Review: TurningRed tackles change with a carefully crafted balance of antic energy and emotional tension.
, Pixar has ventured into the wilds of puberty. This makes a certain timeline sense, as many of the kids weaned on early wonderments from the studio—like, which was released nearly 27 years ago—are now adults with kids of their own and might be worried about how to handle that most harrowing of youthful transitions, this time from the grownup side of things.Turning Red, and directed by Shi—situates itself in cozy nostalgia.
The body stuff of puberty is most obviously made metaphor in the film. Newly 13, middle-schooler Mei is having some epiphanies. It’s not just the faraway idols of her favorite boy band, 4*Town, whom she’s gaga over; there are boys right there in her actual life who, quite suddenly, seem awfully interesting, too. Mei’s passions are running high—for music, for friends, for guys with cute hair—when she awakes one morning in the form of a giant red panda.
Beyond making a pandering appeal to the Millennials in the audience, it’s not clear why the film is set 20 years ago. With that choice, the filmmakers conveniently sidestep having any dialogue about the specific pitfalls of contemporary teenage life. Maybe they trusted that’s messages are universal enough that a tackling of TikTok was unnecessary.
Though, I suspect tweens and teens are not the real targets anyway. The film often seems squarely, deliberately, aimed at their parents instead, offering them a gentle reminder that they were young once too, once bursting at the seams with enthusiasm and curiosity and, yes, budding lust. advises.
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