It's basically the same story as Encanto!
Both are about an overbearing grandma that wanted everyone to be perfect. It's the same exact thing just in different settings.
shareAnd meticulously crafted to not celebrate white people. At least Encanto had a couple good songs (But not nearly as good as Coco).
shareI got the impression that Turning Red and Encanto came from the same origin proto-script. You know, like those "twin movies" e.g., Armageddon & Deep Impact, Olympus Has Fallen & White House Down, Megamind & Despicable Me, etc.
I guess Pixar was tasked by Disney to develop two movies at the same time from a single story foundation, one for theatrical release, and another for bolstering Disney+.
Even from the quality of the animation we can see that Encanto has super detailed graphics with state-of-the-art crumbling physics and a couple of nice songs. While Turning Red has standard quality graphics on par with older releases, no bleeding-edge tech and generic songs not even performed by professional singers. Turning Red was destined to Disney+ from the get go.
It's an effevtive cost-saving strategy if you think about it.
For me the biggest tell is that it simply was free out of the gate. No theatrical release to Disney+ 30 days later. Disney knows it was weak - they aren’t stupid at all. “Straight-to-VHS” releases aren’t held to the same critical standards as theatrical. Disney has been making garbage movies for decades on VHS-only.
shareI guess Pixar was tasked by Disney to develop two movies at the same time from a single story foundation, one for theatrical release, and another for bolstering Disney+.[/quote]
[quote]Turning Red was destined to Disney+ from the get go.
That's an interesting theory, except that Turning Red was originally meant to get a theatrical release too. Disney, for some reason, decided to dump another Pixar movie onto Disney+ right after they promised they would do a theatrical release for it this time. Maybe it's because they saw how well Encanto did on Disney+? This kind of makes me wonder how they might handle Lightyear next. The Omicron variant isn't as active anymore. So I think they might do a theatrical release for Lightyear (hopefully, when there isn't another random variant around). share
Turning Red was originally meant to get a theatrical release too
I was alluding that the whole "Turning Red was supposed to be a theatrical release" was a lie / publicity stunt. It's to make Disney+ subscibers go hey, we got a free theatrical release movie! (instead of meh, we get a random direct-to-video release.) Effectively adding percieved value to the streaming platform.
That's why in the previous post I said Turning Red was destined to Disney+ from the get go. share
Why would Pixar make direct-to-video release movies? Also, the movie's budget is $175 million like most of their films over the past 5 years. It's not even on the same caliber as the DisneyToons Studios' Planes movies. which were meant to be cheap direct-to-video spinoffs to Cars. If Turning Red "is" supposed to be direct-to-Disney+ from the get-go, then I guess that has to be the most expensive direct-to-video/VOD movie they ever made...Turning Red is not even on the
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