Recently, the Red Carpet Report team got to go to the screening for Disney’s Big Hero 6 and the short “Feast.” Both will be in theaters this Friday and we recommend them both for audiences young and old…
Factoid: Big Hero 6 is one of the twenty animated feature films submitted for consideration in the 87th Academy Awards.
Feast Review
“Big Hero 6’s” accompanying animated short, “Feast” is a delightful look at a human relationship, from the point of view of a Boston Terrier. The dog, Winston, remains in the forefront and in focus for the duration of the short, as he joyfully laps up all manner of people food in a charming montage, while what plays in the background is his owner, an unnamed man, meeting a young woman and the start of their relationship. When she moves in, the food Winston has been enjoying shifts gear, as she starts to get fancy with preparation, and changing the couple’s diet to healthier fare, Winston is also no longer welcome to eat at the table, and has to eat on the floor, and his first meal there is Brussel Sprouts, and later he is given kibble.
An unwelcome change for the center of this piece, and it seems, as we see in the background, not very welcome to Winston’s owner either. The young lady exits the man’s life, and as the door closes, the man opens the freezer and pulls out ice cream, plops a scoop down for his dog, and begins to eat his feelings. As for Winston, happy days return, he’s back to the food he had before the girl entered their lives, pizza, pasta, cupcakes. But all this weighs heavy on his master, and out of defiance, and compassion, knowing whats best, Winston runs away, leading his human to the restaurant where the young lady works. They then resolve their issues, and are wed, Winston, learns to enjoy his kibble, until he meets a new member of the family, a meatball throwing baby, who is more than happy to share his food with out canine protagonist.
This should be considered a serious contender for Best Animated Short at this year’s Oscars. A beautifully subtle story of companionship. (A+)
Big Hero 6 Red Carpet
Not only did we attend the screening for Big Hero 6 and Feast, we also were at the LA Premiere Red Carpet… this time in the “photographer” pen and snapped these photos.
Another awesome event that happened before and at the premiere was XPRIZE’s real-life “Big Hero 6” walking the red carpet with the 6 winners of the XPRIZE Challenge. These 6 kids were selected from the amazing submissions of innovative ideas to help solve some of the world’s biggest challenges using science, technology, engineering, art and/or mathematics (S.T.E.A.M.). To view the winning videos, please visit https://www.xprizechallenge.org/us-en/base/viewentries
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Big Hero 6 Review
It should be known going in that “Big Hero 6,” is a Marvel movie, not Marvel Studios, and not quite Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it is in a meta existence between the comics and the movies, taking place in a fictional version of San Francisco, called “San Fransokyo.” In the comics, “Big Hero 6” was the name of a Japanese Government-Run Super Hero Team, and most of the original members are present in the movie, albeit with a few tweaks. The original line-up of Big Hero 6, the comic, had Hiro (the super genius), Wasabi-No-Ginger (a swordsman), GoGo Tomago (a speedster), Honey Lemon (with a bag of tricks), and Baymax (a shapeshifting robot), it was a later relaunch of the series that introduced Fred-zilla. Though there were two characters that didn’t make it to the cinematic version of the film, Silver Samurai & Sunfire, both characters being mutants, are under control of Fox, so they are absent from the film. The core characters were reinvented, most notably Wasabi is now of African descent, and Baymax is an inflatable vinyl hospital robot, and everyone attends an MIT-esque University.
Big Hero 6 is stunning, the best version of Tokyo and San Francisco, using existing architecture of the City-by-the-bay and upping the asian flair, the Golden Gate Bridge now resembles stepped Japanese Torri Gates, wind catchers and soba restaurants dot the city. The animation is top notch, I saw it in 3D, and the characters seemed to have density and dimension, there were no complaints of eye strain from me, Disney seems to have the Stereogram of 3D animation down, and it truly enhanced the viewing. The movie had a problem with predictability, every twenty pages an action scene, whether it needed one or not, you knew who the bad guy was as soon as he was introduced, and every Chekovian Gun paid off. While entertaining, it felt more like an episode of Scooby-Doo, nearly everything paid off, and what didn’t will lend itself to the inevitable Big Hero 6 Sequel.
Saying again this is a Marvel movie… True Believers will want to sit through the credits. (B)
Both movies will be shown together in Theatres November 7th, 2014
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- Genre: Animated Action/Comedy/Adventure
- Rating: PG
- Voice Cast: Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney, T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr., Genesis Rodriguez, James Cromwell, Alan Tudyk, Maya Rudolph
- Directors: Don Hall & Chris Williams
- Producer: Roy Conli
