Turning Red

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Such a great film! A family who learns through growing pains while keeping it real! I love the struggles between the mother and daughter highlighted. Really captures middle school and all of its awkwardness Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/24 Full Review MatthewT212 Once again Pixar hits it out of the park. It's not without flaws but even they were minimal. You will not regret the hour and forty minutes you take to watch another Pixar classic film. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/18/22 Full Review Vladimir Absolute perfection! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/18/22 Full Review Willa The storytelling is really well done and detailed generational pressure and trauma in an Asian household. Cringey elements were relatable and flashbacked to those adolescent middle school days. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/14/22 Full Review Jay W I'm just so tired of these same type of kids' movies over and over again. This is the 86th "Just be yourself" kids' movie and it is the straw that has broken this camel's back. Now to get this out of the way, like all Pixar movies, this has all the technical stuff down beautifully. The animation, sound and voice acting is all on point. And in all honesty I can't say it's a bad movie...I just hate it. This is yet another kids' movie where the parents are painted as the monsters and the friends are the ones that are there for unconditional love. With few exceptions in Disney animated films the parents are either the villainized or dead. Why does this "family company" seem to hate parents so much? With so many of these films following this tired trope, why does this movie in particular get the brunt of my ire? Well for one, it's Pixar. This is an animation company that I have come to expect more than just run of the mill after school special tripe. Second, this is 2022. We have heard this message before and it has been run into the ground. Heck, the last 3 Disney movies ( Luca, Ron's Gone Wrong and Encanto) all had the same "Just be yourself, your flaws are what make you who you are" message. In the same way stuff like "Ferngully" would get criticized for beating down the same environmental message we've been hearing since "Bambi", I will critique "Turning Red" for giving this same tired message. And finally, this one lacks any subtlety. They beat you over the head with this message from the beginning of the movie all the way until they spell it out for you in the end. It makes "Zootopia" seem subtle. Also very on the nose about its puberty parallel. There just aren't any funny jokes you can make about menstruation, period. The characters in this film, particularly the mom, act so over the top ridiculous that she inevitably ends up being set up as the simple strawman to knock down for the sake of the message. The way she reacts to certain plot points was so unbelievable it immediately took me out of the movie. If you can get passed the narration at the beginning and not see exactly where the movie is going, and you're not sick of the "parents are the worst" cliche, then you'll likely enjoy the movie. I personally liked the setting and anime influence. But for me, in the words of another animated Panda, this movie gets "ska-dooshed". Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 12/02/24 Full Review Abdulkadir A By far the worst animated movie we've watched lately, we got bored with it as a family and turned it off halfway through. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/30/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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