REVIEW: Big Hero 6

"Our origin story begins. We're gonna be SUPERHEROES!"

— Fred

 

From the same team as wreck-it-ralph and frozen comes Big hero 6 the 54^th Disney animated film, inspired by the super hero comic book series of the same name.  The focus of the film is the friendship that develops between Bymax, possibly the most huggable robot since Walle, and the films protagonist Hiro. (A hero named Hiro…very good Disney RBD) Hiro is a brilliant but lazy robotics prodigy who is content to waist his skills in the underground bot fighting scene.  It falls to his big brother Tadashi and their like-minded friends: adrenaline junkie Go Go Tamago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fan boy Fred, to inspire him. Although it is based on a Marvel comic of the same name, there are lots of changes to the names, the setting, and the ethnicities of characters, the back stories, and several plot points.

 Tadashi dies but his robot, Baymax, survives and the film centres on the friendship between the huggable robot and the young genius Hiro.  When Hiro discovers that someone is using his Microbot’s for evil he transforms his friends into a group of superheroes.

The inflatable, vinyl, truly huggable design of Baymax is inspired by 'soft robotics' research at Carnegie Mellon University. The world created in the movie is visually stunning the city of San Fransokyo feels like the kind of place that a robot wearing carbon fibre underpants will fit right in. There is so much detail in there; over 200 different signs were created for the advertisements in the fictional city. The "world" that the animators created is bigger than those of Tangled (2010), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and Frozen (2013) combined. According to Scott Watanabe, the movie is set in an alternate future where after the 1906 earthquake; San Francisco was rebuilt by Japanese immigrants using techniques that allow movement and flexibility in a seismic event. After the city was finished being rebuilt, it was renamed San Fransokyo due to it being a city with Japanese and American architecture combined.

 

 

Even the films villain is good, he doesn’t sing, he doesn’t get caught monloging he simply gets the job done

This film literally has everything that will make your inner nine year old happy, it has: robots, super heroes, the best car chase seen I have seen in any animation, humour and an ending that could make grown men cry. Better than frozen and smarter than wreck it ralph Big hero 6 is the best Disney film for years.