‘Sanjay’s Super Team’ Clip: A Deeply Personal Short Film From Pixar
By Jack Giroux/Oct. 15, 2015 3:00 pm EST
Sanjay’s Super Team is directed by Sanjay Patel, who got his start as a character layout artist on The Simpsons in the mid-1990s. Soon after that gig, he served as an animator and story artist on A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, Monsters University and some of Pixar’s past short films.
Pixar’s newest short follows Sanjay, a young boy whose Saturday morning cartoon is disrupted by his father. Uninterested in Hindu prayer, he instead reaches for his action figure, and when he accidentally blows out a candle, he’s sent to a cosmic Hindu temple.
Here’s a Sanjays Super Team clip:
Peter was lucky enough to see the full short at Comic Con. Here’s his take on Sanjay’s Super Team:
The first time the short screened in the hall, I was taken aback about how different it felt compared to the other Pixar and Disney short films. Sanjay’s Super Team feels like a much more personal project than the Pixar short films that have come before it. I was left with more of a feeling of admiration than the usual love I have for most of the other Pixar shorts. But I had the remarkable experience of watching the film a second time at the conclusion of the panel and having a completely different response to the film. The second time I watched the movie I had a much more emotional connection to the story. My eyes may have even teared up a bit.
Sanjay’s Super Team and The Good Dinosaur open in theaters November 25th.
