Big Hero 6 (No "Spoilers")
Nov. 15th, 2014 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkySaw Big Hero 6 last night, and it was... Predictable? Maybe it's my lifetime of experience with comic books and the likes, but it seemed like they were just hammer-fisting their foreshadowing, just a step below actually holding up items and breaking the fourth-wall with a "Hey audience, see this? Eh? Yeah, THIS is gonna be important! Remember it, okay, because it's the clever bit! Got it? Okay, great... thanks, folks! Now back to our story..." It seemed like every single scene left me thinking "Oh, well obviously going to do THAT with it", and that made me sad :(
As is my rule with all movies, though, you're not allowed to say something bad about a movie without saying 3 nice things abut it as well. Soooooo...
1) The voice cast was spot-on brilliant at their work, with T.J. Miller and Alan Tudyk bringing in supporting roles that were THE highlights of the film for me! Also, revelation that Alan Tudyk is the John Goodman of this era of Disney films, as John Goodman was the David Ogden Stiers of his era, as David Ogden Stiers was the Sterling Holloway of his - a distinct voice that you're going to find as a character in just about every film they make!
2) The design was *beautiful* - the city of San Frantokyo was a delightfully modernistic, futuristic, optimistic take on what a city of the near-future should be and every pixel of that city was a place I REALLY wanted to visit, having an almost Ghibli Studios feel to it (which I know HAD to be on purpose and dude it SO WORKED!)
3) The gags really, REALLY worked well in an action/adventure way. There were no breaks from the action in order to make a joke, the jokes fit organically in to the motion of the film and I really admire that!
As is my rule with all movies, though, you're not allowed to say something bad about a movie without saying 3 nice things abut it as well. Soooooo...
1) The voice cast was spot-on brilliant at their work, with T.J. Miller and Alan Tudyk bringing in supporting roles that were THE highlights of the film for me! Also, revelation that Alan Tudyk is the John Goodman of this era of Disney films, as John Goodman was the David Ogden Stiers of his era, as David Ogden Stiers was the Sterling Holloway of his - a distinct voice that you're going to find as a character in just about every film they make!
2) The design was *beautiful* - the city of San Frantokyo was a delightfully modernistic, futuristic, optimistic take on what a city of the near-future should be and every pixel of that city was a place I REALLY wanted to visit, having an almost Ghibli Studios feel to it (which I know HAD to be on purpose and dude it SO WORKED!)
3) The gags really, REALLY worked well in an action/adventure way. There were no breaks from the action in order to make a joke, the jokes fit organically in to the motion of the film and I really admire that!
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Date: 2014-11-16 09:35 pm (UTC)I think I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't seen Guardians of the Galaxy first. That was a third class comic that no one really remembered much about, other than the talking raccoon. BH6 was an obscure (though not third class), that no one really remembered.
BH6 was missing that awe and amazement that I felt when leaving 'The Incredibles'. I remember taking my (then) 6 year old nephew, and him exclaiming when we left 'We have GOT to go see that again'. Which we did, several times, and just about wore out the dvd. I didn't feel that when I left the theatre after BH6.