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On the one hand I can understand why this film makes people uncomfortable.For starters it takes place in "San Fran Tokyo" (?) and the core premise for the story is that it is "OK" to start an animation film clearly targeted for kids with a double homicide.That does take some getting used to.Oddly like its subjects (kids who experiment) there is a lot of experimentation taking place here too.There are some things I have never seen before in an animated film and quite liked.Other bits did not work as well.Anyway, for breaking new ground, I gave it an 8.Maybe history will be kinder. And maybe it won't

A little over a year after I took my granddaughter Catrin (then almost three) to her first ever movie "Frozen" (which she utterly adored), I took her (now just four) to see this very different film from the same stable (Walt Disney Animation Studios) and I'm delighted to record that she loved it. We saw it in IMAX in 3D and we were both blown away.Although this time the central character is a young boy - Hiro Hamada of the city of San Fransokyo - rather than two princesses, my granddaughter had no trouble relating to it because Hiro is so cute, his inflatable robot Baymax is androgynous, and two of his four friends - making up the six heroes - are very capable girls.I reckon that "Frozen" plus "Big Hero 6" - with a few films in between - will give her a lifelong love of the movies.

This animated film tells the story of a technology geek who lost his brother in a fire in a technological convention. He finds out that his invention called microbots got stolen by a masked man, and he sets out to save the world with his friends."Big Hero 6" has fun and really cute characters. Everyone is very adorable, especially the marshmallow robot who has unconventional superpowers. The best thing about this film is that the superpowers are technologically relatively sound, at least in the not too distant future, making the heroes and the plot look a little more realistic within the fantastical dream. I also like the mash up between San Francisco and Tokyo, making the city look like San Francisco with a Japanese twist. I enjoyed the film throughout, and there is not a moment of boredom.