Title - Turning Red
Production - Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
Starring - Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Ho Wai Ching, Orion Lee, Tristan Allerick Chen, James Hong
Writer - Domee Shi, Julia Cho, Sarah Streicher
Director - Domee Shi
Release - 11 March 2011
I have misjudged how cute the Red Panda was from the trailers. Even though I've also seen it in the trailers, but when the panda used the combs to calm herself down, she won me over again.
The Mei Mei character was so familiar, and the family dynamic so relatable. Not to mention how this was set in the late 90's / early 2000's - when boybands was the norm on TV. And that first 30 minutes were packed with so much humour that I was laughing out loud almost non-stop.
I also loved the animation this time, which felt like a further improvement since Pixar's last movie; fully appropriate for its setting and subject matter. That scene where Mei Mei looked at herself in front of her bedroom mirror, slapped her own face and immediately pointed to her reflection, cracked me up so much.
Sandra Oh was great voicing Mei Mei's mother, and her character's animation in movement was just perfect. And then came grandma, voiced by Ho Wai Ching, brought some great tension. When she made her entrance, you knew exactly who she was and what's going to happen.
I thought Domee Shi directed this close to perfection. The writing, however, let me down a little bit at the end as I thought it would go a little bit different. And the way the tradition merged with the modern at the end seemed a little out of place for my taste as the modern was overpowering the tradition, where it should have been the other way around.
And, of course, what a great job Rosalie Chiang did voicing Mei Mei. This was Pixar back to delivering another great addition into their repertoire.
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