★★★★☆
The wonderful 2015 animated film Inside Out ended on a happy note: young Riley, reunited with her parents, leading her team to victory on the ice hockey rink. “After all,” says her elfin guardian angel, Joy, who has accompanied her as she has ridden the humps and bumps of preadolescence, “Riley’s 12 now . . . what could happen?” At which point all the parents in the audience emit a long sigh. Um, she could turn 13?
As if in answer to Joy’s question, Pixar has made Turning Red , an equally wonderful film about a 13-year-old girl riding the even bigger humps and bumps of adolescence. It’s so good I sincerely hope they just keep going and follow it with a windswept epic
