a5c7b9f00b Bored with his father's meditation, a young Indian boy daydreams of Hindu gods as superheroes. 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? Sanjay's Super Team is a decent short film with a reasonably well developed storyline and stunning animation. It certainly has traits that I enjoyed, mainly the relationship between the young boy and his father, I think we can all relate to it in a way, we all had our parents trying to get us involved in certain things when we were younger that we simply had no interest in, and this is the part of the short I liked the most. The main reason I'm giving this short a rating of six is because it goes off on a tangent when the young boy starts daydreaming and the message of the film is completely lost, it gets boring and a little frustrating as he starts to imagine the gods he is supposed to be worshiping as if they were superheroes. I think they should have given the characters voices, I know silent characters normally work for Pixar in short films, but this time around I feel the message, the story and the overall relationship between these two characters would have been much more clear had they been interacting with each other, not necessarily big lines, just a word here and there to convey the message more. The animation is stunning and it's definitely not a waste of seven minutes if you're a fan, but as regards to compelling and captivating short films, I have come to expect much more from Pixar. <br/><br/>A young boy starts to daydream about the gods his father expects him to worship as if they were superheroes. Sanjay wants to watch his favourite superhero show on TV rather than join his father in prayer. However, he discovers that Hindu deities are, in their own way, superheroes.<br/><br/>I love the way Pixar give their up-and-coming staff the opportunity to generate short films (this one accompanies The Good Dinosaur), and there have been some very successful little films which have emerged as a result of that policy. Sanjay's Super team is not one of them, at least as far as I'm concerned. Perhaps this is because it is personal to creator Sanjay Patel to the extent that I could not identify with it at all. And perhaps it is because I felt it had an air of political correctness to it which I didn't care for.<br/><br/>The story is slight, but the visuals in the action section are stunning, and the 3D is very effective.
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