It's no How to Train Your Dragon or ParaNorman in ways of originality, but it's a solid family movie

Rating: 7/10 (11 March 2015)

Final Assessment of Big Hero 6 (No spoilers for the movie, but MILD plot points for How to Train Your Dragon 1 and 2, ParaNorman, and Rise of the Guardians.): I'd give it 3 stars. 5 stars being HtTYD or ParaNorman and 4 stars being Rise of the Guardians or HtTYD2. It was fine. Not really NEW, you know? And I get it, "Wow, what an old fogey, why are watching kids movies?" Uh, because I like movies? I love animations, and this was a great aesthetically, but wow, was I bored, and when I wasn't bored, I was trying to catch up.
This movie MOVES. No pauses, no breaks, no plot turns that you wouldn't see a mile away. Plot-wise, eh. But it was definitely for kids and not their parents this go around. I didn't feel connected to any of the characters, and I found Baymax and Fred to be my favorites just because they livened up the droning dialog.
Was I supposed to care about Hiro's dead parents (and that's not even a spoiler, it's so boringly thrown out there that I feel like it didn't even matter) I didn't GET it, with Hiccup, his mother's death was an actual plot device, the whole purpose of the first movie and a turning point in the second. With Hiro... I guess to make it more, IDK, superhero-y? Which, btw, they aren't. They're no more a hero than Batman, and Batman destroys more than he helps.
I like the cast, but the bad guy was meh. What's with that, having no real "bad guy"? At least with ParaNorman, the bad guy was ignorance and bigotry. And even RotG got a classic, Boogeyman. But this was... a letdown, especially since a lot of scenes I was going, "Oh, yeah, I remember that from (insert HtTYD, Avengers, The Incredibles, any movie where the team isn't a team until they team up by some obscure saying given to the main character at moment where it was relevant but now it's not (the Hope scene with Amazing Spider-Man 2, the ending of RotG, Norman and Aggie's scene in ParaNorman, etc)) it felt cheap in the end. Who was the real villain? A man who watched his daughter die and felt angry that no one was punished? Big corporation? Who was it? What was the conflict?
But my stance aside. If you've HAVEN'T seen any of those movies, and you really don't care about plot devices or generic dialog, this movie is FINE. I smiled here or there (mostly at Fred or Baymax, and Wasabi was pretty funny too), and the animation is beautiful, but don't expect to come way with some moral lesson or changed attitude or even awe at the mechanics or technical marvels. It's kinda there.
I mean, I guess they can't all be amazing wonders of new innovation? It was fun movie, but not one I would watch twice.