Big Hero Six review

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   Big Hero six is a loosely based comic book animated movie on an obscure marvel comic book (yes even more obscure than Guardians of the galaxy.) The film is takes place in San Fransokyo (if San Francisco was colonized or taken over by the Japanese) about Hiro Hamada (love the name) a fourteen year old genius with a interest in robotics, who uses his talents in robot fighting until one day his older brother Tadashi brings him to the university he goes to where he meets GoGo Tomago, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Fred and Baymax, a personal health android Tadashi created. He convinces Hiro to enroll in the school but sadly a tragedy at the university science fair occurs and Hiro is left in a depression and Baymax tries to cheer him up, then a villain named the Yokai. So now Hiro and his friends must become the Big Hero six to defeat them.

  I love this movie so much.

   First off on the technical stand point this movie is gorgeous with the use of colors and the anime Japanese influence this movie pops and dazzles, it is that beautiful. This movie also has the best action I've seen in any movie so far due to the characters powers and the fact you can see it all and the camera stays still it is eye-widening and just straight up cool. This is also a very creative movie with the concept of San Fransokyo and the characters powers it creates such a big world of science and colors.

   Yet the best part is the story and the characters. First the side characters of GoGo, Honey, Wasabi, and Fred are a lot of fun and super likeable giving us a lot of great character moments that make you fall in love with them. Hiro's brother Tadashi is a lot of fun too, he edges on uncle Ben territory (more marauder than person) but we still get surprisingly a lot of time with him so we grow to like him a lot. The Villain of the movie Yokai is one of the coolest design and power set villains of this year although his story is a revenge story due to the themes of the movie it is used to great effect although it's one of those "who is it" villains and because their were really only two options which kind of undermines it although of the two I am glad they went with him rather than the alternative.

  The main focus of this movie is Hiro and Baymax. I really like the character of Hiro because:
  A.) He's not stupid
  B.)He uses his head
  C.) Goes through a good character arc
  D.) Is serious and not goofy

 These are all things I like in main characters and Hiro is easily on my top twenty (not quite top ten) favorite characters list. Yet the star is Baymax the loveable, huggable and dimensional android. I like that they don't make it where he develops feelings and "gains a soul" in this movie rather he just learns to process and understand humans. The one of the main thrust is the relationship between Baymax and Hiro which is very genuine and heartfelt. This is also one of the two movies (the other was The Help) where I cred due to a scene near the end with Baymax and Hiro.

 My favorite part though is the story and themes of the movie. The main two themes of the movie is the cycle of revenge and letting go of the dead. These are themes we've seen in a bunch of other movies but it is done so well. If the villain in this movie did not try to seek revenge Hiro would not have gone after him for revenge for his brother (spoiler!), and creating one of the two darkest scenes I've ever seen in a kids movie where Hiro almost murders him with Baymax (and for a second I swear to god I thought that they were going to go through with it and kill the villain but thankfully Honey stopped Hiro.) And the only way the cycle of revenge stops his when Hiro let's go of his brother. This is one of the most well written movies of 2014 for me so far.


  Now that I am done basically worshiping this movie what are it's flaws? Well for one thing along with the villain kind of being predictable this movie's pacing goes way too fast, by the time the movie ended I was like "that's it?" I know the whole kids with short attention spans thing but at the same time the movie would have been stronger with an extra half hour and if your quality is good enough kids will excuse an extra half hour to sit and enjoy. It irritated me so much because I loved this movie so much but hated the pacing of it.

  Also because this is a Marvel property there is an after credits scene that is so cool and a Stan Lee cameo that is amazing!

I give this movie a 9/10~ Fix the pacing and villain of the movie this would be a perfect film

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