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'Big Hero 6'
From the promos, you’d be justified in thinking that Disney's Big Hero 6belonged to the set of movies that might as well go by the name "Pixar Challengers." They are funny, compelling, and well animated, and they've also got a complexity and a heart that transcends your standard animated flick—the kind of heart that's made Pixar what it is, and which earnedUp its Best Picture nod at the Oscars.
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'Big Hero 6'
Movies like this include How To Train Your Dragon, The Iron Giant (directed by Brad Bird, responsible for The Incredibles), Lilo & Stitch,Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie, and more—this is just the short list. All these movies are, somehow, more than the sum of their parts—more meaningful and affecting as a whole than just as "moving scenes."
Most children's animated movies lack this quality—whatever it is—and end up as cringe-fests in retrospect. (Try watching Shark Tale or any Shrek after #2 and see what I mean.)
Going into Big Hero 6, I was excited to see if it would fit in with all those other movies. So it's a supreme bummer to report that it isn’t. Big Hero 6 ends up just being a lot like a really good movie.
We’ve got a spunky 14-year-old super-genius Hiro as its hero (aha, the movie insists, get it?). Hiro resembles Spider-Man before the death of Uncle Ben: brilliant, but lazy and opportunistic, preferring to use his skills to win robot fights rather than to make the world a better place.
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'Big Hero 6'
His brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney), who might as well have been named “Foil,” is altruistic, thoughtful, and passionate about his research. He's passionate about the medical assistance robot he's developed, named Baymax (perfectly voiced by 30 Rock's Scott Adsit).
After an accident seems to destroy one of Hiro's revolutionary inventions (and takes Tadashi with it), Hiro gets caught up in the mystery of why it all happened; Baymax gets caught up in the mystery of how he can best care for Hiro.
The movie's most glaring problem also illustrates its deepest problem: even from the first five minutes, the dialogue is so expository that it's a challenge to get a handle on any of the characters. This is the kind of movie where people say things like this: "Mom and Dad aren't here anymore, they died when I was three, remember?" (To his own brother! Which, at least in my opinion, is an immediateand irreversible KO from the realm of Pixar Challenger.)
They also say things like, "You took everything from me . . . and now I'll take everything from you." The background characters never materialize into anything more than just that: background characters.
Hilariously, the character of Go-Go (Jamie Cheung) is in character, appellation, and exact appearance the kind of thing The Lego Movie satirized through the character of Wyldestyle. (I kept wanting to ask, "What, is she a DJ?")
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