Turning Red And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.5 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Pixar is back with another movie aiming to hit you in all the feels: Turning Red. It's about a charismatic 13-year-old girl named Meilin (Rosalie Chiang) who discovers that whenever she gets too excited about anything, she now turns into a giant red panda. Directed by Domee Shi, the film features the voice talent of Sandra Oh, as well as some fun nods to the early 2000s boy band era. The film is streaming on Disney+.

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0:00.0	Pixar is back with another movie aiming to hit you in all the fields, Turning Red.
0:09.7	It's about a charismatic 13 year old girl named Maylin, who's torn between honoring
0:14.3	her mother's wishes and having fun with her friends.
0:17.5	One morning, things get weird.
0:19.3	Maylin is mortified to discover that whenever she gets too excited about anything, she now
0:24.0	turns into a giant red panda.
0:26.9	Hey Austin Seuss, the film features the voice talent of Sandra O, as well as some fun nods
0:31.8	to the early 2000s boy band era.
0:34.8	I'm Stephen Thompson.
0:36.2	And I'm Aisha Harris.
0:37.8	And today we're talking about Turning Red on Popculture Happy Hour from NPR.
0:42.4	Here with me and Stephen is writer Kat Chow.
0:44.8	Her memoirs seeing ghosts is available now.
0:47.2	Hey Kat.
0:48.2	Hi, glad to be on.
0:50.0	And also joining us is Laura Ciri Cool.
0:52.4	She's a freelance writer and movie critic.
0:54.6	Welcome back Laura.
0:55.6	Thank you so much.
0:56.7	So excited.
0:57.7	Yeah, me too.
0:59.1	Now Turning Red, Rosalie Chang voices Maylin may be a spunky 13 year old girl living in Toronto
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