
Sanjay, a young boy, is watching his favourite cartoon show, the Super Team, while his father is preparing for the daily meditation. Undoubtedly, this is the day's most important activity, nevertheless, the boy has no interest in joining his father. But does Sanjay know that, sometimes, cunning and skilled adversaries can be hiding in the most unusual of places?... (Full plot summary below)
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Sanjay, a young boy, is watching his favourite cartoon show, the Super Team, while his father is preparing for the daily meditation. Undoubtedly, this is the day's most important activity, nevertheless, the boy has no interest in joining his father. But does Sanjay know that, sometimes, cunning and skilled adversaries can be hiding in the most unusual of places?
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| Eye for FilmJennie KermodeOverall, the film is rather slight, but it's an appealing slice of (mostly fantasy) life and an affectionate reflection on a treasured personal relationship. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordNominee for Oscar Best Animation Short 2016 |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.Conveys very important overtones about remembering where you come from, and respect for culture. |
| User ReviewChris MSanjay's Super Team is a breath of fresh air, not only to Pixar animation, but to all of mainstream animation and certainly to anything generally coming from Disney. This short follows Sanjay, a little boy who is a big fan of superheroes, but not of practicing his religion much to the dismay of his traditional Hindu father. But as the tables turn, Sanjay is thrust into action and the short really takes off into beautifully wild and inspiring action. Through a series of different styles of animation, Sanjay's adventure goes from mundane to epic, bringing with it bright colors and intricate designs that command the screen. This short is shiny, a true visual feast, but it also stands out for its story content. Sanjay's Super Team feels authentic because it is, as real life Sanjay Patel directed the short based on exaggerated experiences from his youth. It's lovely to see a culture and it's religion that is oft overlooked in American cinema get some attention. This is Pixar's first project, of all of their shorts and feature-length projects alike, featuring humans to be lead by a person of color protagonist, after all, so it's as important as it is fun, if not more. It's also nice to see Hinduism and it's Gods portrayed in such an encouraging and positively energetic way. It has moments reminiscent of The Powerpuff Girls and Samurai Jack, which is a completely good thing. If only Pixar had given us a new feature length action film of this caliber and laid those tired old dinosaur bones to rest. |
| User ReviewMichael WIt's cute and has some fun visuals, and after learning that Sanjay made the film for his father, it became endearing too :-) |
| User ReviewCameron CSweet little animated short film that was nominated for best animated short film in the Academy Awards. |
| User ReviewIan MThis is adorable & I love that the director wrote this for him and his dad. I can see any child turning their gods into superheroes. |
| User ReviewSpencer K"Sanjay's Super Team" (United States, 7 min.) - Probably the most widely seen of these five Oscar nominees, this animated short played in American theaters as a featurette before showings of "The Good Dinosaur". It's about a young Indian boy who's watching his favorite superhero cartoon when his father turns off the TV and brings the boy over to join him in prayer to the Hindu gods. As his dad prays, Sanjay daydreams a story in which the Hindu gods are superheroes. The story is based on the childhood of the film's director, Pixar animator Sanjay Patel. The film is a creative, colorful and entertaining meditation on the generation gap between fathers and sons and how that gap might be bridged. "A-" |
| User ReviewKristina WSweet family moment. Lovely animation as per-usual with Pixar. Very nice but not my favorite of 2016. |
| User ReviewIan GA fun, heartfelt little short in front of the Good Dinosaur that riffs in the style of the Incredibles that compares a little boys super heroes from the the tv shows he watches and his fathers heroes in his faith. During one Sunday morning while at prayer, the young Indian boy is forced to join his dad at prayer and begins to day dream about super heroes fighting, and begins to imagine that opposed to it being his comics heroes it is the Gods his father prays to that are fighting the super villain. Thought this little moment he is able to find some common ground with his old man. Very cute and stylised with a lot of heart, Sanjays Super team carries that traditional feel of the greatest Pixar shorts. A keeper. |