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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.