Ben wrote: ↑July 14th, 2021, 4:42 pm
And, okay, what’s wrong with Big Hero 6, except that it wasn’t what you wanted it to be?
I remember seeing Stan Lee at a comic market, just after Roger Corman bought Marvel, bragging about all the film production he wanted New World to get into, fresh off the Dolph Lundgren "Punisher":
He wanted a TV series for X-woman Dazzler, a stage musical for Captain America ("He's been retired since the war, and now they want him back!"), and he seemed most enthusiastic about his idea for an Ant-Man movie--It wouldn't be Dr. Pym and Janet Van Dyne, but fresh off the hijinks of "Innerspace", it would be a comedy about
a scientist who developed shrinking technology: "The only way he can cross the street is hitching a ride on somebody's pants cuff!
"
You can imagine the audience's reaction to the ideas (basically "
"), but the latter is...pretty much what Lasseter did with Big Hero 6:
Even if they couldn't go the Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse route of saying "Just because we're not MCU doesn't mean we're not still Marvel!" (ie. Fox and MCU restrictions kept them from saying that Silver Samurai and Iron Man had formed the team for SHIELD), it would have been nice if he'd kept even, y'know, a
LITTLE of the comic's original concept that the characters resembled famous Japanese pop-culture icons? And then the whole San Fransokyo setting would actually make contextual
sense? It's animation, was John worried we WOULDN'T BELIEVE Fred could turn into a real giant lizard?? (And no, he doesn't have to use the M-word if Fox won't let him.)
Like, even if Honey isn't a little girl, and is now a nerdy grownup Latina, how about giving her a nerdy passion for some Sailor Moon style TV anime, and have her try to fan-copy the poses in action? That would at least fall within the
ballpark of the comic's character, and one step toward justifying why he even bothered making it.
And that's leaving aside the whole villain plot stolen wholesale from Pixar's Up, which no doubt disappointed a lot of fans cosplaying as Yokai for the Halloween before the movie came out.
...Lord knows we've
already got enough Scooby-Doo movies from Warner.
(And ftr: Who asked the question, anyway?)
