Posted on 03/07/2022 1:36:11 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
For better and worse, “Turning Red” is like no Pixar film before it.
The film, directed by Domee Shi, who made the lovely Oscar-winning short “Bao,” is the first Pixar movie directly solely by a woman. Its leadership team, including producers and art departments, is entirely female. And its protagonist, 13-year-old Meilin Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), is a Chinese-Canadian eighth-grader in the throws of puberty.
For Pixar, a factory of childhood whimsy designed to make adults cry, “Turning Red” fills in more than a few blind spots. Not only is the movie deeply rooted in a female and Asian-North American perspective, it wades into a chapter of life unfrequented by Pixar. This is the first film by the studio in which, for example, a sanitary pad is offered. And it’s the first — history take note — to feature twerking.
But “Turning Red” is surprisingly free of humor or the kind of visual wit that has long been a Pixar hallmark. It could be that, if we’re talking about representing hard-to-tame adolescent urges in monster form, “Turning Red” — bold as it may be — can’t come close to matching the messy comic farce of “Big Mouth,” the far less family-friendly but much more true-to-life animated series that paired seventh graders with lascivious “hormone monsters.” It isn’t easy — or maybe even possible — to do puberty justice with a PG rating.
“Turning Red,” a Walt Disney Co. release, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for thematic material, suggestive content and language. Running time: 100 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
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I used to adore Pixar stuff. Good storytelling, high quality.
Then, they went woke, and disgustingly so. I won’t even watch their stuff now.
My wife recently checked out a Disney movie from the local library with the caveat “I know you don’t like Disney or Dwayne Johnson...” and to be a good husband, I sat with her to watch it. (The movie was “Jungle Cruise”. She doesn’t see things the way I do.)
I got up and left to do something else pretty early on. Right off the bat, the two main characters, a man and a woman team were trying to steal something from a museum, and he was so obnoxiously effeminate, afraid, and incapable of anything, traveling with many trunks of clothes and such, that I was repelled.
Then, at one point the character states in conversation that he broke off a number of engagements as his “interests happily lay elsewhere”.
That’s it. I sat down against my better judgement to watch it with her and got that crap. I just got up and left to go in another room and read a book.
I happen to be in the clutches of the MOUSE right now (at WDW Orlando), and if there’s anything they have forgotten to market, I can’t thinking it at the moment.
I suppose they could sell mortgages to people with kids so they could afford the parks…
That’s how they “upspeak”...which makes me wonder if he used “speech to text software “.
I was in the gro the other day and a young lass said something to me with the “upspeak”. I said...”I’m sorry. Did you ask me a question?”
She looked very confused.
I happen to be in the clutches of the MOUSE right now (at WDW Orlando), and if there’s anything they have forgotten to market, I can’t thinking it at the moment.
I suppose they could sell mortgages to people with kids so they could afford the parks…
A teacher was asking the kids in her class one day that if they could have one gift, what would they ask for?
She asked one little boy, and he said: “I want an airplane! If I had an airplane, I could fly anywhere I wanted to!”
She asked the little girl what she wanted, and the little girl said: “I want a horse! If I had a horse, I could take care of it and groom it and I could ride it every day!”
She went all around the room, and when she got to Little Johnny and asked him, he said I want a box of Tampons! The teacher, somewhat taken aback said “Er, Little Johnny, why on earth would you ask for something like that?
Little Johnny said: “I saw it on TV! If you get a box of tampons, you can skydive, go scuba diving, ride horses, go rock climbing, do parasailing, and everything else!”
IMO, red is the color of courage and the blood of patriots shed for freedom.
Blue is the color of depression, dead, bloated corpses...or spoiled brats holding their breath until they get their way.
After they speak that way, most of them never get that the tone is wrong. They are simply parroting what they hear without question.
That’s how the commercials make it seem.
If only Popeye had a box of Tampons. He would have knocked Brutus over the Moon!
Weird it was reversed
Not on my bucket list, for sure.
True.
"On the October 30, 2000, episode of the Today show, Tim Russert coined the terms “red state” and “blue state.”"
Orig blue for GOP, red for Dems.
Then maybe they wanted Dems to be
blue, like blue collar, on election night
1984 or maybe 80, Brokaw on NBC declaring
“a sea of blue”—Reagan winning all but MN and DC vs Mondull in 84
Then they switched “(state) goes Republican Red...”
Disney bought them out. Downhill from there :P
That’s a hard pass for me
Cheers
It used to be the party in power was red and the other blue. So it alternated between red and blue for Republican or Democrats.
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