Raya and the Last Dragon is officially available for purchase on Disney+, and the movie is a hit with critics and audiences alike. Currently, the movie is up on Rotten Tomatoes with an impressive 95% score after more than 200 reviews. One particularly eye-catching thing about the new animated [.]
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Fantasy worlds that mirror real-life cultures have a long history in storytelling. Middle-earth, the Four Lands, Narnia, Westeros, Earthsea: These are fictional places populated by imaginary creatures and characters, but with politics, faiths, and cultural dynamics that resemble our own. They give their creators license to world-build with allegories for contemporary issues, but without worrying too much about fidelity to reality. For Disney’s animated films, such fantasy lands Wonderland, Neverland, even Atlantis are part of the studio s cinematic legacy. But when depicting non-Western cultures, Disney has sometimes flattened the various cultures of a region into one stereotype-heavy location. Agrabah, in the animated
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Raya and the Last Dragon features one of the best vocal performances in recent memory as Awkwafina breathes life into Sisu, and we recently caught up with the filmmakers to get more insight on her casting.
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Aladdin is a vocal performance for the ages and one that is likely never to be topped, but after watchingÂ
Raya and the Last Dragon, Awkwafina comes pretty damn close to matching the late actor s energy and enthusiasm in an instantly iconic role that s sure to resonate with fans of all ages for generations to come.Â
Disney s latest film, Raya and the Last Dragon debuted on Friday giving fans the studio s first animated feature centered around Southeast Asian culture and its first Southeast Asian Disney princess in Raya (Kelly Marie Tran). But the film doesn t just offer viewers a lush and immersive [.]
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