Big Hero 6 is a great film for all ages

Rating: 9/10 (17 November 2014)

Do you want to see a great film for the whole family? Then Big Hero 6 is the film for you. Big Hero 6 is an animated movie from Disney which is an adaptation of a Marvel comic series. The voice cast includes, Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Daniel Henney, among others. Big Hero 6 follows Hiro Hamada (Potter) who is a 14-year-old prodigy living in the futuristic city of San Fransokyo. Hiro, who is graduated from high school, spends his time at underground robot battles. Much to his initial dismay, Hiro's older brother Tadashi (Henney) takes Hiro to his college, San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, in hopes that Hiro will start to use his brain for better usage. After Tadashi shows Hiro the school, including his own invention, a large, white medical robot named Baymax (Adsit), Hiro likes what he sees and decides to apply. After gaining admission, tragedy strikes and Hiro enters a depression. But after finding out that one of his inventions, which he though burned in a fire, is still out there, he sets out to find out what's going on. With the help of Baymax and friends from San Fransokyo Institue of Technology, the group turns themselves into a group of super heroes, with the help of their projects from college. Big Hero 6 I feel would fall under the genre of science fiction. The use of technology and science to aid in their fight along with the constant use of science terms and the fact that they are robotic students helps define this. I feel as though the film is a mix between hard and soft sci-fi. It is hard in the sense that many of the science items they mention are actual things (such as electromagnets). I feel it is soft though, in the fact that the way they use a lot of the science is in very fantastical ways. Even though it is an animated movie, I feel as though it fits more into the realm of hard sci-fi. Because, they don't have super powers, but all their suits are based off of science. Big Hero 6 has a good subtext too. The film is not merely just a super hero origin story and fighting the villain. The film shows that even in rough times, your friends and family are there for you. To sum it up, Big Hero 6 is a great film for all ages and helps with the continuation of dominant animation films which have started to get better and better.