A 13-year-old girl discovers her furry family secret in a breezy-smart coming-of-age charmer.
Has there ever been a better metaphor for puberty than a feral, rampaging animal?
Their audience, after all, is continuously growing up; why shouldn’t their movies?
‘Turning Red’.Disney/Pixar
She also loves her friends, a motley crew mildly perplexed by her good-girl loyalties.
The least you’re free to do in return is every single thing they ask."
The story can be silly and sometimes vaguely anachronistic (did the kids really exclaim “Oh.Em.Gee.”
or speak in the confident parlance of self-actualized TikTok teens back in 2002?
), butRedis so breezily charming that hardly matters.
