Little Superman

There's a sequence in Little Superman where a character is straight out eaten by a comic version of a Tyrannosaurus Rex and then saved by a genie-like being covered in gold. That is probably the peak point of embarrassment for director Vinayan and his team as they set out on a ridiculously ambitious project of creating a superhero film that also translates as one highlighting a social cause (corruption by government officials). It is clear that this low-budget play is targeted at young kids but even a six-year-old will disregard it as something that has been made without an iota of imagination. There are also a handful of frames built only for the 3D effect and it's so conspicuous, I am finding it difficult to call this a film. Little Superman gets everything wrong from the basic premise of filmmaking to storytelling for kids, making it perhaps a top contender for the worst Malayalam film of the 2010 decade. TN.