Disney’s hot streak – which started with The Princess and the Frog and has continued through Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen – continues this weekend with Big Hero 6. The studio’s acquisition of Marvel has an obvious effect of Big Hero 6 that pays off very well.
Big Hero 6 takes place in the futuristic hybrid city of San Fransokyo and follows a creative 14-year-old prodigy named Hiro. Having already graduated high school, Hiro spends his time playing and betting on his self-created robots when placed in illegal back-alley robot battles. His older brother notices the trouble that he has been getting into, so he takes Hiro to the “nerd school” university that he attends, introducing him to the potentially awesome school career that he too can have. Of course, Hiro takes the promising bait and begins working on a project that would guarantee his admission to the university.
To avoid spoiling what makes Big Hero 6 tick, I’ll only tell you that something happens to rock Hiro’s world. With the friends that he makes at Nerd School and their creative inventions, the students team up to set things right. Included in their group is a fluffy and lovable invention named Baymax, a kind medical robot that Hiro outfits to be the power behind their Avengers-esque team. Big Hero 6 functions perfectly as the origins story for this group of amazing selfless superheroes.
It appears that Disney is alternating the gender demographic for their end-of-year animated movies. Tangled was for girls, Ralph for boys, Frozen for girls and now Big Hero 6 for boys – but this doesn’t mean that girls won’t enjoy it thoroughly. I brought my seven-year-old daughter with me to see Big Hero 6 and she loved it, so much so that she has been repeating one of the the running gags of the movie ever since then. No matter the gender of your kid(s), they’re going to love Big Hero 6 just as much as you.
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