How Turning Red's Rotten Tomatoes Score Ranks Against Other Pixar Movies
Pixar’s latest project, Turning Red, has been very well-received by critics, but how does its Rotten Tomatoes score compare to other Pixar movies? While there are many studios that have brought a variety of stories to the world of animation, Pixar continues to be the biggest and most influential one, and it keeps on treating its audience to at least one movie per year. This year, Pixar is bringing two very different movies, starting with Turning Red, directed by Domee Shi (writer and director of fan-favorite Pixar short Bao).
Turning Red takes viewers to Toronto, Canada, to meet Meilin «Mei» Lee (Rosalie Chiang), a confident and dorky 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian student who one day discovers that, whenever she gets too excited or stressed, she turns into a giant red panda, but she can turn back if she becomes calm. This “quirk” is linked to her ancestors, who have a shared history with the species as a family curse, but the curse can be contained by performing a special ritual on one specific night – unfortunately for Mei, that night coincides with a concert of her favorite boy band. In addition to this, Mei has to deal with everything puberty throws her way, along with her overbearing mother, Ming (Sandra Oh).
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Although it was originally planned to be released in theaters, Turning Red ended up being sent to Disney+ due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t really been an obstacle for its success. Turning Red has been praised by critics and viewers (though there are many others who aren’t on board with it), who have pointed out its animation style, story, humor, and use of culture as some of its strengths. Less than a week after its release, Turning
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