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Mar 9, 2022 · And that is the genius of “Turning Red,” a radical, brazenly hormonal PG movie that instantly fills a huge void in the lives of awkward, novel female teens who might just be starting to crawl out of their childhood cocoons with a disharmony of mystifying awakenings and sexual feelings.
In "Turning Red", Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence.
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Mar 7, 2022 · Pixar’s Turning Red, from Bao director Domee Shi, is a great film that embraces quirkiness, Asian-American life, and big action. The movie releases on Disney Plus on March 11.
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Disney and Pixar's Turning Red introduces Mei Lee, a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn staying between her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming, is never far from her daughter - an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships...
In April 2002, Meilin "Mei" Lee is an over-achiever who had just recently turned 13 and considers herself perfect; having mastered her classes as an A+ student, garnered a close clique of like-minded friends which consists of cool-headed Miriam, deadpan Priya, and intense Abby, and is devoted to her family temple which honors her ancestor Sun Yee, ...
The development of Turning Red began in 2018, after director Domee Shi first pitched the idea to Pixar in October 2017. Shi, who previously directed the short film Bao, developed the film based on her experiences growing up in Toronto. The one that became Turning Red was based on a girl going through a "magical puberty". Development began in May 20...
On June 17, 2021, it was announced that the film would receive a worldwide theatrical release after both Soul (2020) and Luca (2021) were assigned direct-to-streaming releases on Disney+ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as the Omicron variant cases rose, on January 7, 2022, the decision was made to shift the film from its theatrical r...
Turning Red received critical acclaim. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 95% of 289 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's consensus reads, "Heartwarming, humorous, beautifully animated, and culturally expansive, Turning Red extends Pixar's long list of family-friendly triumphs". Metacritic, w...
The film was nominated for the 2023 Oscar for Best Animated Feature but lost to Gullermio Del Torro's Pinocchio.
This is the third Pixar film (and possibly the final) to be released exclusively on Disney+ after Soul and Luca.This is the eleventh Disney+ movie that was originally intended as a theatrical release, after Noelle, Artemis Fowl, Hamilton, Magic Camp, Clouds, The One and Only Ivan, Mulan, The Beatles: Get Bac...This is the fourth Disney+ original movie to get a home video release as well as a theatrical release internationally, being Mulan (2020), Soul, and Luca.Due to Disney+ being limited in most of Europe and Asia, the following countries are where Turning Red got a theatrical release: Albania, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulga...Near the start of the film, a restaurant named "Bao Restaurant", with the same writing as the short's logo, can be seen.When Mei calls her friends at the start of the film, she shouts "Besties, assemble!", a clear nod to the iconic Avengersphrase "Avengers, assemble!"The film features two Hidden Mickeys:Turning Red on WikipediaThe official 4TownwebsiteTurning Red on IMDbTurning Red on Rotten TomatoesMar 9, 2022 · But overlook Turning Red at your peril. It’s the best thing Pixar’s produced in recent memory and perhaps the studio’s most emotionally nuanced and thematically clever film since Inside Out .
Mar 10, 2022 · A 13-year-old girl becomes a red panda when she loses her cool in Domee Shi’s heartwarming but wayward coming-of-age film. Meilin (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), right, with her mother, Ming (Sandra...
Mar 11, 2022 · In Pixar's new animated film, a Chinese Canadian girl awakens one morning to find that she's turned into an enormous panda. Turning Red provides a lot to look at — and a lot of ideas to grapple...
