Big Hero 6

In the city of San Fransokyo. technology is at its best and the possibilities are endless.

Brothers Hiro and Tadashi both have a talent for robotics, but whilst, older brother Tadashi uses his mind to help push boundaries and create in his lab, his younger brother Hiro circles the illegal robot fighting circuit, cockily hustling his opponents, with little regard for safety.

Cleverly steered by Tadashi, Hiro sees that he has the potential to be better, to challenge himself, and to change the world that they live in, and the way to do it is to attend his brothers university and work with the renowned Professor Callaghan. Sadly a freak accident changes everything when Tadashi is killed and Hiro is left feeling alone and adrift, keeping to himself and ignoring the attempts of his aunt and his brothers friends in cheering him up.

One day Hiro accidentally activates Beymax. Designed by Tadashi to give care to those in pain, Beymax is best described as the toddler aged love child of the Pilsbury dough man and a Nurse, he is sweet, non threatening and will do everything in his power to give his patient the best medical care possible, in this case Hiro. He convinces Beymax and his brothers friends that what he needs to heal is to find a mysterious man in a mask who he believes is linked to the accident that killed his brother. To properly equip for the battle ahead, Hiro does some tinkering and upgrades our loveable Beymax, and his brothers scientific friends, allowing them to use their skills to their advantage.

A quick shout out to the designers behind Beymax, the fact that a robot with two dots and a line for a face and a chubby balloon like exterior, can make me have so many emotions is genius.
This was an interesting angle on the Walt Disney Animation front, namely in terms of it's realism, especially when penned against its 53 predecessors, not that you are hearing any complaints from me. In all honesty, this film did everything right, from believable characters and developing story line. to lovable robot and a warm feeling all over as the screen went black and the credits began to roll, it was funny in unexpected ways and emotional in all the right ones.

In hindsight the message of the film telling kids that Science is Cool! was very subtly done and will hopefully pioneer the forefront for kids letting their imaginations run wild in the realms of reality, least they all suffer the same disappointment as most of us did on not receiving our Hogwarts letter, finally giving up hope as we sat our last A level exam.