Disney’s first outing with a non-standard Marvel property succeeds so well, you could call this The Incredibles 2. The former master then student has returned to being the master given how lame Pixar’s last couple releases were. With John Lasseter as head of all Disney animation there isn’t any difference now.
Big Hero 6 isn’t terrible original. Tweener loses someone/-thing close to him, finds a gadget to help him heal, goes after the perpetrator and makes new friends along the hero’s journey. The execution is what mattered and BH6 pulls it off here. I think the biggest stretch of fiction is how the parallel city of San Fransokyo still has a middle class that can afford to live within its city limits given all the “innovative” startups receiving corporate welfare to build farting, aggregating and/or social media robots.
It was nice to see Disney try another non-princess, non-musical feature again. BH6 is on par with Wreck-it-Ralph and I’m optimistic it won’t spawn a sub-cottage industry for Wal-Mart/NASCAR. Lastly, I think this will quell our superhero jones until Avengers: Age of Ultron appears next Spring.
Oh yeah, despite being outside the mainstream Marvel universe, stay through the credits for the surprised.
Alamo Extras: Old-time cartoon of boxing; a Dalek paperboy; a guy dressed up as Superman with a vacuum filling his suit; Balloon-land cartoon; more robots from the UK (Sixties); gas-station Muppet skit; scenes from a Japanese kid show.