Just Super review – good-natured Scandi superhero toon with egalitarian vibes – The Guardian
This candy, good-natured children animation from Norway has impeccable Scandi values. It’s a superhero cartoon with the egalitarian message that perhaps superheroes aren’t all they’re cracked as much as be: all me-me-me and obsessive about their very own awesomeness. Wouldn’t or not it’s higher if everybody pulled collectively as a neighborhood?
Simply Tremendous is ready in a small city, house to an 11-year-old woman known as Hedvig (voiced by Reilley Ott). The large secret in Hedvig’s household is that for generations the eldest baby turns into the city’s superhero, Tremendous Lion. Hedvig’s dad, a strapping specimen of Viking manliness (Jean Luc Julien), is the present incarnation. All of the Tremendous Lions put on the identical costume that has been handed down for the reason that yr dot, a ribbed wool onesie in beige that magnifies the wearer’s pure expertise into superpowers.
The difficulty for little Hedvig is that she doesn’t seem to have any expertise to amplify. She’s not robust or intelligent, and he or she journeys over her personal ft. Hedvig’s dad wonders if the woolly costume ought to as an alternative go to her show-offy cousin. The excellent news is that Norway being one of many most secure international locations on the earth, many of the city’s emergencies appear lemur-related (one of many little critters has escaped from the zoo). The low-level stakes make Simply Tremendous a mild look ahead to little children.
And there’s lots to love. Maybe owing to the truth that Norway – that gleaming northern utopia – is without doubt one of the world’s most equal in addition to most secure international locations, it feels feminist by intuition; no annoyingly laboured woman energy on present right here. Much less unique is the “be your self” message, which even five-year-olds children might groan at. And at factors I did marvel if it’s a teeny bit missing in enjoyable. Like every week of consuming lentils, you realize it’s good for you, however slightly little bit of dullness creeps in.
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