Can the Mouse House put the Marvel magic to work in-house?
You're watching Beyond The Trailer's review of Big Hero 6...
We're under attack from a super villain, people!
Come on! Go! Go! GO!
I am not fast.
Yeah, no kidding!
So a man in a Kabuki mask attacked you and balloon man?
We gotta catch him!
We can go against that guy! We're nerds!
Trust me, I know about robotics.
We can be way more...
Anybody else's suit riding up on 'em?
In 2009, Disney paid $4.6 BILLION dollars for Marvel Entertainment.
And they've certainly gotten their money's worth.
At least from the Marvel Studios division.
To date, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has grossed
over seven billion dollars worldwide.
With no signs of slowing down
as evidenced by their recent press conference announcing Phase 3.
But can these characters create further revenue for Disney within other parts of their global empire?
Right now a former deal with Universal Studios Orlando precludes Disney from featuring
anything Marvel at Walt Disney World.
But several character greetings have proven quite popular at Disneyland on the WEST coast.
While Disney is also planning Marvel experiences on their
cruise ships!
You can also purchase Marvel merchandise at the Disney Store.
And ABC benefitted from Agents of SHIELD?
Maybe Agent Carter will prove more successful.
But now Disney will try to incorporate Marvel into their other blockbuster division,
Animation!
All eyes are certainly on Disney Animation after Frozen
became the most successful animated movie of all time
and the fifth highest grossing movie PERIOD!
But is Big Hero 6 the right follow-up?
It does swap out two sisters for two brothers.
But while some are excited for this East meets West mash-up,
Disney has had little luck with diversity.
Mulan and Pocahontas are the forgotten Disney Princesses.
While Princess and the Frog and Atlantis both underperformed at the box office.
Aladdin was a huge hit!
But that was in large part due to the
fantastic work by Robin Williams
Alan Menken and of course, Howard Ashman.
Plus Big Hero 6 doesn't have a single princess in it!
Although, Honey Lemon sure looks like she's designed to be the first
Disney SCIENCE Princess!
But she's gotten very little attention in the ad campaign.
In fact, Big Hero 6 has almost based its entire ad campaign around Baymax.
Perhaps because everyone went nuts for another great white hope?
Olaf?
Then there's what seems to be an internal struggle between Disney Animation and Marvel Studios.
Disney has taken considerable liberties with the comic book property
while Marvel has refused to promote the film with a comic title
or even a re-release of the original series.
What kind of corporate culture is Mickey promoting over there, anyway?!
At least Big Hero 6 is getting a manga adaptation.
But Marvel's lack of cooperation
or is that Disney Animation's decision to push Marvel out?
hasn't stopped Disney Animation from including plenty of Marvel Easter Eggs
and an after credits scene of their very own.
So is Disney Animation on a roll?
Or is that Marvel Magic harder than it looks?
Like the microbots in the movie
the building blocks for Big Hero 6 are PERFECT.
But unfortunately the mind or in this case the minds
controlling them aren't quite up to the task.
See I think Big Hero 6 features some of the best
character design and worldbuilding I've ever seen in an animated movie
perhaps even the best!
But I kept waiting for the movie to take off and my opinion it never does.
Instead it just kind of hovers throughout and occasionally and frustratingly
revs its engines.
And as a result, The Incredibles is still by far and away
the best animated superhero movie to date.
So what are my BIG problems with Big Hero 6?!
Well without going into spoiler territory and my spoiler review will be going up shortly
I would say my big TWO problems are ONE:
It plays as if Fred wrote it
in other words, fan fiction
and TWO:
and this isn't a spoiler because it's featured in all the trailers
but Tadashi, Hiro's brother, who ended up being my favorite character by the way
didn't need to die
And his death instead reminded me of the emotional manipulation that's become
rampant over in Pixar movies as of late
and I'm frustrated to see John Lasseter bringing that over to Disney Animation as well
in spades by the way!!!
And I'll discuss what I mean by that in detail over in my spoiler review
which will be going up shortly
or might even already be up!
I'll also discuss in detail what I liked about the movie
and again there was quite a bit
and here's a preview of what I liked:
I liked Honey Lemon.
Krei and Callaghan's noses!
Hiro's invention!
And Fred's DAD!
Be sure to stay through that end credit sequence.
Also I'm getting tweets from a number of you that you quite enjoy Big Hero 6
so I'm looking forward to comparing our perspectives
on the film and why we saw it differently, why we enjoyed it and didn't enjoy it
And also when we're discussing down below the film
be sure to mention if you're a comic book fan or not
because I think that might factor into how we see this movie
Also who here thought that Big Hero 6 had a surprising number of similarities
to INTERSTELLAR?!
Very surprising indeed.
Write your thoughts down below, thank you so much for tuning into my review
and I'll see you over at the spoiler review
Thanks for watching - bye!