Justin Chang Los Angeles Times
The chief antagonist in âRaya and the Last Dragon,â an enjoyable new adventure from Walt Disney Animation Studios, is something called the Druun, a shrieking, sludgy purple monster that turns people to stone.
Itâs an archetypal formless villain, a distant cousin of supernatural scourges such as the Nothing from âThe Neverending Story,â but it also carries a whiff of real-world metaphor. No, the Druun isnât the coronavirus, even if it does leave broken societies, devastated families and tribalist impulses in its wake. One character calls it âa plague born from human discord,â which is to say itâs yet one more crushing reminder that we have met the enemy and he is us.
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Raya and the Last Dragon out March 5 in India is Disney Animation s first original effort in over four years. That last one before two sequels, 2019 s billion-dollar-plus Frozen II, and Ralph Breaks the Internet the year prior was
Moana, centred on a young girl from the Pacific Islands. Moana was Disney s first “princess” from that region, and her appearance in Ralph Breaks the Internet s memorable “Disney Princesses” scene reiterated that diversity, given she was one of a handful (next to
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