You won’t have a hard time rooting for Meilin “Mei” Lee in “Turning Red.”
Voiced by Rosalie Chiang, the heroine of the newest film from Disney-owned Pixar Animation Studios — a reasonably entertaining and fairly unusual romp making its debut this week on Disney+ instead of theaters — is a hard-working, confident and fairly nerdy 13-year-old girl growing up in early 2000s Toronto.
She’s juggling school commitments — her studies, the flute, etc. — with time spent helping her mom, Ming (Sandra Oh), with the family-run temple in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood, which is important to her, too.
