This movie was surprisingly well produced. It combined good moments of comedy with good action-packed scenes as well as included heart-felt moments. Big Hero 6 is about a little kid named Hiro, his best friend who's a robot (Baymax), his group of four friends who all become superheroes through the use of their imaginations and intelligence. Hiro is a prodigy and genius and graduated from high school at a young age of thirteen. Hiro goes onto an adventure and quest to figure out who stole his invention, the microbots, which in turn caused the death of his brother, Tadashi.
The movie starts off in a cute-looking little city called San Fransokyo, which is a combination between San Francisco and Tokyo. Hiro is seen bot-fighting, which is illegal. Contestants bring their own robots that they have created to fight each other. Hiro, in a way, scams his opponent and gets into trouble with his henchmen and eventually the cops. But in the nick of time, Tadashi (Hiro's older brother), cruises along in his motorcycle to save his little brother, yet again. This beginning scene demonstrates Hiro's genius intellect as well as his close relationship with his older brother. Tadashi is disappointed in how Hiro is using his genius intellect (in bot-fighting) because he knows he has more potential than that. Tadashi decides to bring Hiro to his college where he reluctantly inspires Hiro to try to join as well. In order to be accepted and considered to be in the school, Hiro creates the micro-bots to be entered into a science fair. They can be seen as metallic legos which are controlled mentally by whoever wears the controlling headband. However, in an attempt to steal Hiro's invention, someone sets the convention on fire. As a result, Tadashi dies from the resulting explosion from the building.
After finding out that his invention had been stolen and that the one who stole it was the one who caused his brother's death, Hiro goes on this quest to stop this man. Hiro uses Baymax, Tadashi's robotic creation to help people, to help him in his revengeful quest. As Hiro is creating software to "teach" Baymax to fight and hurt others, this to me is seen as a parallel to how Hiro is being corrupted by his own thoughts of revenge. The "good" chip in Baymax, the one that allows Baymax to help others is a parallel back to Tadashi and his morals and might even refer back to how Hiro was good and then gets taken over by his thoughts of revenge. By the end of the movie, Hiro takes the villain down the "good" and "right" way, without revenge in mind.
Revenge was one of the main conflicts within this movie. Hiro struggles with this conflict due to the death of his brother. Hiro's actions illustrate how strong and how far someone will go in order to get revenge. Hiro's quest for revenge was unhealthy and hurt everyone around him. While fighting Callaghan after first getting their new costumes, Hiro's order to Baymax, to annihilate Callaghan, put the rest of his team's well-being in jeopardy. Hiro nearly made Baymax take Callaghan's life if it wasn't for the "good" chip being put back into Baymax. Throughout the rest of the movie, Hiro realizes what he did was wrong and that revenge isn't the way to solve any situation.
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