 80 out of 100, based on 51 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[83] Audiences polled byCinemaScore gave the film a rare grade of "A+" on an A+ to F scale, the same score as the first film, making it the first and so far only film franchise to have received this grade for every installment. Those atPostTrak gave the film a 93% overall positive score and an 83% "definite recommend".[67]
Robert Abele ofTheWrap, praised the film, saying: "Whatever the opposite of phoning in a sequel is, that's Brad Bird's progressive-minded, thunderously fun mix of super saves, throwback aesthetics and family comedy."[84] A.A. Dowd, writing forThe A.V. Club, felt it was "A sparkling contraption of an animated comedy, funny and often wondrous in its midcentury-modern vision of an alternate America frozen in the amber of a bygone idealism."[85] David Ehrlich ofIndieWire, gave the film a "B+", saying: "When the Parrs are pushed out of their comfort zone, Bird settles into his... [after] inciting a Spielberg-level monorail chase that reaffirms Bird's lucid gift for kinetic and character-driven action filmmaking, the movie blasts off and never looks back."[86]Stephanie Zacharek fromTime considered it "bold [and] rapturously entertaining,"[87] while David Sims atThe Atlantic, dubbed it "dazzling, thought-provoking, and sometimes overwhelming in terms of plotting."[88]Peter Travers ofRolling Stone gave the film a 3.5 out of 4 stars, and said: "Long-awaited follow-up brings back everyone's favorite superhero family—and suggests that we should give our caped-crusader pop obsessions a rest."[89]Manohla Dargis ofThe New York Times, wrote a positive review of the film, saying: "The family that fights together remains the steadily throbbing, unbreakable heart ofIncredibles 2, even when Bob and Helen swap traditional roles. There's something too self-conscious—overcompensating much?"[90]
Variety'sOwen Gleiberman called the film "fun but far from incredible" and wrote: "It's true that theToy Story films, all three of which are fantastic, did variations on the same theme of a toy's obsolescence, but as movies they kept the emotions close to the surface. InIncredibles 2, we never get that rush of feeling."[1]Mark Kermode, writing forThe Guardian, gave the film four out of five stars, and said: "Slapstick genius, profound social comment and a monstrously funny infant combine to conjure a magical second outing for the superhero family."[91] John Nugent ofEmpire magazine also gave the film four out of five stars, saying: "There's some quibbles to be had in an over-familiar setup, and an under-served villain, but overall this is a gloriously fun family parable, and as entertaining as any superhero movie you'll see this year."[92] Brian Tellerico ofRogerebert.com gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, and said: "...Incredibles 2 understands something that most family sequels, even the Pixar ones, fail to comprehend—we don't just want to repeat something we loved before. We want to love it all over again. You will withIncredibles 2."[93]Michael Phillips of theChicago Tribune gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, and said: "Incredibles 2 is content to punch the clock and stick to straight, bombastic action mode. In that mode, composer Giacchino's music is the most successful element, running nimble, beautifully orchestrated variations on themes that feel familiar in the best ways while retaining their spark. The animation is bright and visually dynamic. The script, well ... if the title wereSatisfactories 2, it'd be about right."[94] Ty Burr forThe Boston Globe called it a "clattery, unfocused affair that at times is more irritating than fun."[95]Todd McCarthy ofThe Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, saying: "Boosted by central characters that remain vastly engaging and a deep supply of wit,Incredibles 2 certainly proves worth the wait, even if it hits the target but not the bull's-eye in quite the way the first one did."[96]
Many disability advocates, including theEpilepsy Foundation, have raised concerns that movie scenes with flashing lights, including that inIncredibles 2 of Elastigirl's fight with the Screenslaver, can trigger seizures in viewers affected byphotosensitive epilepsy.[97][98][99] As a result, several theaters posted warnings for audiences.[100] Disney toldUSA Today that it appreciated those efforts, and then, in a memo, asked all theaters exhibiting the movie to warn audiences: "Incredibles 2 contains a sequence of flashing lights, which may affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or other photosensitivities."[101]
In response to this, a re-edited version was released in the United Kingdom with all affected sequences altered so that any flashing lights and strobe effects now pass theHarding test.[102][103][non-primary source needed]
| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | February 24, 2019 | Best Animated Feature | Brad Bird,John Walker andNicole Paradis Grindle | Nominated | [104] |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | January 10, 2019 | Best Animated Feature Film | Brad Bird | Nominated | [105] |
| Best Animated Female | Holly Hunteras Elastigirl | Won | |||
| Annie Awards | February 2, 2019 | Annie Award for Best Animated Feature | Brad Bird,John Walker andNicole Paradis Grindle | Nominated | [106] |
| Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Feature Production | Greg Gladstone, Tolga Göktekin, Jason Johnston, Eric Lacroix and Krzysztof Rost | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production | Lance Fite | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production | Matt Notle | Nominated | |||
| Annie Award for Directing in a Feature Production | Brad Bird | Nominated | |||
| Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production | Michael Giacchino | Won | |||
| Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Dean Kelly | Won | |||
| Bobby Alcid Rubio | Nominated | ||||
| Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production | Holly Hunter | Nominated | |||
| Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production | Brad Bird | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Achievement for Editorial in an Animated Feature Production | Stephen Schaffer, Anthony J. Greenberg and Katie Schaefer Bishop | Nominated | |||
| British Academy Children's Awards | November 25, 2018 | Feature Film | Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle | Nominated | [107] |
| British Academy Film Awards | February 10, 2019 | Best Animated Film | Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle | Nominated | [108] |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | December 7, 2018 | Best Animated Feature | Brad Bird | Nominated | [109] |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | January 13, 2019 | Best Animated Feature | Nominated | [110] | |
| Golden Globe Awards | January 6, 2019 | Best Animated Feature Film | Incredibles 2 | Nominated | [111] |
| Hollywood Music in Media Awards | November 14, 2018 | Original Score – Animated Film | Michael Giacchino | Nominated | [112] |
| Humanitas Prize | February 8, 2019 | Family Feature Film | Brad Bird | Nominated | [113] |
| Kids' Choice Awards | March 23, 2019 | Favorite Animated Movie | Incredibles 2 | Won | [114] |
| Los Angeles Film Critics Association | December 9, 2018 | Best Animated Feature | 2nd place | [115] | |
| National Board of Review | November 27, 2018 | Best Animated Film | Brad Bird | Won | [116] |
| New York Film Critics Circle Awards | November 29, 2018 | Best Animated Feature | Incredibles 2 | Nominated | [117] |
| San Diego Film Critics Society | December 10, 2018 | Best Animated Feature | Nominated | [118] | |
| San Francisco Film Critics Circle | December 9, 2018 | Best Animated Feature | Nominated | [119] | |
| Seattle Film Critics Society | December 17, 2018 | Best Animated Feature | Brad Bird | Nominated | [120] |
| St. Louis Film Critics Association | December 16, 2018 | Best Animated Feature | Incredibles 2 | Nominated | [121] |
| People's Choice Awards | November 11, 2018 | Favorite Family Movie | Won | [122] | |
| Movie of 2018 | Nominated | ||||
| Satellite Awards | February 22, 2019 | Best Animated or Mixed Media Film | Brad Bird | Nominated | [123] |
| Saturn Awards | September 13, 2019 | Best Animated Film | Incredibles 2 | Nominated | [124] |
| Teen Choice Awards | August 12, 2018 | Choice Summer Movie | Incredibles 2 | Won | [125] |
| Visual Effects Society Awards | February 5, 2019 | Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature | Brad Bird, John Walker, Rick Sayre, Bill Watral | Nominated | [126] |
| Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature | Michal Makarewicz, Ben Porter, Edgar Rodriguez, Kevin Singleton forHelen Parr | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature | Christopher M. Burrows, Philip Metschan, Michael Rutter, Joshua West forThe Parr House | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project | Neil Blevins, Philip Metschan, Kevin Singleton forUnderminer Vehicle | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature | Paul Kanyuk, Tiffany Erickson Klohn, Vincent Serritella, Matthew Kiyoshi Wong | Nominated | |||
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards | December 3, 2018 | Best Animated Feature | Brad Bird | Nominated | [127] |
| Best Animated Voice Performance | Holly Hunter | Nominated |
Following the release ofIncredibles 2, director Brad Bird acknowledged that the film's truncated production schedule resulted in many plotlines and ideas he had for the film being cut from the final version. He cited Pixar's decision in October 2016 to swap the release dates ofToy Story 4 andIncredibles 2, which meant that Bird's film lost a full year of production. Bird stated that the lingering plotlines could lead to a third installment, just as the plotlines of the first did with the second. "There were a lot of ideas that we had on this film that could be [used]... whether it's anotherIncredibles film, or something else." Cast members including Samuel L. Jackson and Sophia Bush have expressed interest in reprising their roles for the third film with Bush herself expressing the desires of a team up with Sarah Vowell's Violet for the third film. Producer John Walker would not "rule [a third film] out".[128]
In May 2024 (in the lead-up to the first film's 20th anniversary), an interview with Pixar CCOPete Docter and Pixar presidentJim Morris revealed that the studio was considering making more sequels to their popular franchises, among them beingThe Incredibles.[129]Incredibles 3 was officially announced by Docter at theD23 Expo event in August 2024, with Bird returning to develop.[5][6] In June 2025, it was announced thatPeter Sohn would direct the film due to Bird's commitments to the filmRay Gunn (2026). However, Bird will remain involved as a screenwriter and executive producer whileDana Murray will produce.[130][131]
On August 30, 2025, atDestination D23 2025, it was revealed thatIncredibles 3 is scheduled to release around 2028.[132]
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