If you like lovable puffy companions in anxiety, such as the Moomin or Totoro, like I do, you will love Baymax, the robot hero of Big Hero 6.
This is the story's set up (image via):
The Hamada brothers have responded differently to the death of their parents ten years earlier. Big brother Tadashi has created Baymax, a "healthcare companion" who only wants to help, and little brother Hiro creates fighting bots who only want to win.
No spoilers, but guess who wins.
Tadashi is voiced by Daniel Henney, who I know from Tintorera is one of the most beautiful people on the planet. In fact, I'd avoided the movie in the theaters because I don't often like animation, and one reason I finally gave it a try is because she keeps posting photos of this guy.
I'm particularly fond of Henney in these striped pants:
The brothers have a fantastic crew of nerd friends too.
My favorites are bicycle-designer Gogo Tomago (she says, "Quit wining! Woman up!") and Wasabi, a timid nerd who designs lasers. I vote his wasabi-colored sweater as Best Sweater Ever.
There's a lot to love here––including the fact that nothing annoyed me––
unlike two very good films out this summer:
Inside Out, which I like because it champions sadness, but I didn't like that it left me wondering why the characters who act out the adults' emotions were all [or rather, as Michael points out in the comments here, they all present as] the same sex as the adult, while the girl's emotions are mixed sex--are we supposed to solidify as we age?;
. . . and the otherwise crazy-excellent Mad Max: Fury Road, with its, shall I say, failure of imagination around race, which annoys me no matter how generously I read it (the Citadel-dwellers appear to be Nordic supremacists, but why are the Many Mothers all white?)––
but, anyway, I guess my favorite thing in Big Hero 6 is when Hiro is urging Baymax to run faster to escape the bad robots, and Baymax tootling along on its little legs calmly says,
This is the story's set up (image via):
The Hamada brothers have responded differently to the death of their parents ten years earlier. Big brother Tadashi has created Baymax, a "healthcare companion" who only wants to help, and little brother Hiro creates fighting bots who only want to win.
No spoilers, but guess who wins.
I'm particularly fond of Henney in these striped pants:
The brothers have a fantastic crew of nerd friends too.
My favorites are bicycle-designer Gogo Tomago (she says, "Quit wining! Woman up!") and Wasabi, a timid nerd who designs lasers. I vote his wasabi-colored sweater as Best Sweater Ever.
There's a lot to love here––including the fact that nothing annoyed me––
unlike two very good films out this summer:
Inside Out, which I like because it champions sadness, but I didn't like that it left me wondering why the characters who act out the adults' emotions were all [or rather, as Michael points out in the comments here, they all present as] the same sex as the adult, while the girl's emotions are mixed sex--are we supposed to solidify as we age?;
. . . and the otherwise crazy-excellent Mad Max: Fury Road, with its, shall I say, failure of imagination around race, which annoys me no matter how generously I read it (the Citadel-dwellers appear to be Nordic supremacists, but why are the Many Mothers all white?)––
but, anyway, I guess my favorite thing in Big Hero 6 is when Hiro is urging Baymax to run faster to escape the bad robots, and Baymax tootling along on its little legs calmly says,
