Film Review - Big Hero 6

Another double movie weekend as we went to get Big Hero 6 on Sunday.

It is an animated movie, whose main audience is definitely children, so there is some forgiving to be done about the holes in the story. 

But being from Disney I expected more. And with Toy Story's John Lasseter on the production team I expected a LOT more. He can make animated children's films that work for adults. With the possible exception of Miyazaki, who arguably makes animation for adults that sometimes works for children, Lasseter is the absolute brand leader in making children's animated films that work for adults. Yet somehow this film just doesn't do anything in an adult level. 

Also the animation quality wasn't up to the normal Pixar standards. The surfaces seemed flat and they look animated. That may seem obvious enough, but in a world post-Toy Story, where the characters and story are so developed that you can forget they are a cartoon, and post-Frozen where the snow and the shadows and light all seem to be as alive as the amazing characters, BH6 just doesn't even come close to competing against those. 


Overall it isn't a bad movie, it just isn't good enough for what it is competing against.
My rating 6 out of 10.