Disney's Big Hero 6

[Dream]

After their recent hits Frozen and Wreck it Ralph, Disney will be doing their own take on the superhero genre. It is "inspired" by the comic book series Big Hero 6, and will be the first Disney animated film to feature Marvel characters.

Meet the Big Hero 6 characters

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Looks pretty cool, and I can't wait to see it! It's so great that Disney is finding success again with their recent films.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

I saw this movie today and it was pretty good. Nice story, cool amalgamated setting (San Franokyo), fun characters, and the beloved Baymax.

Even though it's based on a Marvel property, they establish a world in the movie that exists outside the Marvel Cinematic universe in substance but stylistically is very much a Marvel movie.

Tons of Marvel Easter eggs, an after-credits scene, even a surprise cameo by a Marvel mainstay.

Spoiler: Big Hero Six movie

In the movie, the heroes enter this room full of nerd collectibles that will probably require a lot of re-viewing and pausing to catch all of the Easter eggs, but the ones I noticed were:

Life-sized mannequins of Orca, Black Talon, Torpedo (aka, Turbo from the New Warriors), and too many others to remember.

Sketches of Japanese monsters and robots from old Marvel stories.

References to the original Big Hero Six stories (including, if I'm not mistaken, a twisted allusion to original team member Sunfire -- a character which is currently in Fox's hands for movie rights)

Oh, and the cameo is Stan "the Man" Lee, himself!

I think when the final tally of Marvel Cinematic Movies is listed, Big Hero Six may deserve an asterisk on that list.

 

[Trekker4747]

I didn't know this based on/inspired by a comic. I just know when I saw the trailers for this they left me cold and thinking, "A giant balloon for a wacky CGI character? This is what we've come to?"

 

[Christopher]

I didn't know this based on/inspired by a comic.

It's a very loose inspiration. They've basically created their own story that just used the concepts and characters from the comic as a starting point.

I just know when I saw the trailers for this they left me cold and thinking, "A giant balloon for a wacky CGI character? This is what we've come to?"

Actually they based Baymax on concepts from a real robot lab. The idea is that caregiver robots for the elderly or infirm would need to be made of soft, flexible materials for the safety and comfort of their charges.

 

[JD]

I saw the movie with my mom this morning and we both really enjoyed it. I thought it worked really well as both an animated Disney movie and a superhero movie. The characters were all a lot of fun, especially Baymax, and I thought it had nice story to it. I actually thought the villain was going to be someone else, so the reveal actually did surprise me.
I thought the animation was really good, especially for the Minibots. I know that kind of flowing stuff used to be really hard in CG animation, so I was pretty impressed that they were able to have something that flowed around liked that play such a big role.

 

[Mr Light]

Very good movie but it was a little slow in the beginning. It was written like a live action origin movie rather than an animated one, in that it was very heavy on character drama and light on superhero action. The animation and character designs looked amazing, and Baymax was of course adorable throughout.

Spoiler: ending

I was very relieved that the evil corporate guy didn't turn out to be the villain. It figured it would either be the nice professor or the robots gaining a life of their own... or the long long daughter once she was established.

In the end when they were in the portal dimension and couldn't get back into the Stargate, why didn't they just cut a whole in Baymax so that the squirting air would propel them forward?

 

[Gryffindorian]

I've watched very few CGI animated films, mostly sci-fi/fantasy adventures by either DreamWorks or Disney-Pixar. I, too, didn't realize this movie was loosely based on a Marvel comic book title. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this film about a brilliant boy named Hiro Hamada and his brother's creation, a robotic medic called Baymax, who team up with other teen prodigies to uncover the mystery behind a masked villain terrorizing their city. The elements of humor, drama, and superheroic action are well balanced and will keep audiences entertained.

I was wondering why the story was set in the fictitious city of San Fransokyo. Was it perhaps because North American audiences wouldn't be too receptive to a movie set in an Asian country with mostly Japanese characters? In the same token, perhaps the writers didn't want to make the setting exclusively American because they wanted to pay homage to the original material. So in this case, the setting was an Asian and American fusion. Just a thought.

What say you?

 

[ATimson]

Spoiler: ending

In the end when they were in the portal dimension and couldn't get back into the Stargate, why didn't they just cut a whole in Baymax so that the squirting air would propel them forward?

Just saw it today. Had a similar question, but I think I have the answer.

Spoiler: ending

In short, insufficient force. It wouldn't have accelerated them fast enough towards the portal to get them out before it closed. Same for if Baymax fired his hand away from the portal.