Typical animation story yet somewhat distinctively enjoyable

Rating: 6/10 (10 January 2015)

Here we have 'Big Hero 6', another fun-filled animation ride. Disney made huge profits with last year's musical Frozen. This time they have Marvel's superhero characters featuring. Like most animation films Big Hero 6 will appeal the kids a lot, still its refreshing enough for adults.
The story is set in futuristic hybrid city of 'San Fransokyo'. 'Hiro' a teenager who is very bright with technology and robotic stuff but uses most of his talents in back-alley robot fights. His brother 'Tadashi' worried of Hiro's plans decides to take him to his university with robotics labs and futuristic gadgets. Tadashi shows Hiro 'Baymax' an inflated health care robot created by Tadashi. Hiro also meets Tadashi's friends each one good in a particular tech-field and also the head Prof. Callaghan who is impressed by Hiro's talents. Inspired by all this Hiro gets enthusiastic about joining the university. With help of his brother Hiro starts working on a project called 'Microbots' which are tiny programmable robots whose swarm can form any shape and can be controlled with his mind. He presents it at the university exhibition impressing everybody. But every new-tech stuff attracts villains wanting to misuse it and that's how the story follows. No spoilers.
Apart from of few twists, the story is pretty much predictable. The relation between Baymax and Hiro is very endearing and is the strong-point of the film. The huge inflated hug able robot Baymax will be loved by kids and adults alike. Also the brotherly- bond between Hiro and Tadshi is nicely put forth. Well the typical robot tries to fit in human environment is used, still the cute interactions between Hiro and Baymax keep us engaged. The second half of the film is more of superhero-action like The Incredibles but it lacks the same humor and thrill. Towards the end it goes into the cliché revenge bandwagon and the ending could be easily seen coming. On the positive side, the animation is incredible like most animated-movies these days and is briskly paced. The music is also good for the superhero theme. Voice-cast does a nice job, Scott Adist's Baymax being the best without any doubt. I had never heard of these superhero characters before wacthing the film, as a origins story I think it does a good job.
Overall, I feel the kids will like it a lot more than adults and will be wanting to have a Baymax of their own at the end. I too loved him a lot especially with all the iron-man like upgrades which Hiro gives him, which made him impressively cool besides being adorable already. Other characters apart from Hiro lacked a bit of focus yet were pretty much entertaining. In the end, Big Hero 6 falls slightly short of this years 'The Lego Movie' and 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' for best animated feature, but its just my personal opinion.
RATING: [3/5]