Impressive Heroic Animation.

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2015)

Big Hero 6 (2014): Dir: Don Hall, Chris Williams / Voices: Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Daniel Henney, James Cromwell, Alan Tudyk: Inventive animation about the future of creativity and humanity. Ryan Potter voices young Hiro Hamada who specializes in robot wars, an illegal game. His older brother Tadashi introduces him to some sort of Nerd university where inventing is celebrated. Hiro is overwhelmed and desires to have a future there. His brother created an inflated robot looking health care companion named Baymax. He looks like a robot beach ball that is all white but Baymax has charm and brings much of the humour through the voice of Scott Adsit. When the lab is destroyed and burned down, Tadashi dies while trying to rescue the head professor. Now some masked villain has stolen Hiro's ideas and is using them for a complex revenge scheme written well into a back story. Directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams and aided by a clever screenplay with a brilliant ending where self sacrifice opens the door to life and opportunity. Baymax is a hilarious character bent on preserving life as he is programmed. Hiro is so bent on revenge that he loses focus on what's important as well as how Baymax was programmed. Other characters are unfortunately flat from Tadashi to the seemingly young aunt whom they live with, to the professor, to the interchangeable nerds who create their own superpowers but fail as personalities. The heart of the film is what Baymax is programmed with. He is a health care companion and reminds us that despite loss and setbacks, life eventually leads to greater and grander scales. Score: 9 / 10