"Get ready to have your face melted." -Aunt Cass
"Diagnosis: Puberty." -Baymax.
Short Review: Big Hero 6 is cute and fun. It is not particularly innovative or groundbreaking. Pretty good is good enough for a middling thumbs up. See it if you have kids, are a kid, or just happen upon it in the course of random media consumption. 2.8 out of 5 stars.
Long form review: I might have given Big Hero 6 a better review if not for the extreme appropriation of a Stargate to finish the film. Stargate was great. More Stargate please. I just would want others to acknowledge Stargate when appropriating its likenesses. That said I was extremely impressed with the iconographic use of shape within the design of characters in Big Hero 6. I consider this a sign of next level film making and art design. Most animated features that employee this technique don't try and hide their efforts as making each character a distinctive shape ( circle, square, triangle, etc.) creates easy differentiation for viewers. Big Hero 6 still used this template, but did a masterful job of softening their work for a smooth believable world. I appreciated the design team's efforts to include a variety of body types, and forms, both male and female. I feel that female characters, in particular, have been limited as to what kinds of body types make the big screen. People come in all kinds of shapes, sizes, and physiques. Animated people should too. Variety is truer to reality, empowering, and welcome.
Oh and Alan Tudyk can be in anything he likes.
On a scale of Fox Force 5 to the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, I give Big Hero 6 2.8 out of 5 stars.
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