It’s a vibrant, multicultural city, filled with interesting people and places (Shi and her animators even somehow manage to make the neighborhood mini mart as enticing as the Lins’ beautiful temple), and Mei navigates it with ease. Just like her animated star, Shi is a proud Chinese-Canadian, and the filmmaker’s obvious affection for her hometown of Toronto is clear in every scene. Miriam is a bit of a tomboy, Priya is the stoic and sarcastic one, and Abby is prone to screaming no matter if she’s happy or sad or angry or anything in between (a character trait both incredibly specific and wonderfully universal, because everyone knew a gal like this in middle school). That’s totally fine by Mei, because she’s got a solid crew of three besties who support her in everything she does. Yes, Mei might often feel split between her two selves (think of them as school Mei and home Mei), but she also has a firm grasp on her core spirit: She’s a proud overachiever, a math whiz, a total brain, and kind of a dork.
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Kicking off with incredible, unfailing energy, Shi introduces us to her wonderful Mei (voiced by the charming Rosalie Chiang), a Toronto native attempting to navigate the wilds of middle school, being an only child, and the full force power of a first crush. ‘Turning Red’ Is Pixar’s Next Big Thing: How Director Domee Shi Made an ‘Asian Tween Fever Dream’ Pixar has never shied away from the tough stuff - there are entire generations of kids who have being guided through the cold terror of nothing less than death, world-wide destruction, and even the afterlife through the animation giant’s charming productions - but Domee Shi’s instant classic “ Turning Red” marks the first time Pixar has gone all-in on perhaps the scariest, funniest, weirdest thing of all: puberty. Being a teenager is tough enough, weird beyond measure, confusing as anything, and then…giant, walking, talking red panda. But at home, she has to be someone else, buttoned up and proper, a perfect student and a doting daughter, not just some screeching teen (and what were teens best made for, other than screeching?). She wants to hang out with her friends, drool over their favorite boy band (4*Town, though there are, inexplicably, five members), have some laughs, just be a kid. Thirteen-year-old Mei Lee has big problems long before she unexpectedly turns into a giant, walking, talking red panda.
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