Disney does it again

Rating: 10/10 (18 February 2015)

In 2013 Disney scored a massive hit with Frozen, a making over $1 Billion and was particularly popular with girls. Their follow-up is more boy aimed adventure and the 10-year-old inside me loved it.
Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) is a 14-year-old tech genius who is wasted his talents on underground robot battles. He brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney) shows him the light and the potential good his talents might produce and gets him to apply for university. But like in many Disney films a loving family member dies tragically and during Hiro's grief he awakes his brother's creation, the medical robot Baymax (Scott Adsit). While exploring the street of San Fransokyo Hiro finds a masked man he believes is responsible for his brother's death and decides to upgrade Baymax to take on the supervillian.
Big Hero 6 has everything you would want from a Disney film, it is funny, dramatic, emotional and action: it is the complete package. As you would expect from a Disney film the animation is of the highest quality imaginable, detailed, complex and very colourful. The action sequences are fantastic, fast and fluid and easily matches anything in their live-action counterparts. It is a thrill ride of a film.
The emotional core of Big Hero 6 is the relationship Hiro has with his brother, how he put Hiro on the straight and narrow and that he suffers from his grief. He slowly develops a love for Baymax as Baymax becomes a part of Hiro's mission. This is well trodden territory for Disney and some of the point plots are predictable to anyone who has seen a lot of films or some of Disney's most recent films: but Disney does this formula very well, so you cannot fault them for that.
Big Hero 6 gets its balance between the comedy and the drama absolutely right. The comedy is a great mix of wordplay and performance based to slapstick and physical humour. Baymax was offered both forms of comedy brilliant and he was fantastically lovable creation particularly with some of his running gags. The dramatic half of the story has plenty of weight as Hiro tries to figure out the mystery and lets his anger get the better of him when big reveal happens. The villain had an great look to him, dressed in black and wearing a hannya mask and his power has no limits.
The heroes haves array of powers when they suit up in the armour and the training and development aspects of the film are very reminiscent to the first Iron Man film. Hiro himself has a Tony Stark quality to him as he creates his robotics. It was particularly refreshing to see that the team are inexperienced and make mistakes when they are called into action for the first time.
Big Hero 6 is a delight for the whole family, being an action packed adventure and having excellent drama and comedy. I couldn't recommend it more highly.