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Turning Red
Promotional release poster
Directed byDomee Shi
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Domee Shi
  • Julia Cho
  • Sarah Streicher
Produced byLindsey Collins
Starring
Cinematography
  • Mahyar Abousaeedi
  • Jonathan Pytko
Edited by
  • Nicholas C. Smith
  • Steve Bloom
Music byLudwig Göransson
Production
companies
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • March 1, 2022 (2022-03-01) (El Capitan Theatre)
  • March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11) (United States)
Running time
100 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$175 million[2]
Box office$18.1 million[3]

Turning Red is a 2022 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It was directed by Domee Shi in her feature directorial debut, written by Shi and Julia Cho, and produced by Lindsey Collins. It stars the voices of Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Orion Lee, Wai Ching Ho, Tristan Allerick Chen, and James Hong.

Set in Toronto, Ontario in 2002, it follows Meilin "Mei" Lee, a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian student who, due to a hereditary curse, transforms into a giant red panda when she experiences any strong emotion. Inspired by Shi's experiences growing up in Toronto, the film began development in 2018 after she pitched it to Pixar in October 2017. It is the first Pixar film solely directed by a woman and the second to feature an Asian lead character (after Up, 2009).

Special screenings of Turning Red took place in London at Everyman Borough Yards on February 21, 2022, and in Toronto at TIFF Bell Lightbox on March 8. It premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on March 1, and on March 11 was released on the Disney+ streaming service and at limited theaters. It was released theatrically in most countries without Disney+. It grossed $18.1 million outside the U.S. and Canada and received critical acclaim.

Plot

In 2002, Meilin "Mei" Lee is a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl living in Toronto. She helps take care of the family's temple dedicated to their ancestor, Sun Yee, and works to make her strict, overprotective mother Ming proud. She hides her personal interests from Ming, such as the fact that she and her best friends Miriam, Priya, and Abby are fans of the boy band 4*Town. When Ming discovers Mei's crush on the local convenience store clerk, she inadvertently humiliates Mei in public, including in front of school bully Tyler.

Mei has a vivid nightmare involving red pandas. When she wakes up that morning, she has transformed into a large red panda. She hides from her parents and discovers that she transforms only when she is in a state of high emotion, though her hair remains red. Ming initially believes Mei is experiencing her first period, but learns the truth when she further humiliates Mei at school, causing her to transform and run home.

Ming and Mei's father Jin explain that Sun Yee was granted this transformation to protect her daughters, and every female family member since then has also transformed when they came of age. This has become inconvenient and dangerous in the modern age, so the red panda spirit must be sealed in a talisman by a ritual on the night of the Red Moon; the next being in a month's time. Mei's friends discover her transformation but take a liking to it, and Mei finds that concentrating on them helps control the red panda within her.

Ming allows Mei to resume her normal life but refuses to let Mei attend 4*Town's upcoming concert. Instead, the girls secretly raise money for the tickets at school, exploiting the popularity of Mei's red panda form, while lying to Ming. To cover the last ticket, Mei agrees to attend Tyler's birthday party as the red panda. At the party, Mei is upset to discover that the concert will be held on her ritual night. In the midst of her rage, she attacks Tyler when he insults her family, frightening the other children. Ming discovers Mei's activities and accuses her friends of corrupting and taking advantage of her. Ashamed and afraid to stand up to her mother, Mei fails to come to her friends' defense.

Mei's grandmother Wu and her aunts come to assist in her ritual, to Ming's dismay. As Mei prepares herself, Jin finds videos she took of herself as the red panda with her friends and tells her she should not be ashamed of this side of her. During the ritual, as Mei's red panda form is about to be sealed, she decides to keep her powers and abandons the ritual to attend the concert at the SkyDome. Her friends forgive her for her actions at the party, and they discover Tyler is also a 4*Town fan. However, Ming becomes so enraged that her talisman shatters after Mei inadvertently broke it during her escape from the temple, causing her to transform into a kaiju-sized red panda and disrupts the concert, intending to take Mei back by force.

Mei and Ming argue about Mei's independence, and as they quarrel, Mei accidentally knocks her mother unconscious. Wu and the other aunts break their talismans to use their red panda forms to help drag Ming into a new ritual circle. Mei's friends and 4*Town join in singing to complete the ritual, sending Mei, Ming, and the other women to the astral plane. Mei reconciles with Ming and helps her mend her bond with Wu, whom Ming accidentally scarred in anger at some point before sealing her red panda form years ago. The other women conceal their red pandas in new talismans while Mei decides to keep hers, with Ming accepting that she is finding her own path.

Later, as the Lee family raises money to repair the damage caused at the SkyDome, Mei and Ming's relationship has improved, as Mei balances her temple duties – where her red panda is now an attraction – with spending time with her friends and Tyler.

Voice cast

  • Rosalie Chiang as Meilin "Mei" Lee, a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl who suddenly transforms into a huge red panda whenever she experiences any strong emotion, due to her ancestors' mystic connection with red pandas.
  • Sandra Oh as Ming Lee, Mei's strict and overprotective mother.
  • Ava Morse as Miriam Mendelsohn,[4] a singing tomboy with braces who is one of Mei's best friends.
  • Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Priya Mangal,[4] a deadpan girl who is one of Mei's best friends.[5]
  • Hyein Park as Abby Park,[4] an energetic and aggressive girl and one of Mei's best friends who is the shortest of the group.
  • Orion Lee as Jin Lee, Mei's quiet yet supportive father.
  • Wai Ching Ho as Wu, Mei's grandmother and Ming's mother.
  • Tristan Allerick Chen as Tyler Nguyen-Baker,[4] Mei's classmate and former bully who initially picks on her.
  • James Hong as Mr. Gao, a local elder and a friend of the Lee family who is a trained shaman and helps in the red panda-sealing ritual.
  • Addie Chandler as Devon, Mei's secret crush and the local convenience store clerk.
  • Sasha Roiz as Mr. Kieslowski, Mei's teacher at Lester B. Pearson Middle School.
  • Lily Sanfelippo as Stacy Frick, one of Mei's classmates who sees her red panda form in the girl's restroom.

Additionally, Mei's aunts – Chen, Ping, Helen, and Lily – are voiced by Lori Tan Chinn, Lillian Lim, Sherry Cola, and Mia Tagano, respectively. The members of the 4*Town boy band – Robaire, Jesse, Aaron Z., Aaron T., and Tae Young – are voiced by Jordan Fisher, Finneas O'Connell, Josh Levi, Topher Ngo, and Grayson Villanueva, respectively. In the U.K. version, Anne-Marie voices Lauren, one of Mei's classmates.[6]

Production

Development

In 2017, Shi had recently completed the Pixar short Bao when Pixar invited her to pitch three ideas for a full-length film. Her proposed concepts were all coming-of-age stories centered on teenage girls. The one that became Turning Red was based on a girl going through a "magical puberty", which Shi wrote based on her own personal experiences. Shi said, "Everyone has been there. Everyone has been 13 and feeling like they're turning into some wild, hairy, hormonal beast, and I think that's why Pixar was drawn to it".[7] Shi pitched all three concepts, including Turning Red, to Pixar on October 31, 2017.[8] According to Pixar producer Lindsey Collins, who sat in on Shi's pitch meeting, the Pixar staff were drawn to the Turning Red idea as "it was so clear that Domee had such a sense of who these two main characters were, that Mei and Ming were really clear and special and unique, more than any of the other ideas" and that "she had this really personal experience with these two characters that were kind of versions of her own life. That's like the magic equation, right there".[7] The approach of using more personable stories followed from Luca under Pixar's new chief creative officer Pete Docter's oversight, which shifted the direction the studio took with both storytelling and film production.[9]

The film was developed under the working title of Red.[10] Shi was announced as writer and director of an upcoming Pixar full-length film on May 8, 2018, making her the first woman to solely direct a film in the studio.[11][a] The film's creative leads were also the first all-female team for Pixar, which Pixar's CEO Jim Morris said "happened very organically" rather than by intent.[12] Rona Liu served as production designer, after doing so for Bao. Liu said that working on a feature film was "a dream come true".[13] By November 26, 2018, Shi confirmed that the film was in early stages of development, with the story still being worked on, and that "[she is] really excited to play in this new 90-minute film format".[14] The title Turning Red was finalized by December 10, 2020.[15][16] According to Morris, Turning Red had one of the fastest development times of a Pixar feature film, taking only four years to complete.[12]

Casting

In 2017, Pixar hired Chiang to provide scratch vocals to support the development of the film.[17] Chiang, then only 12 years old, was selected in part because she was a local child actor conveniently based in nearby Fremont, which is only about 35 miles (56 km) from Pixar's Emeryville headquarters.[17] After two years of development, Shi and Collins reached the point where the film was "solid" enough to start casting professional voice actors.[17] Despite listening to various auditions, the two realized they had already fallen in love with Chiang's scratch vocals and could not envision anyone else playing Mei.[17] They escalated the issue to Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter, who personally approved the casting of Chiang in the film's lead role.[17]

During an early 2020 recording session, Shi suddenly surprised Chiang with an additional script page where Shi, reading in character as Ming, offered Chiang the role.[17] This session, right before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, turned out to be their last one conducted in person.[18] To keep production going, Pixar shipped an enormous amount of professional audio equipment to Chiang, who turned one of the rooms in her parents' house into a makeshift recording studio.[18]

Sandra Oh was Shi's top pick for Ming. Besides the fact that Oh was a fellow Asian Canadian, Shi felt Oh could convey the range of complex emotions they wished to portray in Ming.[19]

Design

Setting

The film takes place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2002 as confirmed by a production designer in February 2021.[20] As the film takes place through the eyes of a 13-year-old girl, the entire environment has been stylized to convey a specific feeling; Shi described the film's overall look as an "Asian tween fever dream".[2] According to executive producer Dan Scanlon, "It feels more like a very soft, colorful, magical, idyllic, almost youthful version of the city".[4] Shi also considered how video games like Pokémon, EarthBound, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild were able to "stylize their world in such an appealing, chunky, cute kind of way".[21] Part of this desired setting was capturing the popularity of boy bands at the turn of the millennium and how teenage girls reacted to them.[22] Pixar animators visited various locations around Northern California for inspiration and visual references.[18] They studied red pandas at the San Francisco Zoo, and looked at architecture in Chinatown in San Francisco and the Bok Kai Temple in Marysville.[18]

Inspirations

Shi said that several anime influenced the film, including Sailor Moon, Ranma ½, Fruits Basket, and Inuyasha.[23] To capture these anime influences, hand-drawn 2D animated effects were added atop Pixar's 3D animation.[24] Shi was also inspired by My Neighbor Totoro, in creating an "iconic grabbable giant animal that you just want to rub your face in".[25] Nintendo games, such as Earthbound, Pokémon and The Legend of Zelda, have also been cited as a major influence for the film.[26] Shi also compared the plot of the film to Disney's A Goofy Movie, a similar coming-of-age movie involving a parent and child trying to mend their relationship, with a pop band as part of the film's climax.[25] The film also deals with puberty, though the film does not directly talk of biological changes. For example, Mei's mother mistakes Mei's reaction to her transformation for her first menstruation. Shi said they were "unapologetic" about the discussion of these topics in the film; the title Turning Red is an allegory for menstruation.[27] The color red also reflects other feelings experienced by teenagers, according to Shi, such as embarrassment or lust.[2] Shi and her staff had feared that studio executives would want the scenes referencing puberty removed, but the scenes were accepted.[27]

Liu oversaw the production of the food scenes, as she had done for Bao. They partnered with the non-profit organization Gold House that specializes in promotion of Asian and Pacific cultures to identify what foods to include. For rendering the foods, they were inspired by the approach that Studio Ghibli had done with foods in their works, as well as exaggerating their look in the same manner that Sanrio uses to bring cuteness into their products, and the way the film The God of Cookery showed food in a "dream glow".[28]

Music

Main article: Turning Red (soundtrack)

Ludwig Göransson composed the film's score, making it his first animated film composition.[29] Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell wrote three original songs performed in the film by the fictional boy band 4*Town. According to Collins, "U Know What's Up" was intended to be a confidence booster, "1 True Love" was intended as the group's love ballad, and "Nobody Like U" was the song that everyone knows from the group. Collins said she had decided to approach Eilish and O'Connell at the start of the production, near the same time that Eilish was coming to fame herself; Collins said that her own child had become a fan of Eilish's music which has inspired this choice. To pitch the idea to the pair, production created a scrapbook based on scenes of Mei and her fascination with 4*Town they had already developed for the film, at times putting cutouts of Eilish and O'Connell's heads in place of the 4*Town members to show their appreciation for the pair. Both were already animation fans,[30] and Eilish said that when they saw the concept from the material they got, she immediately got the idea they were aiming for, as she had been a fan of boy bands herself and recognized the bond Mei had with 4*Town.[31]

The film includes a Cantonese chant used as part of the ritual to contain the red panda spirit that was created with help of Herman Wong, operations director for Disney Character Voices International. This chant then also had to be integrated with Ellish's and O'Connell's "Nobody Like U" as part of the film's climax, which was done by Göransson to make sure the two rhythms matched in beat and key.[32]

Walt Disney Records released the soundtrack album digitally and on CD on March 11, 2022. Subsequently, tracks from 4*Town appeared in multiple languages, some of which were performed by boy bands such as Da-iCE for Japanese[33] and W0LF(S) for Mandarin.[34] "Cha Cha Slide" (2000) by DJ Casper and "Bootylicious" (2001) by Destiny's Child are also heard in the film.[35] The album debuted at number 187 on the Billboard 200 chart on the week of March 21, 2022,[36] and later peaked at number 87 on the week of April 9, 2022.[37]

Marketing

Promotion

A first look of the film was shown at the Disney Investor Day on December 10, 2020.[38] The teaser trailer premiered on July 13, 2021, as the official trailer premiered on November 17, 2021.[39][40] In the lead up to the film's release, Disney partnered with Mozilla to promote the film via the Firefox web browser, as red pandas are also known as "firefoxes". Users on mobile and desktop are able to apply custom backgrounds and themes within the browser, respectively. According to Mozilla's chief marketing office Lindsey Shepard, the collaboration gives Mozilla the opportunity "to bring [the] Mozilla ethos to the new generation".[41] One of the red pandas at the San Francisco Zoo was renamed Meilin on the day of the film's release.[42] Air Canada decorated an Airbus A220 with images of Mei and her "red panda form" to fly over Canada promoting the film, and also had a contest for the public to attend the premiere in Toronto and win special prizes.[43] A large statue of Mei as a red panda was placed in Toronto next to the CN Tower, Ripley's Aquarium, Roundhouse Park, Scotiabank Arena and the Rogers Centre (formerly known as Air Canada Centre and the Skydome, respectively) where passerby could have their photos taken with the statue.[44] iSpot.tv reported that Disney had spent $23 million on television spots for Turning Red, which was more than what the studio spent on Black Widow, Jungle Cruise ($19.5 million), and Cruella ($12.6 million), and what Netflix spent on its most-watched film, Red Notice ($3.3 million). Since February 21, 2022, the trailer for the film had been the 16th-most-seen TV spot of all time.[45]

Tie-in media

Disney licensed several books based on the film, which were released both before and after the U.S. premiere, including novelizations, short stories, a sticker album, a behind-the-scenes book and coloring books.[46]

Release

Theatrical and streaming

Turning Red had special screenings that took place in London at Everyman Borough Yards on February 21, 2022, and in Toronto at TIFF Bell Lightbox on March 8, 2022.[47][48] It premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on March 1, 2022.[49] It was originally scheduled for theatrical release in the United States on March 11, 2022 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.[50][51][52] On June 17, 2021, a Pixar insider reaffirmed the film would have a theatrical release after both Soul (2020) and Luca (2021) were assigned direct-to-streaming releases on Disney+ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[53] However, as the Omicron variant cases rose, on January 7, 2022, the decision was made to shift the film from its theatrical release to its direct-to-streaming release on Disney+ as a Disney+ original. In international markets where Disney+ was not available, it was released theatrically.[54] In February 2022, it was announced that it would play a one-week theatrical engagement at Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre from March 11–17, 2022.[55] It also began playing at Manhattan's AMC Empire 25 and Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre the same day it was released to Disney+,[56][57] as well as several Showcase Cinema de Lux venues across the United Kingdom.[58] Disney canceled the Russian release in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 28, 2022.[59] Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red, a 48-minute documentary about the film especially focusing on its all-female creative team, was released on Disney+ the same day.[60][61]

Home media

Turning Red was released on digital services on April 26, 2022, and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on May 3, 2022.[62]

Reception

Box office

As of May 24, 2022, Turning Red has earned $18.1 million outside the U.S. and Canada.[3] It earned $3.8 million from 12 international markets in the opening weekend, with second-place openings in Saudi Arabia ($920,000), Poland ($430,000) and the United Arab Emirates ($420,000).[63] It earned $2.8 million in its second weekend[64] and $1.7 million in its third.[65]

Viewership

According to Samba TV, Turning Red was streamed in 2.5 million U.S. households over its opening weekend, the most-ever for a Disney+ original title.[66] According to Nielsen, Turning Red was the most watched program across all streaming services in the U.S. with 1.7 billion minutes viewed for the week of March 7 to 13, 2022.[67] It continued to hold the top position during March 14 to 20, 2022, with 1.675 billion minutes.[68]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 95% of 289 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's consensus reads, "Heartwarming, humorous, beautifully animated, and culturally expansive, Turning Red extends Pixar's long list of family-friendly triumphs".[69] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 83 out of 100 based on 52 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[70]

The Washington Post's Michael O'Sullivan gave 4 stars out of 4 and concludes: "[The film] delivers a bigger, and in some ways more universal message: It’s okay to not always be in control, to let your freak flag fly. To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a red panda is just a red panda. And sometimes it’s a metaphor for that inner spark of creativity, the flame of originality that is to be cherished, not extinguished. With 'Turning Red,' Shi demonstrates that she's got it, in spades".[71] The Guardian's Benjamin Lee gave 3 stars out of 5 and concludes: "The journey is slick and diverting, and at times incisive, but Turning Red is yet another Pixar film that coasts rather than glides. Hopefully its next offering can turn into something more".[72] IGN's Siddhant Adlakha gave a rating of 9 out of 10 and concludes: "A story of magical transformation as a metaphor for personal and cultural change, Turning Red (from Bao director Domee Shi) is Pixar's funniest and most imaginative film in years. It captures the wild energy of adolescence, uses pop stars as a timeless window into puberty, and tells a tale of friendship and family in the most delightfully kid-friendly way".[73] Chicago Sun-Times's Richard Roeper gave 2.5 stars out of 4 and comments that "The problems are mostly with the script, which often requires Meilin to be almost irritatingly obnoxious. Meanwhile, her mother behaves like a monster for much of the story, which takes on an increasingly supernatural element to the point where there’s a 'Ghostbusters' homage".[74]

CinemaBlend's Sean O'Connell called the focus on a Chinese Canadian girl as "limiting" to a broad audience: "By rooting Turning Red very specifically in the Asian community of Toronto, the film legitimately feels like it was made for Domee Shi's friends and immediate family members. Which is fine – but also, a tad limiting in its scope".[75] The review received backlash by members of the press on social media, calling it "sexist" and "racist"; crew and cast members of the movie eventually spoke up on the case. Lead voice actor Rosalie Chiang said the film was meant to appeal to all: "This is a coming of age film, everyone goes through this change ... I think different people of different cultures are going to go through it differently, but at the end of the day, the core messiness and change is something everyone can relate to". As a result of the pushback, CinemaBlend's editor-in-chief Mack Rawden pulled O'Connell's review and apologized publicly for it and that the site had "failed to properly edit" the review before posting; O'Connell also posted his own apology for the review.[76]

The attention drawn by O'Connell's review led to parents and other audience critics to raise further issues with the film due to the character specificity, bringing up concerns that the film, aimed at a family audience, brings up the issues of menstruation, teenage crushes and sexuality, and disobedience towards one's parents, which these people felt were topics best left for parents to discuss with their children on their own.[77][78] Movie critics for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and Vox responded that such criticisms are misplaced since these are natural topics that reflect the realities of 13-year-old girls and should not be considered taboo, and praised the movie for its honest portrayal of these behaviors.[77][79][78][80]

Future

Domee Shi has expressed interest in a follow-up, stating: "We are open, but we haven't talked about it. But yeah, it's an invitation at the end for more stories". Chiang and Oh also expressed interest and came up with ideas for a sequel or a prequel.[81][82] In early April 2022, Pixar announced that Shi had been promoted to vice president of creative alongside Andrew Stanton, Peter Sohn and Dan Scanlon, while Collins was promoted to senior vice president for development, leading the development group in shaping ideas for films and shorts to a finished product.[83]

Notes

  1. ^ Brenda Chapman had originally been the sole director on Pixar's 2012 film Brave until she was replaced by Mark Andrews in mid-production, though she was still credited alongside Andrews.

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