Horrible

Rating: 2/10 (21 December 2014)

Don't waste your time. To me it looked like a mash between Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Kung-Fu Panda. That's about it. The plot is contrived and full of childish, simplistic clichés, too many to number. Disney is on its war path destroying anything remotely decent. Turning the magical "The Snow Queen" by G.H. Andersen into the abominable "Frozen" wasn't enough apparently. I'm cringing at a thought those butchers may get to one of Miyazaki's classics one day.
(Spoilers) The plot had many questionable spots, but my biggest question was why for the love of God Hiro couldn't make the second neuro-band to try and take back control over his microbots? He went at length to turn himself and his clumsy friends into the super-heroes, but somehow decided that building an army of his own microbots was a waste of time? I don't even want to point out that 4 additional heroes were utterly useless and goofy, and why even mention the fact that Hiro appears in so obviously intellectually superior to any other character in this movie, yet he wanted to go to school and study. Robert Callaghan is chosen to be a villain because his daughter presumably died during failed experiment by Alistair Krei (what a silly name, Aleister Crowley was definitely an inspiration so we would think he's an ultimate evil), but of course she hadn't died.
Baymax is as cute as Dupey and speaks like Dilbert. He's the only slightly meaningful character but thanks to such a predictable, contrived plot even he becomes annoying. His looks are a mix of Kung Fu Panda and Marvin from the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. I wonder if his brain is as big as Marvin's. In the end this cute inflatable fella sacrifices himself of course (wow!).
I can't believe Disney wasted 165 million on the production of this "movie", but couldn't write a decent story and think through the characters. What a shame. I have no doubt though many people will gobble this junk and ask for more. Sad, sad, sad!