Superhero set-pieces don’t come much better than the ones in Incredibles 2

It’s mid-June, which means Pixar is racing another shiny all-ages blockbuster into theaters: Incredibles 2, Brad Bird’s belated return to animation and to his first family of incognito superheroes, scrambling through another retro-futuristic adventure and some of the best action scenes in superhero-cinema history. On this new episode of Film Club, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky talk through the studio’s latest surefire smash, which falls somewhere between Cars 2 and Toy Story 2 on the sliding scale of Pixar sequels.