This trailer for Pixar's Turning Red is very embarrassing
Turning Red was directed by Domee Shi, who previously made Pixar's great Bao short
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Director Domee Shi’s Bao was arguably one of the best Pixar shorts in a long time (it did win an Oscar), telling the story of a woman who makes up for her empty nest syndrome by somehow bringing an adorable/delicious little bun to life and then mothering it so intensely that it feels like it can’t go out and live its own life—which, it turns out, is really what had happened to her actual son. It’s good and sad and heartwarming, as the best Pixar stories usually are.
Shi’s next project is Pixar’s Turning Red, which will be her feature directorial debut and makes her the first woman of color to direct a Pixar movie, and today the studio released a surprisingly straightforward (but unsurprisingly good) trailer for the film that is basically just… a scene from the movie that lays out the premise. There’s a fairly unnecessary pop song needle drop, but we’re living in a post-Sing 2 trailer world and kids just won’t give a damn if there isn’t a song in the trailer that is decades older than they are. Anyway, Turning Red is a riff on The Incredible Hulk (or maybe Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde), focusing on a young girl named Mei Lee who transforms into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited—which the YouTube description helpfully notes is “practically ALWAYS.” Like the bao in Bao, there’s also an overbearing mother, and while the animation in the trailer is pretty much stock Pixar stuff, there’s a cool Edgar Wright-y snappiness to Shi’s directing.
Turning Red is coming out next spring, and this trailer notably makes no reference to where it’s coming out. Pixar’s last two movies opened on Disney+ because of COVID-19 shutting down all theaters, so it remains to be seen if Turning Red will really be Pixar’s return to the big screen or if Disney’s just going to keep this streaming thing going.
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It seems charming. I liked the needle drop. Most Pixar first trailers give you one scene or gag from the movie which introduced the premise.
Yeah, Pixar trailers are always short and awkwardly premise-first, presumably because they don’t really have a lot of rendered footage yet. Sometimes it’s even a description of a fucking lunch the braintrust had.
So someone else also remembers the trailer for Wall-E that mostly just consisted of the director talking about that lunch, and had one shot of the title character. Good to know.
Even with other studios, Despicable Me’s first teaser trailer was just the opening scene, and the theft isn’t even Gru’s! Just par for the course with a lot of the genre.
And don’t forget:
So it’s a metaphor for puberty?
Isn’t everything?
Everything except puberty, which is a metaphor for existential despair.
Frozen was all about puberty and growing up while dealing with the emotions inside yourself.
menstruation actually. red beast.
That’s what I was thinking!
I gotta start pinning the screen play to “The Electric Erection”.
*Checks browsing history* …. Nevermind. Not an original idea.
Probably. Kinda like Teen Wolf.
Seems cute, but dang do those bean-shaped mouths have Grub Hub Commercial Syndrome. That stupid ad really poisoned the well for a whole art style.
As someone squarely in the target audience for this (2nd generation Canadian born in Toronto with Asian parents from HK), I’m really excited for this.I think if I weren’t from that demographic, I might think this trailer looked a little generic and standard. Backstreet Boys makes it feels a bit more like other cheaper animation studios but fits perfectly within the idea of someone growing up in the 90s (which I’m betting this is set in). As someone who this is catering to, I can immediately see how it’s going to work like other Pixar films but still do its own thing.I’m guessing it’s using the story of growing up with an Asian tiger mom to tell a broader story about immigration, multiculturalism, and the mixing of different cultures in a setting. Just look at the multicultural group of people in the trailer. Turning Red obviously refers to her anger and frustration making her into a giant red panda but I think it also clearly refers to the idea of “Turning Red”, the assimilation into Canada as immigrants (as well as accepting your Chinese background, “red” being an important color in Chinese culture) and that uneasy balance between your ethnicity/the culture of your parents, the culture that you grow up with, and the multiple other cultures around you.I think that’s a unique spin I haven’t seen from Pixar before and a perfect fit with their other films. And the immigration experience is the PERFECT idea for a film set in Canada. Can’t wait.
You’re close with when the movie is taking place. It’s hinted in the poster below.
I lived across the lake from Toronto on the NY side (within view of the skyline) for a few years, so it will be kind of cool to think that a virtual version of my little town theoretically exists somewhere on the horizon of this movie’s digital world.
As a 1.5 gen Asian Canadian, I am very much looking forward to this, too – so many little specifics spoke to me, and I agree that they wouldn’t land for everyone, but this trailer got me stoked.One of my first thoughts was “I’ll bet Mom used to turn into a tiger but had to learn to keep that in check growing up, but Mei will learn that her wild side can be an advantage”.
Also I’ve since seen people online making note of the girl with the tech deck having what looks like a blood glucose monitor/insulin pump, and a shot of a girl in a hijab and getting likewise excited for this, even though those shots are just blink-and-you’ll-miss-it details.
So it’s a rehash of “Teen Wolf”?
It would be hilarious if the mom was literally a “tiger” mom but there’s no way they’d get away with that
Dang it, that must mean that as a straight, white, American male I should probably be protesting this.
… and here I was associating red with communism!
AVClub in the morning: Gunpowder Milkshake is “a film that practically begs for the pacing and needledrops of an Edgar Wright comedy.”AVClub in the afternoon: “there’s a cool Edgar Wright-y snappiness to Shi’s directing.”AVClub bottom line: be like Edgar Wright.
Not always a bad idea.
Just not Baby Driver.
Baby Driver was amazing for the soundtrack sync alone. Even if the plot had totally sucked (which I disagree on), it was an amazing piece of directing.
Now see Id completely forgot Gunpowder Milkshake was releasing today on Netflix. Saw the latest Loki though. They must’ve informed Jonathan Majors not to spoil his cameo on Loki with his filmography on IMDB.
Bao was great when I rewatched it by itself, but just horribly misplaced in front of The Incredibles 2. The tonal clash of what I was there to see versus was a lot to overcome.
You’re just upset that Bob didn’t eat Jak Jak.
10/10 would watch that movie
He’s the largest of the Incredibles, that’s what’s supposed to happen!
I didn’t like how the goateed hipster son in Bao didn’t seem to appreciate his mom. Hopefully after his marriage with the cute white girl fails his mom will still keep in touch with her — they seemed to have a good time making dumplings together.
That’s reality in a lot of Chinese families.
I am not one to scream “Think of the children” but a cute short where the mom eats her dumbling baby maybe was not the best choice.
The children are addicted to youtube/tiktok so they see and hear much worse on a daily basis
Now seeing your other comment and understand what you are saying. It’s amazing what the difference in 2 years can do for kids
It was in front of a movie that was a sequel to a movie where a bunch of people/supers are brutally killed. And in the sequel, someone is shot point blank and the mind controlled parents try to kill their kids.If a kid cant handle Bao, they certainly can’t handle The Incredibles.
I remember seeing Bugs Life in the theater. The lights go down, there’s a beautiful shot of a city park, and the animation is already so far ahead of Toy Story. Then it turns out it’s actually Geri’s Game, incredibly clever and sweet. But soon I hear fidgeting next to me and a loud whisper, “Dad! Where’re the bugs?” The dad explains this is a short film before Bug’s Life and it will be starting soon. Geri’s Game ends, fade to black, and then Bug’s Life opens with a gorgeous shot of an autumn tree and a leaf falls, and you realize it’s actually the reflection of the tree in a pond and it’s stunning. And the kid yell-whispers “DAD! WHERE ARE THE BUGS?!?!” Proving if you’re going to name your kids movie Bug Life you better get to the goddamn bugs.
If you want to feel old, just think that that kid may now have a kid of their own!
Ok…now we’re cooking with gas! This feels so much more Pixar-y-ish than Soul or Luca. I will be watching this in a theater, thank you very much.
Really. Soul and Luca both feel very Pixar(and my family enjoyed both very much). This looks random and weird.
I enjoyed Soul but it felt like Inside Out-Lite to me. Luca not so much, mainly the character design. I liked it the first time I saw it when it was called Finding Nemo.It just didn’t work for me. But this…this hits all of my buttons. The editing is definitely edgier in this clip but the lighting, character design and comedy just feels right. I can’t explain it any better than that. This might be a subjective take.
Onward, Luca, and to a lesser extent Soul all felt a little undercooked story wise. They all had amazing story elements that occasionally really stood out, but rarely came together in a surprising way. Luca and Onward especially feel like they were made without the guiding hand of more experienced storytellers
I liked Onward better than Soul and Luca but yeah, it’s not Toy Story level writing. My dad died when I was 19 so Onward had me at hello so I might be a little biased. I also didn’t think I was going to like Onward based on the trailer so I was pleasantly surprised. Luca’s trailer did nothing for me and the movie didn’t either.
My dad is thankfully still alive but that hook was very powerful to me as well, and I can’t deny that it was a great concept. My objections are mostly with the main character and some of the plot mechanics being lower than pixar’s normal standard, but any criticism of a Pixar movie should come with the asterisks that it is still better than basically all other animated movies.
I see a lot of people didn’t like Onward, but I really liked that movie, and this is coming from someone who had no interest in the movie based on the trailers. I also think Inside Out is one of Pixar’s worst movies but the general consensus surrounding that movie is that it’s good, while I just found Inside Out really trying its hardest to fill the runtime with the added benefit of a cheap emotional moment before the climax. The only part I liked about Inside Out was the conclusion.
I hope this gets a theatrical release. Would love to see it in a theater.
Not really seeing what others are here. I didn’t really like Bao either(I thought it was kinda cute and then the Mom ate the dumbling baby and I had to talk a 4 year old down every night for a week). This just seems, I don’t know, random. I mean I will watch it and maybe its really good but nothing in the trailer made me really excited
Me neither. But cool it’s set in Canada apparently (I guess Bao was too?)
Yes. Bao had lots of Canadian Easter eggs. I smiled to see the maple leaf tee shirt here.
Toronto is the set piece
Toronto too, right? That was the CN Tower in the bg there …
Yeah, Bao fell pretty flat for me. The premise was just too weird to get me emotionally invested. This looks promising, though.
Oh *no.*Yeah, the expressions looked good but not much else. IDK, sometimes the trailers are truly a dumpster fire.
There’s just been this “Yes, AND?” feel to what’s been released of this one so far. What exactly is the plot? Are they trying to figure out how to stop her from turning into a red panda? Why is she turning into a red panda anyway? Is this going to turn out to be a superhero fantasy, what with the Incredible Hulk-type setup? As it currently stands (and has been pointed out on Twitter), this is a short, not a feature premise.
Presumably, she fell into a cursed spring where a red panda drowned thousands of years ago.
As it currently stands, this is a trailer. There are a litany of Pixar trailers that don’t actually out the full story 105-minute story arc.
It’s a teaser that gives us an interesting premise. I’m sure we’ll get plenty more trailers that expand upon it.
My assumption is this will be basically about puberty.
Sure but at the same time it’s nice to see a trailer that gives a glimpse without telling you THE WHOLE DAMN STORY like most do.
This is how Pixar always operates, though: they never reveal the plot in their teaser trailers. It’s always a short gag or sequence (which may or may not be a part of the actual movie) highlighting the premise. You could “yes, and?” almost any Pixar classic’s teaser.
Finding Nemo’s teaser just establishes that the movie is about fish. Up’s teaser is just a slow-panning shot of the flying house with no context provided. Ratatioulle’s teaser doesn’t even establish that Remy wants to be a chef; it’s just him running away from the kitchen staff in the restaurant who are trying to catch him. There’s always way more to the film than what the teaser shows.
It looked like a Dreamworks movie, which is generally no compliment.
I would have loved to have been able to turn into a house-sized red panda as a kid. “Tremble before the mighty, house-sized red panda, oh tiny world!”
It’s the HULK but with a little girl
After confirming that both Black people and Italians have feelings, Pixar would like us to know that, yes, Asian people have feelings, too.
Quick note: Pixar movies aren’t just for kids. They are for kids and grownups, and for kids that become grownups. I.e., forever.And I like how Pixar trailers don’t give you the best jokes in the movie because the movie really sucks in the other 102 minutes. heck, one of the “Monsters, Inc.” trailer didn’t contain any movie footage.Pretty freakin’ bold.
This is a brilliant little short. Brave “wasting” it on a trailer
THAT is how you do a trailer.
I find a lot of the characters in their movies to be rather square and shallow. Their bad guys are almost always irredeemably evil, for example. So Pixar movies are targeted squarely at kids, who don’t understand nuance.
Aggretsuko, The Younger Years.
Nice little twist in the beginning which almost began as an Asian stereotype gag.
It has to be better than Boss Baby 2 which I took my daughter to yesterday and … whoo boy. My first theater-going experience since COVID and what a pile of dreck. It was like they thought of five different directions the movie could go in and just decided to throw them all in and give short shrift to each. So, so bad.
Yeah, I took my sons to BB2 yesterday as well. I was hoping I’d at least get a chance to take a nap in the theater but everything about it was obnoxious and I just ended up doing a hate-watch. At least I used the Fandango gift card I got for Father’s Day so I saved $25. The only upside is that Amy Sedaris got herself a paycheck.
your first movie-theater-going experience since COVID was Boss Baby 2? I’m so, so sorry… I’m also lucky that my five-year-old could care less about seeing things in the theater, so 1) I’m holding onto my version of that experience like a gold nugget that I’m reluctant to spend (it will probably be Ghostbusters Afterlife or No Time to Die), and 2) seriously—parent of the year, here, people! Let’s give it up for junwello!
Aww, thanks. I think my daughter appreciated getting to go to the movies for the first time in a long time, but even she lost interest in the actual movie about halfway through, right about when it started turning into thematic salad.
Just reading the description made me think of Aggretsuko. Isn’t she a red Panda?
Queue complaints that it’s another cartoon about a POC turning into a cute animal in 3… oh no wait they’re on Twitter already nevermind.
I have to ask, why has this become something of a trend of late in animation?
On financial note, it’s what’s making money in this moment. More people, “woke” white or otherwise, are more willing to shell out purely for different representation in movies/tv shows than was offered when they were young.On a pyschological note – you give the kiddies something to associate “others” as “safe”/”comfortable” early on in their formidable years and you’re -less- likely to breed a modern-day Chad or a Karen.
It’s definitely a thing you notice more than a thing that seems intentionally insidious. The systemic racism answer is that Hollywood execs are deeply afraid of change and think that showing a black person to kids for too long will reduce sales of the movie by a measurable percent, so they soften them by turning POCs into literally anything else. Obviously the mileage on this will vary from film to film, like I just can’t justify the outrage for Soul, what with that guy’s body not actually being gone. You still see a black guy all the way through the movie. This either, what with it being a POC story being told by a POC. But that one where Will Smith is a secret agent for like 3 minutes before being a pigeon for the rest of the movie is sorta emblematic of the whole thing.
I just can’t justify the outrage for Soul, what with that guy’s body not actually being gone.
Not gone, but just inhabited by a middle-aged white woman (the movie’s own words) for half the film. If you were cool with it, that’s fine, but if you can’t see how this might bother some people (not just on twitter, but critics too- see articles from The Daily Beast, Insider, The New Yorker, and more) who were excited to see more Black agency than this, I don’t know what to tell you. No, it’s not insidious, but it’s not nothing, either. Deeper than being a ticket sales thing, there’s been a deeply problematic trope here in animation people have been ignoring for years.
Honestly Soul is in a real weird place. The original script didn’t have all the jazz elements. It was just the soul business and the afterlife/prelife stuff. They added all the New York love letter crap and jazz stuff after Foxx was cast, and at that point it’s like they really should have just made two different movies. For that reason and the aforementioned presence of the beatiful black body design never really leaving the screen, I’ve made the personal decision to give it a pass. Not Brother Bear, Princess and the Frog, Emperor’s New Groove, Spies in Disguise, etc. Just Soul and this new one, (because part of the consistent issue is that it’s white people making these, and here we see an Asian director). I’m not denying the trope or anything, just selectively applying my outrage about it.
I certainly didn’t mind the jazz part of Soul. Between Jon Baptiste’s compositions and Trent Reznor’s work on the celestial side, it is one of the more gorgeous scores for an animated movie. Make that any movie.
not only in animation, also in super hero movies. zoe saldanas highest grossing movies both have her skin painted in a different color.
So did her most hated.
Because Hollywood thinks it’s a trend? The viewers who can’t seem to do anything but focus on that one aspect seems to also think it’s a trend. People are finally being allowed to make mainstream movies about main characters that aren’t white. The less these people who thinks that it’s being forced down their throats stop bitching about it, the quicker we can have this be normalised and they’ll realise that it’s no longer a special thing.The haters are ironically making these things continue to be a big deal by complaining incessantly about it.
I was wondering about that. Then I remembered the father character Genma Satome in the manga/anime Ranma 1/2 –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ranma_%C2%BD_characters#Genma_Saotome – a cis-male character who becomes a giant panda when doused with cold water. Which makes me wonder if this motif, as used in this particular movie at least, stems from cultural and mythological roots instead of typical Hollywood racism. Of course, nothing would prevent the Hollywood cultural product machine from seizing part of another culture and it insidiously.
Outing myself as a cis-male, gay, Black, tail-end-boomer, before someone else does.
Well, those complains wouldn’t make that much sense since this time, the director/writer IS a POC. And as far as i know, there was no Snyder Cut tale for this movie.
Pixar characters suddenly have this new yet very familiar look, and I can’t quite put my finger on what exactly it is…kinda like Arale-Chan from Dr. Slump? Mixed with something else I can’t figure out.
My first thought on seeing the characters in this preview; it kind of has The Grinch (2018) look for the kids? Not as cartoony but that’s what hit me first.
all the cool kids on reddit are calling it the calarts style. i guess some youtuber did a video about it cause suddenly everyone was parroting it in every comment section there.
I’m familiar with the CalArts Style criticism and can’t 100% can’t get on board with it…but at the same time, it does seem like the majority of new animation I see has “Jellybean mouth with cross-hatch teeth” character designs.
Reminds me of Wallace and Gromit
The thing that’s bullshit about the “CalArts style” complaint is that the complaint in and of itself has been around for decades. Today’s bean mouths were yesterday’s noodle arms were last decade’s thick angular outlines. These dorks just have never been able to wrap their heads around the idea that animation goes through trends.
The “Calarts” meme originated from the pedophile behind Ren and Stimpy who could barely make an episode on a deadline.
And he was talking about The Iron Giant, which I would bet is a beloved classic to many who use the term “Calarts style.”
And Games Animation made better R&S episodes than he ever did
Luca looked like Aardman animation (but CG).For some reason this reminds me of Steven Universe a little, art-wise.
Welp, I can’t say no to the Backstreet Boys.
I can’t wait to see Pixar’s Toronto.
A movie with Toronto as Toronto? Blimey. Even in this trailer I see familiar sites. The CN tower obviously, but graffiti alley on Queen too? Superb.
Pixar seems a bit stuck in a rut lately with all these stories of human-animal transformation. That being said, Luca is adorable and totally underrated, and really resonant as a (barely) disguised gay coming-of-age tale. Hope this one is more like that and not the overwrought Soul.
I didn’t know what to expect from Luca. It seemed to have dropped out of nowhere (albeit I hadn’t been keeping up on movie news) and I figured I’d give it a shot one night. Yeah, I heard about a “supposed” allegory or how there was a ‘message’.It was VERY obvious what they’re saying, even if the D can’t/won’t just come out (ha ha) and say it directly.I liked it a lot! I actually think I enjoyed it MORE because I’m a (mostly) closeted bi man and it quickly rose to be one of my favorite Pixar movies. Even without the subtext, it was a genuinely enjoyable and fun movie (that completely and utterly destroyed me by the end).
They really weren’t saying anything like that. It was a stereotypical plot about a lonely boy who got jealous his new friend found someone else to hang out with.
I liked it because they tried a different character design, and they basically digitally replicated one of the towns of the Cinque Terre. So, I look forward to seeing their virtual Toronto.
What is hilarious is that the director is adamantly denying it. Which I believe is true. But all of my family (which are normally skeptical of all those claims about various Disney characters) were all in agreement, it was a totally a coming out metaphor even if he had no intentions to.
Pixar has been a shell of itself for several years. After the Disney buyout they moved all the talent over to Disney Studios proper, and now Pixar just seems to coast along on middling films and name recognition. Which don’t get me wrong, Pixar’s floor for a “bad” film is still a good watch, but the rest of the industry has caught up or surpassed them by now.
“Which don’t get me wrong, Pixar’s floor for a “bad” film is still a good watch…”
I can disprove that in three words:
The.
Good.
Dinosaur.
Eh, it’s got a few good scenes, and the rest of the movie is routine and forgettable rather than actively unpleasant. “Good watch” may be stretching it, but it’s not something I’d avoid watching, either.
And then you have DreamWorks who were briefly great during the early 2010s with stuff like Kung Fu Panda and Dragons, then went back to putting out mediocre films again.
I loved Bao, which was immensely relatable not just for having an Asian mom but for her being overprotective during my formative years. I’m hoping for similar tearjerking moments for Turning Red, which looks very promising.
The movie is set in Toronto, Canada. You can see the CN Tower in the teaser and a couple of other buildings are recognizable to Torontonians. I do have to question why a red panda when Toronto is world famous for it’s trash pandas 🙂
Because Red Pandas are Asian.
Lest you think that, for the first time in the site’s history, the AVClub was going to criticize something created by a woman of color, the article quickly clarifies.
Seems interesting enough. Not a big draw, but still cool that this film takes place in Toronto.
Does any school still have actual bells for their “bell”? My high school was built in 1981 and it didn’t have bells. Funny how it’s still the shorthand for “the following trailer takes place in a school”.
I liked what I saw from the trailer. It looks to be a bit of a minor key story, like Soul and Luca were, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The last outright peak Pixar movie for me was Coco, but these less ambitious films have their place too. Luca in particular feels like the animated equivalent of a small foreign language feature.And I like that the school security guy is a turbaned Sikh. Nice to see a background character with specific ethnicity that isn’t thrown into a stereotyped job, like if he’d been a cab driver.
…. Except that turbaned Sikh security is basically its own stereotype in former British colonies not the United States.
Why does she turn into a kaiju of a red panda? Even giant panda aren’t that giant, and red pandas are like the size of a raccoon. Even if the girl stayed pre-teen girl-sized she’d be too large of a red panda
A sweater and stocking cap at school?
They must keep the AC cranked to “arctic” like they do at my office.
Bao was creepy as hell. This is not surprising that it is from the same disturbed mind.
Another movie with the person of color turning into something non-human for most of the film. Disney has a white supremacy problem.
All I could think was…, is that the Backstreet Boys???
I think y’all are missing the main metaphor—it’s about how embarrassing it is to literally turn red (cheeks, neck) and how viciously kids can make fun of you for that, and you can’t do anything about it, and when you think about it it happens even worse.
So turning red is like turning into a highly conspicuous red panda that everyone points and stares at and makes fun of you for.
Time to play another round of “ Guess the Disney/Pixar Twist! “ Guess 1: One of Mei’s parents (probably her father) can also turn into an animal and the reason Mei’s mom is overprotective/overbearing is because something happened to them while turned into an animal when Mei was young. Can also go with – Guess 2: The town sees her transformation as the coolest shit ever and are totally fine with it — but Mei sees it as an abomination. Mei’s mom helps her with the moral of the story; love yourself. And once Mei accepts who she is she can use her transformation at will and uses it to save the day for good measure.
Both guesses sound a little like Teen Wolf. 🙂
Am I the only one that thought of Ranma 1⁄2?
That’s an adorable character, and the scale of the story is just right for animation. It’s how kids feel about their emotions, and their parents’ pathology. I’ll watch this one.
Aggretsuko would like to have a word…
My stupid brain:
‘Man, that’s gonna make sex weird when she gets older. Wait…is this secretly gonna be a furry thing?’
Did anyone else notice the glucose monitoring device on the kid’s arm at 0:34? I think it is neat that someone had to make that choice. I think that’s cool to include.
I only vaguely remember Bao. But to me? Turning Red reminds me of Ranma 1/2(and no autocorrect I don’t mean Rams get culturally aware I meant Ranma as in the special traditional Japanese transom).Any way in Ranma 1/2 there’s a boy named Ranma who trained in martial arts with his father Genma at a some mystical hot springs.They accidentally fell in and then ever since they’ve come back they each transform whenever they get wet. Genma becomes a Panda. But when Ranma gets wet he becomes a red haired girl nicknamed treetop girl. I know this may not be intentional but it (Turning Red) reminds me of this(Ranma 1/2).
Bao was straight up trash so my hopes for this have been dashed.
A embarrassment-based Hulk? I’m in.
…….. This. Sounds wierd.
But am I the only one that thinks of an emotional teenage girl growing up and turning into a ‘Red Beast’…. Yo, is this some story about a girl getting her first period??
That looks terrible. The animation is ugly (looks like The Lorax). Bao was stupid and creepy. I have zero interest in this.
The mother in the trailer is giving me some abusive parenting red flags which is just reminded me how awful the family was in Coco. I can’t believe she’d be so entitled, she’d assault a security guard over trespassing to stalk her daughter.