Man it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. I
apologize for my absence but I do have a reason for the unannounced hiatus.
See, with only Nightcrawler getting realised on Halloween (at least where I
live anyway) and since I had already done a review for it, my plan at first was
to simply repost it. I ended up not doing that however mostly because I thought
it’d be a lazy move on my part. Those of you still needing my perspective on it
however, go see it, like immediately. I also ended up doing a couple of jobs on
set for a couple of days and that was immediately followed up by a cold and a
scheduling snafu at my theatre job. So you can say I’ve had a bit of a busy
week. But I finally managed to see something today, although my original plan
was to see Interstellar on Sunday (which a review will be coming up next week
most likely) I ended up seeing Big Hero 6 instead, the first animated film from
Disney animation studios based on the Marvel comic of the same name. But before
I can review that, I have to review the short film that played before it called
Feast.
Why was there a short film attached to Big Hero 6?
Well, it’s Disney they do that sometimes, plus they were the same guys who made
Wreck it Ralph two years ago and that also had a short film attached to it by
the name of Paperman (which went on to win the Oscar for best animated short
that year.) So you can basically count as that as the reason for Feast being
attached to Big Hero 6. Now since Feast is a short film, I’ll be reviewing it a
little differently. See, short films are way different in the sense that they
have a lot less time to tell the story; mostly they like to get in and get out
quickly while still being effective. In the case of Paperman, they mostly told
the story through the actions of the characters. So for Feast, this will be how
I do the review:
Plot Summary:
Interesting Points:
Good or Bad:
I won’t give it a numbered verdict mostly because I
don’t think the scale would accurately reflect the worth of the film. Instead
it’ll be more like a thumb up or down type of thing. That being said, let’s
review Feast.
Plot Summary: After a stray puppy is adopted, the
story of himself and his master’s life together is shown by what the dog is
given to eat.
Interesting Points: For such a silly concept, it’s
actually told surprisingly well. You get a decent variety of food shown showing
the various stages of the dog’s life with his owner. I do get a sense it’s
trying too hard to be like Paperman though.
Good or Bad: I think it’s good. Maybe a bit basic but
it’s a pretty solid little film, definitely worth sitting through.
Now, for Big Hero 6
Plot Summary: Hero Hamada (Ryan Potter) is a 14
robotics prodigy already out of high school. He spends his days doing robot
battles, until his older brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney) inspires him to go to
college to use his gift. To get in, Hero must make a presentation of something
he made. He ends up making nanobots, and gets accepted to the school while
simultaneously turning down an offer from Alistair Krei (Alan Tudyk) to sell
them to his tech company. Later, when the presentation hall is set on fire,
Tadashi runs in to save his teacher Professor Robert Callaghan (James Cromwell)
but tragically dies before he can do so. After Tadashi’s death, his final
project, a robot healthcare companion named Baymax (Scott Adsit) tries to help
Hero recover while simultaneously finding out the Hero’s last nanobot is acting
up. They follow it only to find Hero’s other nanobots were stolen by a
mysterious man in a kabuki mask. Together, they enlist the help of Tadashi’s
friends and set out to stop him.
Pros – The biggest thing by far is the animation,
particularly of the city of San Fransokyo. No they don’t tell you why it’s
called that. I particularly liked the combination air turbine/Japanese lantern
you see occasionally throughout the film. The voice cast is solid too,
particularly Scott Adsit as Baymax, who does possibly the best calm robot voice
since the robot from the movie Robot and Frank a few years back (it’s on
Netflix, it’s great.)
Cons – While we do get introduced to them, we really
don’t learn too much more about Tadashi’s friends who end up becoming the rest
of the team. I suppose they had to focus a lot more on the setup and decided to
leave those details till the inevitable sequel, although we do get the see the
house of Fred (T.J. Miller) where I won’t say who, but you get to see possibly
the most subtle cameo yet in a Marvel film.
Final Score – 9/10
I only wish we could’ve gotten to know the rest of the
team better, but unlike the avengers they didn’t get that much time to explain
who everyone is. Like I said they will mostly likely make up for that in the
next one, but it’s still a fault with this one.
So, Interstellar will most likely be next week, I
might also throw in Dumb and Dumber to as well, but I want to do a DVD review
of the first one first (and also because I’ve never seen it from beginning to
end.)
So until then, I’ll see you guys at the movies.
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