Unlike its predecessors, TurningRed chooses to embrace its inner beast.
Turning Red isn't your typical Pixar film — or even your typical coming-of-age film. Instead of being set in America, the film takes place in the city of Toronto, Canada. While it boasts the typical Pixar flourishes, it also has nods to anime, including Sailor Moon and Ramna 1/2. And it feels genuinely targeted toward a preteen/teenage audience. But perhaps the biggest swerve Turning Red takes is in the way it handles a trope that's permeated other Disney films.
This isn't the first time the "baleful polymorph" trope has popped up in a Disney film. In fact, the Mouse House seems to lean on this trope quite heavily. Brave features Princess Merida attempting to break a curse that turned her mother Elinor into a bear. The Disney classic Cinderella reverses the trope, transforming the mice Gus and Jaq into human footmen for Cinderella's coach.
Thankfully, Turning Red nimbly sidesteps the negative aspects of the trope by having Mei embrace her panda. While she initially looks forward to the ritual that will seal her panda side away, she eventually decides to keep it. Unlike the other films, she makes an active choice, therefore retaining her agency. It also fits in with the movie's theme of finding your own identity, as Mei breaks free from the routines her mother Ming Lee has planned for her.
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