Colossal Epic 6

Colossal Epic 6  is a 2025 American 3D computer-animated family film  produced by Vanguard Animation Studios and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the 6th Vanguard Animation Film. Directed by Brad Bird and Steve Martino. The film tells the story of a young robotics prodigy named James Ryan Willis who forms a superhero team to combat a masked villain. The film features the voices of Zac Efron, Neil Patrick Harris, Dane Cook, Chris O'dowd, Amanda Bynes, Will I Am, Kristen Schaal, Michael McShane, Ned Beatty, and Kristen Wiig.

Plot
Jams Ryan Willis (Zac Efron) is a 14-year-old robotics genius who lives in the futuristic city of Washington DC. Raised by his Mother Emma (Kristen Wiig) and older brother Travis (Kristen Wiig after the death of his parents, he spends his time participating in illegal robot fights. To redirect James, Travis takes him to the robotics center at his High School, where James meets Tadashi's friends: Ping Pong (Amanda Bynes), Sean (Will I Am), Bailey Padden (Kristen Schaal), and Matthew (Chris O'Dowd), as well as the healthcare companion Doctor Liam (Neil Patrick Harris) that Travis created to help sick & injured people. To enroll in the school. James signs up for the school's science fair and presents microbots: swarms of tiny robots that can link together in any arrangement imaginable. Dr, Jonathan Kipple (Ned Beatty), the head of the school's robotics program, is impressed and James is accepted into the university. Oliver Wyatt (Michael McShane), a businessman and CEO of Wyatt Inc, attempts to buy the microbots, but with Kipple's advice, James declines to sell them. When a fire breaks out at the Science Lab, Travis rushes in to rescue Kipple but both are killed in an explosion.

Several weeks later, a depressed James accidentally activates Liam who follows James' last microbot to an abandoned warehouse. There, the two discover that someone has been mass-producing James' microbots, and they are attacked by a Kabuki-masked man controlling the bots. To catch the man James upgrades Liam with armor and a battle chip containing various karate moves. After the masked man attacks James, Liam, Ping Pong, Sean, Bailey, and Matthew the 6 form a superhero team. The 6 go to Fred's mansion and begin to plan, and James superpowers his friends with powers pertaining to their field of science. Suspecting that Wyatt stole the microbots and caused the explosion, they discover a secret, disused Wyatt Inc Headquarters, which was researching teleportation technology until the disappearance of a test pilot. While detaining the masked man, they discover him to be Jonathan Kipple who started the fire as a distraction to steal James' bots while leaving Travis to die. An angered James removes Liam's healthcare chip (leaving only the battle chip) and orders him to kill Kipple. Liam almost does so, but Bailey re-installs the healthcare chip to stop him. Furious at his friends' intervention James storms off with Liam. When James tries to remove the healthcare chip again, Liam stops him, saying that vengeance is not what Travis would've wanted. This causes James to break down, yelling that Tadashi is gone. To console him, Baymax plays a video of Travis running tests during Liam's development. A remorseful James later apologizes to his friends, who forgive him, and the team reunites to stop Kipple.

The group discovers that the vanished test pilot in Wyatt's headquarters was Kipple's daughter Melessica (Beyonce), and that Kipple is seeking revenge on Wyatt for his daughter's apparent death. Kipple attempts to kill Wyatt by destroy his factory by sucking both into a teleportation portal with no exit. The team saves Wyatt and destroys the microbots; but the portal remains active. Liam detects Melessica inside alive but in hypersleep and he and James leap into the portal to rescue her. After finding Melissica's podship, the thrusters on his damaged armor fail, and Liam uses his armor's right-hand rocket fist to propel James and Melessica back towards the portal opening and stays behind. James and Melessica make it back, and Kipple is arrested. Sometime later, James discovers Liam's healthcare chip (which contains his entire personality) clenched in his rocket fist, and rebuilds him, whereafter the six friends continue their exploits through the city, fulfilling Travis's hope of helping those in need.

Cast
Zac Efron as James Ryan Willis

Neil Patrick Harris as Liam

Dane Cook as Travis Willis

Chris O'Dowd as Matthew Mitchell

Amanda Bines as Pong Pong Murray

Will I Am as Sean Gunson

Kristen Schaal as Bailey Padden

Ned Beatty as Jonathan Kipple

Michael McShane as Oliver Wyatt

Kristen Wiig as Emma Willis

Beyonce as Melessica Kipple

Ron Smith as Desk Sergent

Dee Bradley Baker as Newscaster/Percy the Cat

Jeff Biancalana as General

Liam Neeson as Ivan

Candi Milo as Ringleader

Chris Parnell as Bruno the Butler