The 1955 material is the strongest part of the movie. The idea of going back into a previous movie's events was definitely clever. The rest of it is either outright bad (the 2015 material) or annoying/mediocre (alt 1985.) But the movie is just a lot of business and plot without any of the heart, emotion and character of the first film.
I just love all of it TBH. The conversation here inspired me to watch all three this weekend with my 10 year old - he'd never seen them before and I hadn't watched them in a LOOONG time, and we had a blast. All three are so enjoyable, and - even through it wasn't planned as a trilogy - parts 2 and 3 do an amazing job of making it FEEL like it was always supposed to be three films. I don't agree that 2 has no heart, the exposition is delivered in quite a knowing way in all three films, they're sort of deliberately, comically overly complex, part 2 is clearly the most complicated but this never distracts from the fun, for me at least. I don't put these films under the microscope as much as I do the Indy series, so it was nice to just watch them and get carried along with the breezy humour and adventure.
Where? I haven't heard any real praise for The Incredibles 2. I watched both movies last year and the first one holds up as a masterpiece while the second merely exists.
It got pretty good reviews at the time, but it's all but vanished from the pop culture conversation/memory.
I'm not going to get into a granular discussion of the merits of the BTTF sequels.
Academy awards in animation are a joke.
It's a joke category, but some of the movies that are up for it are obviously legitimately good. But sometimes ****ty films get nominated because there aren't enough good ones in a given year.
Just to clarify, my phone changed the word 'retconned'.
On the same internet that stores the praise for the first film.
In your estimation, are The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid both soulless and sequels??
I think he means the live action remakes. And I'd agree - they do feel soulless.
I understand the reasoning to make them, at least 5 years ago. They each make about a billion. The people opposed to them won't see them, and the new audiences will.
Toy Story 3 was nominated for best picture, outside of the animated feature category. With other live action films. The ending of that film is talked about more than any other portion of the franchise. Toy Story 4 got great reviews, as all of them did. I can't speak to what movies have you walking out in tears, but the consensus among most people was that it was completely unnecessary.