Turning Red thread

[Kari Kamiya]

I don't know, that's kind of nice. In my family when the girls get their first period they only get bread.

Mayhaps, but the entire immediate family in the household has to eat the dish in celebration of the first menstrual cycle. That's the weird part.

 

[Puff]

I saw it. It's horrible. I can't decide if this or Raya is the worst Pixar movie. Both made by Asian females, oddly enough.
Explain this to a child
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Mei is doing the happy merchant hand rubbing.
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She wants to be a furry.
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That girl is 13.
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Yay, anime reference. Exact same pose, which is why I recognized it.
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There is backlash around a review which said this movie was made only for Domee Shi and her friends. That review got pulled down but it's essentially correct. This is a woman who has only story boarded for Pixar on Inside Out, Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4. She had help writing the script but this is her black tank top movie, to quote RLM. She designed it from her childhood memories, AKA an Asian-Canadaian growing up in Toronto, added some bullshit mysticism that any mainland Chinese person was call her Gweilo because she uses her panda form to attract the actual Gweilo to the shrine.
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Also notice the metal collar she wears at the end. The kind of thing a liberal would give a child they're grooming. Or Disney would put into their films to tell kids it's okay to wear fetish gear, even if you don't understand it.
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This film is pretty bad though. Because it's a result of Disney's new diversity hiring practices that the main voice of Mei can't voice act and this is literally her first motion picture where she voice acts. It's why she's so high pitched.
I don't know what to say on all this, other than it's a passion project funded by a major corporation that's bad due to it's own ineptitude but has an advertising budget to convince the normies it's good/pump up that IMDB rating to at least a 7. This movie costed 175 million, Raya costed 100 million, according to the mouse.
At least the good thing is this movie won't be remembered except for Bottom 10 worst Pixar films ever.


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This is Pixar? Why is it so fucking ugly?
All Pixar has to do to tank a shit story is be technically cutting edge and pretty. And they do this. Fucking hell.

 

[ShoFuKan]

Turning Red is like Steven Universe except it's now backed by a corporation

From a drawfag:

 

[evilsponge]

Watched the trailer. The animations reminded me of that terrible Grubhub commercial everyone mocked, but for some reason now LOOVE in this movie? Their round and oval gumby bodies with their shiny jolly rancher colors gave my eyes diabetes. Most the glowing reviews on rotten tomatoes has phrases like GirlBoss, Inclusivity, and other dog whistles for the decidedly progressive and democrat voting demographic it panders too. Maybe there's a good story in there somewhere, but unfortunately it gets buried in service of THE MESSAGE.

 

[cryptozoologistphd]

This whole film look like it was made less for kids and more to appeal towards female manchildren. Bao did a better job at how Asians live in a western country, and it showed the "parent being over protective" conflict better too.

Bao was written and directed by the same woman who made Turning Red, it has virtually the same themes as Turning Red, and is just such an incredibly different/better film (even though it’s only 7 mins). It really makes you wonder WTF happened in the studio that made Turning Red so fucking cringe and lack any real heart warming message or likeability. Bao literally made me cry lol.

 

[cryptozoologistphd]

This whole film look like it was made less for kids and more to appeal towards female manchildren. Bao did a better job at how Asians live in a western country, and it showed the "parent being over protective" conflict better too.

Bao was written and directed by the same woman who made Turning Red, it has virtually the same themes as Turning Res, and is just such an incredibly different/better film (even though it’s only 7 mins). It really makes you wonder WTF happened in the studio that made Turning Red so fucking cringe and lack any real heart warming message or likeability. Bao literally made me cry lol.

Edit: rip phone froze then this posted twice

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It really makes you wonder WTF happened in the studio that made Turning Red so fucking cringe and lack any real heart warming message or likeability.

It's 7 minutes long and silent. Once you need to pad the movie out the themes get blurred, shit jokes need to be inserted, multiple committees add their own retarded demand to the film, the music can no longer be tuned to the visuals....

 

[armoreddinnerjacket]

Bao was written and directed by the same woman who made Turning Red, it has virtually the same themes as Turning Red, and is just such an incredibly different/better film (even though it’s only 7 mins). It really makes you wonder WTF happened in the studio that made Turning Red so fucking cringe and lack any real heart warming message or likeability. Bao literally made me cry lol.

Only unrealistic part was the son coming back as soon as he did. Takes years for that kind of relationship to get sorted out.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

This movie was obnoxious and every child character was unlikeable. I hated the Korean purple girl for screaming and growling every scene she was on screen like a tard kid and Mei’s character was just unbelievable. Who the fuck enjoys being that studious? She loves being her mother’s daughter until she doesn’t.

I hated how fast and noisy everything was, didn’t get why they set this thing in 2002 when the editing and obnoxious is aimed at zoomers with a 1 minute attention span, something is always shrieking and yelling or tard-flapping around in every scene to make meme worthy scenes people will repost on TikTok or some shit because nobody’s gonna remember this over-budgeted piece of shit in five years. Her mother is actually quite likeable but the movie strong arms her into acting like a nonsensical wench (when she goes to school to shove pads in her face and when she finds her drawings) to create conflict. It was hard to take any of it with some gravitas because that very scene where her mother blows up about the drawings and what she does in response to it was so unbelievable I thought Mei was having an embarrassing dream sequence, maybe to show how anxious she get in her own head. But she wasn’t. And I also thought her spineless dad was holding the key to the ending when he found the camera that proved the red panda curse wasn’t so bad yet none of that played a role in the climax either? He ends up being the one drawing the chingchong magic circle around his wife to seal away the very aspect of her that got the two of them together, who he admired. What the fuck lol.
They basically pimp and sell out the oh-so sacred respected shrine at the end, I don’t find that something to celebrate at all. It’s ironically a demonstration of greed of the family at best and showing the bald-faced erosion of culture to survive by repackaging a harmless facet of it in marketable form where its importance is still lost.

This movie didn’t need to be made and was made by a Westernised Chinese woman probably to make herself feel better about how much of a fucking banana (yellow oreo) she is.

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Man, kids TV from a decade ago is more beneficial to watch than this. They didn’t even force some boring educational slant to the movie, she really just… sells photos and merchandise of herself for money. She doesn’t use her panda form in any other way despite how useful it is to be 13 feet tall with super strength. I’m also annoyed at how modern they all sound, I definitely heard a few “sick”, “literally”, one of the girls calls the bully a “narc”, what the fuck.

 

[T_Holygrail_Jesuschrist 2]

I like how Mr Enter brung back interest in this movie

 

[Muttnik]

They basically pimp and sell out the oh-so sacred respected shrine at the end, I don’t find that something to celebrate at all. It’s ironically demonstration of greed of the family at best and showing the bald-faced erosion of culture to survive by repackaging a harmless facet of it in marketable form where its importance is still lost.

Holy shit. I didn't even think of this.

Yeah. I now hate this more than Good Dinosaur.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I don't get why women make so much deal about their period. If it was some rare health issue then at least that makes sense in feeling inadequate and disgusting. But every fucking woman bleeds so who cares.

Imagine the same kind of social push to make ejaculation a normal thing.

 

[gata]

I love how the defense of the movies artstyle are just "you can't critize big corporation that i like", artstyle is subjective, it's just a cartoon bro with added woke buzzwords.
Still doesn't make the movie any less fugly to look at.
and the defense of the story is just woketard women thinking this is a good coming of age story and a total game changer! 1!1! Totally never been done before!!!!
Which made me want to minecraft every disneytard on this planet. Yeah bro disney invented coming of age stories for girls all right nevermind the many non-disney shit about girl coming of age medias around the globe that already do that.
Hurr It not didney so it never exists durr

Other than that it's a forgettable mediocre movie.

 

[thegooddoctor]

And like Steven Universe, it sends a message that sounds innocent at first but quickly becomes very disturbing when you understand what they're trying to say.

That and they both just look fucking awful.

Hey don’t say that, Steven Universe for all its terrible moral lessons looks much prettier than turning red, The color palette of the show and it’s backgrounds are frequently quite pretty, and while the character designs are pretty awful and off model early in in the show, later on the animators get their shit together and animate more on model. It’s not really comparable.

 

[Muttnik]

If they wanted to earn money for the concert so bad while keeping the puberty metaphor, why couldn't Mei just use the panda to do some severe physical errands around town or some shit. Bam, adulthood message intact through burgeoning responsibility and calls back to her ancestor using the panda as a symbol of strength.

Instead, she pimps the panda out to the entire school. Like fuck, you could have saved this movie with a few re-writes so it wouldn't be so creepy (and a different animation team).

 

[fartsnstuf]

Hey don’t say that, Steven Universe for all its terrible moral lessons looks much prettier than turning red, The color palette of the show and it’s backgrounds are frequently quite pretty, and while the character designs are pretty awful and off model early in in the show, later on the animators get their shit together and animate more on model. It’s not really comparable.

I vehemently disagree, the character designs scream "obnoxious" (Ronaldo and Steven specifically), the color choices are absolute aids and eye searing

the only saving grace is that it's not in 3D

 

[XYZpdq]

If they wanted to earn money for the concert so bad while keeping the puberty metaphor, why couldn't Mei just use the panda to do some severe physical errands around town or some shit. Bam, adulthood message intact through burgeoning responsibility and calls back to her ancestor using the panda as a symbol of strength.

Instead, she pimps the panda out to the entire school. Like fuck, you could have saved this movie with a few re-writes so it wouldn't be so creepy (and a different animation team).

Yeah there's a lot of ways they could do "now that your body is changing you can expand your possibilities" without "sell nudes"

 

[thegooddoctor]

I vehemently disagree, the character designs scream "obnoxious" (Ronaldo and Steven specifically), the color choices are absolute aids and eye searing

the only saving grace is that it's not in 3D

Well it’s a matter of taste of course, I personally like the colour palette, the bright sunny colours and colourful backgrounds were meant to be reminiscent of the art style of Yoshis Island, to give a warm and fluffy aesthetic to the show.

I mean just look at these vivid, warm and beautifully coloured and detailed backgrounds, your really telling me they aren’t pretty and visually pleasing?

 

[I am vomit]

Well it’s a matter of taste of course, I personally like the colour palette, the bright sunny colours and colourful backgrounds were meant to be reminiscent of the art style of Yoshis Island, to give a warm and fluffy aesthetic to the show.
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I mean just look at these soft, beautifully coloured backgrounds, your really telling me they aren’t pretty?

I'm willing to argue that the backgrounds were the only good thing to come out of steven universe.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Well it’s a matter of taste of course, I personally like the colour palette, the bright sunny colours and colourful backgrounds were meant to be reminiscent of the art style of Yoshis Island, to give a warm and fluffy aesthetic to the show.
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I mean just look at these vivid, warm and beautifully coloured and detailed backgrounds, your really telling me they aren’t pretty and visually pleasing?

Rebecca Sugar probably only made Steven Universe so aesthetic blogs could shill her work tbh. Sometimes the characters don't even look like they are actually in the scene itself which makes it jarring and takes away from the beauty of the sets. So yeah, take out the cast and just leave in the world itself, and it'd be really visually impressive and a lot more people would dig it.

Needs more depth of field, though. Everything's too sharp and in focus, there needs to be some blurring in the background and perhaps even foreground.