Pixar's TurningRed channels the awkward teenager in all of us with a sweet coming-of-age story about a girl, her friends, her mother, and a giant red panda.
Animation studio Pixar has a knack for making stories with a grand scope feel personal and relatable, while also making relatively small, personal stories feel powerful and important in ways you don’t expect. The studio’s latest film, Turning Red, is a wonderful example of the latter that also manages to break new ground for the studio in some wonderful ways.
Those familiar feelings Turning Red does a lot of things well, but one of the most pleasant surprises is Shi’s decision to keep the focus on Mei’s very human experiences, rather than the magical fantasy of her predicament. Mei’s relationship to both her overprotective mother and to her own body are explored with plenty of heart and humor in Turning Red, and it’s no accident that the film’s title alludes to the onset of puberty and everything that goes with it. While the film doesn’t tackle topics like menstruation head-on, it doesn’t shy away from acknowledging the big changes puberty brings and how we process them.
The cast is rounded out by Sandra Oh as Mei’s mother and Wai Ching Ho as Mei’s grandmother, as well as the trio of Ava Morse, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Hyein Park as Mei’s three best friends. There’s a wonderful chemistry between the four friends that comes through in their dialogue and the way they communicate visually via animation, and their friendship delivers some of the film’s most memorable moments.
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