Toronto, 2002. Active and cheerful 13-year-old Meilin tries her best to be the first in everything in order to please her strict, overprotective mother. The girl’s family lives at the temple and worships the Goddess Progenitor. One fine morning Meilin wakes up and sees a red panda instead of her usual reflection in the mirror-now when she is worried, angry, or experiencing other strong emotions, she turns into a big beast. Not only does this happen at the most inopportune moments, but attending a concert by Meilin’s adored boy band, 4-Town, and her friends is threatened.
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For some reason, the new Pixar cartoon bursts into our cinematic space without any noise or fanfare and immediately onto streaming. A completely incomprehensible and strange decision. This cartoon deserves more!
The plot, at first glance, is extremely simple. The main character, 13 years old, finds herself turning into a big red panda while experiencing vivid emotions.
However, there is more than that behind it. Mei has been an obedient girl all her life and tried to be perfect for her parents. Overprotection has played no small part in forming complexes and phobias. She understands that she wants more, she wants to feel free and do whatever comes into her head. However, fearing to offend her mother, she constantly experiences conflicting emotions. Also, adolescence is on its way, the bubbling of trapped emotions and rebelliousness is slowly coming out.
Just turning into a panda makes our heroine feel alive, free from her shackles and breathe with her full heart.
As usual Pixar create unforgettable and amazing things, talking to people about things and problems that almost any child has faced. It is a necessary and proper movie, analyzing complicated and unpleasant things, in vivid and understandable language. The metaphor of transformation may be obvious, but the context is incredibly rich in detail and nuance, hitting the very sore spots that have long been covered in dust. Damn you Pixar!!!
The visuals are mind-blowing! Pixar raises the bar for quality every year. They find that delicate balance of photorealism in the inconspicuous details of clothing in the form of lint catching light and cartoonish anatomy. The cartoon has the wildest energy and hyperactive animation with wonderful humor. And yes. the panda is obscenely cute!
It’s a very sweet and gentle cartoon that leaves a bittersweet aftertaste. Once again, Pixar have created a little miracle and a great night out.
Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (50.5 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio
English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
Spanish: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles
English SDH, Spanish.
