INCREDIBLES 2 (PG)
THERE are few tricks and no treats in writer-director Crispian Mills’s painfully outdated horror comedy set at an elite seat of learning for future prime ministers in leafy Gloucestershire.
From the moment Michael Sheen wafts into view as the school’s money-grabbing headmaster, who forgets that girls have been permitted into the hallowed halls, Slaughterhouse Rulez goes into special measures.
The script grinds through two gears – pedestrian and frenetic – and signposts deaths by positioning cast in front of a door or window so they can be torn limb from limb by carnivorous beasts, which emerge from a fracking sinkhole.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost co-star as misfits at the centre of the copious blood-letting ★★★★★
IN this animated sequel, public affection is waning for the Superhero Relocation Programme, which supports Bob Parr aka Mr Incredible (voiced by Craig T Nelson) and his wife Helen aka Elastigirl (Holly Hunter). Ardent fan Winston (Bob Odenkirk) and his techno-savvy sister Evelyn (Catherine Keener) propose that Elastigirl fronts a publicity campaign to turn opinion, while Bob takes care of the kids – Violet (Sarah Vowell), Dash (Huck Milner) and Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile). When a masked menace threatens the metropolis, Elastigirl races into the melee, flanked by some superhero wannabes.
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