I SAW IT AT A PRE-SCREENING ON WEDNESDAY AND HAVE BEEN DYING TO DISCUSS IT W/ SOMEBODY PLZ SOMEONE DISCUSS W/ ME
I'll go as soon as I get a full 80 or more hour paycheck. Lately I've been working 20-32 hour weeks and it's been killing me when I my paycheck comes every two weeks.
HELLO YES WELL (spoiler tagging for those of y'all who haven't seen it yet. Plz do not click. You should see it first.) Spoiler I REALLY LIKED IT but I feel like it had some problems! Baymax 100000% stole the show he was amazing, and his relationship with Hiro is really what made the movie so good imo, which is why I was disappointed when the last act veered toward a more typical action-hero flick and sort of lost sight of that (and the action was sorta messy/unimpressive to me also). I felt like the script could be really obvious sometimes too which is unfortunate because other times it could be pretty clever. I think what I liked most about it is the themes it deals with?? Hiro is driven by his grief and ultimately a desire for revenge for a lot of the movie, which is common for comic book protagonists I suppose but usually relegated to villains in family films as a way to humanize them. Hell, even this movie's villain is an example of that lol. But what made this interesting for me is that Hiro legitimately tries to MURDER this guy, and while imparting this motivation on an antagonist is done so the audience can sympathize with them, when the protagonist does it it's kind of scary and terrible. And then of course Baymax shows him how doing that wouldn't give him the relief he wanted (may have been the best scene in the movie imo). The scene in the portal at the end was also really good ;_;. I feel like there were some missed opportunities for the movie to be better but I liked it overall and wouldn't mind seeing it again sometime to form a second opinion. It definitely has shades of The Iron Giant/How to Train Your Dragon which are movies that I felt had better focus & liked more, but also good movies to borrow pages from, and Hiro's motivations are essentially what set this movie apart. There is my mini-review lol. Really fun movie. Beautifully animated as always and I liked the cast (although most everyone outside of Hiro and Baymax felt irrelevant to me by the end unfortunately). I would like to see a sequel sometime because there's a lot here worth fleshing out/improving on, but also idk how a sequel could work because Hiro's emotional arc was more or less completed by the time this movie was over.
Spoiler What I really liked about the movie was its portrayal of depression. It was very much toned down for the kiddies, but it was still quite accurate. And when Baymax found that it was emotional hurt, not physical, instead of telling Hiro he wasn't hurt, he IMMEDIATELY GOT ALL THE INFORMATION HE COULD AND PROCEEDED TO TREAT HIRO'S EMOTIONAL STATE AS IMPORTANT AS HIS PHYSICAL STATE AND THAT JUST REALLY MEANS A LOT TO ME OKAY. I never for a second had trouble believing that Hiro was a 14 year old boy, despite being a genius, or depressed, or upset, or whatever. The college kids don't treat him like a baby, they treat him like a friend who just happens to be a little younger.
