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Really fun and energetic (for the most part); it reminded me of Gravity Falls. It looks lovely even if it's just the bog-standard family CG movie style with maybe a sprinkling of "CalArts" in there, and the animation's great. It does really start to drag in the last act, though, and some of the allegory felt a bit off to me (the 'panda' is overtly positioned as a metaphor for 'your messy side', but it's clearly tied in with puberty, menstruation and womanhood too, so it's a bit weird that it's painted as something that's physically dangerous if uncontrolled and the happy ending has all but one of the family members deciding to continue repressing it; it's the henpecked father who gives Mei the talk about feeling free to express herself. Granted, her friends had also said this to her, but it still felt a bit mansplainy).
Rating: Good
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