Predictable, Boring, Absurd

Rating: 4/10 (4 April 2015)

Full of obvious Disney tropes, flat characters and absurd over-the- top action, Big Hero 6 is a huge let-down.
While graphically gorgeous, this sometimes-funny super hero origin story is so contrived you know exactly where it's going thirty minutes before it even went there. It's not just the tropes, really, but rather how everything is so conveniently introduced to play a role later that the movie just never gets to the point of interesting. It's not moving, not particularly fun or funny. But mostly - it's just stupid. I guess suspension of disbelief is subjective but... somehow, I felt like this movie really bent it a bit too far, and for an animated super-hero movie that's saying quite a bit considering the low bar of realism it was set in the first place. Nothing makes sense, and stuff is just happening incoherently.
There's all the rest - the dry delivery by most actors falls completely flat, with the exception of Baymax who is excused but only because he's a robot. There is very little acting, writing or joy in this movie. It looks like the department where a ton of love was poured into is the animation, but that does not a decent movie make.
This is not The Incredibles for the iPhone generation. It's just... pretty bad.