 Turning red is the newest Pixar film exclusively streaming on Disney plus and let me tell you something as a prepubescent 13-year-old girl This really spoke to me The basic plot is this a 13-year-old girl turns into a red panda I had zero interest in this movie going in didn't watch a trailer Didn't even want to sit through the thing, but then I forced myself to with my family and it turns out. I Really like this much like Luca, which I also really enjoyed. This is another coming of age tale And the protagonist here is the nerdy 13-year-old Mei Lin a large portion of Mei only exists to make her parents proud mostly her mother Pretty much only her mother who's very strict and incredibly stalker-ish She will constantly be following Mei around lurking behind trees popping out from windows This lady is really obsessed now I did see some early reviews coming on Twitter just like one or two sentence snippets and there's a little bit Polarization happening here. Some people say the film is very alienating saying that it's very specific to a target demographic Here it would be girls who are going through puberty. I don't think I could disagree harder Yes, of course If you're a girl who's been through these changes presented in the film This is gonna speak to you on a deeper level, but for me as a dad who's currently raising a girl who just turned 13 I mean this hit home for me as well And it's a beautiful movie and the way the story unfolds. I think it's very clever how they use this red panda as a metaphor Yes, it's obvious But kids that are younger aren't gonna see that they're just gonna see a cute red panda and how this girl is struggling with Letting it out or keeping it in and all the push and pull of emotions weighing her down The way that she struggles with her mom in communication and how her mom has her own baggage Associated with the red panda Listen if you would have told me years and years ago that the studio that made a film about toys coming to life when people aren't around Would then later go on to make a film about self-discovery and periods I don't think I would have believed that but yeah, here we are plot out of the way What else do we have to look forward to well? It's Pixar. It's Disney. You get beautiful animation. It's top tier It always is it's like such a boring thing to go over you can see the trailers this thing's gorgeous It does get more playful than past Pixar movies There's a little bit more of the Mitchell's versus the machine's vibe going on especially in the first half hour Which is very strong. I do think the movie does have a lull in the middle as Often Pixar movies do for me and just animations in general It seems like when they really bring the plot out and try to build it up things can slow down a bit I know parents are always wondering if the film is appropriate for their little child There's like five or six in this case. Yeah, I think so. There's nothing. There's really no swearing. There's no violence It's a colorful it'll keep them entertained There's one section towards the end that could be a little scary for them The way I would gauge that is if they're able to sit through inside out in that clown sequence This will be nothing. It's not near as scary as the clown. This isn't your traditional quasi musical Disney usually produces like your frozen to your tangles although there's some good jams in here because there's a boy band Who's akin to like BTS or in sync or you know all the other flavors from the past the groups called four town Even though there's five members I pointed it out to my family and then a minute later maze mom makes a joke about it I'm a fan of boy bands getting made fun of and there's plenty of that here, too And damn it if their music isn't catchy There's a brilliant moment in this picture where the beautiful old music Clashes with the boy bands and it mixes together in a great way. I loved it I myself grew up in a time where a woman's period was not something that was normalized It was something that was like frowned upon there was some shame associated with it It was essentially Bruno. We don't talk about periods So the fact that Pixar had the Cajones to make something like this a story Revolving around that time of the month making it almost a a mystical journey a magical experience. Yeah, I mean shit Keep doing it. I love this stuff. Are there gonna be a bunch of Karens clutching their pearls over this? Yes, are there gonna be a bunch of edge lords yelling woke at the TV? No because they're not gonna watch it They'll just see a headline and that'll be enough, but yeah, they'll do it online for sure So there are my thoughts on turning red. Is it the best Pixar film to date? I don't think so, but it's up there and being up there for Pixar is that's high praise I'd love to know your thoughts on turning red now Let me know in the comments below like the video if you had a good time Subscribe if you like movie reviews and news and rants and all sorts of movie related content I post it weekly here and hopefully I'll see you next time. 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