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For me, Miriam's parents telling her that she could go as long as she could pay for it herself was the most relatable part 😂

Something else that some noticed. Priya nonchalantly has deodorant and pads at the ready as though she keeps them nearby. She's also physically the most developed out of the group. So Auntie Flo and puberty, she definitely already knows her.

So if Mei was 13 at the beginning of 2002, it would mean she was likely born in 1988. 8 is a lucky number and dragon is a lucky birth animal ( 1988 was both) Ming literally had her one child at the luckiest point she could. That's the kind of thing I think about.

As a teen who watched this, definitely not just adults and "people below the drinking age" understood some of these references. Some of them, I'll admit, went over my head. But most of these I think both me and my friends got. Also, current 8th graders do have some idea of how to make money. At least some of my friends did. I think the menstruation scene DEFINITELY wasn't just for adults, but also to introduce it to kids, too. I loved this movie and agree there are a lot of aspects that are directed towards adults, but I think a lot of items on this list are intended to introduce complex concepts to kids and connect with teens.

The friendship between Mei, Miriam, Abby and Priya really makes this movie for me. I also love how they accepted Tyler into their group by the end.

That scene with Mei angrily twerking at her mom was literally just pure chaos 😂.

What’s up with those critics calling this movie “niche”? As a Mexican dude, this movie was pretty much my life, all the way up to the concert that caused a rift in me and my parents’ relationship.

The movie is literally based on menstruation, that was my theory from the beginning. All the stuff she’s experiencing, the out bursts the horny behavior and that the gift only was passed down to females in the family

Something I noticed among the 4 friends is that Priya was the first to hit puberty (most noticeably she’s the only one with a developed chest). She’s also the only one who speaks openly about sharing things like pads with Mei. I really liked that small detail, that even though all of her friends are accepting of her, Mei would still have someone close to her with real experience to turn to if she has questions.

This movie was wonderful. The way the friends accepted Mei as the panda without hesitation was the best part of it all. I loved it.

Everything about this movie was perfection, but I must say the diversity was beyond beautiful. From the Chinese heritage to the subtle moments like the kids with diabetes patches ❤️

I was so ashamed when I was 11 and got my period, I’m now 15 and realized how much this movie would’ve helped me. We need more normalization.

13:42 Considering the scene happened after the mother thought the clerk was a pervert who "took advantage of her daughter", it was a great relief to see that he didn't get into any major trouble with his job from a misunderstanding from an overprotective mother. He clearly didn't do anything wrong

Mei's got the guts to rebel as an asian child, others knew HELL.

not every disney/pixar movie is meant for young children. the fact that this one comes with a PG-13 rating tells you that it is meant for preteens and up. if you choose to have your 4 or 5 year old watch it, they won't understand anything except big furry panda. personally, i love this movie. the mother - daughter dynamics are very well represented, no matter your background. i mean, i LOVE grandma and her squad coming in to save the day! and i love that everyone seemed to be cool with this giant red panda/teenage girl running around their town, at least until she actually hurt someone. overall, it seemed like another incredibly emotional deep dive from pixar, handled with their trademark messy sensitivity. 💕

I'm glad Disney did this, I think it's a great film that needed to be made. What I hate is the parents getting upset over this whole thing. I like how it was done talking about a period. I don't understand why periods are so omg & not talked about. As a kid, girls were treated terrible like their periods are not normal. I got teased & made fun of because of mine as if it's my fault or something that I can control. Big deal women have periods, get over it! We need more movies written by women! Go Disney!

"Only adults would connect the name to menstruation" Me, a child who first thought the name was about menstruation: Am i a joke to you?

The friendship between Mei and her friends was one of the best things about the film for me. especially since their bond was so powerful that it kept Mei's Red Panda form at bay it just goes to show how strong friendships between people can really be.

To quote what I said to my friends when I watched the movie for the first time: “This movie is literally about a girl accidentally turning her entire school into furries.”

Can we just appreciate that fact that Mei used the word “sexy” here: 12:30

Between this movie, Encanto and Luca I say the animated films coming out of the mouse house are quite on a roll. In my mind all three of them make great coming of age stories and the importance and relationships of friends and family

Speaking of Mei's drawings... When I was around 12 or 13 shortly after Mortal Kombat 9 came out, I started realizing how hot the female fighters were and would sketch them alot in my book, watching that scene of Mei drawing herself with Devon just brought back that memory 😆

I loved how adult this movie is while still being funny and simple enough for younger audiences. Good job Pixar!

As a 12 year old who really appreciates pop culture and is in middle of puberty, was in a emo phase not long ago and likes boy bands, im proud to say I got all those references, this film was really relatable and I really liked it!!

When I was that age, there were a BUNCH of kids who had that kind of money-making savvy. One of many things they did was take their lunch money before school to the convenience store and buy ALL the 10-cent Jolly Rancher Stix, mark them up to 25 cents, sell them out, then buy lunch AND have a profit. Like LOTS of kids did this then. And that was in the Deep South, I'm sure kids in smarter environments had even more sophisticated stuff

Turning Red feels like a PG Bigmouth. Its cathartic for adults who went through awkward puberty. And informational for younger audiences by saying (in its own way) that everyone is weird at this age and you aren't alone. Edit: 7:24 lol i typed it out before i even got to this part of the video.

As someone who was born in 2002, the cha cha slide at every event school thing is still true… that and the Cupid shuffle

I like that Disney is actually talking about real life issues instead of the cutesy fictional stuff. When I was in elementary school, we talked about this in the 4th grade during health class. They even separated the boys and the girls in different rooms and showed us films. Some kids started in elementary school around 10, I started when I was 11, so hopefully most kids in middle school already knew about this. I like the fact that they showed her using deodorant as well. Kids that age (actually some in my class needed it in the 3rd grade) need deodorant to help prevent body odors as they go through puberty.

I feel like they also tried to approach the more serious psychological burdens that may come with puberty, there's a scene where mei-mei literally beats her own panda into submission, which can b considered as a reference to the body dysmorphia that usually comes with puberty and even the SH that may come as a result from it

Unrelated thing, but i just wanted to say it: Regarding the Hulk comparations, i think She-Hulk is a better comparation. After all, once both Mei and She-Hulk transform, they both let their wild sides loose. They party around, they go rebel, they are attracted to people they find hot, etc. The only difference is that when She-Hulk changes, she turns... more than just green.

To me, the entire movie felt like a love letter to those of us who grew up in the 1990s and 2000s. My mom was also pretty similar to Ming in terms of strictness so I totally related to that xD I also got a kick out of the other "references" and also felt secondhand embarrassment for poor Mei during the times her mother humiliated her.

The fact that Priya already has pads and deodorant in her bag already shows that she might be the one you know like going through her period in the group but she wants to keep it a secret but it's not really a secret

Disney and Pixar's movies are tackling real world things so much more in a way that is more realistic than ever and I LOVE IT! I haven't watched the whole movie yet, but from what I've seen Mei is the most relatable character ever! I was so much like her at 13, of course who wasn't like that at that age?

Disney should make more films about teenagers like "Turning Red" and "Inside Out", about children dealing with the changes as they're stepping into adulthood. It's a sensitive topic but it's what our children need, not idolizing fictional princess, but finding the princess in their own hearts.

I do kind of wish that the movie had addressed the mother's unintentionally toxic Behavior. Yes, she had changed the way that she parented by the end of the movie, but never addressed or apologize for the way her daughter had been treated and humiliated in the past. That's step 1 to treating generational trauma TBH

"I AM 15. DEAL WITH IT." This is it. This is the line every teenager wants to say. Like let us do stuff which are normal and let us do the stuff we feel like.

I feel like this movie is going to be responsible for parents adapting the "red peony" metaphor for a girl's period from here on until the end of time. And honestly I think its it good one, and hope it becomes a mainstream term. 🌷

Also I laughed when the drawing of that clerk was drawn as a mermaid I jokingly said "oh come on I just saw a movie about a merperson (Luca)" which became my favorite pixar movie of all time for good reasons and themes of building friendship over Summer and making new discoveries

Don't know if this has already been said but... But at ~53:10 when Mei arrives late to the party, Priya quietly says "thank Cthulhu". I found that to be hilarious. It's hard to notice but confirmed in the subtitles.

You forgot the fur baby shirt. That had me like nah this ain't no Disney movie 😂 had to go back to the beginning to confirm it started with the Pixar lamp 😂

Being born in 1990 I actually remembered several of the late 90s and turn of the millennium stuff even though I personally never listen that much to boy bands or had a tamagotchi toy. I was glued to my Game Boy advance and played games like Pokemon though.

My “flower bloomed” at 10 so Mei at 13 should have already known about it. Just saying. Same for all the parents freaking out over it’s representation. Kids need a heads up so they don’t think they’re dying.

As someone who was in fact a girl in middle school in the late 90s- early 00s this was the most accurate depiction of how it felt

Abby's parents calling it stripper music (and Abby recalling it) is the best part of the movie.

This was one of the funniest films I had seen in a while and it still managed to have a great message

Mei 'Gyrating' at her mom is probably the 1st time I laughed at a cartoon character Twerking in over a Decade.

This is a small detail (idk if this is pointed out in the video because I didn’t watch the whole thing yet) So, Mei’s aunties, grandma, and mother all are keeping their pandas in. Green, is the opposite of red, but Mei hasn’t learned how to keep hers in, which is why she wears red and her mother, aunties, and grandma wear green

As someone who's been in mei's shoes, trust me... This movie is accurate. And hilarious! 😆😭💖💖

I think this movie is definitely a funny way to talk to your daughters about this kind of stuff when I was younger no one really talk to me about it my mother thought she’d have until I was in my teens before it happened and it happened before My teens😭 so it was absolutely traumatizing. So I made sure to talk to my daughter young about this as soon as she started showing any pre hormones. So a lot of the stuff in the movie she did understand and we both got a good laugh about the way they brought it forward. We have rewatch this movie multiple times

That means strippers and strip clubs exist in the pixar universe that’s a strange mental image

Also probably something that not everyone knows but her name Mei - 妹 in chinese, means sister, but if you double it Mei Mei - 妹妹 it means younger sister and is a children friendly way to say a woman's private part in chinese. I think just another adult undertone but also referencing the puberty aspect.

I HAD TO WATCH THIS WITH MY PARENTS AND IT WAS SO AWKWARD (Also I couldn't express how much I relate to May)

For number 8, it was actually a time honored tradition for kids to grow up watching soaps with their mom Like if u have similar memories from ur childhood

I watched this movie with my dad and stepmom, the latter of whom compared 4*Town to New Kids on the Block (which was what her daughters were into), while my mind went to NSync and Backstreet Boys. If there had been a younger kid among us, they probably would have defaulted to the Jonas Brothers (or maybe a K Pop group?), and that's what makes it work. Every generation has, and no doubt will continue to have, boy bands to freak out over

I just appreciate that the mom had both regular and overnight pads. THATS THE KEY!!!

4:49 "You know its sus yea* AMOGUS REFERENCE?!?!

When Mei says Awooga, her feet start thumping, like the rabbit Thumper from Bambi 🐰

I just finished watching turning Red and it was actually pretty well done especially when Meilin and her mother and her grandmother turns into a red panda🐼

14:02 Dad just instantly stops and turns back like: ehehehe you handle this? Plz?

I got up to dance to Cha-Cha Slide and my kids were very confused. 😂

I love this movie. The subject matter was done in a mature way and still was amazingly funny.

Personally I like that it’s more teenager-adult things. I’m just glad it’s not all kiddy things.

It’s great having actual PG material in a PG movie.

That scene where Mei’s mother found her daughter’s drawings and lashed out at that clerk gave me second hand embarrassment.

I love the fact that she literally said “my panda my choice” and “sold her panda” to make money. It’s unabashedly supporting female bodily autonomy. Abby mentioning “what’s wrong with stripper music?” and “shake your money maker” when Mei’s twerking is even more evidence on their body positive stance

I really loved the small detail of using our old bills! Seeing the paper $5’s made me smile.

I wouldn't necessarily call this movie "family friendly" if they're using words like stripper,sexy and provoking her mom to anger by twerking in her face is outrageously disrespectful. The subject of puberty should be discussed within the realm of children-parent bonds, not taught through an animated film intended for children.

"You don't want to disappoint your parents, like the charcters in encanto" girl you badass as hell

I feel like little kids who wouldn't connect with the themes anyway would have all this go over them... but 12+, definitely not and likely 9+ will get the vast majority of this too. Even kiddos who seem very much childlike still understand a lot of this. And PLEASE do not blame Mei and her lack of hiding what is normal and healthy for her mother's irrational behavior. That's victim blaming. And what we should be normalizing is natural bodily functions not being taboo or needing euphemisms. Mei gets her period. She menstruates. There is nothing shameful or dirty about this. I get that the director was heavily influenced by her own upbringing, but I really do hope Pixar goes further in the future. Lots of ground was gained with this, but there's still so much more to gain when it comes to female body acceptance and menstruation.

I love Turing red. I could relate because I was 13 and mei and her friends are there to support her. We are rebels at point in life.

Wonder why I love turning red? I came from Hong Kong, speak fluent Cantonese, and turning red just happens to be both. I LOVE ITTTTTTT

5:02 I love the way Tyler fell.

Im suprised u didn't mentioned bootylicious by destiny's child being played

Since I am a mom who has her period once a month, and kids have few boundaries, my 6 yr-old was unfazed. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Normalize normal stuff, I guess?

The Dad slowly backing out of the room gets me every time

The dad's reaction when he realizes his daughter reached puberty. Poor dude, he is seeing his life flash before his eyes. 😅. Maybe memories of his wife having p.m.s, maybe he has sisters & they were difficult to deal with... now his baby girl has reached that state.

And this is why.. I have so much respect for Pixar! Disney movies do portray some serious topics in their movies, but ultimately: It’s Pixar that does an amazing job on this!! They don’t shy away from these kinds of realistic topics and this movie became another prime example!! Good job Pixar.. You’ve done it again!! ❤️❤️❤️ (Also I know that Pixar is Disney… but normal Disney movies won’t do some things that Pixar does… still respect both studios and movies ❤️)

People that are the same age as mei 100% have caught on to all of these. We aren’t blind. We have periods. I know from experience. We are gen z we know the 90s WE LOVE THE 90s WE CONSTANTLY REPLICATE THE 90s WIth EVeRYTHIng WE dO

“Only Adults noticed” Teenagers in that awkward state: _dissapears_

I was born in 2002, but I still understood most of the references, mostly bc my older cousins let me listen to their music, watch reruns of their favorite shows when they were babysitting, and gave me their old toys and games to play with. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was my fav 😍

Why are they saying that periods are “suggestive”. Stop acting like periods are gross and suggestive…

Watched this with my niece (8) earlier today. She was like “why does she give her pads? And what ARE pads?” She relies on me to be honest with her but this was one lesson I couldn’t give. Not because I didn’t have the words or info. Just didn’t wanna steal such an important moment from my sister.

This film was so good to watch, brought back a lot of memories growing up and being with my friends and fangirling over boy bands. I wish this movie was around when I was younger it feels so relatable and honestly I hope some parents do let their children watch it and not be shy about the topics, whether it's boy or girl.

The twerking and gyrating when they were fighting had me in tears😂😂😂

14:12 the father xD

Disney films had adult jokes before but this was more blatant

It's definitely not just adults that noticed these things. The movie is about teenage girls, so I'm pretty sure they would notice these things, too.

It’s so interesting there is a movie about puberty aka growing pains. Turning Red is portrayed beautifully 👏🏻

I wished Disney and Pixar included in their trailers that this movie was rated PG to avoid the defensive parents creating a hate train on this film. Obviously, this movie is not for kids but rather for those coming of age and teens already. Though the PG warning is in Disney+, I'm sure a lot of parents didn't see that and did not expect topics such as body changes and menstruation to be tackled from a Disney-Pixar movie (which everybody assumes that every movie they will make will always be for kids like they always do.)

Today’s kids are more awake on things than what the parents know about them

"look at those glittery delinquents with their HoUgHH Gyrationns" is he best part LOL

All 3 of my kids love this movie. Especially, my daughter Luna who is 7 about to be 8 lol. I definitely think it's pretty tame compared to what we used to watch in the 90s and early 2000s. I didn't even notice a lot of these things mentioned lol.

I die every time I see Tyler absolutely SCREAMING for 4Town Like... So out of the usual I love it

For me the movie brought a good throwback to middleschool memories, it's fun and also since it's restricted to 9+ y.o audience I view it to be appropriate enough After all the *average* age to start puberty is around 10-11 (for females in birth) (while males in birth hit it at around 12-13) [having it late or early is normal we all got those times] Comes the Hormones that mess up your thinking and gaining interest about relationships and beyond. Which in the end is all normal And watching it with parents is helping because parents can always explain things that get confusing After all they are the first people that you go to when you have some questions about your body (and I personally encourage parents to talk with their children and not shy away from a simple question like "where do babies come from?" cause kids are much more capable to understand) There is an age for everything of course, which means you don't have to go bold and talk to your kid with "adult language" just explain things simple. That's the point of biology after all you gotta learn at some point. (funny enough I can't count on school to teach me about puberty body change and all because sex education was always a taboo in my country and they're not changing anytime soon)

Mei twerking is just... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and kinda cute too bc she look so fluffy🥺

Has anyone noticed Tae-Young's nail polish? I think it's probably the first time we have a Pixar movie featuring a boy with nail polish on, and I find it incredible they've done that

I was born in 2002 and I'm familiar with all the retro stuff, I had a Tamagotchi, grew up buying CD's and had a flip phone. I also don't think I've ever been to any party without cha cha slide lmao

I loved the movie, my nephews forced me to watch it, i complied, and I loved everything about it!!!! The diversity, the graphics, the music, the family dynamic, 4-Town!!!! I plan on watching it again with my adult friends because they would get the early 2000 references

2:58 i know backstreet boys "i want it that way"