Raya and the Last Dragon Review: A Truly Beautiful and Powerful Adventure
Disney s latest animated feature,
Raya and the Last Dragon is a groundbreaking film. Directed by Don Hall and Carlos Lopez Estrada and written by Qui Nguyen and Adele Lim, the film is the first from the studio to feature a Southeast Asian Disney princess and center its story in the culture of the region. Set in the fictional fantasy world of Kumandra, the action-packed film tells the tale of a broken world and its divided people shattered from not only their distrust of one another, but a terrible threat destroying life as they know it and a young woman, Raya, determined to find the legendary last dragon and, hopefully, restore the world. It s a story deeply steeped in the culture of the Southeast Asian region, but even with the rich and long overdue cultural representation,
‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Review: A Disney Fantasy Fairy Tale
Moana including a regal father, an impulsive and brave princess, a smirking sidekick with godly powers, a quest for a faraway MacGuffin, and a fixation on water’s mystical powers and places them in a
Lord of the Rings-esque fantasy world, complete with magical objects, a race of unstoppable evildoers, and a “fellowship” that bands together to restore the utopia that was broken centuries before. There are many other familiar concepts and sequences, but they’re combined in unique ways, so that a batch of old ideas winds up feeling relatively fresh.
Raya and the Last Dragon arrives in theaters and on Disney+'s "Premier Access" this Friday, but how does Disney Animation's latest movie stack up against the studio's other classics? Here's our verdict.
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