AnimationWorld Magazine — May 31, 2018
Mad for Mid-Century Design: Pixar’s ‘Incredibles 2’

The year’s single most anticipated animated feature is looming on the horizon, and it’s going to be nothing short of incredible. In theaters June 15, Pixar Animation Studios’ Incredibles 2 picks up with the Parr family right where they left off in the 2004 Oscar-winning prequel, which saw the incognito superhero family escape its humdrum suburban existence to vanquish super villain Syndrome.

Written and directed by Brad Bird, The Incredibles was groundbreaking for its time, exploring issues such as “midlife crisis, marital dysfunction, child neglect, impotence fears, fashion faux pas and, and existential angst,” according to Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers. The animation itself was also groundbreaking, notably being Pixar’s first film to feature a cast of wholly human characters, an undertaking that entailed years of research and development to design and execute. The original film, which delighted critics and audiences alike, broke records at the box office, ringing up nearly $70.5 million in its domestic debut for a worldwide gross of $633 million, and earned Bird an Academy Award for best animated film in 2005.

Fourteen years later, Incredibles 2 brings a brand-new abundance of riches for audiences to savor — a new villain, Undermine, for one, and what the heck is going on with Jack-Jack? for another — but let’s not forget all the lavish details painstakingly created by dozens of artists that converge on the screen with flawless synergy to help bring a Pixar feature to life. In other words, look at THAT HOUSE. The Parrs have relocated to a FABULOUS new 38,000-square-foot home that is an EPIC homage to mid-century Googie architecture.

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