 I saw Big Hero 6 a week ago Saturday. I saw it at a free showing at the local library here. I did not enjoy it. I don't see what the big deal is. It was very much oversold to me. Very much. So much adulation for it online. And then the week before it had just won the Academy Award for Best Picture. And the Saturday before that, the week before, they had shown The Incredibles, which is the best superhero movie ever made, if you ask me. It's a near-perfect movie. So my expectations were high. Everything was telling me to have high expectations for this. And I was, uh, I was disappointed. There's not really that much more to say about it, as far as my opinion goes, but I did want to take the opportunity to talk about Disney and Marvel and why I don't support their films. I did not see this film in the theater. I haven't seen any of the Marvel movies and theaters in years. I haven't seen any Disney movies and theaters in years. And it's because Disney and Marvel have very bad reputations for hurting artists. They steal materials from artists, and they don't pay artists, and they don't allow artists to participate in the monetary gain from these billion-dollar films that they make. As an artist myself, I find that intolerable. And as a fan of artists who have been creators, especially of these Marvel movies, people who created the characters and the stories decades ago that are being used as Marvel slash Disney movies today are not participating in the success of these films. And I can't, I don't find that acceptable. It was supposedly inspired by a Marvel comic book from the late 90s called, again, Big Hero Six. But aside from the name of the film and the names of the characters, it has nothing in common with the original comic book. I mean literally nothing. Here's the original comic. It was called Sunfire and Big Hero Six. It was created by a young writer and artist at Marvel. Here are their names. It's not good. The writing is terrible. The art is really bad. These characters are teenagers with superpowers who have been recruited by the Japanese government to be the official Japanese super team because America has all the superheroes and Canada has Alpha Flight and Russia has the Winter Guard. And the story just doesn't make any sense at all. The dialogue is bad. This is Baymax. He is a bodyguard in an antique suit and a bowler hat whose face is always in shadow. And he shapeshifts into some kind of lizard creature. And this is supposedly a robot that this little kid designed and built. The series was recreated in the 2000s, I think 2008. And it was written by Chris Claremont of all people. But he just phoned it in. The artwork is an improvement over the original. It's downright classy compared to the original. It has a convincing manga look about it. The story is the same. It's a group of super kids who are supposed to be the Japanese super team. The Honey Lemon and Gogo Tamago characters are very mean spirited and unlikable for some strange reason. Issue number three is entirely devoted to this super team helping some New York high school football team win the big game. I don't understand it. Honey Lemon is just cheesecake. She's nothing but cheesecake. We see her in her underwear all the time. She gets herself mind controlled by the bad guys and the big hero six have to fight evil Honey Lemon. Well, we've never seen that before, have we? Mr. Claremont. Anyway, if you've seen the big hero six movie, you know from what I've just said, it has nothing at all to do with those original stories. And it was formulaic. It was so formulaic. I knew going in that the protagonist would have to be tragic in some way. He would have to be an orphan or his parents or a loved one would have to be killed right in front of us. And they did both of those things. He started out as an orphan and his brother gets killed. I knew that the villain was going to turn out to be the professor and not the evil corporate bigwig. When they found that old footage of this girl being lost in the fourth dimension somewhere, I knew that the movie was going to end with them finding out that she was still alive in there and going to get her. I knew that this girl was going to turn out to be the villain's wife or daughter or something. And sure enough, just one after another after another down the line, the characters, like I said before, were very two-dimensional. There was nothing to be interested in or care about. The shtick about the scruffy homeless kid who wasn't a student or even a scientist who was always just hanging around, that he turns out to be rich and living in a mansion and having a butler, it was... And then Stan Lee gets a cameo. Fucking Stan Lee gets his freaking cameo. Yeah, that left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I didn't like the movie. I didn't find anything about it to be interesting or entertaining. These two guys who created these characters and the title, they have become important and influential guys in television animation. They have a studio called Action Man, and Action Man was credited in the closing credits. So characters created by Action Man. But the two guys' names were not in the credits anywhere. And I was looking for information about that online and I saw that people were wondering why they weren't included in the Academy Awards. So that's what I was talking about before. Disney and Marvel do not include creators in their success and that's why I don't patronize Disney and Marvel films. And this was my opportunity to talk about it on video. Okay, that's it. I've got more reviews coming up later this month. See you then. You can support 30 Seconds Sci-Fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.