The movie moral is about having trust in others. The main character gets back stabbed every single time she trusts in someone.

@DaMaster012

3 жыл бұрын

I was going to ask if Meghan McCarthy had a writers credit for this movie, but then I instantly realized if she did, it would instead be the main character who did all the back-stabbing.

@rockymountaintelevision1008

3 жыл бұрын

Ya know, if the countries didn’t trust each other, they wouldn’t be fighting each other they would simply shut up and mind there own business

@HBKnowItAll

3 жыл бұрын

I know, that is my main issue with the film.

@damotoneko1500

3 жыл бұрын

SnowWhite did the moral better.

@thunderbird1921

2 жыл бұрын

To me, this is the moral of the film: "There is no real evil, only misunderstood people". That is an INCREDIBLY dangerous moral, and it seems Disney's done it a lot lately.

Finally, someone calls out the fact that it has nothing to do with Southeast Asian mythology. There are plenty of Vietnamese, Filipino, and Indonesian fairy tales that would have made lovely films, but we just got some half-assed vaguely "Asiatic" story.

@beardbeardedbeardsbeardedh9374

3 жыл бұрын

That's modern disney for you :/

@tfgenobatssasin1788

3 жыл бұрын

Bear in mind, the writer who wrote the movie is a malaysian. I felt ashamed as a malaysian myself

@Cosmiichu

3 жыл бұрын

still cool seeing an environment we never saw specially with asian dragons i only remember mushu.

@Sir_Crow

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cosmiichu The environment’s cool, but it’s disrespectful for Disney to place a story in Southeast Asia and not actually use any of the region’s cultures for the story.

@onepunch2310

3 жыл бұрын

They wanted the brownie points and needed an animated movie before cruella comes out

Honestly it feels like Disney isn't even trying anymore when making movies about other cultures it feels like they're just making these for fast cash.

@jabby6709

3 жыл бұрын

they very clearly are tbh. they don't actually care about representing other cultures, or anything really. they just want the money

@kwertyskewrty4046

3 жыл бұрын

Besides that dragon and it's powers there was a lot of thai foods and thai words plus places shown

@rodracer4567

3 жыл бұрын

Disney's hurting for cash so no wonder they're just churning out cash grabs

@lunamariahawke9320

3 жыл бұрын

Isn´t something new.

@alecelliott7506

3 жыл бұрын

Duh. That's why your watching KZread right now and not disney plus.

I thought Raya's lack of trust vs Sisu's naivety was the perfect grounds for a story about knowing WHO to trust. But nope: trust good, discernment bad.

@DrDolan2000

Жыл бұрын

Who would've guessed?

@laughingmask3118

Жыл бұрын

I like the point of this comment but it feels unnecessarily sarcastic. I agree with the point but find myself trying not to retort in some hypocritically sarcastic regard rather than simply saying "Exactly!" There's a right and a wrong way to do things and I feel like you have the right idea but voiced it poorly.

@arsann8701

Жыл бұрын

@@laughingmask3118 why tf do u care gimp

Kung Fu Panda actually represents Chinese culture quite well. Besides the anthro animals of course.

@xenomorph6599

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't the Chinese Government convene to discuss why an American movie was portraying Chinese culture better than Chinese movies were or something

@pureevil9496

3 жыл бұрын

@@xenomorph6599 lmao

@odst_735

3 жыл бұрын

@@xenomorph6599 Bruh

@BrickfallOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

Orrww muy peynis is sew swmall compweard to yew amwewecum swuper mwan! Hahahahaha (Laughs in famine)

@pureevil9496

3 жыл бұрын

@@BrickfallOfficial Are you okay

People told the truth. that dragon does look like Elsa.

@Jormyyy

3 жыл бұрын

It's the eyes I think, they have the same eyes.

@PolskiKrajowa

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jormyyy no, she's furry elsa

@pyraffin

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jormyyy Same eyes and same kind of 'smokey eyes' makeup, too.

@waltercomunello121

3 жыл бұрын

reusing assets? it's the beginning of the end.

@LargeMetallicFellow

3 жыл бұрын

That explains why the dragon looks so hot--wide eyed. It looks wide eyed.

I'm Southeast Asian. Imagine a movie where the main character wears cheongsam, wields katana, eats kimchi, and speaks a few mongolian words. That's what Raya felt like to me. Honestly i would rather see a movie with a setting fully inspired by one country like Vietnam (i heard it was inspired by vietnamese folklore) than a mish-mash of all these cultures.

@Akatsukileader9

3 жыл бұрын

I mean Raya is not from Earth.

@Akatsukileader9

3 жыл бұрын

@Doofus There's a ton of worlds based on Earth that are a mixture of several cultures put together.

@pooing6649

3 жыл бұрын

I kinda agree but Avatar: The Last Airbender also mishmashed cultures, yet they got higher approval anyway. I guess it's because each nation had almost just one country or their story was actually good (I mean, it is).

@Swigbro

3 жыл бұрын

@@pooing6649 I did not see a hint of Filipino there at all so in my opinion that's not true. No offense tho. We all have our own opinions and this doesn't harm others so I'll let it be:)

@ghostleemann955

3 жыл бұрын

that would never exist

Where did they even get the dragon's design? Most SEA dragons are protrayed as huge monstrous beasts with scales. They're also mostly wise, all-knowing and serious, not naive and comical.

@nobodyimportant4210

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know much about Southeast Asian culture. But I have seen images of SEA dragons, and they look really majestic. It would’ve been cool to see one in animated form, but they went with Elsa mixed with a worm on a string instead. Also I despise Sisu’s personality. When I saw her original design that was shown at D23, I figured she would be wise and grumpy, but with a soft side to her. But no, instead she’s loud, annoying, naive, and hardly says anything thought provoking or funny. I know some people don’t like the fact that she can speak, but her speaking isn’t the problem, it’s what she says that bothers me.

@nobodyimportant4210

3 жыл бұрын

@@CandyApples4ever this represents disney as whole in fact. making something cutesy and safe rather than something actually good

@doridoriyaki5311

3 жыл бұрын

Their main target are kids. Not college students.

@aellasky3082

3 жыл бұрын

Well, are they not allowed to make up their own thing, in the land that they made up?

@Liashideout

3 жыл бұрын

@@aellasky3082 well, then, they don't need to promoted it as a "representation" of SEA culture if they aren't gonna stay true to it. The dragon design and personality don't reflect actual SEA mythology and it's extremely frustrating to watch as a Southeast Asian. I expect myself to be dissapointed since Disney revealed Sisu's design and here I am...

Actually this movie represents east Asia far worse than kung fu panda represents China. Chinese people love Po to death. Its one of the most successful foreign animated movies to release in China.

@osets2117

3 жыл бұрын

Probably because kung fu panda and by extension dreamworks respects the culture, Disney is just trying to make money off of it

@ihateindices

3 жыл бұрын

@@osets2117 Yep. Kung Fu Panda's got the Chinese philosophies to play a part in the story, of course- because (duh) set in China. But Raya and the Last Dragon's story can be used anywhere else, instead of creating a story loosely based off an SEA folktale, overall makes it heckuva lot disappointing.

@kanyeeast8248

3 жыл бұрын

@@ihateindices its sad they could've made something really cool.

@j.t.0145

3 жыл бұрын

aye bro, southesast asia and east asia are pretty different if you didn't know. Not every just because you read asia doesn't mean China, Korea and Japan

@johnkubiak1154

3 жыл бұрын

@@j.t.0145 yes but I was comparing how china was represented in kung fu panda vs how this movie went at Asian culture as a whole. Because the dragon in it is a Chinese dragon

Everyone says the dragon looks like Elsa but all I see is a stretched out My Little Pony.

@elinfini

3 жыл бұрын

They aren't mutually exclusive.

@pyraffin

3 жыл бұрын

Elsa's Mary Sue MLP pony/dragon mix OC

@RC.-

3 жыл бұрын

It looks like Rainbow Dash as a dragon

@jnoirj3124

3 жыл бұрын

So you see, the lesson in this film is that Friendship is indeed magic.

@lpsquestie3495

3 жыл бұрын

Discord looks way better than Misus

I miss hand-drawn animation. This CGI animation style is just so damn boring.

@javierfebronio8907

3 жыл бұрын

@Crane What about Flash? Not all computer animation has to be 3D. According to Wikipedia, My Little Pony the Movie, Steven Universe the Movie, and the Princess and the Frog were all animated through Flash and most animated shows use it because it is low cost and has the potential to be a variety of different styles. Hand-drawn films are unique works of art but at the same time are expensive and tedious to make compared to CGI. So the question is not should Disney bring back hand-drawn films but should they bring back 2D films?

@Tiepobadaae

3 жыл бұрын

@@javierfebronio8907 they should def bring back 2d. Tangled the series was 2d, and I thought the art style looked WAY better than the film. For one thing, Rapunzel had serious baby face in the movie, which she didn't for the show.

@brianaguilar8283

3 жыл бұрын

@Royah the knight don’t act like anime doesn’t have its flaws now

@semolinalibra

3 жыл бұрын

@Royah the knight nah I prefer western animation

@matchamakess

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah wolf walkers was prob the best ever

"It didn't make me angry..." Well that makes one of us. The line "Shisu's death is just as much your fault as it is mine." made me LIVID.

@thebishopoftherailway4719

Жыл бұрын

Oy shady was here!

@ntfoperative9432

Жыл бұрын

Sup shady

As an south asian, that's bad dragon design, our dragon not a furry, they're have scales, lizard eyes, no eyelashes.

@arsen2506

3 жыл бұрын

That's Elsa's fursona

@Drizzqxl

3 жыл бұрын

@@arsen2506 i know, that is the worst thing

@cubriffic172

3 жыл бұрын

Have you seen the concept designs? Theyre so much better compared to what we got

@wos_liwet

3 жыл бұрын

@@cubriffic172 Wait where did you see the concept designs?

@tomthestone1470

3 жыл бұрын

Some have the beard though

4:14 Actually, China in general praised Kung Fu Panda for it’s accurate and tasteful representation of Chinese culture. Each film is ranked as the highest animated films at the Chinese box office. And it apparently pushed Chinese 3D animation to improve because apparently the Chinese were embarrassed that an American made movie was one of the best animated depictions of their culture. The more you know.

@pancakeswithktkaty7784

3 жыл бұрын

I like this.

@capitatecab6049

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard in an interview that the team behind the film went to China for 6 years before making the film, so that tells you something

@Drixenol86

3 жыл бұрын

Dreamworks actually did some research unlike whoever made this movie.

@cazterjamessantos3652

3 жыл бұрын

And also the fact that this movie(Kung Fu Panda obviously) had many characters that were already anthropomorphic in the first place.

@sauzeeee

3 жыл бұрын

And then you have the latest Mulan...

Kung Fu does represent China. They literally love the character over there and was the sole reason China realized "wait this is actually an amazing movie, why are their movies about china better than ours" To which sparked a boom in Chinese animations to try to catch up to pixar/west.

the main antagonist looks like a cyberpunk character

@VergilsLastName

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god

For people who 'didn't want to offend the Asian community', they sure don't show it. Then again, who am I kidding? They did the live action Mulan in a fucking concentration camp.

@giuliacf4180

3 жыл бұрын

Everyone in China hated the live action Mulan

@lumethecrow2632

3 жыл бұрын

@@giuliacf4180 Everyone in general hated live action Mulan

@muglymae7408

3 жыл бұрын

Didn’t they do the ‘didn’t want to offend’ thing with Princess and the Frog? It had rehashed Aladdin and weak character development and plot all over it

@sweetbunnybun

3 жыл бұрын

at least a few Asian ppl helped to make it. But anyway, moana was better. this movie is so bland, ppl are too realistic, their designs are boring, they're too bland (look, a baby who's not so innocent, look a masculine female villain who kicks butts, look a gentle giant who kicks butts, look a funny boy, look a strong whamen who fights, look a quirky sidekick)

@Ty_the_true0000

3 жыл бұрын

@@sweetbunnybun the dragon us just Elsa's fursona

the main character looks like Disney put Moana and Mulan into a bottle, shook it up, aged the result a few years, gave it Rey's personality and plot armor, than said "yep, this is original."

@CHKNSkratch

3 жыл бұрын

ZZAAAAA WWWUUUURRRRDDDDOOOOO!!! And yes, something that is just derivative of other things is not original

@enumaelish9193

3 жыл бұрын

@@CHKNSkratch The sky is up

@CHKNSkratch

3 жыл бұрын

@@enumaelish9193 ?

@tfgenobatssasin1788

3 жыл бұрын

I remember a youtuber litreally said that Naamari is acting more like catra than zuko.

@shaniadirstein3650

3 жыл бұрын

they use the same face over and over and over. Just Google "Disney Copying Own Designs Over" and compare Elsa and Raya and Moana and Tiana and Rapunzel. They all have the circular face with big eyes and a small nose, and a smaller mouth. Which is why I enjoy Emperors New Groove. The characters were all uniquein design and Yzma really stands out in her animation/face/style and why I enjoy the older films as 2D hand drawn animations make the faces more unique as there are angles and differences and not just round and smooth.

I personally thought that it would be kinda cute if the dragon did not talk, (I don't mean that in a mean way though, I just think that characters such as wall-e and eve are cute because they have a limited vocab) and a little change in dragons design.

@jamssy3409

3 жыл бұрын

It would've been so much better if the dragon didn't talk but had dad humor/capabilities to fulfill Raya's needs after her lost

@juice3287

3 жыл бұрын

silent beasts are the most powerful in storytelling, to me at least. toothless in httyd 1&2 (we don’t speak of the trash that was 3) was a masterpiece. masterbeast? that rhymes! Sisu and raya having no language barrier just kills a lot of the potential awe there could’ve been with this movie. Funny how this movie aims for trust, yet HTTYD intergrates trust into its first movie far better than raya ever could despite that not being the main premise of HTTYD. (which was fighting against the laws of nature, forbidden friendships and the relationship between beast and boy. ironically, that involves trust too.)

@hunterolaughlin

Жыл бұрын

Mushu honestly would’ve been better if he didn’t talk but pantomimed or got across a lot of his words by his facial expressions. Plus, it would avoid making him too much like another Genie clone and making him his own unique comedic sidekick.

We can't have actual antagonists with purpose and motivation anymore, so all the heroes are just gonna fight smoke and purple lights from now on.

raya is like that one kid who talks about the same thing the whole school year “did you know i don’t trust people?” “hey speaking of, i don’t trust people.” “hey man! i just read something about not trusting people, i knew i was smart not to trust anyone!” *”I DON’T TRUST ANYONE!”*

@justinbruce9808

3 жыл бұрын

Oh hi Carth from kotor

@SonofTiamat

3 жыл бұрын

No one understands me! 😡

@arikweaver4867

3 жыл бұрын

Like Katara constantly saying her mom was killed.

@PIB2000

3 жыл бұрын

"I trust you enough to tell you I DON'T TRUST ANYONE!"

@arat7106

3 жыл бұрын

@@arikweaver4867 yes

Wait, so this is a movie about finding crystal shards, using them to vanquish a mysterious dark evil force, while being joined by multiple characters that tag along for the whole adventure? This is literally just Kirby 64; The Crystal Shards

@youcantbeatk7006

3 жыл бұрын

Get that game's name out your fucking mouth when talking about this trash.

@VelkanAngels

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, I thought you were gonna say "Darkstone", lol.

@iraqifoodcart8447

3 жыл бұрын

I'm going to assume you only know about that game because you actually played it when N64 was the hot console. I've played a few games on N64 but none of them were kirby games.

@youcantbeatk7006

3 жыл бұрын

@@iraqifoodcart8447 It's a timeless masterpiece.

@genemelendez8157

3 жыл бұрын

@@iraqifoodcart8447 Kirby 64 was rereleased on the Wii/Wii U virtual console and included in Kirby’s Dream Collection. It’s not a hard game to find

Honestly, I'm getting pretty sick of mythical/powerful beings in Disney movies being super upbeat or sassy, and only being serious in certain, short scenes.. It has happened so many times that I've lost count.

The plot sounds like something I would write back in middle school, I couldn't think of other plots so I'd just use a videogame's way of progressing.

One of the things I really dislike about this movie is the people in it are basically western people wrapped in SEA skin and clothes. I can's see any of my people in the characters! They don't have SEA body languages, they don't talk like SEA people... And the religious stuff? Don't get me started on the religious stuff. Savior dragons turned into statues... left unattended for centuries to grow moss and plants and erode? Please, if it's really based on SEA culture, they'd be CLEAN. Their surroundings will be places of worship! There will be offerings placed before them as THANKS! You can have beautiful palaces but can't get rid of the ivy wrapped around a mythical being? Ugh! And OMG Raya's father!!! Sir, please... How can an adult be THAT naive? Like, I know this is a children's movie but??? *facepalm*

@rosendofernandez7146

3 жыл бұрын

Hear, hear!! Originally, a part Filipino was the first voice actor for Raya. It irked me that they recasted her. :(

@RazorO2Productions

3 жыл бұрын

@@rosendofernandez7146 I'm still mad about that, and I'm white.

@monicad.2269

3 жыл бұрын

@@rosendofernandez7146 WHAT???? WHY???

@rosendofernandez7146

3 жыл бұрын

@@monicad.2269 Honestly I dont have any idea about the changes. You can actually see a promotional video of the two lead voice actors, Awkwafina as Sisu and Cassie Steele as Raya, here in youtube. :(

@wos_liwet

3 жыл бұрын

Let's address the field of dragon statue story-wise. The thing about the dragon statues not being worshipped and given offerings turns out to be more and more confusing to me. After watching it, I'd consider how the dragons aren't being taken care of a bit disrespectful for them cause the Kumandrans basically worshipped them, but they didn't bother to even take care of their remains for years? Then again, an in-world mechanism actually addresses this issue, it being the Druuns. Iirc from the scene, there aren't any bodies of water surrounding the area-which makes it a place susceptible for Druun attacks. And since the tribes (? I'm gonna call then tribes) are at war between each other, they don't have any reason to gather together in the field to worship, else they'd be attacked. If you see closely, the tribes all live surrounded in waters, securing them from any Druun attacks. It's a perfectly understandable reason why the dragon statues aren't worshipped or given offerings, given the Druuns could've shown up anywhere at any time, and Namaari was just lucky to be not attacked. If only the Druuns didn't existed, I'm pretty sure the people would've erected temples and such.

The moral of the story? Never trust someone with an undercut.

@waltercomunello121

3 жыл бұрын

Disney put labels on women with undercuts. They must be insensitive straight white males!!

@mr.x2567

3 жыл бұрын

Or that we probably shouldn’t trust Disney.

@mariokarter13

3 жыл бұрын

Undercut. Definition: To diminish or destroy the province or effectiveness of; undermine.

@runforestrunfpv4354

3 жыл бұрын

The villain looks like very popular gay celebrity from the Philippines. Surely the woke would be mad about it?

@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569

3 жыл бұрын

"I like ya cut G."

"Princess Celestia hair." Ah, a man of culture.

@meleqento9565

3 жыл бұрын

Yeahh

4:17 that's funny considering China was jelaous of kung fu panda being better than most of their movies .

Is it weird that I value the opinion of a trash hunting rodent over the trash content produced by Disney?

@Nordisk11

3 жыл бұрын

Well to be fair, opossums aren't _really_ rodents-

@Nordisk11

3 жыл бұрын

@The_Jaguar_ Knight "Marsupial, to be exact," exactly.

@breezetha27

3 жыл бұрын

Marsupial*

@edmondantes4338

3 жыл бұрын

Possums are not rodents! You are closer to being a rodent than a possum (or opossum, makes no difference to this specific point) is; unless that is, you're an internet browsing kangaroo.

@manboy4720

3 жыл бұрын

@@edmondantes4338 i'm actually just a giant rat in real life. but you'd never know.

I like to imagine possum going and watching a children’s movie at a theater, and just sitting there stonefaced for the majority of the run time, and the only times that stone faced expression changes is when the credits finally roll, and then he leaves the theater and sits in his car and cries because of the shit he just watched.

@chadatchison145

3 жыл бұрын

No he's crying cos he spent 80k to go to film school and now he reviews shit movies on KZread lol.

@manboy4720

3 жыл бұрын

he just has a visage of pure grimace the entire time.

@miroslavzima8856

3 жыл бұрын

Heh, this reminds me of Nostalgia Critic´s christmas episode (I think Carebears), so I can almost see his expression xD Good one.

@whooshylushy743

3 жыл бұрын

666

@GUSLOL161

3 жыл бұрын

you give this simple man too much credit... I think He still doesn't know what He talking about... this Movie is amazing.

Not gonna lie, I’m getting tired of the whole warrior Princess thing. It was cool when Mulan did it but recently, it feels like Disney is afraid to make a Princess that can’t fight or isn’t trained in some kind fighting style. I’m ready for a different kind of Princess or even just the old kind of princesses

@ENOINN

2 жыл бұрын

old kind princess are boring

@ENOINN

2 жыл бұрын

Except for the ones that already exists, they are iconic but I could not digest a movie with an old kind of princess now. Times and media change wether we like it or not, is just that the media that appears now is not good enough, maybe in a couple of years.

@whiteeye3453

Жыл бұрын

Which ones exactly the prize trope or what?

Raya: The Last Dragon Moana: The Cooler Last Dragon

@DanteSpardaJackpot

2 жыл бұрын

In your opinion lolol

THANK YOU for acknowledging the moral of the story is so flawed. While I was watching it I was frustrated that Sisu was all like "oh you just have to trust people!". What's even greater is that she trusts people and they betray her CONSTANTLY. She just seemed like she was dumb and had no street-smarts. I really didn't like how the moral of the story is basically believe people at face-value when they say you can trust them and if they betray you, just trust them again! Really flawed logic here. Trust is important, but it has to be EARNED.

@ziimulhah3223

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly. If the only time Sisu put her foot down or went out on her own to trust an enemy was Namaari, it couldve had an actual impact and show her that people aren't always the best morally. But the fact that it happened before just makes Sisu feel like an idiot.

@DaMaster012

3 жыл бұрын

Such a bass-ackwards connector of portraying a moral through a dirty that I'm surprised Meghan McCarthy didn't write it.

@shaniadirstein3650

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention a bad message to teach kids.... no matter what someone does to you, touch you inappropriately, hurt the people you love, trick you, and lie, you must still trust them... like no. My kids are gonna know that if someone hurts them they dont have to trust that person ever again for the sake of their own mental health. If anyone backstabs me or betrays my trust they are erased from my life. Dont need that kind of toxicity in my life

Moana didn't have a very unique story, but it made up for it with fantastic songs and fun and memorable characters and some decent comedy imo.

@randomcatmeow1394

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr this movie doesnt even have a single song like bruh that is literally the bread and butter of disney

@Jose04537

3 жыл бұрын

The ocean robbed the show in Moana

@ggt47

3 жыл бұрын

Meh. It was bland.

@staringcorgi6475

3 жыл бұрын

@@randomcatmeow1394 disney movies with songs are great but some of them could be better if they're musicals like Tarzan but other movies like lilo and stich doesn't need to be a musical to be amazing

@VigilanteLulu

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jose04537 Nah, Tamatoa did!

It’s really funny that everyone is going on about how ”representative blah blah” this movie is of SEA people and half of them can’t even watch it

@randomelite4562

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently SEA people don’t exist outside of SEA

The whole “find this object in another setting and rinse and repeat” reminds me of that movie Onward, didn’t they do that in that movie? It was a fine movie but god there is so much stagnation in some places, and really needed a few more drafts

@Coughdropeater

3 жыл бұрын

And also she does it too fast, I feel there should've been more challenge tbh :/

@RB01.10

3 жыл бұрын

Onward was very weak, boring, and forgettable. Some good scenes? Yes, but not enough IMO. Ironically, that film I was planning to see before COVID shut down everything. I eventually rented the DVD, and am glad I did.

@BrokensoulRider

3 жыл бұрын

@@RB01.10 Onward wasn't about the 'find the mcguffin' journey. It was about the bonding of two brothers over the only chance they have to see their dad one last time. It might be forgettable to people who haven't lost family members that are extremely close to them, but it hits home for those of us who did, and harder if it was the father.

Is there a single Disney Asian character who isnt a martial artist? just sayin

@Prodmullefc

3 жыл бұрын

Snow White

@AnomalyINC

3 жыл бұрын

@@Prodmullefc Snow White wasn't Asian, she was Zimbabwean!

@Lammy2023

3 жыл бұрын

@@AnomalyINC she still kicked ass in Shrek the third

@imdead9537

3 жыл бұрын

Mulan's grandma

@riftvallance2087

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the siamese cats from lady and the tramp?

As an Asian, I can say the one thing it represents Asians correctly is when everyone fighting over the dragon ball in the beginning. XD That said, maybe that's not an exclusive Asian thing. I honestly hate the message of trust people when she trusted the other girl very early and kinda got f*cked. If they wanted the message to be about trust then they should have made it that she never trusted them and her father not trusting the other countries too and that caused the issue. I think they were afraid to label Raya or her dad to have bad traits as can't have a female hero who isn't perfect. All-female heroes must be Ma ray sue. I hated the dragon character, the dialogue is so cringed bad especially in the beginning.

@randomelite4562

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t say Raya is presented as perfect, just that her trust issues arc was executed poorly

@alienbird5624

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the dragon sucked

@scooter2746

3 жыл бұрын

100% agree

@iammar1159

3 жыл бұрын

Sisu was really annoying and unfunny

@alienbird5624

3 жыл бұрын

@@iammar1159 ya

The dragon is literally Elsa Fursona mixed with Shenron from DBZ but scaled down and neutered

@tultsi93

2 жыл бұрын

To me, that dragon looks more like a character from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Honestly I only watched this movie because James Newton Howard did the score, and I wanted to hear what he would do in this movie given his amazing work with Atlantis. He did not disappoint with scenes like the dragon graveyard and running on raindrops. Did not care for the story at all.

For real, I'm getting sick of Disney's stagnant art style. Look at any of their old 2D movies and you can easily recognize it by a random screenshot. And this is especially annoying with Raya, who has such a generic face that you're more likely to think she's a background character from looking at a picture of her. I could put up with it if at least their storytelling was good enough, but it has gotten stagnant too. Frozen 2 was painfully forgettable. I literally cannot remember anything of the plot save that it has a ridiculously convenient ending where no one has to pay any kind of price and everything is perfectly solved, and I only remember that because it annoyed me to no end.

@juanstrong3695

3 жыл бұрын

What about the artstyle was stagnant?

@coolnormalandwelladjusted

3 жыл бұрын

@@juanstrong3695 the fact that the majority of their recent films have the exact same art style and you could edit the characters into screenshots from a movie from 5 years ago and they wouldn’t look out of place?

@juanstrong3695

3 жыл бұрын

@@coolnormalandwelladjusted This movie isn't the exact same art style as Zootopia, or the Frozen movies, of Wreck it Ralph, etc.

@coolnormalandwelladjusted

3 жыл бұрын

@@juanstrong3695 if you say so lol. idk what people get out of defending lifeless mega corporations that care only about making a profit

@Ikouy

3 жыл бұрын

@@juanstrong3695 I think the way I look at it (from a gaming perspective) is that 3D art that leans towards realistic proportions tend to be too symmetrical and clean. I think it’s why Zootopia and Wreck-It-Ralph work well is because the animation isn’t bound by that constraint. Traditional works tend to be stylized and reflect the artists whereas computers not so much.

This is gonna flop and Disney is going to walk away saying. "Well people just don't like animated movies anymore"

@osets2117

3 жыл бұрын

No, no, they'll say we're racist cause it's about Asian people

@ballthatbounces626

3 жыл бұрын

It'll succeed because disney movie and maybey girl power because people are ignorant.

@riftvallance2087

3 жыл бұрын

@@osets2117 Wait I didn't think Asians counted as poc's anymore.

@LittleunlikelyGiant2222

3 жыл бұрын

@@riftvallance2087 This is a joke right?

@riftvallance2087

3 жыл бұрын

@@LittleunlikelyGiant2222 I meant it ironically, but it really is a leftist talking point.

What happened to Disney Movies like Mulan, or The Little Mermaid, or Aladdin? I mean those are the ones I grew up with. All these new ones all look similar. I mean so did the old 2D Disney movies they looked similar too. But they also had distinct changes in character design. Like in Mulan all of the characters have a different overall artistic look compared to characters in Pocahontas. In Pocahontas all of the characters are very well defined and look very real. In Mulan there’s more cartoony characters that are silly and more eccentric. All the 3D Disney movies all follow the same basic layout of how their characters look. There are distinct differences in the 2D movies.

@camarokidbb4347

3 жыл бұрын

Funny enough those all got remade (except TLM). Also funny how all the remakes either suck, or are at least considered inferior to the originals.

@BrokensoulRider

3 жыл бұрын

@@camarokidbb4347 The Little Mermaid is on the way with a black Ariel. Fuck us redheads.

@BrokensoulRider

3 жыл бұрын

@A Zee Pretty much.

@anathemat-002

3 жыл бұрын

@A Zee Exactly. While a lot of the most popular mermaid myths come from around the Gulf of Mexico area, they're far from the only ones. Mermaids/sirens are on of the few universal myths between nearly every single coastal country. Even inland Russia had folk tales of the Selkie, who would sing songs to lure people in so she could drown and eat them in various rivers. So it's not like Disney couldn't have dropped a pin anywhere else on the map and found a suitable non-white alternative to Ariel without just dropping some random dark skinned person into old timey Denmark, which is *still* a super white place to this day (98%). It's genuinely disrespectful to both parties.

I don't think representing different groups or cultures is necessarily a bad thing. When done well, they can be really good. But I've been growing increasingly sick of this recent trend of putting representation first and writing good characters second. True story: I myself am on the Autism Spectrum (specifically Asperger's/high functioning Autism), and while it definitely played a part in shaping who I am, I never considered it the core of my identity. A few years back, I remember Sesame Street introducing an autistic Muppet character named Julia. I was intrigued at first, but after watching her debut episode, I found myself a bit disappointed. She was okay as a representation, but I found her personality a bit lacking. I'm not expecting Shakespeare levels of depth from a Sesame Street character, but it seemed like "Autism" was the be all end all of her entire identity. I've related to numerous fictional characters over the years, but I related to them organically based on _who_ they were rather than _what_ they were. It's really frustrating when the media tells me I _should_ relate to a certain character that looks like me or has the same condition as me only to find I can't really relate to them at all.

@g.k.4710

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Even tho a learning disability is different from ethnicity, as someone who's also on the spectrum, I hate when people try to pretend they're breaking ground by representing me. Because it's a learning disability and they're trying to portray us in a positive light despite using us for a pat on the back at the end of the day.

@anathemat-002

3 жыл бұрын

A note on Julia- ASAN partnered with Autism Speaks in order to make her character. So it's really no wonder that she doesn't feel quite right, considering the awful shitshow Autism Speaks actually is.

@g.k.4710

3 жыл бұрын

@@anathemat-002ha, autism speaks, more like autism.... Isn't... Speaking... (nailed it)

I bet during the oscars this is gonna win best animated film -Because disney paid them-

@Jose04537

3 жыл бұрын

There's a reason their ratings keep falling, that, and preachy politics from smug rich people.

@staringcorgi6475

3 жыл бұрын

I think we can't detrime the best animated film of 2021 because luca didn't come out yet

@jamssy3409

3 жыл бұрын

@@staringcorgi6475 oh boy, Luca was phenomenal!

@staringcorgi6475

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamssy3409 nope just another generic kids movie with a predictable plot at least vs the machines had a great presentation and had soul in it the movie felt like a discount coco with the oh no parents are strict or also special forms like skeletons the only difference is the unique setting but if it was in a small American third class town than nothing would change

@jamssy3409

3 жыл бұрын

@@staringcorgi6475 hm, I do have to agree with Mitchells vs the Machines. It had so much life to it and personality. It completely ignoring the "internet bad" movie trope I expected from it. Dang, I can't believe I forgot about it! But the reason I brought up Luca was how it hits close to home. I actually related to the characters. I guess that's just me

I feel like this movie pandered to American Asians, not actual South East Asians.

@greenergrass4060

3 жыл бұрын

Well it makes sense, Actual southeast asians barely even has access to disney+

@tiny2315

3 жыл бұрын

ding ding ding They should have focused on a specific country. Instead they did a disrespectful mashup of SEA cultures, as if it were a monolith

@cerridianempire1653

3 жыл бұрын

@@tiny2315 yeah SEA are pretty different, languages, people, religion, etc

@siegfried2k4

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t think that “Asian Americans” should be called Asians. They’ve lived there for so long that they’re more called Americans than Asians. Just like how White,Black Americans are not Europeans or Africans

@tiny2315

3 жыл бұрын

@@siegfried2k4 Whatever your background is, if you were born and raised in USA, you’re just american. Just because your parents were asian for example, doesn’t mean they will keep their culture to a T or that you will live through the same experiences an actual asian does.

I’m guessing the writers had that one rival girl betray Raya despite the lesson being “trust people” as a poor attempt to subvert expectations or to “show reality” in some way. But the thing is, doing that does not make your film more “mature” or “shocking.” It’s just poor writing.

0:25 Excatly! The originality has been thrown out of the window!

4:13 Kung Fu Panda is actually quite beloved by the Chinese

@PolskiKrajowa

3 жыл бұрын

No, he said how it represents china

@Pelagion98

3 жыл бұрын

@@PolskiKrajowa Which it does? Like I have heard nothing but praise about how it represents China?

@PolskiKrajowa

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pelagion98 well I meant to say how he said it didn't

@McCammalot

3 жыл бұрын

@@PolskiKrajowa He was incorrect there. Chinese officials had massive discussions about why they hadn't made a movie of that caliber; they were particularly impressed by the creatures chosen. (I like to think they've done so by now, but like most of the world for the past year I'm not leaving my house much and I don't have the $£€ etc. for 19 extra streaming services.) He can be wrong about one thing and still be taken seriously (nobody is flawless), and he can defend himself fine if he wants to. He's a smart guy.

@captainseyepatch3879

3 жыл бұрын

@@McCammalot Ya I hate to just come onto the guys channel and smack talk him but... He honestly gets a lot of shit wrong. I like some of his content, but he clearly is not that knowledge about what he is talking about.

Being honest that movie’s story sounds like a generic manga plot. Specially the part of “There’s a dragon which transforms into a human and stays that way most of the time”.

@genocider9782

3 жыл бұрын

Aight don't insult miss Kobayashi's dragon maid like that, that is top tier compared to this movie

@saquial

3 жыл бұрын

@@genocider9782 I didn't even think of that while writing this comment, I was thinking of generic isekais where a dragon transforms into a little girl and becomes a side character. I also like Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, but I have to admit that technically it falls in this category (maybe not the "generic" part).

@genocider9782

3 жыл бұрын

@@saquial oh lol k my bad 😅

@MisterJang0

3 жыл бұрын

She was actually a dragon most of the time. She was a human for a large chunk of the movie though.

@6ixlxrd

3 жыл бұрын

@@MisterJang0 Wot?

Honestly, it probably would've been better if the designs were different, different dragons, maybe change up the designs for the different lands, like their individual tribes could've had more design. The whole, "It only worked because they trusted her" thing kinda ruined the film for me, like you telling me that you're gonna leave the last pieces of Dragon magic to the girl that got your father turned to stone. I wouldn't even trust the girl with putting on my seat belt, let alone putting together a cosmic dragon EMP. Only thing I liked in the whole movie, was the baby and the Monkey, that had me laughing out of my chair almost.

I'm South East Asian, they literally just colored the characters darker smh.

This movie should’ve been about learning to trust people other than “I want to trust people constantly even though I was back stabbed in the beginning”

@Steven9567

3 жыл бұрын

or better yet relearning to trust people

@6ixlxrd

3 жыл бұрын

@@Steven9567 Like everyone else keeps saying, Avatar handled this better in the span of 2 episodes (40 mins) than this movie did in going on 2 hours. Katara forgives the man who killed her mom without trusting him, and trusts Zuko (a man who had constantly antagonized her group) without forgiving him. In all honesty, I wouldn’t even say she forgave her mom’s killer...she overcame him, which is something even more difficult to do. But Raya? Shows a stranger THE most important item in her group’s protection within the first few minutes of meeting her, gets betrayed, starts the literal apocalypse because she was betrayed, loses her dad, trusts the person who betrayed her again for no reason, gets betrayed again, loses her dragon and levels up the apocalypse, then chooses to trust the person who betrayed her AGAIN and even sacrifices her life (and her friend’s lives) to do it. This movie’s message in a nutshell: “If you’re betrayed by someone, keep trusting them until they stop betraying you.”

@gc0009

3 жыл бұрын

@@6ixlxrd perfect cheff kiss

@PopelessCatholic

3 жыл бұрын

She doesn’t trust until the end, that’s the point

@PopelessCatholic

3 жыл бұрын

@@Steven9567 that’s what she does

The dragon's design is so crap that r34 and e621 can't make anything out of it

@Zack-xv2yc

3 жыл бұрын

There's a reason it's Disney's "safe artstyle".

@gamalielvacasolis3484

3 жыл бұрын

When your design is so bad, Rule 34 ignores your existence.

@613-shadow9

3 жыл бұрын

@Jaidon Brown make it athro

@ProxiProtogen

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zack-xv2yc bro if e621 can some how lewd a fucking ship but not the dragon that can tell alot

@GloriousSquizoKing.

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, that's impressive on Disney's part.

Honestly his voice is perfect for complaining he could never leave a non sarcastic comment

Is it weird that the main protagonist blindly trust the main villain even when she has shown multiple times that she must not be trusted it seems more like a toxic friendship and it just seems like bad message for kids to take in .

It looks like the epitome of those geniric, squeaky clean movies Disney loves to pump out.

@Jormyyy

3 жыл бұрын

It 100% looks too clean

@cartooncritique6625

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, because being creative and original is too hard.

@realamerican3282

3 жыл бұрын

at least its not a live action remake

@cartooncritique6625

3 жыл бұрын

@@realamerican3282 True. It has THAT at least.

@thetowerofbabble6307

3 жыл бұрын

@@realamerican3282 don’t give them ideas

I wish we could go back in time to when kids movies and cartoons were genuinely entertaining and fun but still containing lessons of friendship, responsibilities, doing the right thing, learning from your mistakes and forgiveness. That's not going to happen anytime soon nor are we going to see any good movies or cartoons for kids ever again. To quote possum: "kids movies should be held to a higher standard than movies for adults, because kids are more impressionable than an adult" end quote.

@privatehere3324

3 жыл бұрын

Thats a little too cynical their are good cartoons still.

@thereptilefreak4872

3 жыл бұрын

@@privatehere3324 Yes i am cynical.

@zestytriss5282

3 жыл бұрын

Ugh of course......

@dakodablack7312

3 жыл бұрын

@@privatehere3324 like clone wars was

@St4ticScratch

3 жыл бұрын

There is good stuff out there it's just not new

Another thing about the dragon characters, every time I saw them using body language or just moving in general, it was so similar to Zootopia's animation that I swore Nick or Judy had the exact same body movement. It just seems Disney doesn't even want to try anymore.

Additionally, I don't remember the Indonesian and Malaysian Keris and the Philippine Kalis swords can become a whip sword. I must have missed that in history class!

@rachelciel3330

3 жыл бұрын

It can also turned into a snake or demons, depend on how creative you can be. *Trust* is the greatest power.

the movie is PAINFULLY unfunny. Not even in a family-friendly kind of way, because there are sooo many family friendly/kids movies that are genuinely funny. This isn't.

@trashykhun0821

3 жыл бұрын

Their attempts at humor suck

@ebbiebean9385

3 жыл бұрын

It’s called being so out of touch with their core audience, that they just make up what they think would be funny.

@fieldrook1613

3 жыл бұрын

My brain shuts off when I see a modern Disney movie. Makes it more enjoyable.

@tipsycat27

3 жыл бұрын

@GENESIS CUETO have you actually been on tumblr?? lmao its nothing like it. its more like facebook or reddit humor

@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr

3 жыл бұрын

@@tipsycat27 before TUMBLR banned porn I’ve seen posts on TUMBLR, and the humor in Raya isn’t any different than TUMBLR humor.

Disney stop making shit movies challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

@readuth1488

3 жыл бұрын

(GONE WRONG)

@kanyeeast8248

3 жыл бұрын

(GONE SEXUAL)

@shubalasko

3 жыл бұрын

(DEMON EMOJI)

@jadyngeo7088

3 жыл бұрын

(ELSA CALLED!!)

@insertmemorableusernameher6795

3 жыл бұрын

(ALMOST ARRESTED)

"groundbreaking yet accessible" what's that even mean lol

@SonofTiamat

3 жыл бұрын

It means it's amazing, yet mediocre

@anathemat-002

3 жыл бұрын

"We're telling you it's amazing, but you also need to come into this knowing our characters are of X minority group because we're banking on it. We also think you're all fucking idiots who are so tribal that anything with your group name on it will earn us millions."

This movie was ok. Main issue is it played it ridiculously safe. The story was predictable and meh, none of the jokes landed for me, there wasn't enough time spent on the father for us to care what happens to him, the skrillex-hair chick saying near the end "I don't have a choice" makes no sense, there is nothing provided to show that she doesn't have a choice, she very much does. The dragons all look like the same fckn model, and they probably are, just slightly modified versions of the same model with some different thing on their heads. The dragons are scarcely in the movie (besides one obviously) so I get spending time on a big variety of dragons is asking for a bit much... but it's disney... and they're asking for $30 to see this. They really dropped the ball on the dragon design, the males and females look identical and they all have elsa's face. Things I do like however, it doesn't have singing, THANK YOU disney for making an animated flick without it being a musical, I'm sick of your garbage songs. The characters that were supposed to be likeable were pretty likeable (the boat kid was pretty great). The pacing is good, I didn't feel any parts in particular were dragging or felt too out of place, the scenes flowed from one to the next pretty solid. All-in-all, certainly can't consider it bad by any stretch, but it definitely isn't great. It's just a fun watch and i'll probably never see it again. $30? Big nope.

@RB01.10

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely agree on your points.

@Jose_Doe

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh we different the fucking pacing was too fast i didnt have enough time 5o care about anyone

"I'm not going to pretend that the movie is good just because it crosses off some demographic check box" 👏👏👏😢 that was beautiful.

It was a dull movie with plotholes, unoriginal story done by 8 writers, a Mary Sue, a forced moral, poor jokes, and Awkwafina being terrible and annoying as the dragon. The only good things are the visuals, the one joke with the puppy, and the rest of the voice acting being decent. At least it's a little better than Frozen.

@brianaguilar8283

3 жыл бұрын

The only good movie Awkwafina has done is Crazy Rich Asians

@tailfin6595

3 жыл бұрын

Awkwafina? That’s her name? Awkwafina? You fucking kidding me?

@brianaguilar8283

3 жыл бұрын

@@tailfin6595 no, her birth name is Nora Lum. Awkwafina is a stage name

@RollingDodge

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds worst than Frozen to me.

@theangrycheesehead

3 жыл бұрын

@@RollingDodgeI at least gave this movie some credit. There was no redeeming qualities in Frozen

I feel like rango is one of the best kid's movies and more movies should try and learn from it.

I think the dragon was purposely designed like this to sell toys of it. It’s safer and overly cute. They likely think having a properly designed Asian dragon animated or as a toy isn’t cute and children won’t buy it. I can smell the “buy my toys” coming from it.

That cursed frame of the dragon tho...

@megaapollo1063

3 жыл бұрын

Which one lol

Why is the dragon talking like a middle aged woman who frequents Starbucks, and everyone else has a serious and fantastical voice? I hate it. Instantly disliked that about it because it's just so stupid. It'd be better if the characters addressed the dragon's weird voice, and the movie was self aware. But no. The animation is high quality and gorgeous though, I have to admit. But yes it looks like everything else. XD

@dragonheart1236

3 жыл бұрын

They're trying to do Mushu again.

@randomelite4562

3 жыл бұрын

Because the voice actor’s voice sounds like that

@souhiyori8032

3 жыл бұрын

@@dragonheart1236 Mushu done wrong then XD

@RalphJr-xp3hp

3 жыл бұрын

So basically everyone at Disney must’ve watched Eddie Murphy’s performance as Donkey in Shrek and said, “Yeah, the kids will love this type humor with this film’s tone.”

@juice3287

3 жыл бұрын

unrelated but i like ur pfp

One of Disneys best composers cane back for this movie, James Newton Howard, he last made the soundtrack for treasure planet and this movie had one of the best soundtracks of the 21st century! The asian instruments were very prominent, sometimes minutes were dedicated to a certain drum or flute, like during battle scenes. Not to say the movie wasn't bad, i kinda thought it was painfully average, but i kinda liked the world building and character design.

That one scene where sisu got shot by an arrow and fell off the cliff got me laughing so hard.

Yet another soulless Disney movie that just appeared out of nowhere. I guarantee you if it wasn't for this video I would have never found out this movie existed.

@waltercomunello121

3 жыл бұрын

same here.

@wikistacks9396

3 жыл бұрын

I saw the toys at WalMart b4 hearing bout the film.

@jnoirj3124

3 жыл бұрын

About as Soulless as the movie Soul...

@VigilanteLulu

3 жыл бұрын

@@jnoirj3124 Hol' up! If you think Soul doesn't have any soul, then you probably haven't seen it! One of Pixar better ones!

@jnoirj3124

3 жыл бұрын

@@VigilanteLulu "If you think Soul doesn't have any soul, then you probably haven't seen it!" What a weird strawman to make; mainly because you can't prove if I have or have not seen the movie; which I have. Sorry, I think it lacked "soul", which is pretty ironic. The other character, 22, was probably one of the worst characters in the movie to me. She/It reminded me of the "Meh" emoji from the Emoji movie. I think 22's existence was mainly for marketability...The main character was pretty good though. Honestly, if they had focused more on the main character and the unfullfilling life he lead and that conceptual afterlife zone, or better yet, he could try to help one of his students who would end up the same way he had; unfullfilled and simply wondering "what could've been".

Imagine the Unicorn/Amalthea from the "The Last Unicorn" declaring, "Look how close my head is to my butt!" after she was transformed. Yeah... Disney cannot do that whole 'gravitas' thing anymore.

@TheAtroxious

3 жыл бұрын

The Last Unicorn isn't Disney, but I agree. I don't even like The Last Unicorn and yet I think it did fantasy better than Disney does now. Growing up I saw a lot of fantasy movies that felt huge and impactful. Even the body humor in those older movies felt cleverer and more subtle that you could ignore it if you wanted to. Now we have...whatever this is. I really don't think Disney likes dragons very much. Between Sisu and Mushu, they are dead-set on portraying dragons as goofy, kind of dumb comic relief characters.

@Rabbit-uc5kg

3 жыл бұрын

It's a motherfucking dragon. Couldn't it have been majestic or cool even once?

@JTPMalavet

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheAtroxious that’s why I prefer Universal dragons!

@BRAINFOXINFINITE

3 жыл бұрын

I shudder at the thought of them getting so desperate for live action remake fodder that they dig up The Black Cauldron.

@milcahreyes5287

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheAtroxious Well in sleeping beauty, there's a villain who can turn herself into a dragon

The big muscle guy doesn't look like Maui He looks like the main villain in the original Mulan movie (God, I hate having to distinguish between "original" and "remake" now!)

@reptiliannoizezz.413

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, Shan Yu

I for one liked it, even though parts of it felt rushed. Sisu was an instant fav

This is just the plot of Ori and the Will of the Wisp done bad.

@ddubsquizzee2158

3 жыл бұрын

haha. This gave me a good laugh

@ruphite9521

3 жыл бұрын

No this is correct

@ddubsquizzee2158

3 жыл бұрын

@@ruphite9521 I wasnt saying it was wrong, I was just laughing

@ltb1345

3 жыл бұрын

True.

@minespatch

3 жыл бұрын

I'm scared for Disney's Hollow Knight...

I think Disney is making their animation too realistic. Like, dude, animation was made to look and do things unrealistic.

@El-de6nj

3 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily. Animation is a form of art used to tell a story, making more realistic animation is a stylistic choice. This movie is supposed to have a bit of a darker theme, though it doesn’t exactly succeed. It takes place in a dystopian setting, with a somewhat saturated color palette and constant betrayal that contribute to the setting. Having a grittier animation style helps contribute to the arching story.

@kaiserproductions1278

3 жыл бұрын

@@El-de6nj I would argue that making your animation realistic does nothing for it. As stated, animation was made to do unrealistic things and look unrealistic and I believe that making it realistic sort of just wastes that. Not to say I don't enjoy realistic animation, I just think it's more of a wasted opportunity. As another note, although realistic animation could supposedly help stylistically to convey a more abstract tone my comment singled out disney because many of their projects now attempt this realistic animation which is weird in my opinion. Why confine yourself to that style?

@maximumrebo2030

3 жыл бұрын

@@El-de6nj yeah the best animation the kind that strays away from reality

@Whizzkid3000

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on the animation

@zoltanormosi5617

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaiserproductions1278 Most Near-future themed animes tend to be realistic. Boy, Patlabor the Movie had Awesome cityscapes. Whisper of the Heart level but on a dark and rugged tone.

I can't watch a Disney movie without feeling insulted these days.

@sabribeser2268

3 жыл бұрын

Disney Logic:İf I put generic asian stereotypes of chinese and asian people they will love it because they dont have induviduality Movie:Flops Disney:Try again

The stone dragons look cooler than the actual Dragon design

"Princess Celestia-hair" is one of the best things I've ever heard.

Oof. I'm kinda sad to see this movie flopping because that's Disney's first original animated movie since Moana. I was hoping that it would be succesful enough for them to start making original movies again, but looks like they'll be going back to crappy live actions...

@kingwolf9447

3 жыл бұрын

Their at a point where simply having the name "a Disney film" brings in lots of money,even if their work is half assed or mediocre. They basically barely have to try now,and this movie is proof.

I knew the Movie was gonna be Ass when I saw the Dragon Design...Like C’mon they could’ve done better

@DanteSpardaJackpot

2 жыл бұрын

Your opinion lolololo make sure you say that next time.

I'm glad i wasn't the only one who noticed Human Sisu had Princess Celestia's hair XD

I feel like Raya would have benefited far more from being a show instead of a movie, seeing as the plot would fit pretty well with that episodic format akin to Avatar. An episodic format would also likely help to flesh out the world and characters shown in the movie. Shame that the movie was meh, but I'll take a meh movie to a garbage cash grab anyday.

@Poedoco

3 жыл бұрын

This!!

@wos_liwet

3 жыл бұрын

Agree, the setting's scope is too far and wide for a single 2-hour movie to cover. Not even a single village got a nice enough screentime to be fleshed out! If they would do something similar to Tangled and turn Raya into a well-managed series, it'd be really wonderful

This film was disappointing. It’s moral of trusting people is completely broken.

@bruhSaintJohn

3 жыл бұрын

.... melons

@tourmelion9221

3 жыл бұрын

@@bruhSaintJohn this made me wheeze

@doridoriyaki5311

3 жыл бұрын

It is a fact tho, who can you even trust on the current society we live in.

Disney has this problem called SAME FACE SYNDROME

A modern Disney Movie on this Channel, now I know they're smoking something.

I could just tell by the trailers that the goofy marketable plushie dragon is going to be the weakest part of this film. Gods forbid Disney don't make a silly character that sells toys in their films. Edit: oh lawd there are even worse characters, seriously a baby that knows kung fu??

@Gruntvc

3 жыл бұрын

Disney did dragons better with American Dragon Jake Long lol.

@Jormyyy

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gruntvc ah good times good times

@workshaw1195

3 жыл бұрын

Trying to make another Olaf

@Rosey0928

3 жыл бұрын

The shrimp boy Boun looks like the only amazing character they should have just made a movie about him*cough*cough*

@daschlubbster

3 жыл бұрын

WOAH!!! IS IT A BABY THAT KNOWS KUNG FU?? HAHAHA THATS SO FUNNY BECAUSE DID YOU KNOW THAT BABIES DON'T USUALLY KNOW THAT WOAHHHHHH I AM ROFLING RN

As a South East Asian (hello from Hong Kong :), when I first saw the advertisement, "asian" was not the first thing to come to mind at all. The fact that I required this review to make it a conscious thought that "oh, this is meant to be asian representation" is sad. Frankly, it is a bit insulting that this movie was meant as Disney's way to virtue signal/check the demographic box by pretending they care about SEA culture, but treating it all as interchangeable symbols to be used as fancy decoration. Looking at the footage here, the visuals completely confused me because while I recognize some parts (her father with Ming Dynasty topknot hairstyle), but then it immediately shows Raya, who's hairstyle and design does not at all align. It is jarring to look at, like someone made knock-off cursed Asia.Through trying to mash all SEA cultural aspects into one movie, they've created some terrible, nearly unrecognisable amalgamate of SEA symbols that fails to represents the very people they say they intend to portray.

@watermelon1219

3 жыл бұрын

as a fellow south east asian, i couldn't have said it better

@Rabbit-uc5kg

3 жыл бұрын

As a confused Westerner, I'm glad you pointed that out.

@Poedoco

3 жыл бұрын

They did the same with Moana and PI culture 😥 ...People assume it’s just Hawaiian which it definitely isn’t just that. Makes me sad, really.

@tiaraalishaamalia3396

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with what you say. I'm also a SE asian, and it kinda weird that they try to make this morph between all the cultures. I appreciate they tried to make as many representations as they can, but it ended up looking forgein to me.

@tiny2315

3 жыл бұрын

Disney, and the US in general, loves to generalize countries that aren’t from Europe. Look at Moana, it showed “Polynesian culture”. Look at Elena de Avalor, it shows “hispanic culture”. This movie, shows “SEA culture”. Also Wakanda from Marvel, is a mashup of various african cultures to portray “african culture”...Etc. On the other hand you have movies like Frozen, which are way more specific (scandinavian), Hercules (greek), all based on some european region or country. Then all who watch those movies have the perception that all SEA people are a monolith. I’m from Chile and it’s so tiring to see them depict all latin americans as salsa dancers who eat tacos. I’ve literally never done either of that.

Seeing the movie, the character design and representation are the least of my quibbles, and I'm a Southeast Asian. Just a few months back, we got a Pixar-made Soul on Disney+ for FREE, which is way deeper and thoughtful than this pricey, premier-access, it's-okay-to-normalize-and-sympathize-bad-and-selfish-people-because-trust-and-friendship-rulezz movie for smooth-brains. I mean, the tribes are already problematic from the start where they still have a power struggle even when the Druuns are already vanquished. Seeing every tribe just doing a 180 at the end and suddenly get back together like best buds again is total unconvincing BS, esp when there are so many scenes which establish the Fang is already that selfish in the first place. The movie tried to convince us that deep down, everyone wants the good for the entire community and what we lack is trust and consensus, but, to quote from a masterpiece that is eons ahead of this basic movie known as Bojack Horseman, "I don't think I believe in deep down. I kinda think that all you are is just the things that you do."

Your entire summary of the MacGuffin story just reminded me of the Dark Crystal. When I first watched the trailer I am mediately thought that he ripped off Avatar the Last Airbender. And then when I watch the movie I thought that it took some inspiration from Moana, Frozen, and Mulan but I never noticed that it actually ripped off it’s entire plot off of Dark Crystal.

@davis9502

2 жыл бұрын

So glad everybody forgot about this movie

"This movie represents SEA as much as Kung Fu Panda does China" China: "Why do we not make such great movies about our culture?" SEA: "Why is this nothing like our culture at all?" Not sure if that comparrison worked.

@NgocAnh-ef5gr

3 жыл бұрын

This movie comming out after Mulan liveaction give me a feeling like they have failed kissing China’s ass so now they switch into another one but no Asian country has big population as China so they go with the entire region

@randomelite4562

3 жыл бұрын

*cultures SEA isn’t homogenous and even individual countries will have a wide array of languages of cultural subgroups

A movie about trusting other people after the main protagonist trusted someone that ended up betraying her Sounds like fans forgiving Disney with The Mandalorian only to keep getting shit again.

@nicolasnamed

3 жыл бұрын

I like the mandalorian but hate Disney as a company so that's why I pirate it :) The sequels are and will always be hot garbage

@KaNoMikoProductions

3 жыл бұрын

Well, the Mandalorian is shit as well, so business as usual.

Raya feels like Disney hired people to remake Avatar the best they could without having to buy Nickelodeon. I think Avatar is undoubtedly inspired by Star wars, and it's somewhat similar, but that show creators actually fully fleshed out a unique world with deep diverse characters.

I’ve noticed you say free on other streaming services a couple times now, which streaming services you been using cuz in my exp service of any kind usually comes with a tag

Yeah, Raya was one of the most terrible and lazy Disney movies I've seen, and I'm normally a pretty forgiving Disney fanboy. The dragon's face. Just why.

@cauliflower9967

3 жыл бұрын

And the fur.

@ThyWeepingWillow

3 жыл бұрын

@@cauliflower9967 the fur isnt strange tho for asian dragons, just the face is too humanized as if shes elsa.

@cauliflower9967

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThyWeepingWillow That too. The fur around the neck only would be acceptable but the whole body being furry is just ridiculous and I suspect they did that just to sell toys :')

@user-wn3wv5bx5e

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThyWeepingWillow Dude, they covered her entire body with fur even if she's leaning to be serpent. Even in Asia, serpents typically have scales. The fur was just so out of place

@ThyWeepingWillow

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-wn3wv5bx5e for the fact that it was supposed to be a naga, it shouldve had mane/neck fur mixed with scales yes. But there is asian dragons that are depicted with mostly fur

Even if this was an amazing film, no way in hell am I paying 30 dollars for premium access when I’m just watching it at home. I’d understand 30 dollars if I bought some snacks with my ticket that added up to 30 dollars in a theatre, but 30 just for a movie alone in my own house for a service that I’m already paying for?! How is something like Soul “free” on Disney+ yet this movie is considered 30 dollars worth in their eyes?

@bayonetababe9697

3 жыл бұрын

I know right. Soul was amazing. I might would have paid extra for that. Pixar has been killing it lately. But $30 is outrageous I mean most VOD are at the most $20 and you don’t have to pay for a streaming service on top of that.

@roberthan5109

3 жыл бұрын

Why do they keep charging Asian inspired films $30? First mulan, now this

A crystal jewel breaks into pieces and they have to team up and go on an adventure in an Eastern setting to find the pieces and restore the jewel so everything can be right in the world? Inspo from Inuyasha maybe??

im glad i cruised the comments of a video on your old channel and found this one. im probably going to binge watch all these videos now, keep up the great work.