What <em>Incredibles 2</em> Says About Hero Worship
Brad Bird’s sequel to his 2004 classic is a pointed response to the increasing ubiquity of comic-book movies.
This article contains major spoilers for the plot of Incredibles 2.
“Politicians don’t understand people who do good things. That makes them nervous,” Rick Dicker, the rheumy-eyed secret agent assigned to the world of superheroes, tells the Parr family as they go into hiding at the start of . Delivered with a melancholy shrug, it’s an unusually charged line for a children’s film, and the first real sign that the writer and director, Brad Bird, isn’t afraid to explore some thorny ideas in his latest blockbuster. As he has before, Bird takes frothy genre material and digs into its richer themes, reaching conclusions about the state
