Sanjay's Super Team (and The Good Dinosaur)

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I think in the tumult of Christmas I never posted about this. Sanjay's Super Team is the best Pixar short ever. I have probably said this before (Day & Night, Boundin') but, no, really, this time, I *mean* it, it is an entirely different kind of thing than a neat visual gimmick or an inspirational poem, it's simultaneously epic cosmic high fantasy, and amazing character work, all in this teeny-tiny space of, like, seven minutes. I would watch a full-length feature trilogy expansion of it though, it's just - stylistically SO COOL, and the backstory (with the photos at the end) took my breath away. I don't think it can be purchased online at this time which is unfortunate because I want to tell everyone in the world to a) watch it, because it is so good, you want it in your eyeballs if you do visual media at all, and b) nominate it for the Hugo Dramatic Short-form (I usually try to stay away from "you should nominate this" language, but I just want everyone to get to know about it!).

The Good Dinosaur, the movie it screened with, is not so exciting. Phenomenal photorealistic nature animation but the story was pretty by-the-numbers. Which is fine - "some cute moments and nothing really obnoxious" is not a bad kids-movie experience - but it's too bad that Sanjay's Super Team might not have gotten as many in-theater views because it got paired with a less-enticing feature.

Comments

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

YES!!!

I agree with all of your review although my mom and I had set our expectations too low. We had both decided we needed a full movie of Sanjay's Super Team but you're right, a feature film trilogy would be so much better.

I wish they would release it separately somehow. We would love to show my nephews but don't want to see The Good Dinosaur again...although we have told people to buy a ticket for The Good Dinosaur, see the short and leave before the actual movie starts...to me the short is worth the full price alone.