Raya And The Last Dragon

Cast View all

	Kelly Marie Tran	Raya
	Awkwafina	Sisu
	Izaac Wang	Boun
	Gemma Chan	Namaari
	Daniel Dae Kim	Benja
	Benedict Wong	Tong
	Jona Xiao	Young Namaari
	Sandra Oh	Virana
	Thalia Tran	Little Noi
	Lucille Soong	Dang Hu
	Alan Tudyk	Tuk Tuk
	Gordon Ip	Merchant #2
	Dichen Lachman	General Atitaya
	Patti Harrison	Tail Chief
	Jonathan Park	Chai
	Sung Kang	Dang Hai
	Sierra Katow	Merchant
	Ross Butler	Spine Chief
	François Chau	Wahn
	Paul Yen	Merchant #1
	Isabella Abiera	Additional Voices
	Deuce Basco	Additional Voices
	G.K. Bowes	Additional Voices
	Reggie De Leon	Additional Voices
	Liza Del Mundo	Additional Voices

Crew View all

Director	Don Hall
	Carlos López Estrada
Paul Briggs
John Ripa
Writer	Qui Nguyen, Adele Lim, Paul Briggs, Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Kiel Murray, John Ripa, Dean Wellins
Producer	Jared Bush, Nathan Curtis, Peter Del Vecho, Jennifer Lee, Osnat Shurer, Kiel Murray, John Ripa, Dean Wellins, Jennifer Christine Vera
Musician	James Newton Howard
Photography	Rob Dressel

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Notes

Me and the kids watched this movie, one of the latest works of Disney, the other evening. I am pleased to be able to write that we found it quite good actually.

It is always with some worry that I approach anything that comes from Disney these days given how their woke brigade have screwed things over lately. This movie however, seems to be more or less back to old and working recipes and free from (too much) woke nonsense. Maybe Disney execs have finally realized that letting the woke brigade, SJW’s and cancel culture have any say whatsoever in the creative processes hurts the bottom line.

It is a good adventure story surrounded by lots of colorful characters, great scenery and lovely animated creatures. Just how a animated Disney movie should be. Some, probably self proclaimed, culture elite called it a “mediocre and repetitive story”. That is just such a load of bullshit but unfortunately the stupid algorithms on IMDb’s website calls it a “top review” and puts it on the front page of the movie (which is why I noticed it). Given that the movie currently hold a 7.4 rating on IMDb, 81% on TMDb and even the usually useless Rotten Tomatoes gave it a rating well above 90% I’d say this bloke is a minority.

Raya herself was quite likable but her main adversary was rather bland in my opinion. However, the characters surrounding Raya was making up for this. I quite liked Boun, I definitely liked Tong and I just loved the baby and the three small rascals causing mischief everywhere they went.

The dragons where okay, Sisu was rather fun but they were all more like cuddly pets than real dragons with any real powers except for some parlor tricks. I did like the ending with all the Dragons being back though.

In good Disney tradition there were plenty of side characters and environmental gadgets etc… that threw in some additional laughs here and there.

As I wrote above, this was pretty much what would expect from Disney, the good Disney that we used to know that made fun movies for all ages.

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