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Big Hero 6 (2014).

Teen robotics prodigy Hiro, grieving his brother, teams up with his brother's inflatable healthcare robot Baymax and friends to stop a masked villain using stolen microbots.

2014Year
Don Hall, Chris WilliamsDirector
102 minRuntime
7.8/10IMDb rating (as of 14 Oct 2026)
8/10Entertainment — our score
6/10AI Realism — our score

Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family · The AI: Baymax — inflatable personal healthcare companion robot

Official trailer

Official trailer via Walt Disney Animation Studios (YouTube), verified 14 Oct 2026.

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Our review

Baymax is a design triumph — soft, slow and protocol-bound, so every heroic upgrade feels like a small violation of who he is. That tension is the film's best AI idea: Hiro does not need a smarter robot, he needs the one that keeps asking about his pain, on a scale of one to ten. The superhero third act is generic beside the grief story. Watch it with kids for the laughs, and stay for a surprisingly honest portrait of care as a technology.

Entertainment 8/10 — Charming, funny and action-packed, with real emotional weight.

AI Realism 6/10 — Baymax's bounded, diagnostic, consent-checking behaviour is well observed; his combat retrofit is pure fantasy.

The AI, explained

Baymax is a bounded system done right: a diagnostic, consent-checking caregiver whose core function — heal, don't harm — creates the film's tension when a grieving kid tries to retrofit him for fighting. Care as a design constraint, not a personality quirk.

Themes: Care & family · Embodiment

Concepts in the glossary: Embodiment

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