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Big Hero 6

30 Jan 15 – 31 Mar 15, 6:00 PM – 12:00 AM

Big Hero 6 is Disney's latest film about a techy whiz-kid and his huggable robot

By CW Contributor on 26/1/2015

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Disney's latest film out is an adorable offering and a must-see for children and adults alike. 
Not many animated films nominated for Golden Globe begin life during a casual computer search. But the online origins of upcoming animation Big Hero 6 click perfectly with the result; a charming super-hero venture made for and about its terrifyingly tech-savvy young audience. It was co-director Don Hall (Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove) who alighted upon the series Big Hero 6 whilst scrolling through Disney's database of newly acquired Marvel comics. In an interview Hall explains he picked it because he 'liked the title' – a feat of unassuming intuition that has more than paid off. The film opened in America to huge critical and financial success – not bad for an animation, based on a ‘90s comic book series, that produced a grand total of 10 issues.
Set in the futuristic city of 'San Franksokyo', the story centers on spiky Hiro, a 14-year-old computer prodigy who spends his days participating in back-alley robot fights. When tragedy strikes, Hiro is spurred to assemble his friends of fellow wiz-kids into a superhero team, who help him combat a masked villain. Hiro's plan: to upgrade his brother's loveable health-care-assistant robot Baymax to become the biggest hero of them all.
As heartfelt a story as Up, and with animation as rich and varied as Wall-E, Big Hero 6 owes much to the obscurity of its material, which granted the writers (including Monsters Inc scribe Den Gerson) free-reign to re-create this original tale for the silver screen. 
Praise is also due to the art and animation departments. The Tokyo/San Francisco urban mash-up is exciting to behold, but it's the wonderful design of Baymax that gives the film it's magic. Artist Lisa Keene said her aim was to create a ‘huggable robot’, a feat surpassed with this cuddliest of computers. There is something in Baymax's squishiness that is reminiscent of Aladdin's big-hearted sidekick genie, voiced by the late great Robin Williams.
Like Aladdin – and indeed the best of children's films – Big Hero 6 is far more than its ostensible high-jinx; one of the film's central themes to consider the way children cope with grief.
Heart-felt and refreshingly funny, Big Hero 6 is entertainment for audiences of all ages – you won't find better company than Hiro and his blobby companion Baymax. One of the sweetest kids films London has seen for a while. 


What Big Hero 6
Where Various Locations | MAP
Nearest tube Leicester Square (underground)
When 30 Jan 15 – 31 Mar 15, 6:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Price £various
Website Click here to go to Big Hero's IMDB page.



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  • What the critics say 

    THE WRAP

    'sweet and sharp and exciting and hilarious'

    Alonso Duralde

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    'The breakthrough star of the season is here. His name is Baymax and he's impossible not to love.'

    Peter Travers

What members say

    My boys aged 8,11 and 13 loved it (4 to 5 stars). They all identified with skinny nerdy Hiro - but Baymax was everyone's favourite (that sellotape moment). Read more

    Eleonore Dresch

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