The Reel Rejects - BIG HERO 6 (2014) IS AN ABSOLUTE JOY!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:00:20 Ah Slash very very cool damn thank you big hero six for what an epic day and thank you also to prepper for helping edit us down i don't make your job easy so we super appreciate you if you're on apple spotify five star youtube thumbs up you know the deal leave a comment let us know what you guys thought about big hero six yeah yeah john we had busy mornings how are you feeling now after seeing this I feel very lovely. I got a lot of catharsis out of that.

Starting point is 00:00:57 I got a lot of joy and excitement out of that. I got some feels out of that. And, yeah, this was so much fun in that it combines, obviously, a lot of, like, the tried and true themes of Disney. Dealing with loss, learning how to overcome that, especially when it's fried. I feel like a lot of Disney stuff, you start with, like, oh, in the prolog, the parents die. And then we cut to a while later. And this has elements of that. we established that and you think like oh okay well there we go and then they hit you with a double

Starting point is 00:01:26 whammy with tadashi and all that stuff and yeah i mean without like really beating you over the head with it i thought this really nicely you know encapsulated just that despondency you feel after a loss like that and the slow climb out of that whole you know first stages of grief kind of thing yeah and like the way he's sort of motivated at first almost by anger and that bargaining of like, well, maybe we can do something. Maybe I can go catch this guy. You know, maybe I can at least get revenge, you know, and make this guy suffer the way I've suffered. But through that, you know, he finds a found family with his brother's friends and his brother's invention, obviously. And all these different things that serve to keep Tadashi alive. To keep him with us. To keep him, you know, his memory, you know, present, ever present. And so, yeah, like this had so much fun imaginative world building. building stuff and without getting too lost in the weeds or anything like this i thought yeah it's like well-paced well-organized and yeah like it hits you uh like a ton of bricks when the whole thing goes down with tadashi and then yeah the adventure that grows out of that is really fun but also

Starting point is 00:02:39 very naturally kind of keeps checking and i think the way life can often go when you are grieving where you kind of like find yourself distracted and then all of a sudden the circumstances kind of flood back in. Overwhelming, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And it, yeah, like the action stuff was super punchy and super tight and fun and like the cast of characters was very appealing and fun. Baymax was a lovely, like, you know, a Disney movie, you have to have like a cute merch character. And I like that Baymax is a cute merch character, but also is a really touching, you know, centerpiece for the movies. Fun yeah, yeah. But also, I think there's something that affects me, especially, when you have a situation where it's like a being or a person or a thing that's like created solely to like

Starting point is 00:03:26 help people in the purest sense possible sort of being forced out of that or being tried to put trying to having other people try to put that in a box that's kind of not that and it's like interesting to watch yeah as like when he takes the chip out and bay max goes like full on you know like gun iron giant mode like it is kind of like heart wrenching a little bit because you're like this is so anti what you're made for you know this is so anti what tadashi intended for you and two just to have like a superhero team that is you know kind of all surrounding this being that is his whole thing is to heal people like physically but also he learns over time about mentally and emotionally and stuff like you know even though it's not really touched upon heavily in the action it's like they were doing

Starting point is 00:04:12 superhero stuff around town like what an asset to have a dude who can start healing people right away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally, totally. Yeah, I had a blast. This was so lovely. What did you think? Oh, man, I thought this script was phenomenal. You know, sometimes with animated movies or with Disney movies, movies that are aimed, geared towards that four quadrant film, right? Like, sometimes if they are trying to be inclusive of younger kids, what they do is they kind of will, like, pull back a story. And so I was worried that they were going to make Alistair, the villain of this and I was like oh god they've already it's been so clear he's the villain he did this and we stated it and so I was worried that they weren't going to be true to this script which is

Starting point is 00:04:58 a really smart script and then they luckily they they were true to themselves and they were like no this person that you think might be the villain there's more to it than that the person that you think might be the good guy there was more to it than that you know you never know somebody's story And I thought that that was really interesting and, you know, just really, really, really smart and well done. Then the fact that I was intrigued by every one of our big hero six and, of course, and of course, Tadashi, that's really impressive, you know. Whoa. Post credits. Okay, Fred.

Starting point is 00:05:41 Stan. There were marvels. I just wish I could share my accomplishments with you. You mean so much to me. And honestly, I've always felt a distance. What with you being on the family island all the time? Are we going to get a stand appearance? Just wish you could see you.

Starting point is 00:05:55 Oh. Oh. Is this a Marvel comic? There were Marvel credits in the credits. Jeff Loeb and some other folks. Yeah, I did see that. I don't know. Fred.

Starting point is 00:06:09 Oh, my God. Stop a Stan. son. Dad. What? I wear them front. I wear them back. I go inside out.

Starting point is 00:06:28 Then I go front and back. Dad. Oh my God. We have a lot to talk about. He's a full on superhero himself. And Stan Lee is Fred's dad. Reject Nation, let's be real. Life's gotten so busy.

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Starting point is 00:08:09 Very fun. What a great, really fun. I love post credits like that too that don't set you up like we would have to do another one or it wouldn't make sense but it's just like it does give you more fun fact about me do you know that i am in stanley's last movie appearance i mean i am in the movie what yeah madison the method it was the last movie that he filmed um he and i am also in and i think that's a so you guys both walk through frame at the same time hand in hand frolicking or his cameo actually really cute story about it though he was like very concerned about the shooting time because he never ever missed dinner with his wife and he was like

Starting point is 00:08:46 I have to be home by 6 p.m. We never once he was like for the last however many he never missed dinner with his wife really cute yeah oh man all right people man yeah so anyway just thought this was perfect

Starting point is 00:09:01 loved the characters thought Fred was hysterical really liked honey all of them wasabi everything go go everybody was I can't believe, but I did that by knowing who they are, not by looking at something. Usually after a movie, if it's an ensemble movie, you're like, oh, the one with the red hit, the one who, whatever, this was like, we got all their nicknames. They were cute.

Starting point is 00:09:25 It made sense. They had different personalities. They were the good guys. They were keeping, yeah, his soul. They were looking out for a hero's soul. Yeah, don't do this, you know. Granted, it's not the same. He's your brother, but like, we all cared.

Starting point is 00:09:39 Like, yeah, we all love this guy. And I think at the end, it would be really easy for hero to be like, I'm not going to save Abigail, her dad, who destroyed my brother, you know? Yeah, good call. But instead, he's like, the right thing to do is be a hero and is to be a good guy. And there's human life in there, and she needs our help. And so we're going to go get her. And because he does that, he thinks he lost, he lost Baymax because he was doing the right thing.

Starting point is 00:10:07 But then he didn't end up losing Baymax. Thank goodness. That was a cool way to do the growth reward. It's like he doesn't get him exactly back, but essentially he does. And that whole thing of him putting the chip in the glove was super cool. Really cool. I agree. I agree.

Starting point is 00:10:24 It makes me wonder, because I genuinely don't know, Big Hero 7, Big Hero 6-2. We can do 7, 8, 9. We can do Big Hero 1, Prequel. And Big Hero 2, even though this is the origin of all the stuff. But is there more big heroes? I don't know They maybe made a series out of this I'm not sure

Starting point is 00:10:43 I don't think there's been like A theatrical sequel of any kind Well I think that's a mistake Yeah Like this seems prime And I feel like this was mad successful When it came out I don't think it suffered

Starting point is 00:10:53 At the box office I'm so excited that I've been hearing About this for like as so great For so long I was thinking Could it really be that great It was great This movie is truly great

Starting point is 00:11:03 If somebody said How is the movie I was It's actually excellent Actually pretty great It's great You know, this is something that I would go back to my Grammy and be like, you should watch this with me. This is amazing. I can't wait until my niece is old enough that I can be like, you can watch this. This is amazing, you know. This was, although on the niece comment, this is very heavy at first. Indeed. Yeah. Like, in the way that Lion King is very heavy at times, this was very heavy at times. Of course, the trope of having a dead parent is all of Disney. But for some reason, like, sometimes in like a Cinderella or an. a little mermaid having a dead parent doesn't feel as heavy we know that the parents gone but it's not it's not as tangible it feels fresh as it and because this one it wouldn't have been as heavy if we

Starting point is 00:11:50 don't watch him lose his brother the way that we lot watch simba lose his father you know like when when you're actually seeing it man that that is it was really impactful and so i i do wonder like what is the appropriate starting age for this because it is so that was so sad well and two yeah it is like a it's interesting it is like an action you know it's a big explosion you know it's it's it's something there's a bit scary and violent and of nature it's not graphic but yeah i i want it seems like yeah something that you would maybe start with like a a tween age person who's like you know got a little bit of world weariness starter pack under their belt yeah um it's yeah it's interesting because it definitely seems like it

Starting point is 00:12:38 wants to speak to people heroes age who are probably dealing with this kind of grief maybe you know because he's what 13 or 14 14 and so i've maybe like i don't know 11 11 or 12 yeah totally this just it just doesn't strike me as something that's for the four and five year old you know it's just yeah the maybe maybe i don't know but just this was so so dark and sad and heavy at first and And honestly, like, I felt concerned because when we lost the brother, I was like, my God, are we for real right now? But then I think that that's such a cool journey to find happiness, you know. Because they don't, they don't sugarcoat it too much, but they also don't rush through it. Right, right.

Starting point is 00:13:24 But the flying, the fact that we were learning about health and mental health affects physical health and physical health affects your mental health. And when we're getting those questions from Baymax, who's like, like it would be flying help your health and it does and like contextually yeah it matters of emotion or or again intellect you're like sometimes yeah like sometimes a distraction sometimes a something to work on sometimes yeah a passion like a passion yeah just something to do with other people yes yeah and also baymax calling his friends which i did think is funny that we just adopted the he met them one time and now it's like these are your people but that does happen like that sometimes where like when you lose somebody their people become your people because you're all

Starting point is 00:14:06 bonded by the yeah so one too you have to imagine that like the rest of them sans hero probably knew bay max as you know he was being developed and probably had baymax tested out on them you know in various forms so like they probably actually like have an association with baymax in addition to tadashi completely which is like yeah which which like in an unspoken way kind of makes that bond even stronger like of course like the movie sets up like these are the people you would call but Bay Max also probably has the context of like

Starting point is 00:14:38 these are heroes closest friends or Tanasha's closest friends and now they're heroes friends these are the ones I call yeah totally I agree with you let me ask you this question this is going to be hard to stomach if if Hero had just sold his technology

Starting point is 00:14:54 would none of this to Alster and gone for the cash play is capitalism is the way to avoid emotional pain. He should have just got that check and bounced and then Tadashi would be fine

Starting point is 00:15:10 and none of this would ever happen. And he'd be rich. And he'd be rich and, you know, yeah, and then homie and Craig and go fight it out on their own. I do think that's a funny part of the message. I do think that the movie, though, was still trying to tell us

Starting point is 00:15:22 that Alistair wasn't a good dude. He still rushed something and Abigail got hurt because of it and he doesn't seem remorseful from it. yeah he's not like they weren't like trying to tell us no he actually was a good guy he's just like yeah i think it's it's it's the right level of like he's not a villain yeah he's just your boilerplate corner cutting business guy you know yeah but i do think kids lesson learned take that money honey yep you know might save you a whole brother if you do

Starting point is 00:15:52 i couldn't help but think about that at the end i was just like if you'd only take in the cash man you thought you were doing the right thing you could have your brother you could have your aunt yeah she was cool I liked having her I could have used even a little more of her yeah she's only in a couple scenes and it would have been cool to get some like familial I feel like most of what he does is avoid her and like props to I was that a Maya Rudolph like like props for showing up and making an impression that is one where I'm like man like maybe you one tender moment between because two like that's a real thing like a lot of i'm sure aunts are

Starting point is 00:16:34 you know put into the position of being mom just as grandparents and various other folks are and so like you know you felt their relationship and her caring for him but yeah it would have been cool to have a moment where they could both grieve or heal together yeah you know totally big hero seven she could be the seven she joins the team she's the madam web her web really do be connecting them all. I do think if he can give everybody these upgrades by scanning them, upgrade your aunt, gave her some powers, give her something. At least give her some upgrades so she can make even more like coffee and crumpets and

Starting point is 00:17:10 like make the cafe like. Yeah, because she's helping you. It doesn't seem like they're hurting at the cafe, but also. No, it did seem packed. I was like, okay, I see you. I see you out here and you're, that what a cool house. Like this had such, I love just the design of the city and the whole Sanford Sokio vibe and the fact that, yeah, they were in like one of these old school like

Starting point is 00:17:27 I don't know if Victorian is the proper era to pull for what kind of architecture that is. But, yeah, like the kind of older houses you would see in a place like San Francisco or even in pockets of L.A. You're talking about Fred's place or are you talking about? No, no, like the cafe slash house down that corner. Yeah, with just like the old-timey looking, you know, exterior. I'm with you totally. And the transportation that they figured out for this, that was really cool. Even like the windmills or whatever we want to call them.

Starting point is 00:17:53 Yeah, whatever they're going to be. The bridges. They really thought about like, what's the layout of this city? and they did there was a lot of billboards a lot of nightlife stuff it looked very much i feel like they did pull from san francisco and they did pull from Tokyo um and then they there is a lot of like futuristic and otherworldly stuff too which is really really cool to see oh yeah i want to go in the quantum realm yeah that's super cool i think a lot of this also is about not judging a book by its cover or like not judging somebody like too quickly because we do see that switch up with alister um and cray

Starting point is 00:18:25 But then also somebody like Fred, like, you know, he looks one way. And then they get to his house and they're like, what? Oh, my God, you got the secret hideout, my guy. Yeah. You live in the actual superhero secret hideout. Totally. Or the Wayne Manor. With Baymax, even when he's in all that armor, like inside is still this like gooey softy.

Starting point is 00:18:45 So I think that a lot of this was about that too. So many beautiful lessons. This is just like, this was so good. Yeah. This is so good. And it's about like there is. a fight obviously there's a very physical threat they have to meet but it's yeah about the fight that isn't necessarily physical or violent it's the the fight that can be just healing a situation

Starting point is 00:19:07 sometimes you know yeah and anything that the lesson is like nothing will bring them back i think it's such a powerful lesson no amount of anger no amount of hurting somebody else no amount of you know and unless they're trapped on the other side of a sci-fi portal in which case they're maybe bringing them back. There we go. That is the most important part. You got launched into a portal and we didn't see you die. Yeah. Otherwise. For sure for sure. And then we had a cool little soundtrack. Quite quite. Which was nice. Both musical score and those needle drops. Yeah. Yeah. The score was really on fire for me. Yeah. Any other things that you, any other big hero six, the what's? Just really fun design and conception and just like the sounds were great. And the voice.

Starting point is 00:19:53 voice cast really locked together like everything just felt like it really clicked together totally was really well conceived and this had such a lovely visual palette and like their camera choices and their light choices and all of the imagination that went into this really really dazzled me and it made me cry in places I was not quite expecting to cry yeah I hear you this was yeah like cheer in places that I was not quite expecting to cheer I was like wow I'm super invested this kept sneaking up on me emotionally yeah and very satisfying and lovely fulfilling ways i'm super into this if you're looking for a seven and eight john and i nominate ourselves go we're in it we're doing this what's what's the scan power that you want to have okay me yeah um let's see i would have something sound related i would like you know shoot some cool sound waves but also i could get the party going if we're just hanging out and we just want some tunes totally i was super into how honey was able to use her purse for stuff. Yeah, and they mix up all these different things on the fly. I want to pair with

Starting point is 00:20:57 her, maybe do some nail polish, like throw it, and then there's a rainbow bridge. Oh, yeah, you can like, you can like paint it on your nail and flick it at people, yeah. And then each finger does a different thing, all 10. Exactly. What is your big hero six power that you guys want? Let us know in the

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Starting point is 00:22:23 I think we bought it for him, but we went to brunch together. He bought it with our top patrons. He bought it with his time and attention. Like, well, you're a patron. Why would we give this money back to you pay for our lunch? Yeah, this is part of your pledge. He didn't only drive six hours, give us hundreds at that time, dollars, maybe thousands, and now pay for us a lot about clever marketing over brunch, is what I meant to say.

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Starting point is 00:23:05 Yeah, 100% is that I don't even like driving through it Oh What's number six? Number six is that David could totally kick Both of our asses Because, you know, he's out here He is a student of the foot-fist

Starting point is 00:23:17 way or you know something that doesn't translate directly into taekwondo but uh you know i feel like david one day is going to become like a nobody type figure you know he's going to be pushed too far into some kind of righteous indignation and then he's just going to kick ass i love it and i'm looking forward to that day and i hope that it's my ass that he's kicking you're saying all the right things john yeah and um yeah that's it man thanks for being our big hero six my friend love you buddy Thank you.

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The Reel Rejects - BIG HERO 6 (2014) IS AN ABSOLUTE JOY!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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