With Marvel Comics now securely locked
beneath the turrets of Sleeping Beauty's castle, Walt Disney
Animation is finally trying their hand at the superhero genre with
Big Hero 6; A sanitized adaptation (directed by Chris Williams
and Don Hall) of a comic book series so obscure, you'd never guess it was
a Marvel property were it not for the obligatory Stan Lee cameo.
Set in the vaguely futuristic city of
San Fransokyo – essentially San Francisco with some Asian facades –
Big Hero 6 starts as a story of two orphaned brothers...
because it wouldn't be Disney without some tragic backstory. The
youngest, Hiro (Ryan Potter), squanders his prodigious robotics
aptitude on seedy underground bot fights, much to the chagrin of the
eldest, Tadashi (Daniel Henney), who applies his equally impressive
knack for engineering at a cutting-edge technical institute.
