Later that night, Mei has a nightmare involving red pandas and in the morning wakes up to discover that she has turned into a giant one. Despite being angry and humiliated, Mei hides her feelings from her mother.

She forcibly drives her to the convenience store to confront Devon and tells her to stay away from Ming while waving her drawings to him attracting attention from onlookers including Mei's bullying classmate Tyler. She tries to hide her journal when Ming comes in to check on her, but upon finding the journal, overreacts and assumes that Devon was trying to attract her. While doing her homework, Mei begins to daydream and draw pictures of Devon and finds herself romantically obsessed with him. They open the temple to tourists and afterwards, Mei returns to her studies. Ming expects a lot out of Mei and, despite her loving her dearly, puts a lot of pressure on her. Mei arrives at the temple where she converses with the locals and meets with Ming and her more laid back father Jin. Her friends are understanding, but believe her of being 'brainwashed'. While Mei's friends find him attractive, Mei herself downplays it and passes an opportunity to go out to karaoke with her friends so that she can return home to help her mother, Ming, clean the temple. While returning home from school, the girls pass by a convenience store and spy on the 17-year-old clerk, Devon. Mei and her friends are obsessed with the latest boy band 4*Town who are coming to Toronto May 18, according to Abby. In April 2002, Meilin 'Mei' Lee is an over-achiever who had just recently turned 13 and considers herself perfect having mastered her classes as an A+ student, garnered a close clique of like-minded friends which consists of cool-headed Miriam, deadpan Priya and intense Abby, and is devoted to her family temple which honors her ancestor Sun Yee, a lover of animals. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited, she 'poofs' into a giant red panda! Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming, is never far from her daughter - an unfortunate reality for the teenager. The film received critical acclaim with praise for its story, humor, visuals, animation, voice cast, and use of culture.Дisney and Pixar's Turning Red introduces Mei Lee, a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn staying between her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. It was intended for worldwide theatrical release, but further COVID-19 pandemic disruption due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant resulted in the change. It will be released theatrically in countries without the streaming service.

Turning Red premiered in London, England on Everyman Borough Yards in February 21, 2022, and released on Disney+ in countries where the service is available on March 11, 2022, along with a simultaneous limited run at the El Capitan Theatre. The development of Turning Red began in 2018 when Shi first pitched the idea to Pixar in October 2017. It is the first Pixar film to be solely directed by a woman, the first to take place in Canada, and the second to feature an Asian lead character after Up. The film stars the voices of Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Hyein Park, Orion Lee, Wai Ching Ho, Tristan Allerick Chen, and James Hong. It is directed by Domee Shi in her feature directorial debut, from a screenplay written by herself and Julia Cho. Turning Red (also known as Red in some countries) is a 2022 American computer-animated coming-of-age fantasy comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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