By Austin Chiavaroli, Staff Writer
Disney uses its magic again in bringing another hit to theatres everywhere. “Big Hero 6,” directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, is a wonderful new adventure that brings new well developed characters to audiences everywhere.
In the movie, 14 year-old Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter), lives in the futuristic city, San Franstokyo. Hiro is a genius at robotics and is given inspiration from his older brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney) who gets Hiro into his robotics lab at his university. However, when a fire in the school kills Tadashi, Hiro gives up on college. After a while he stumbles upon one of Tadashi’s robots called Baymax (Scott Adsit), a health companion.
Baymax and Hiro soon discover one of Hiro’s inventions called microbots is being used for evil intentions by a masked man called Yokai (James Cromwell). Now it is up to Hiro to band together a team of friends from the university and go after this threat before he hurts any more people. The team calls themselves Big Hero 6.
The characters are the strong point of the movie as all of them are relatable and memorable. Hiro and Tadashi have true brotherly love, and it shows when Tadashi dies and Hiro becomes depressed. Baymax, on the other hand, brings in the laughs as he is the curious robot.
The art style is the same as Disney’s movie “Frozen,” and is one of the main reasons that many Disney movie watchers came to see this film. With the colors blending beautifully and having astonishing shots and animation, the movie pops out to the audience just as “Frozen” did.
The one thing that this movie does not have is a great soundtrack, which is understandable as this film is an animated superhero comedy that relies more on the action scenes than music. The movie isn’t without music as there is a montage in the film with the song “Immortals” by the band “Fall Out Boy.”
Though not having musical numbers in the movie is great for this kind of story, some fans were disappointed to not be getting new catchy songs. Another issue is how some may see this movie as a shot to make another high grossing movie like their last success,“Frozen.” By using much of the same material as “Frozen,” Disney’s motives behind the movie are clear: they wanted to use the same formula to make sure that the movie succeeded. The last issue is how one scene becomes dark very suddenly and makes Hiro feel out of character, but other than those few issues the movie has still gained a high gross of $141,204,274 since its release.
Even though this movie is a quick try to make another “Frozen,” the people at Disney still made sure that this movie had creativity and smart thinking put into it. With the movie becoming an inspiration to kids and adults it definitely shows that Disney is doing something right. With all of this in mind this movie gets a 4.5/5.
