I admit, when I first watched this movie, I felt a bit underwhelmed. Multiple factors probably were involved; I tend to naturally have Hype Backlash when something is popular, unless I actually knew it first. I also don't particularly like this trend of CGI animated movies Pixar and Dreamwork started (not sure why, but the designs always felt off to me), and didn't like the fact they removed a lot of elements that I feel were awesome in the original comic (Fredzilla being turned from a kaiju-transforming metahuman to just a guy in a suit, most notably). Overall, I didn't feel like the movie was bad, but I thought it was nothing special.
Now however, I am look back, and... maybe I wasn't fair.
Sure, the movie still isn't a masterpiece, or something I would classify in my true favourites. Sure, it doesn't really breaks any new ground for this type of movie, aside from being the first disney animated movie based (loosely) on an actual comic book. But what it does, it does it very well. While most of the main heroes are underdevelopped, those who are (Hiro and Baymax) are good, and have genuinely touching scenes. Many scene feel very strong, and left me enough of an impression that I still remember them.
Big Hero Six might not be the best animated movie I have ever seen, but looking back, I think it might actually be above average, and maybe better than I gave it credit for. I would genuinely be interested in a sequel, preferably one developping the rest of the team.
I might have been a bit harsh on this movie the first time
I admit, when I first watched this movie, I felt a bit underwhelmed. Multiple factors probably were involved; I tend to naturally have Hype Backlash when something is popular, unless I actually knew it first. I also don't particularly like this trend of CGI animated movies Pixar and Dreamwork started (not sure why, but the designs always felt off to me), and didn't like the fact they removed a lot of elements that I feel were awesome in the original comic (Fredzilla being turned from a kaiju-transforming metahuman to just a guy in a suit, most notably). Overall, I didn't feel like the movie was bad, but I thought it was nothing special.
Now however, I am look back, and... maybe I wasn't fair.
Sure, the movie still isn't a masterpiece, or something I would classify in my true favourites. Sure, it doesn't really breaks any new ground for this type of movie, aside from being the first disney animated movie based (loosely) on an actual comic book. But what it does, it does it very well. While most of the main heroes are underdevelopped, those who are (Hiro and Baymax) are good, and have genuinely touching scenes. Many scene feel very strong, and left me enough of an impression that I still remember them.
Big Hero Six might not be the best animated movie I have ever seen, but looking back, I think it might actually be above average, and maybe better than I gave it credit for. I would genuinely be interested in a sequel, preferably one developping the rest of the team.