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By Sandra Olmsted

In Big Hero 6, Hiro Hamada (voice of Ryan Potter) wastes his days illegally fighting robots, and his brother Tadashi (voice of Daniel Henney) wishes his whiz-kid brother, who graduated high school at 13 would enroll in the local university’s robotics program and takes Hiro to the lab.

In order to get in, Hiro must create something novel and wonderful, and he does, micro-bots controlled by his mind through head gear. The celebration of Hiro’s victory at the competition ends with a disaster, which costs Tadashi his life. Already an orphan with only Aunt Cass (voice of Maya Rudolph), Hiro drifts until he accidentally activates the inflatable Baymax (voice of Scott Adsit), the Personal Healthcare Companion that Tadashi had created. Soon, Hiro suspects the disaster was no accident and discovers kabuki mask-wearing villain manufacturing and controlling an army of Hiro’s micro-bots. While Hiro upgrades Baymax, Baymax enlists the assistance of Tadashi’s labmates, GoGo, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, and seeming slacker Fred (voices of, respectively, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr., Genesis Rodriguez, and T.J. Miller).

Disney take this adaptation of a little known Marvel comic and mines it for franchise and merchandise gold. Set in a beautiful conceived and rendered San Fransokyo, co-directors Don Hall and Chris Williams’ gorgeously animated Big Hero 6 also has emotional resonance and creates a Marvel Universe superhero for a younger audience despite some obvious holes in the science and the plot. Stay to the end of the lengthy credit for the usual Marvel troupe!

The Patrick Osborne’s short film and promising Oscar contender, Feast, a delightful look at a dog and his master’s life as love and food happen, screens with Big Hero 6. Rated PG for action and peril, some rude humor, and thematic elements and running 108 minutes, Big Hero 6, a Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures release, opens in theaters November 7.

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