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Turning Red
In 2002 Toronto, 13-year-old Meilin “Mei” Lee lives with her parents, Ming and Jin, helps take care of the family’s temple dedicated to her maternal ancestor Sun Yee, and works to make her mother proud. One night when Ming, who is strict and overprotective, discovers Mei’s crush on Devon, the 17-year-old local convenience store clerk, she inadvertently humiliates Mei in public. 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 by exploiting the popularity of Mei’s red panda form while lying to Ming about how Mei is spending her time. To raise the last 100 dollars, Mei agrees to attend school bully Tyler’s birthday party as the red panda. At the party, Mei is upset to discover that the concert will be on the night she is to undergo the ritual. Ming discovers Mei’s activities and accuses her friends for everything. Mei fails to come to her friends’ defense to maintain Ming’s approval. 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; in making her escape, she breaks Ming’s talisman, releasing her red panda form as well. However, an enraged Ming, having become a kaiju-sized red panda, disrupts the concert, intending to take Mei back by force. Mei’s grandmother and 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. The other women contain their red pandas in new talismans; but Mei decides to keep hers and Ming accepts that she is finding her own path. Later as the Lee family raises money to repair the damage to the SkyDome, Mei and Ming’s relationship has improved. Mei balances her temple duties (where her red panda form is now an attraction) and spends time with her friends and Tyler.
Views: 254
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director: Arjun Rihan, Domee Shi, Rachel Slansky
Actors: Ava Morse, Hyein Park, James Hong, Lori Tan Chinn, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Orion Lee, Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Tristan Allerick Chen, Wai Ching Ho
Country: United States, Canada
