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| v_charon 05/02/18 10:42:00 PM #52: | charon: Definitely a nice entry into the Disney canon. I found this one a little better than I recalled it to be upon a rewatch. While I still consider Baymax my favorite character from the film, I was able to appreciate the relationship betweeen Hiro and Tadashi much more the second time around. This holds true for the villain here as well. It's a nice revenge plot and a pretty solid superhero style storyline. There's revenge to be had on both sides of the coin; it's interesting when the villain and hero both have something in common that way to make them click. The only shortcoming was probably the supporting cast, but it was just set up in such a way that you didn't really get to know much about them. And ultimately, that's okay. The movie was strong enough to stand on the shoulders of just a couple of important characters. Johnbobb: There are small issues I have with this. The exposition at the beginning is particularly rough (They died when I was 3, remember?). TJ Millers Fred is pretty rough and really doesnt fit the team. Theres a weird logical jump from Hiro being a super-smart kid to suddenly having the greatest and most revolutionary technology of all time. At the same time, theres so much more to appreciate. Disney took a comic that few people had heard of, changed it quite a bit, and made it simultaneously into an excellent animated flick as well as a thrilling superhero movie. Baymax is a Disney sidekick that manages to steal the show rather than just being there to sell toys (although he definitely did that too). The love of science (even if its a bit fantastical) and the honest portrayal of grief really just brings the whole thing together. Karo: After a young robotics prodigy loses his brother in a lab accident, he does what all young people do when coping with the death of a loved one - become a superhero. After turning a medical droid into a battle robot and recruiting his brother's college friends to be his super team, they all head out to fight a masked bad guy because he stole one of Hiro's inventions and they all really really hated kabuki theatre. In the ensuing fight the villain gets his mask knocked off and it turns out it was this forgettable professor guy that Hiro met like twice in his life. Yeah, instead of it being his brother and setting in motion an awesome storyline where Hiro must choose between being a hero and the person who inspired him to be a hero, we get this stupid old douche as an antagonist. Now the most striking moral choice Hiro faces is 'should I murder someone I dont like, or not?' Way to go Hiro, I knew you could do it. There is a great deal of really funny characters here, but with the exception of Baymax none of them really get used to their full potential which is a bit sad. One also has to wonder if using the valuable resources of Disney's main animation division to make a superhero movie about some obscure (and borderline racist) Marvel super team is really such a good idea. I mean, it's not like Disney has this whole fucking studio that only makes those types of movies or anything. --- :> Truly smilin' ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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