Birdman, Oscar's Best Picture of 2014, is a satire of Hollywood's lack of artistic gravitas. The primary target is the dark hole of superhero films that attracts much of the industry's money and talent. Birdman goes out of its way to repeatedly poke fun at superhero movies. And yet, the Oscar for Best Animated Feature went to Big Hero 6 . . . a superhero movie. Who said the Academy had to be consistent? I just watched Big Hero 6 and enjoyed a lot of it. Yet, it suffers from all of the problems that often plague superhero movies. It is the perfect example of the sort of film that Birdman is making fun of. (Warning: the rest of this post contains major spoilers.) The hero (subtly named "Hiro"), a thirteen-year-old boy of limited means, somehow manages to produce thousands of tiny 'microbots,' and gear for controlling them directly through his thoughts. It's not even so ridiculous that he could come up with a way to build such things--
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