Though it's not actually a Marvel-produced movie (Disney merely adapted their comic book), there's a lot in Big Hero 6 that calls to mind, narratively and tonally, films like Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and even The Avengers: the pacing is fast, the action is cool, the characters are memorable, and most of all, theres no shortage of humour. Yet just as it shares many of those films' qualities, Big Hero 6 is also plagued by some of their very same flaws. The films central conceit involves a young boy, Hiro, who - along with the help of his inflatable and oh-so-lovable robot Baymax - seeks to uncover the perpetrator behind a lab explosion that killed his older brother. One would think that, with a story that relies so heavily on the classic Boy and His Dog story conceit, Big Hero 6 would have no shortage of heartwarming moments. As it turns out, however, the movie is ultimately about as moving and tear-inducing as Tony Starks seeming death at the end of The Avengers. In other words, not very. Part of this has to do with the fact that the movies characters and plot are a bit on the thin side; part of it also has to do with the fact that Big Hero 6, for all of the moments of fun that it delivers, is ultimately just too snarky in its delivery to elicit anything genuinely touching.
