7.5/10

Rating: 7/10 (19 December 2014)

Entertaining and cute, the film is plainly irresistible, no matter how hard you try you will get caught by it and play along with it, until you will realize that what you were promised isn't in no way what has been given to you.
In a year where How to Train Your Dragon 2 and The Lego Movie were released, to release a successful animated movie would be a big uphill battle, at which many have already failed, but Big Hero 6 manages to make it far above the average quality and produce some very well crafted entertainment for everyone of the family to enjoy. Yet entertainment is where Big Hero 6's success reaches it's peak. Unfortunately there is really no character as Hiccup or Emmet, no multiple layers to the story and no profound message we had with these other two movies. At no point in this movie I thought there was going to be more than I expected: it's very predictable, it plays to many clichés, it has some very generic scenes, characters and montages and doesn't take any risks of any type. Weakest of these points is the climax in which I was plain out bored, when it should have instead been the high point of everything.
Yet, this is no to say that the movie has some big strengths, the biggest of them being the comedy. This movie is really funny, I laughed out loud a lot of times and to this contributed astonishing animation. From frame one I was surprised at the brilliance of it. Mainly because it wasn't only beautiful, but actually very, very smart. Unfortunately even here it didn't manage to beat the visual feast that were The Lego Movie and How to Train Your Dragon 2, but still that would have been something really hard. Moreover, as much as I talked about generic scenes and montages, there were some very good scenes, some great set pieces that had enough spice to keep me smiling throughout. Obviously the greatest element of this movie is Baymax, it was so pleasant to have such a captivating screen presence. He is so good that the robot in this movie might be the most interesting character.
Very good flick, but slightly underwhelming, especially considering the amazing streak Disney Animation had had up until now.