Turning Red review: Pixar grows up, gets panda'd in its joyful tween-centered latest

Turning Red review: Pixar grows up, gets panda'd in its joyful tween-centered latest

Entertainment Weekly-Movie·2022-03-08 04:00

Has there ever been a better metaphor for puberty than a feral, rampaging animal? Like other teen wolves before her, Meilin Lee, voiced by Rosalie Chiang, can't help manifesting her feelings literally in claws and fur. Unlike them, the small hormonal heroine of Turning Red (on Disney+ March 11) has the full imaginirium of Pixar behind her — not perhaps the studio anyone expected to be speaking directly to crushes, periods, and parents who just don't understand, though a project like Red seems almost inevitable now that it's here. Their audience, after all, is continuously growing up; why shouldn't their movies?

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