Angela S.

Long but well done. I would see it again.

Plot was all over the place, poor moral guidance especially during a child's most vulnerable transition. Red Panda is first menses then becomes a generational curse? Then represents toxic anger traits? It's like they couldn't figure out which plot line to pick and ran in 3 different directions. The opening lines of the movie are that you're supposed to honor your parents and do what they ask but sometimes thats not right and you have to do what makes you happy...?! Uhm, yeah lets NOT teach irrational, pubescent children that they can't trust their parents to help navigate them through these difficult changes in life. The mom is painted as a psychopath for behaving like a typical parent encouring discord. The entire movie is one complete dysfunctional family dynamic. It's a very poor example of how to respond to puberty and life changes while encouraging incredibly risky behavior in children. The puberty part doesn't matter to me but the way menses is expressed is and stereotyped is incredibly harmful. How can we normalize this delicate change and create healthy conversations about it by personifying it as a giant red horny beast? The only decent part is that the beast goes away as she attempts to self regulate her emotions but even that is later discarded as Mei decides she will refuse to self regulate and basically pimp out the panda for concert ticket money. We want our young women to grow into healthy, functional adults but then give them this as an example of what puberty is like? She cat calls the grocery clerk and draws intimate pictures of the two of them, I'm sure if the genders were reversed people would be having a meltdown. The whole movie was just skeevy. Big failure Pixar and Disney.