Turning Red Early Reviews Call It One of Pixar's Best Movies
Reviews for Turning Red are officially in, and it sounds like critics had their hearts melted by the new Pixar film. After winning an Oscar for Bao, director Domee Shi is making her feature film debut. Exploring the awkward phase of early adolescence, Turning Red follows Mei Lee (Rosalie Chiang), a 13-year-old girl who turns into a giant, red panda when she gets overly excited. While dealing with the challenges of her overbearing mother, Ming (Sandra Oh), and their ancestral power to become pandas, Mei Lee is also confronted by the chaos of growing up in the 21st century. Turning Red marks the first Pixar film directed by a woman of color, as Shi makes history and earns high praise for her feature.
Sharing a deeply personal story about the universal confusion surrounding puberty, Shi and her co-writer, Julia Cho, charm viewers with a celebration of youth, with all its cringe-worthy moments and emotional highs and lows. While Ming may have good intentions, her hands-on style of parenting becomes too much for Mei Lee, and one particularly embarrassing experience triggers the first of many transformations into a fluffy red panda. This nerdy, spunky teenage girl goes on a journey to understand her body with all its new, unusual quirks. As Mei figures out how to use the panda to her advantage with help from her friends Miriam (Ava Morse), Priya (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), and Abby (Hyein Park), she also brushes up against her mother, who would prefer to suppress the spirit and give Mei a more normal life.
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Critics are raving over the coming-of-age story, one told unlike any other Pixar film. With a unique art and animation style, engaging storytelling, and a
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