9. Big Hero 6
With Pixars’ John Lasseter and Edwin Catmull involved, you know they’ve probably done well, and in Big Hero 6, there is very little disappointment. This is the next film to surface after the “redemption quadtrilogy” of The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Wreck It Ralph (a personal favourite), and the musically unending smash hit Frozen. Since bringing these guys in, Disney have totally turned it around, with some saying that Pixar has actually taken a little hit in creativity since Catmull and Lasseter assumed control of both studios.
Tangents aside, Big Hero 6, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, is an adaptation of a little known Marvel comic, about a 14-year-old boy called Hiro (spectacularly mispronounced as “Hero” by seemingly everyone, bar one character in the film), a total robotics prodigy, with genius level intellect, who participates in underground robot fighting. Keeping the pledge of “no spoilers” (or no proper spoilers?) alive, he ends up making friends with a nurse robot called Baymax; a rotund, inflatable, and charming friend…
Read the rest of Irwan Lowe’s ★ ★ ★ ★ review here.
Originally published July 13, 2015. Updated April 15, 2018.
