Mustacheo Rants BIG HERO SIX
This
Movie
Is
SO
STUPID!
Let’s get an irony count of what I can think up just in ONE MINUTE
~Last Hug
~I am satisfied with my care
~He’s Gone/She’s Gone
~That won’t change anything
~Vengeance
And stop. You can come up with your own list.
Now let me explain in detail from someone who knows so VERY little about Big Hero 6 why this movie is incredibly sub-par. Now is this movie terrible? No. But it is stupid, and cliché, and again, sub-par. I would give it a C, or C- if I would grade it. I do not give it a D or F because it doesn’t suffer from plotholes as much as it does an overabundance of clichés and too fast-paced a story.
Hiro and his brother, Tadashi, grow up together and Hiro wants to join a college for smart people run by a man named Callaghan, who’s a big-shot smart-man with tons of credibility. Hiro and Tadashi live with their aunt Cass who- oh what’s that? Their parents. Oh they died when Hiro was three. It’s glazed over and NEVER brought up at all again in the movie. How did they die? What was the relationship? Were they rich or poor? Not explained.
Anyway, Tadashi shows Hiro a new robot he’s created called “Baymax” who’s main purpose is to be a clinical robot that saves lives. This convinces Hiro to try out for the school. To get in he has to show his intellect through a demonstration of something he’s made.
First off, a hand-written test? IQ Test Scores? List of previous creations that would qualify Hiro immediately? Possibly a record of his bad rep for breaking the law—oh yeah, he illegally takes part in robot fights (technically being in them is legal, betting on them is not… Why is this exactly? Welp, that ain’t gonna get explained so might as well forget about it, like this movie did. I will note though that the fight at the beginning basically shows off the “underestimate the little kid then when he lives we beat him up because we’re sore losers” cliché.)—that would hinder his initiation? Nope, just show yourself being smart.
Is this a gigantic problem? No not really but honestly you prove you are worthy of going to a place to LEARN, by showing that you are smart? AREN’T YOU SUPPOSED TO LEARN HOW TO DO THESE SMART THINGS THERE?! Hiro is smarter than EVERYONE in this movie! I’m not even joking. HE has to upgrade THEM when everyone’s fighting the bad guys. So these people that aren’t as smart as Hiro are already students (which means they weren’t as smart as they are now, which don’t get me wrong is still very smart just not as smart as Hiro), but Hiro, has to prove himself instead of just going “Here’s a list of things I can do”?
Welp his presentation is Nanites. Yes, I know, they call them nanobots, which is essentially the same thing, but they’re Nanites. I’m not calling this a flaw or anything; it’s the same definition (unless you want to consider that some forms of Nanites clone themselves) and perhaps some synonyms were in order?
He wows the crowd by making his millions of nanobots form into hands, structures, etc. and IMMEDIATLEY after this he’s greeted by a business man named Krei who Mr. Callaghan warns Hiro to stay away from because Krei makes cuts in his work to support himself. Basically he’s a dangerous man, risking people’s lives for his science, yada yada yada.
And now after that tiny little warning (that was EXTREMELY underplayed considering something I’ll address later), Hiro just says no to Krei’s offer. Evidence of Krei’s flaws? Reasons for why Callaghan says this? Suspicion on both sides? Nope. Moving on.
So Hiro and Tadashi (his brother if you forgot), are done with the presentation and are about to leave, but oh noes ze building! She eez un FIYAH!!... Why? How? It’s suspected that our eventually villain caused this but it’s never addressed so… a wizard did it, hooray everybody. Gandalf’s gone rogue.
Mr. Callaghan is still in the building, so Tadashi decides to be a hero (irony that I forgot to mention right there, ha, ha, still not that clever) and jumps into the building… five seconds later KABOOM! Not even joking. He dies like instantly, and we skip over to the science friends that Tadashi introduced to Hiro when he showed him around the college for the first time, at the funeral/wake, comforting and such.
A few weeks after that have passed and Hiro is in deep sadness. He hurts himself, activating Baymax (responds to pain because he heals. Now you know and knowing’s half the battle.), who goes over to assist and they end up finding one of the remaining nanobots that weren’t destroyed when the building exploded with them inside. It’s active even though Hiro isn’t controlling them (he does that with a headband that links the Nanites to his brain.)
They follow where it’s leading them and come across a warehouse where they discover someone is making more. Soon after they are attacked by our villain, The Kabuki-Mask Salesman who informs them that they’ve met with a terrible fate (he doesn’t actually have a villain name but his real name will be revealed soon). Mr. Kabuki (no he isn’t actually a salesman, that was a joke), uses his nanobots to attack them and they barely escape the building, and run to the police office… without a SINGLE nanobot following them (save the one they have for tracking the others) despite Baymax getting damaged in the attack, and the fact that the nanobots are FAST! REALLY FAST! (They run on “Character is farther away in each new shot even though attacker is much faster and closing in” logic)
Regardless, when they present their case, the policeman is completely in disbelief and treats it like some kind of crazy kid situation, even though there’s a robot right in front of him, and Hiro holding one of the nanobots in his hands. THIS WOULD RAISE SUSPICION! YOU LAZY COP! DO YOUR JOB!
Whatever… they leave this dreadfully misjudging cop who doesn’t seem to want to be the law (PUNS! REFERENCES! SHINY OBJECTS! … Mimicking this movie), and decide to follow the Kabuki man on their own. Hiro programs Baymax with fighting moves and gives him armor that is meant to fit around Baymax’s body.
Baymax briefly talks about how Hiro needs comfort, so he contacts the college people to come comfort Hiro (because Hiro has no friends, another thing never mentioned, does he have friends? Nope? Oooookay.) even after Hiro tells him not to. (Baymax really isn’t as annoying as he might sound from me, but I’ll get to the pros eventually.)
All suited up and ready to track, the two head out to the bay where they meet up with the Kabuki man who is fast approaching to do… something (he doesn’t actually do anything in this scene except attack them. It’s really pointless and no he didn’t know they were coming. It wasn’t planned). The college people arrive and instead of fighting, they are forced to run away, which they do in a pretty cool car-chase scene by the hands of Gogo Tomango (The other Asian power ranger wearing yellow), and once again escape home. (They sink and the bad guy leaves thinking they’re dead when he really should have finished the job but whatever. They get out and go home.)
They all decide to take things into their own hands (and yes they should have still gone to the cops about this. One dumb cop isn’t enough to say the whole system is terrible and even if he was dumb, the words of six witnesses is more than enough to get interested.), so Hiro upbrades the college people in their specialties, and also improves (replaces actually) Baymax’s armor with more combat stuff in mind.
So after making a super tracker for Baymax, they scan for where the Kabuki Man is (an island… yeah), and leave to investigate. There they find a lab with the remains of Stargate portals (Dimensional Portal Creator actually but it’s basically a stargate) that Krei’s company made. They learn from some conveniently-left-over video footage that It’s test-pilot to see if the portal would work (go in one come out the other. Typical teleportation.) is a girl named Abigale.
One of the scientists says that something is wrong with the machine conveniently just before the test is started (and right in front of an army commander who could easily hear him from less than a foot away and realized that there was an issue but simply dismisses it when Krei says there isn’t because Evil Krei, that jerk), but Krei makes it happen anyway and Abigale is lost in the void.
The team assumes that Krei is behind it all, trying to complete his experiment again after it was shut down, and are immediately confronted by the Kabuki Man. After a short fight where everyone is clumsy, the man is unmasked revealing himself to be Jim Carry… I wish. No it’s actually Mr. Callaghan, who tells Hiro to give him back the mask and when Hiro tells him “Tadashi went back to save you!” Mr. Callaghan simply responds with something along the lines of “That was his own fault” (very apathetically might I add, and apathetic as in INDIFFERENT, NOT, CARING!).
Hiro is enraged and decides “Hey this is a Marvel movie after all. Baymax is now Ultron” and takes out Baymax’s good-boy chip while leaving the violent one, before ordering Baymax to kill Callaghan. Baymax goes on a rampage for about two or so minutes before one of the college people put his chip back in and Callaghan escapes.
Hiro is enraged that Callaghan escaped, unable to see the darkness in his own heart, and leaves back home with Baymax where he tries to turn Baymax violent again, with Baymax not letting him and instead showing a video of Tadashi making Baymax and all the tests it goes through, talking about how he isn’t going to give up on him and that they’re going to make things better for the world. Through this Hiro realizes that he shouldn’t have been so careless and vengeful, apologizing to the others. This is all done in roughly ten minutes, and that’s including the moment he gets mad at Callaghan to the moment he apologizes. Too quick.
The team finds out from the feed that they didn’t get to see because of Mr. Callaghan’s attack, that Abigale was Callaghan’s daughter and he’s getting vengeance for losing her (again, IRONY, NOT CLEVER). Why wasn’t Krei arrested? Why wasn’t Callaghan saying stuff about this in the beginning of the movie? Why was Krei allowed in the fair? None of this makes sense!
They know Callaghan is going after Krei so they travel to one of Krei’s new buildings where Callaghan attacks it and reforms one of the portal-generators which begins acting as a black-hole with the intention of sucking in everything and killing Krei on Callaghan’s orders.
The nanobots under Callaghan’s control (oh yeah, by the way, Callaghan controls them with his mask. Why doesn’t Hiro make another headset and just hack into them and turn them to his side?) eventually capture our heroes in one way or another, and it’s not until Hiro sees a nanobot getting sucked into the void that he realizes something extraordinary…
… to escape all they have to do is figure out how to escape (MIND BLOWING I KNOW…. AGH!!!!!!) He literally just tells everyone to think outside the box (paraphrasing here), and through one way or another they all get out of their traps and start smashing nanobots so that Callaghan will run out of them due to them being sucked-up.
Basically Callaghan is stopped but the portal is still open. It’s going to blow soon, but Baymax senses a lifeform inside of the portal (Abigale, duh). He and Hiro go into the portal (ending up in very cool looking interdimensional space) and begin to bring Abigale back through the portal before Baymax’s suit (equipped with thrusters for flying) is broken to pieces by a piece of debris that would NOT do so considering he was able to take so many worse hits before that and still turn out fine.
Baymax sacrifices himself by launching his armor-hand forward, pushing Hiro and Abigale through the portal before the portal explodes (and it really takes it’s time exploding, considering how everyone was running for cover before as if they had seconds when really it was more like minutes) and the day is saved.
Abigale remembers everything about herself (she was in cryosleep), her father is arrested without ANY smiles or family reunion, and soon after, Hiro finds out that Baymax’s personality chip was being held in his armor hand which means he’s alive. Hiro makes a new body for Baymax, puts in the chip, and Baymax is back again.
Everyone is saved (even Krei) and we cut to a hilarious after-credits scene with Stan Lee that is honestly the best part of the movie.
… Oh boy, this movie is REALLY bad. Now let’s go over characters
HIRO
Hiro is fine for the most part. We see him the most but at the same time he’s a selfish jerk, and not in a good way. In the beginning of the movie he’s arrested for robot fighting but right after that, and seeing his Aunt being upset, he’s about to leave to another one, caring not at all that he’s ruining his family. He’s fourteen and prone to emotional problems (which the movie DOES address) so that’s the only time it’s blatantly stupid. Aside from that, he’s fine. He doesn’t want other people’s help, he’s introvert, but that’s just his character. Not much wrong with him specifically… however I will note, when Baymax has to sacrifice himself and Hiro says “Not you too”, you think he was thinking of just Tadashi or his parents that we know nothing about? Yeah, thought so.
BAYMAX
THIS is the best character in the movie. Baymax is oblivious, heart-warming, cuddly, friendly, and just generally a great guy. He’s morally sound, humorous, and always trying to help push Hiro to do the right thing. I have NO complaints about him.
HONEYLEMON
WORST character in the movie, Honeylemon is the typical energy nerd girl, complete with glasses she doesn’t need, and spasms. She’s just there to be ditsy and stylish. I’ll address outfits eventually, as well as my past with the series.
WASABI
He’s the coward character, and he’s fine enough for who he is because he is actually skilled in combat and willing to fight if needed. He’s funny enough and I don’t find myself being upset with him often. I did however get ticked when he stopped at a red light and kept talking about the rules of the road when killer nanobots were chancing them at high-speeds. Thankfully we have…
GOGO TOMANGO
To fix that. SHE takes control and takes action. Gogo is tough, and actually has fun power-sets, basically skating around, throwing these disk-skates of hers, and things like that. She gets to the point, is about the action, but still knows when to add comfort. She’s like that one smart person in a room of idiots. Everyone else is like “They’re not trying to hurt us” “Maybe we should run away” “Stop lights when in peril and no one around”, and she shuts everyone up and goes “This is the version that gets the job done and saves everyone’s lives”. I really liked this character.
CALLAGHAN
This guy is cliché and forced and quick and… ugh. His reasons and story and everything are fine, perfectly fine, but it’s all revealed SO quickly, we barely have any screen-time with him, and he’s completely indifferent to anyone else, even when he was the reason Hiro’s brother died. This guy STOLE Hiro’s nanobots in the middle of a fire to save his own skin, then spat on the memory of someone who wanted to save him. No. Bad man.
KREI
Krei is like that evil business man that seems evil only because the script wants him to be, because when he isn’t forced to be stupid he’s very nice and gentle. When Callaghan talks about how terrible Krei is, he doesn’t get ticked, he just says that it’s Hiro’s choice, and he doesn’t freak out when Hiro says no. But nope he has to be evil and wanting money. Let’s have him use EVIL testings that spontaneously get problems SECONDS after launch. That will show the world how bad he is. I don’t dislike Krei. He’s just there.
AUNT CASS
I liked Aunt Cass. She was fine. She was stressed all the time, talkative, and always spouting out random stuff that made you listen, become shocked, or just laugh. She’s barely in the movie but she’s fine enough. Nothing special nothing terrible.
Okay done with characters… oh what’s that? TADASHI? You mean, unnecessary-death plot-devise No.#2901? Fine.
TADASHI
HUGE, WASTED, OPPORTUNITY. You know who I wanted the bad guy to be? Tadashi. Why? Because it would have been a twist I didn’t see coming. It was either Krei, or Callaghan, and it was either because of money or revenge. Clear from the beginning. Do I know why Tadashi would be the villain? No. THAT’S THE GOOD THING ABOUT IT. They could have shocked us all with that, but no, he’s just dead. He is a NOBLE man, who cares about his brother, has a sense of humor, pushing his bro in the right direction, sacrifices himself to save people, and because of how dumb this movie is, he is BARELY utilized. Good character. Little time.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE COMICS
I have never read the Big Hero 6 Comics. I know so little about the series but here’s what I do know compared to what is in it.
~Honeylemon’s purse contains these matter-increasing goop-balls in the movie… yeah in the comics it has a WORMHOLE, THAT SHE CAN USE TO REACH INTO OTHER DIMENSIONS AND CHANNEL THEIR ANYTHINGS!
~Wasabi is Asian not Black. I don’t personally have a problem with him being black in the slightest, but that doesn’t change that his original character was Asian. I understand that someone had to change nationalities for this I guess but still…
~Fred-Zilla in the movie has a suit that’s barely larger than he is that’s able to shoot some fire, jump high, and be a little stronger… In THE COMICS IT’S AN AURA MONSTER HE CREATES WITH HIS SOUL, THAT’S AS BIG AS GODZILLA AND CAN CRUSH THINGS!
The outfits are also different. I know that because this is more centered on kids they couldn’t make the suits sexy like in the comics and I have no problem with the suits being modest, but what they replaced the suits with were SO PLASTIC AND STUPID! It was gumball, smoothed-curved edges, rounded gentle cushiony non-harming stupidity! THESE ARE PEOPLE WITH WEAPONS! THEY SHOULDN’T LOOK THIS CHILDISH! They could have just TAKEN the suits and edited them a bit to make them modest. My goodness they look terrible.
This movie is so fast-paced that it burns. Every scene and moment that is supposed to have impact is TOO short and we don’t get time to breathe. An hour and a half isn’t enough. This needed length and a script that WASN’T PREDICTABLE! OR CLICHÉ!
~Young kid genius with rebellion issues
~Nerdy blonde girl with skinny waist and glasses
~Nerdy tough chick with black hair who chews gum and crouches a lot
~Cowardly black nerd with high-pitched voice (seriously that kind of bothered me a bit)
~Laid-back moron who is all about the monsters and never knows when to be afraid
~Moral-high friendly oblivious robot who doesn’t understand everything and is the heart of the movie
Even if I like some of these characters, I don’t excuse ANY of this. I am not a Big Hero 6 fan; I’ve never read the comics, I’ve only glanced at the info here and there and saw Varient-Comics do a video about it. So this isn’t fanboy rage. If I didn’t know a single thing about this movie before seeing it I would have very little less to complain about.
This is the WORST Marvel movie I have EVER SEEN, EVER! It’s not the worst (Captain America… the old one not the one with Agent Smith, I liked that one is worse) in existence but it’s the worst I’ve seen. It’s bad. I don’t want a sequel, I want to see the actual Big Hero 6 characters.
Oh and guess who was part of Big Hero 6 once in the comics too?
THE SILVER SAMURI! Y’KNOW THE VILLAIN FROM THE WOLVERINE!?
… It’s a gigantic missed opportunity. This movie was hyped up so much because people thought it was going to be a perfect mixture of Marvel and Disney. I see NO Marvel in this except for Stan Lee in the after-credits scene I won’t spoil, and even less of Disney. DISNEY MADE THE INCREDIBLES! THE INCREDIBLES HAD MORE GUTS THAN THIS! THEIR SUTIS DIDN’T LOOK RIDICULOUS!
You don’t need to see it. It’s not part of the cinematic universe. It’s not important.
To those that liked it, more power to you. I don’t mean to break your spell if you do enjoy it but please don’t get upset at me for saying it’s bad because as you see above…
I have my reasons.
Leave your thoughts in the comments if you’d like.
God Bless,
Eat Pie and Prosper
This
Movie
Is
SO
STUPID!
Let’s get an irony count of what I can think up just in ONE MINUTE
~Last Hug
~I am satisfied with my care
~He’s Gone/She’s Gone
~That won’t change anything
~Vengeance
And stop. You can come up with your own list.
Now let me explain in detail from someone who knows so VERY little about Big Hero 6 why this movie is incredibly sub-par. Now is this movie terrible? No. But it is stupid, and cliché, and again, sub-par. I would give it a C, or C- if I would grade it. I do not give it a D or F because it doesn’t suffer from plotholes as much as it does an overabundance of clichés and too fast-paced a story.
Hiro and his brother, Tadashi, grow up together and Hiro wants to join a college for smart people run by a man named Callaghan, who’s a big-shot smart-man with tons of credibility. Hiro and Tadashi live with their aunt Cass who- oh what’s that? Their parents. Oh they died when Hiro was three. It’s glazed over and NEVER brought up at all again in the movie. How did they die? What was the relationship? Were they rich or poor? Not explained.
Anyway, Tadashi shows Hiro a new robot he’s created called “Baymax” who’s main purpose is to be a clinical robot that saves lives. This convinces Hiro to try out for the school. To get in he has to show his intellect through a demonstration of something he’s made.
First off, a hand-written test? IQ Test Scores? List of previous creations that would qualify Hiro immediately? Possibly a record of his bad rep for breaking the law—oh yeah, he illegally takes part in robot fights (technically being in them is legal, betting on them is not… Why is this exactly? Welp, that ain’t gonna get explained so might as well forget about it, like this movie did. I will note though that the fight at the beginning basically shows off the “underestimate the little kid then when he lives we beat him up because we’re sore losers” cliché.)—that would hinder his initiation? Nope, just show yourself being smart.
Is this a gigantic problem? No not really but honestly you prove you are worthy of going to a place to LEARN, by showing that you are smart? AREN’T YOU SUPPOSED TO LEARN HOW TO DO THESE SMART THINGS THERE?! Hiro is smarter than EVERYONE in this movie! I’m not even joking. HE has to upgrade THEM when everyone’s fighting the bad guys. So these people that aren’t as smart as Hiro are already students (which means they weren’t as smart as they are now, which don’t get me wrong is still very smart just not as smart as Hiro), but Hiro, has to prove himself instead of just going “Here’s a list of things I can do”?
Welp his presentation is Nanites. Yes, I know, they call them nanobots, which is essentially the same thing, but they’re Nanites. I’m not calling this a flaw or anything; it’s the same definition (unless you want to consider that some forms of Nanites clone themselves) and perhaps some synonyms were in order?
He wows the crowd by making his millions of nanobots form into hands, structures, etc. and IMMEDIATLEY after this he’s greeted by a business man named Krei who Mr. Callaghan warns Hiro to stay away from because Krei makes cuts in his work to support himself. Basically he’s a dangerous man, risking people’s lives for his science, yada yada yada.
And now after that tiny little warning (that was EXTREMELY underplayed considering something I’ll address later), Hiro just says no to Krei’s offer. Evidence of Krei’s flaws? Reasons for why Callaghan says this? Suspicion on both sides? Nope. Moving on.
So Hiro and Tadashi (his brother if you forgot), are done with the presentation and are about to leave, but oh noes ze building! She eez un FIYAH!!... Why? How? It’s suspected that our eventually villain caused this but it’s never addressed so… a wizard did it, hooray everybody. Gandalf’s gone rogue.
Mr. Callaghan is still in the building, so Tadashi decides to be a hero (irony that I forgot to mention right there, ha, ha, still not that clever) and jumps into the building… five seconds later KABOOM! Not even joking. He dies like instantly, and we skip over to the science friends that Tadashi introduced to Hiro when he showed him around the college for the first time, at the funeral/wake, comforting and such.
A few weeks after that have passed and Hiro is in deep sadness. He hurts himself, activating Baymax (responds to pain because he heals. Now you know and knowing’s half the battle.), who goes over to assist and they end up finding one of the remaining nanobots that weren’t destroyed when the building exploded with them inside. It’s active even though Hiro isn’t controlling them (he does that with a headband that links the Nanites to his brain.)
They follow where it’s leading them and come across a warehouse where they discover someone is making more. Soon after they are attacked by our villain, The Kabuki-Mask Salesman who informs them that they’ve met with a terrible fate (he doesn’t actually have a villain name but his real name will be revealed soon). Mr. Kabuki (no he isn’t actually a salesman, that was a joke), uses his nanobots to attack them and they barely escape the building, and run to the police office… without a SINGLE nanobot following them (save the one they have for tracking the others) despite Baymax getting damaged in the attack, and the fact that the nanobots are FAST! REALLY FAST! (They run on “Character is farther away in each new shot even though attacker is much faster and closing in” logic)
Regardless, when they present their case, the policeman is completely in disbelief and treats it like some kind of crazy kid situation, even though there’s a robot right in front of him, and Hiro holding one of the nanobots in his hands. THIS WOULD RAISE SUSPICION! YOU LAZY COP! DO YOUR JOB!
Whatever… they leave this dreadfully misjudging cop who doesn’t seem to want to be the law (PUNS! REFERENCES! SHINY OBJECTS! … Mimicking this movie), and decide to follow the Kabuki man on their own. Hiro programs Baymax with fighting moves and gives him armor that is meant to fit around Baymax’s body.
Baymax briefly talks about how Hiro needs comfort, so he contacts the college people to come comfort Hiro (because Hiro has no friends, another thing never mentioned, does he have friends? Nope? Oooookay.) even after Hiro tells him not to. (Baymax really isn’t as annoying as he might sound from me, but I’ll get to the pros eventually.)
All suited up and ready to track, the two head out to the bay where they meet up with the Kabuki man who is fast approaching to do… something (he doesn’t actually do anything in this scene except attack them. It’s really pointless and no he didn’t know they were coming. It wasn’t planned). The college people arrive and instead of fighting, they are forced to run away, which they do in a pretty cool car-chase scene by the hands of Gogo Tomango (The other Asian power ranger wearing yellow), and once again escape home. (They sink and the bad guy leaves thinking they’re dead when he really should have finished the job but whatever. They get out and go home.)
They all decide to take things into their own hands (and yes they should have still gone to the cops about this. One dumb cop isn’t enough to say the whole system is terrible and even if he was dumb, the words of six witnesses is more than enough to get interested.), so Hiro upbrades the college people in their specialties, and also improves (replaces actually) Baymax’s armor with more combat stuff in mind.
So after making a super tracker for Baymax, they scan for where the Kabuki Man is (an island… yeah), and leave to investigate. There they find a lab with the remains of Stargate portals (Dimensional Portal Creator actually but it’s basically a stargate) that Krei’s company made. They learn from some conveniently-left-over video footage that It’s test-pilot to see if the portal would work (go in one come out the other. Typical teleportation.) is a girl named Abigale.
One of the scientists says that something is wrong with the machine conveniently just before the test is started (and right in front of an army commander who could easily hear him from less than a foot away and realized that there was an issue but simply dismisses it when Krei says there isn’t because Evil Krei, that jerk), but Krei makes it happen anyway and Abigale is lost in the void.
The team assumes that Krei is behind it all, trying to complete his experiment again after it was shut down, and are immediately confronted by the Kabuki Man. After a short fight where everyone is clumsy, the man is unmasked revealing himself to be Jim Carry… I wish. No it’s actually Mr. Callaghan, who tells Hiro to give him back the mask and when Hiro tells him “Tadashi went back to save you!” Mr. Callaghan simply responds with something along the lines of “That was his own fault” (very apathetically might I add, and apathetic as in INDIFFERENT, NOT, CARING!).
Hiro is enraged and decides “Hey this is a Marvel movie after all. Baymax is now Ultron” and takes out Baymax’s good-boy chip while leaving the violent one, before ordering Baymax to kill Callaghan. Baymax goes on a rampage for about two or so minutes before one of the college people put his chip back in and Callaghan escapes.
Hiro is enraged that Callaghan escaped, unable to see the darkness in his own heart, and leaves back home with Baymax where he tries to turn Baymax violent again, with Baymax not letting him and instead showing a video of Tadashi making Baymax and all the tests it goes through, talking about how he isn’t going to give up on him and that they’re going to make things better for the world. Through this Hiro realizes that he shouldn’t have been so careless and vengeful, apologizing to the others. This is all done in roughly ten minutes, and that’s including the moment he gets mad at Callaghan to the moment he apologizes. Too quick.
The team finds out from the feed that they didn’t get to see because of Mr. Callaghan’s attack, that Abigale was Callaghan’s daughter and he’s getting vengeance for losing her (again, IRONY, NOT CLEVER). Why wasn’t Krei arrested? Why wasn’t Callaghan saying stuff about this in the beginning of the movie? Why was Krei allowed in the fair? None of this makes sense!
They know Callaghan is going after Krei so they travel to one of Krei’s new buildings where Callaghan attacks it and reforms one of the portal-generators which begins acting as a black-hole with the intention of sucking in everything and killing Krei on Callaghan’s orders.
The nanobots under Callaghan’s control (oh yeah, by the way, Callaghan controls them with his mask. Why doesn’t Hiro make another headset and just hack into them and turn them to his side?) eventually capture our heroes in one way or another, and it’s not until Hiro sees a nanobot getting sucked into the void that he realizes something extraordinary…
… to escape all they have to do is figure out how to escape (MIND BLOWING I KNOW…. AGH!!!!!!) He literally just tells everyone to think outside the box (paraphrasing here), and through one way or another they all get out of their traps and start smashing nanobots so that Callaghan will run out of them due to them being sucked-up.
Basically Callaghan is stopped but the portal is still open. It’s going to blow soon, but Baymax senses a lifeform inside of the portal (Abigale, duh). He and Hiro go into the portal (ending up in very cool looking interdimensional space) and begin to bring Abigale back through the portal before Baymax’s suit (equipped with thrusters for flying) is broken to pieces by a piece of debris that would NOT do so considering he was able to take so many worse hits before that and still turn out fine.
Baymax sacrifices himself by launching his armor-hand forward, pushing Hiro and Abigale through the portal before the portal explodes (and it really takes it’s time exploding, considering how everyone was running for cover before as if they had seconds when really it was more like minutes) and the day is saved.
Abigale remembers everything about herself (she was in cryosleep), her father is arrested without ANY smiles or family reunion, and soon after, Hiro finds out that Baymax’s personality chip was being held in his armor hand which means he’s alive. Hiro makes a new body for Baymax, puts in the chip, and Baymax is back again.
Everyone is saved (even Krei) and we cut to a hilarious after-credits scene with Stan Lee that is honestly the best part of the movie.
… Oh boy, this movie is REALLY bad. Now let’s go over characters
HIRO
Hiro is fine for the most part. We see him the most but at the same time he’s a selfish jerk, and not in a good way. In the beginning of the movie he’s arrested for robot fighting but right after that, and seeing his Aunt being upset, he’s about to leave to another one, caring not at all that he’s ruining his family. He’s fourteen and prone to emotional problems (which the movie DOES address) so that’s the only time it’s blatantly stupid. Aside from that, he’s fine. He doesn’t want other people’s help, he’s introvert, but that’s just his character. Not much wrong with him specifically… however I will note, when Baymax has to sacrifice himself and Hiro says “Not you too”, you think he was thinking of just Tadashi or his parents that we know nothing about? Yeah, thought so.
BAYMAX
THIS is the best character in the movie. Baymax is oblivious, heart-warming, cuddly, friendly, and just generally a great guy. He’s morally sound, humorous, and always trying to help push Hiro to do the right thing. I have NO complaints about him.
HONEYLEMON
WORST character in the movie, Honeylemon is the typical energy nerd girl, complete with glasses she doesn’t need, and spasms. She’s just there to be ditsy and stylish. I’ll address outfits eventually, as well as my past with the series.
WASABI
He’s the coward character, and he’s fine enough for who he is because he is actually skilled in combat and willing to fight if needed. He’s funny enough and I don’t find myself being upset with him often. I did however get ticked when he stopped at a red light and kept talking about the rules of the road when killer nanobots were chancing them at high-speeds. Thankfully we have…
GOGO TOMANGO
To fix that. SHE takes control and takes action. Gogo is tough, and actually has fun power-sets, basically skating around, throwing these disk-skates of hers, and things like that. She gets to the point, is about the action, but still knows when to add comfort. She’s like that one smart person in a room of idiots. Everyone else is like “They’re not trying to hurt us” “Maybe we should run away” “Stop lights when in peril and no one around”, and she shuts everyone up and goes “This is the version that gets the job done and saves everyone’s lives”. I really liked this character.
CALLAGHAN
This guy is cliché and forced and quick and… ugh. His reasons and story and everything are fine, perfectly fine, but it’s all revealed SO quickly, we barely have any screen-time with him, and he’s completely indifferent to anyone else, even when he was the reason Hiro’s brother died. This guy STOLE Hiro’s nanobots in the middle of a fire to save his own skin, then spat on the memory of someone who wanted to save him. No. Bad man.
KREI
Krei is like that evil business man that seems evil only because the script wants him to be, because when he isn’t forced to be stupid he’s very nice and gentle. When Callaghan talks about how terrible Krei is, he doesn’t get ticked, he just says that it’s Hiro’s choice, and he doesn’t freak out when Hiro says no. But nope he has to be evil and wanting money. Let’s have him use EVIL testings that spontaneously get problems SECONDS after launch. That will show the world how bad he is. I don’t dislike Krei. He’s just there.
AUNT CASS
I liked Aunt Cass. She was fine. She was stressed all the time, talkative, and always spouting out random stuff that made you listen, become shocked, or just laugh. She’s barely in the movie but she’s fine enough. Nothing special nothing terrible.
Okay done with characters… oh what’s that? TADASHI? You mean, unnecessary-death plot-devise No.#2901? Fine.
TADASHI
HUGE, WASTED, OPPORTUNITY. You know who I wanted the bad guy to be? Tadashi. Why? Because it would have been a twist I didn’t see coming. It was either Krei, or Callaghan, and it was either because of money or revenge. Clear from the beginning. Do I know why Tadashi would be the villain? No. THAT’S THE GOOD THING ABOUT IT. They could have shocked us all with that, but no, he’s just dead. He is a NOBLE man, who cares about his brother, has a sense of humor, pushing his bro in the right direction, sacrifices himself to save people, and because of how dumb this movie is, he is BARELY utilized. Good character. Little time.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE COMICS
I have never read the Big Hero 6 Comics. I know so little about the series but here’s what I do know compared to what is in it.
~Honeylemon’s purse contains these matter-increasing goop-balls in the movie… yeah in the comics it has a WORMHOLE, THAT SHE CAN USE TO REACH INTO OTHER DIMENSIONS AND CHANNEL THEIR ANYTHINGS!
~Wasabi is Asian not Black. I don’t personally have a problem with him being black in the slightest, but that doesn’t change that his original character was Asian. I understand that someone had to change nationalities for this I guess but still…
~Fred-Zilla in the movie has a suit that’s barely larger than he is that’s able to shoot some fire, jump high, and be a little stronger… In THE COMICS IT’S AN AURA MONSTER HE CREATES WITH HIS SOUL, THAT’S AS BIG AS GODZILLA AND CAN CRUSH THINGS!
The outfits are also different. I know that because this is more centered on kids they couldn’t make the suits sexy like in the comics and I have no problem with the suits being modest, but what they replaced the suits with were SO PLASTIC AND STUPID! It was gumball, smoothed-curved edges, rounded gentle cushiony non-harming stupidity! THESE ARE PEOPLE WITH WEAPONS! THEY SHOULDN’T LOOK THIS CHILDISH! They could have just TAKEN the suits and edited them a bit to make them modest. My goodness they look terrible.
This movie is so fast-paced that it burns. Every scene and moment that is supposed to have impact is TOO short and we don’t get time to breathe. An hour and a half isn’t enough. This needed length and a script that WASN’T PREDICTABLE! OR CLICHÉ!
~Young kid genius with rebellion issues
~Nerdy blonde girl with skinny waist and glasses
~Nerdy tough chick with black hair who chews gum and crouches a lot
~Cowardly black nerd with high-pitched voice (seriously that kind of bothered me a bit)
~Laid-back moron who is all about the monsters and never knows when to be afraid
~Moral-high friendly oblivious robot who doesn’t understand everything and is the heart of the movie
Even if I like some of these characters, I don’t excuse ANY of this. I am not a Big Hero 6 fan; I’ve never read the comics, I’ve only glanced at the info here and there and saw Varient-Comics do a video about it. So this isn’t fanboy rage. If I didn’t know a single thing about this movie before seeing it I would have very little less to complain about.
This is the WORST Marvel movie I have EVER SEEN, EVER! It’s not the worst (Captain America… the old one not the one with Agent Smith, I liked that one is worse) in existence but it’s the worst I’ve seen. It’s bad. I don’t want a sequel, I want to see the actual Big Hero 6 characters.
Oh and guess who was part of Big Hero 6 once in the comics too?
THE SILVER SAMURI! Y’KNOW THE VILLAIN FROM THE WOLVERINE!?
… It’s a gigantic missed opportunity. This movie was hyped up so much because people thought it was going to be a perfect mixture of Marvel and Disney. I see NO Marvel in this except for Stan Lee in the after-credits scene I won’t spoil, and even less of Disney. DISNEY MADE THE INCREDIBLES! THE INCREDIBLES HAD MORE GUTS THAN THIS! THEIR SUTIS DIDN’T LOOK RIDICULOUS!
You don’t need to see it. It’s not part of the cinematic universe. It’s not important.
To those that liked it, more power to you. I don’t mean to break your spell if you do enjoy it but please don’t get upset at me for saying it’s bad because as you see above…
I have my reasons.
Leave your thoughts in the comments if you’d like.
God Bless,
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