Fun but kind of cliché

Rating: 7/10 (13 November 2014)

Disney's latest animated feature is an enjoyable comic book movie based on an obscure Marvel property. The story and characters are fine but nothing particularly interesting, but it makes up for that with beautiful design and well-directed action sequences. Ryan Potter plays teenage inventor Hiro in the futuristic city that is a mixture of Tokyo and San Francisco. To make his way into his older brother's robotics program at the local college, he invents miniature, nanotechnological robots that can change shape via his own thought. Months later, after a tragic event which he thought destroyed his invention, Hiro discovers a supervillain has stolen it. With the help of his brother's medical robot Baymax (Scott Adsit) and his friends in the robotics department (T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr. and Genesis Rodriguez), they use their various inventions to become superheroes to try to stop the villain. Baymax makes the film. He's so adorable and fun with his big, inflatable body. I also really loved the designs of the characters as superheroes. James Cromwell, Alan Tudyk and Maya Rudolph co-star.