Review: Puberty runs amok in Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’

The Associated Press ^ | March 7, 2022 | By JAKE COYLE

[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.

[DiogenesLamp]

How did red come to be the hue for conservstive orientated states in the U.S and blue for statists?

1992. Piece of sh*t Bill Clinton went to Russia and connived with socialists and communists in Europe. News was coming out about his activities in 1968 including protesting America while in London. News was coming out about his trip to Russia and behind the Iron Curtain while staying with prominent Communists in those countries.

In an effort to distance Bill Clinton from his obvious Communist past, the media liars deliberately colored Bill Clinton as the "blue" candidate, while coloring George HW Bush as the "red" candidate. This was intentional psyops by the media liars and I said so at the time.

In contrast, during previous elections (1988) George HW Bush was colored as "blue" and Ronald Reagan was colored as "blue."

The media liars have deliberately kept this false representation ever since, and now it has become ingrained in the culture.

Election map for 1984. Ronald Reagan is "blue".

[Celtic Conservative]

“Throws pf puberty”.
It’s “throes”, you lackwit alleged journalist.

CC

[Trillian]

Another movie that’s going to fail.

[Long Jon No Silver]

Media manipulations. I hate the media with every fibre of my being

[ConservativeMind]

It looks like somebody choked that chicken.

[fieldmarshaldj]

2000 Election Day was when the media did the switcheroo. Some of us refuse to use these newspeak colors.

[Thunder 6]

“‘in the throws’ of puberty.” Stylebook much AP?

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

Theres only American and commie states

[Long Jon No Silver]

Good one

[antceecee]

🤣🥰😂😂🤣👍🏻

[rlmorel]

Glad you liked it! It just reminded me of that joke...