Personal Healthcare Companion

Big Hero 6

For many decades, Walt Disney Pictures have be produced timeless classic films. Ranging from live-action movies such as Mary Poppins, to animated movies like Beauty and the Beast. It is these animated movies that most people remember the best. Disney’s animated films have captured the imagination of millions of children and adults since 1928. In 1995, Disney took a chance on a film created entirely with computer animation named Toy Story. Launching a new way of creating amazing looking films, Disney has now a string of successful computer-animated movies. This year Disney gave the world another computer-animated film loosely based on  a Marvel Comics series, Big Hero 6.

14 year old genius, Hiro Hamada is apparently wasting his life. This is according to his brother, Tadashi, who believes that Hiro should be using his brain to better mankind like Tadashi is. Tadashi is a robotics engineer and after giving Hiro a tour of his “nerd school”, Hiro decides that he needs to go to “nerd school”. The only way Hiro can do that, however, is to create some sort of technology that blows the mind of the founder of the school, Professor Robert Callaghan. Hiro invents an amazing new technology called “micro-bots” (thousands of them) and all are controlled by a neural transmitter and presents said invention at a tech conference Professor Callaghan is attending. However, after Hiro’s presentation a fire is started ultimately having Hiro suffer a great loss. With his micro-bots destroyed, Hiro must pick up the pieces, but all is going to be okay because Hiro discovers a new friend…Baymax. 

Well folks, Disney did it again. This film was amazing. Everything that you have come to expect from a Disney movie is all packed in to this 105 minute animated adventure. I have always believed that Disney has done an awesome balancing act with their animated films. Last year seen Disney smash expectation with their hit animated film Frozen and that was aimed at the young princesses everywhere. This year is for the guys and their dreams of being a superhero. 

Disney has been very lucky by finding actors that fit very well with the characters they are creating. Big Hero 6 has a great cast as well.  Two actors stand out to me the most and they would be Scott Adsit (St. Vincent) and T.J. Miller (Cloverfield). Adsit lends his voice to the lovable Baymax, the personal healthcare assistant. Adsit is able to give Baymax, a robot, so much emotion with just little variations in his voice.  Due to Adsit’s performance, you fall in love with Baymax within only a few seconds after meeting him for the first time. Miller on the other hand plays “science-enthusiast”  Fred. Fred is the closest thing that Disney will ever come to the lazy-stoner type in their films. With that said, Miller brings such amazing energy and excitement to Fred. I think the best thing about Miller’s performance is that he may have been originally written as comic relief, but the film has such great humor even without Fred that Miller and the animators didn’t have to try so hard. If the animators tried to0 hard with Fred, he would have just came across as annoying. 

As mentioned above, Big Hero 6 has a lot of great humorous scenes, but is greatly balanced by some of the films touching scenes. Every time I watch a Disney film, I am just amazed on the spectacular job that the animators and directors do to create such a wonderful movie filled with humor, adventure, and even strong emotion. I just wish that this film had the same popularity as Frozen because I truly believe that this was a better all-around movie…and no it’s not because I hate “Let It Go” (ugh).

The Verdict: See in Theatres