Turning Red
paul

Review by paul

Turning Red 2022

★★★½

Watched 29 Apr 2022

It's notable that in recent films, Pixar is exploring not only the theme of coming of age, but also ethnicity – almost as if saying, while each culture is different, the themes and challenges are the same.

From Coco, to Luca, to Encanto and now this film – all celebrate cultural heritage and family, something that should give us all hope in these times where things certainly seem to be going off the rails.

What you have in this film is the usual Pixar production qualities, and some fine voice acting. Although some of the peripheral characters are broad strokes, overall the script works and while the touching moments perhaps don't touch as deeply as they might, there is enough to chew on here for tweens, teens and adults alike, even when the climactic scene is a bit flat and uninspired.

In the final analysis I enjoyed the film but not as much as I enjoyed the aforementioned Pixar films... but of course those set the bar very high.

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