Heard good things about this film, but knew nothing about it. Turns out, even what I thought I knew was wrong (the big puffy white guy is NOT named Big Hero 6). I fully expected him to be Big Hero and the film to follow the development of a robot through 6 progressively better iterations, with the early iterations leading to hilarious hijinks, and the 6th finally saving the world. That is not what happens. Except that there are hijinks, and there is some world saving.
Instead, the big fluffy guy is a medic robot designed to diagnose and care for your health needs in a non-threatening way (hence the big fluffy-ness). He pairs with Hero, kid hacker extraordinaire, to take down a villian who is really just a grieving husband, and saves the world from being sucked into an inter-dimensional hole. So while technically there are spoilers in this last paragraph, I don't really think they help or hinder your enjoyment of the film. For me, the sign of an excellent animated film is that it as a good story, good enough to forget about the fact that it is animated. This is why many of the Marvel universe films are good, and why some are bad. Story. I liked the comic elements here and development of relationship between a person and a newly "born" AI (same reason I liked Chappie and Ex Machina). And this is very much more kid friendly than either of those.
4 stars (out of 5)
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