Big Hero 6

Big Hero 6 attempts to be everything at once

Big Hero 6, an animated Disney movie, is one of the most derivative flicks I’ve seen in 2014. It openly plagiarizes from Terminator 2, The Incredibles, Wall-E, The Avengers, and many different animated Japanese serials; the imaginative qualities come not from the introduction of new elements but the appropriation of many different works which fit together into a single coherent vision. The experimental filmmaker, Harun Farocki, subscribed to this idea when he said, “One need not look for new, as yet unseen images, but one must work with existing ones in such a way that they become new.” The central…

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