Went to see this movie today at a preview screening in Leeds/Bradford Odeon with my son.
IMDB says: The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
In this Don Hall (The Emperors New Groove, The Princess and the Frog) and Chris Williams (Bolt, Mulan) directed film, Ryan Potter (Supah Ninjas, Save the Date) voices Hiro, the teenage brother of inventor Tadashi (Daniel Henney, The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) who decides to quit bot-fighting to try and gain a place at College with his hero inventor Robert Callaghan (James Crowell, The Green Mile, I, Robot).
Meeting the guys who work with his brother, Go-Go (Jamie Chung, Sucker Punch, The Hangover Part II & III) who is my personal favourite just for her catchphrase 'Woman Up!" not to mention her 'powers', Fred (T. J. Miller, How to Train Your Dragon, Cloverfield), Wasabi (Damon Wayans Jr, Happy Endings, Lets be Cops) and Honey Lemon (Genesis Rodriguez, Identity Thief, Man on a Ledge), and his brothers' invention Baymax (Scott Adsit, 30 Rock, The Italian Job) a computer health care robot, make him realise that the 'nerd school' may not be quite as lame as he thought.
When his brother is killed trying to save Callaghan from a fire, Hiro loses his focus, until by accident Baymax is activated and he begins to see the bigger picture, once he realises that his invention, micro bots, has been stolen and the man who stole them, may just be responsible for his brothers' death.
From the beginning, and yes this includes the short that Disney always puts at the beginning ( a beautiful tale of a dog's love of food and man), there is a wonderful feel-good quality to this film. It is not just the richness of the colours and vastness of the fantasy world, but the imagination and invention inherent in the idea that life has much to offer if we only just use our ability to create.
There are a few hiccups, we don't need the flying sequence with the air balloons to last quite that long, it seemed obvious to both of us who the bad guy in the mask was and why, and the important points (plot-wise) seem to be rushed through or even just awkwardly sandwiched in in a 'tell not show' way, for example "Yes I do remember that our parents were killed when I was 3," but you can forgive all that for the sheer joy of the fun rollercoaster. If you loved Up, this is the closest by far.
Even the main song is uplifting, 'My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark' by Fall Out Boy makes we want to buy it straight away, just for the track 'Immortals'.
It makes you laugh, cry and everything a film should have in between and I highly recommend this movie, although if you are a huge fan of the comics, maybe you might not feel the same way, but both my son (who is a huge super hero comic fan) and I, enjoyed it immensely.
There is no end credits scene, but don't miss the quick nod to Stan Lee.
I don't care how well this did in the States, I hope there is a sequel. 8.5/10
#BigHero6 #Odeon
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