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Turning Red

AnimationFamilyComedyFantasy

Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda. From TMDB

242 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 9, 2026 · How this works

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  • John Scalzi @scalzi.comBluesky · Jun 3, 2024

    Note well, "Luca" and "Turning Red" were the Pixar movies (along with "Soul") that were released directly to Disney+ during the pandemic. Luca was the #1 streamed movie of 2021; Turning Red was the #2 streamed movie of 2022. That seems pretty universal. (Soul also streamed well + 2 Oscars.)

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  • Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2024

    I love “Turning Red,” “Coco” and that movie in which they don’t talk but sing quite beautifully about Bruno. But it’s kinda interesting that the movies about Asian and Latino families are all about generational trauma. Anyway, back to watching the last act of “Coco.”

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    2 new Pixar original films have been revealed: • ‘Ono Ghost Market’ - A film inspired by Asian myths about supernatural bazaars where the living & dead interact • The studio's first-ever musical film, directed by Domee Shi (‘Turning Red’) (Source: www.wsj.com/business/med...)

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  • Robthehoopedchipmunk- COMMS OPEN @robmeister.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2026

    So Turning Red is no favourite film of mine at all but I had sooooo much fun getting creative with this pic! And it was cool to try and replicate the facial style too! This is a commission for ph0220 on FA ^^ Hope you like it!

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  • Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 21, 2026

    this is why "Turning Red" is a perfect film we needed desperately and everyone who shat on it to make sure we'd never get anything like it again can choke

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  • Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    Turning Red is still a pretty great movie.

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  • Morbi @morbi.bsky.socialBluesky · May 25, 2025

    god it's so depressing to see like, massive numbers for Disney Live Action remakes and then remember how Turning Red was a historically catastrophic box office failure despite being Pixar's best film in the past 15 years by an insanely wide margin

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  • Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    Every few months I see a screenshot that reminds me how fucking GOOD Turning Red was. I just don't think any movie before it so perfectly captured what preteen girls are like

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  • Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2025

    Have some concept art of Mei as the red panda from Turning Red by Jason Deamer. These designs are so cute and expressive. Just love how they carried over into the final film.

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  • Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2025

    Pixar just dropped a new trailer for Hoppers this morning. I'm gonna be honest, this might be my most anticipated animated film of next year. You can really feel Daniel Chong's energy in this and it really looks like Pixar's craziest film, even more than Turning Red. I'm hyped.

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  • Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    She’s locked in*. *-to Pixar’s Turning Red (To be fair to her, she got maybe six hours of sleep, so a movie is about all she can handle right now.)

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  • Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2026

    Pixar just dropped a special look at Hoppers and if anything, I'm even more hyped for the film. This really does look like Pixar making a film even crazier than Turning Red and I'm so excited to see what Daniel Chong does with this in March. Cannot wait to see it!

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  • Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2026

    In the 2003-set film Turning Red, the Backstreet Boys-esque boyband the main characters are obsessed with have an anachronistic K-Pop aesthetic to them because the only way you can explain what a boyband is to a ten year old in the 2020s is “imagine a white K-Pop idol”.

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  • Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2025

    You all thought Mr. Enter bringing up 9/11 in his Turning Red review was batshit insane? Here is Star Giant Productions talking about the fucking Pearl Harbor attacks in his Rugrats Movie review and blames it entirely on a fictional character.

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  • Ant @agramuglia.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    Please tell me you didn't see Turning Red, the movie about puberty, without seeing it.

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  • Aimee Steinberger @aimeekitty.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2026

    I’m not done about Forgotten Island. Y’all I’m actually livid about how some people think they can’t relate to films that aren’t about their sex or ethnicity etc. My daughters related so much to Turning Red, Kpop demon hunters and this movie. They remarked how real the girls felt. Fix your heart.

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  • John-Charles Holmes @sonic9jct.jctholmes.comBluesky · May 2, 2025

    A recent REALLY good rare commentary was the one on the Turning Red Blu Ray which iirc was all women who worked on the film who spend most of it crediting artists, scene by scene, by *name* which rarely happened on other Pixar commentaries

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  • Corey Barnes ☀️(they/them) @coreymbarnes.comBluesky · Jul 18, 2025

    Not to be cynical, but I think KPop Demon Hunters follows a trend of straight-to-streaming movie successes that executives won’t learn from because there is no tangible metric to point to (box office, ratings, view count) so like Mitchells vs the Machines or Turning Red it gets written off as vibes.

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  • Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 6, 2025

    me hunting down the director of the Disney film "Turning Red"

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  • Eddie Bowley @eddache.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2024

    Lightyear was bland, lifeless and failed to live up to it's premise. Elemental, while a fine film overall, was definitely Pixar-by-numbers. Both were designed for mass appeal & failed. Luca and Turning Red are the best post-Lasseter Pixar movies by far. Sweet stories, original ideas, unique styles.

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  • Wootmaster @wootmaster.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    I'ma be real with you, and this may seem exceedingly harsh...but I just dislike the look of this film. Its got that Soul/Turning Red/ blob human style that is just worn out at this point

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    Pixar is developing its first-ever musical film. Domee Shi (‘Turning Red’) will direct. (via www.wsj.com/business/med...)

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  • Rocky 🎃Read Beanstalked🎃 @rockybloo.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2026

    Funny to think P!xar is now "shifting focus to more relatable stories" when Turning Red remains the most I've felt seen in a film because of how grounded it was TURNING RED IS A TREASURE OF A FILM AND I WILL FIGHT FOR IT LIKE A ARMOR-CLAD KNIGHT I'LL FIGHT FOR BRAVE TOO - BOTH ARE GREAT FILMS

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  • Kory @koryvali.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2026

    dad just watched Turning Red yesterday - on his 50s - brazilian with no chinese blood - not conservative but falls on their fallacies from time to time - super common worker man and yet, he was able to understand and enjoy the movie a lot better than many movie youtubers

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  • Go! Go! アンディロボ! @gogoandyrobo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2025

    Watching Turning Red with the family. I forgot how wonderful this movie was. For me especially, the fact that they have TWO diabetic characters just living their lives and not being part of a ridiculous plot device rules.

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  • 🎗🌿Gin 🌿(Hiatus) @ginwilliamsart.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2025

    It amazes me who there's lots of secondary Cars (the movie) characters in Hot Wheels models, but there's not a single one Turning Red doll. Same as for Kpop Demon Hunters. Investors still believe men are the default market. Men are still default. The world is built by and for men.

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  • scott dagostino @scottdagostino.caBluesky · Jun 3, 2024

    What garbage. I’m an older white gay man and I found TURNING RED funny and relatable. It’s a necessary movie for young girls, far more than CARS 7 or whatever. And LUCA actually made me teary. We need *more* personal films, not fewer!

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  • Go! Go! アンディロボ! @gogoandyrobo.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2025

    My son is finally moving away from wanting to watch Nightmare Before Christmas nonstop. We've moved on to Turning Red, Mulan, and Hercules. Hercules is my absolute favorite Disney film, so I'm glad he's enjoying it.

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 8, 2026

    ‘HOPPERS’ is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 94% from 146 reviews. • Highest-rated Pixar original film since ‘Turning Red’ in 2022. • It also has a 94% Audience Score.

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  • Kesslan @kesslan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2024

    Turning Red was such a great movie too.

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  • GabeA113 @gabea113.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    And by the way, do you wanna know why we didn’t have a solo woman directed film at Pixar until Turning Red 10 years later? It’s him.

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  • The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2025

    3YO chose Turning Red for the movie today. We’ve seen it a bunch but what stuck out to me today was the stealthily radical choice to have Mei’s conflict of how to deal with her transformation solved within the first quarter of the movie.

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  • Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2024

    Fun fact: Domee Shi directed Bao, the last theatrically released Pixar short, and Turning Red, the last great Pixar film. She and filmmakers like her are the future of Pixar. They certainly should be.

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  • 🐙H.P. Minecraft💀 @nookmorrigan.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2026

    Remember when everyone lost their shit when Turning Red came out and the movie was about puberty for girl? I remember seeing assholes crying about why didn't they make it into a sex ed video for schools.

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  • Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2025

    My kids love Turning Red. We have watched it many times. But this was the moment I realized that they view it as a horror movie.

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  • Fynn Bytez @fynnbytez.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    The Pixar that made Turning Red and the one that Milo are basically separate companies. The amount of bravery to have a movie about a little girl going through puberty, including the messy aspects, is just so much more than what they are making now it's crazy.

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  • AK Faulkner ➡️ NYCC @ravenswordpress.comBluesky · Mar 8, 2026

    Oh don't worry, he cites Turning Red as another movie he wouldn't greenlight, and bangs on about wanting endless sequels instead.

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  • Nyanbinary: Jamie Sharp @jamiesharp.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    Turning Red was the most recent Disney movie I can remember that was worth seeing in theaters

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  • Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.onlineBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    As someone who likes red pandas, my experience watching the movie TURNING RED a few years ago was similar to that of a Deadpool fan watching WOLVERINE: ORIGINS

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  • Alb3rt0 @albst3r.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    What worked in Cars’ favor is being a nostalgic Pixar film to Gen Z (they still love theaters) and it hasn’t gotten a theater run SINCE 2006. Toy Story 1 has been rereleased a ton since 1995, and Soul, Luca, and Turning Red were too recent on Disney+ to attract moviegoers.

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  • Cam Hawkins✌🏽👑 @camfinalmix.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    Turning Red is incredibly slept on and I'm very excited Domee Shi is getting to helm another film.

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  • Dex Anderson @dexanderson.comBluesky · Jan 29, 2024

    tonight's movie night with friends: TURNING RED!

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  • Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2025

    Fans: "We want more movies like Turning Red and Elio but with the queer content kept in." Disney: "What about instead we give you a movie about the chauvinist asshole everyone hates and who dies painfully in another movie where he tries to kill the hero love interest?"

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  • Toon Brains @cartoonbrains.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2025

    I'm rewatching Turning Red today and i'm a little disappointed 9/11 isnt covered in the movie. Super bummed😔

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  • Go! Go! アンディロボ! @gogoandyrobo.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    In better news, my son is starting to really like Turning Red now. Which is awesome cause it's the best coming-of-age/Kaiju movie ive seen.

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  • Patches ⭐️ @patches.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2025

    Turning Red is a great movie. I wish Toronto was real.

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  • Ash G. @kilomonster.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    10 Favorite Animated Features: (No order, limited to one film from a studio to make it harder for me otherwise there’d be more Ghibli XD) Secret of NIMH Spirited Away The Prince of Egypt Treasure Planet Paranorman Paprika Turning Red The Last Unicorn A Goofy Movie Into the Spider-verse

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  • kc green @kcg.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 8, 2026

    it's almost a dig at everyone at pixar trying to write their own personal thing. But again, this guy did Inside Out and "Turning Red" was the last pixar movie that moved me to tears over it's themes

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  • Eva Knoet @evaknoet.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2024

    Their reasoning makes no sense. Luca was the #1 streamed movie in 2021 & #9 in 2022. Turning Red was #2 in 2022. If that doesn't count as 'clear mass appeal' I don't now what does.

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  • Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2026

    This Turning Red deleted scene should’ve been in the movie

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  • Waggtoon (Commissions Open) @waggtoon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 15, 2024

    I find it weird Pixar now considers Turning Red a failure. You wouldn't know that looking everywhere else. There's new graphic novel series based on the film, tons of merchandise, and the characters have even started making regular appearances in the theme parks.

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  • The Rori Horror Picture Show @missrori.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2024

    Turning Red ONLY went to streaming after Encanto, a Disney in-house film (and, mayhap not coincidentally, also minority-led) released as the Omicron wave of Covid was becoming a problem, did not do as well as expected. Never forget that.

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  • Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2024

    And then Mei's mum arrives. The tension in the lighting here is great as we bounce back and forth rapidly between the external and interior world. Here the film starts to introduce the language of horror movies. Turning Red is a bit of a werewolf movie.

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  • Jessa Sininger @jessasininger.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 8, 2026

    I can't help but notice whenever a Pixar movie doesn't do well, they blame a group of people. Brave, Buzz Lightyear, Turning Red, and Elio.

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  • Chris Franklin @errant-signal.comBluesky · Jul 16, 2025

    Yeeesh, this new Pixar trailer is rough. Like I’m not gonna discount a film till I see it but that trailer did not inspire confidence in a studio that hasn’t made a truly good movie since… Turning Red? Or Coco?

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  • Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.comBluesky · Jun 4, 2024

    Meanwhile, I don't think we've watched a single movie in my househoold more over the past two years than Turning Red.

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  • 🪦"Pushing Up" Daisy ✒︎ @daisyfm.netBluesky · Feb 21, 2026

    I've done a lot of soul-searching and considered this a lot, and I think Turning Red is a better movie than Luca.

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  • Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    But also Gilliam’s ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. And I still can’t believe TURNING RED flopped, that film is brilliant!

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  • Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2024

    Domee Shi should get to just keep directing movies. Turning Red is Miyazaki level good while being absolutely nothing like a Gibili movie. She could be that caliber a name if she is able to keep going!

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  • SJWJamesBond @mvbrat10.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    Turning Red is still my favorite Pixar movie.

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