Walt Disney Pictures
Rated PG
Running time: 102 Minutes
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Big Hero 6 from YouTube.
In Walt Disney Pictures
Big Hero 6, Hiro/
Ryan Potter has his invention stolen and used for evil by a man in a
kabuki mask, so Ryan/
Potter uses his brother Tadashi/
Daniel Henney's robot
Baymax/
Scott Adsit to stop him.
Based on the
Marvel Comics superhero team by
Man of Action, and mainly draws from the
mini-series where
Wasabi and
Fred first appeared.
Big Hero 6 is the 54th Disney animated feature and is the first Disney animated feature film to feature characters from
Marvel Entertainment and gave special thanks to
Marvel - although this movie is not part of the
Marvel Cinematic Universe. As much as I wanted it to be part of the
MCU,
Big Hero 6 is not part of that universe.
Set in the hybrid metropolis San Fransokyo, a combination of San Francisco and Tokyo, Hiro/
Potter is a punk
robotics expert engaging in robofights. Older brother Tadashi/
Henney, trying to get Hiro/
Potter off the streets, takes Hiro/
Potter to his
robotics lab at his university The Institute of Technology where Hiro/
Potter meets his friends
Go Go/
Jamie Chung,
Wasabi/
Damon Wayans Jr.,
Honey Lemon/
Genesis Rodriguez, and mascot
Fred/
T.J. Miller - as well as
Baymax/Adsit, an inflatable
soft robotics huggable personal
health care robot that Tadashi
/Henney created to help people. Tadashi/
Henney's teacher, Professor Callaghan/
James Cromwell gets impressed with Hiro/
Potter. Hiro/
Potter wants to go the nerd school and designs his own robotics project for the annual exhibition so he can get an invitation to the school. Soon, a man in a mask steels Hiro's/
Potter's project and Hiro/
Potter and his nerd friends, with the help of Baymax/
Adsit, form a superhero team and go after the masked man to get answers.
The geek/nerd in me liked the fact that the characters are all geniuses. This is a positive portrayal for education for young people, especially when Hiro/
Potter says that he has to get into this nerd school. I have had nephews and nieces enter robotic competitions, so the robots, especially
penguin waddling Baymax/
Adsit, were also cool to me. I also like the fact that Hiro/
Potter is the first biracial lead in a Disney animated film. Hiro/Potter's invention for the annual exhibition reminds me of the
Power Ring from
Green Lantern where the only limit is your imagination. While yes
Big Hero 6 is a story of a boy and his robot Baymax/
Adsit, the movie is much more than what the
trailer commercials that most people have seen as part of the marketing campaign portrays. Visually the animation style of the movie reminds me of
Japanese manga with a Disney feel.
Big Hero 6 is the first Disney animated film to be adapted into a
Japanese manga.
For
Stan Lee fans, there is a portrait of him in Fred's/
Miller's house and some of the audience reacted positively to seeing that scene. I also liked that Fred/
Miller's dialog was mostly improvised by comedian
Miller.
Of course, being based on a
Marvel comic, there is an after
credits scene at the end of the movie. I think that this was the best after credits scene that I have ever seen of any movie, Marvel included. There is a special credit at the end of this scene. Those few in the audience that had stayed behind during the
credits music for this scene applauded. Being part of a
comic book series, I would not be surprised if there were a sequel or even a series of movies to
Big Hero 6 in the near future with further adventures of this superhero team.
Big Hero 6 is the first animated Marvel film to be released theatrically via
Walt Disney Animation Studios. This is also the first Disney animated feature which shows the
studio logos in the beginning, and the main title, the closing credits sequence, and the studio logos at the end, as well as the first to have "Created and Produced at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Burbank, California" at the end. It is also the first
WDAS feature to use Disney's Hyperion Rendering system for light shining through a translucent object like Baymax/
Adsit's covering.
In the beginning of the movie was a short feature from Walt Disney Animation Studios,
Feast. This was a cute short about hungry
Boston terrier dog Winston and his master James.
Feast was nominated for an
Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject at the
42nd Annie Awards.
I also saw this movie on the day that the
trailer for
Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiered, on
Black Friday 2014. At the end of the trailer the audience applauded. One guy behind me said, Again! Again!
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Big Hero 6 from YouTube.
Rated PG for violence. Running time: 102 Minutes.
Pancho
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