Film

Big Hero 6

Name: Big Hero 6
Genre: Adventure, Family, Animation, Action, Comedy
Released: 2014
Cast: Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney, T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung

Big Hero 6 is Disney's high-tech superhero adventure set in San Fransokyo, where grieving inventor Hiro teams up with an inflatable healthcare robot and his late brother's college friends to become makeshift heroes. It's slick, colour-saturated action-comedy with real ache under the gadgetry — grief and found-family threaded through the fight scenes. Great for family movie night, kids who love robots, anyone who cried at Up.

TMDb rating

7.7

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