Everything Wrong With Raya and the Last Dragon In 19 Minutes Or Less 

The theme of this movie is “trust people no matter how much they hurt you”. That should be a sin.

The "idea" of dragons running on water in the air instead of actually flying / levitating is actual Chinese mythology

(opening line) Raya - “I know what you’re thinking “ Me - “How are you staying upright on that ball?”

"Someone's stolen Fang's dragon scroll" *Angry Kung-Fu Panda noises*

“He’s straight up drippin” was the highlight of this video

Raya: "Each Island was named after a part of the body" That one small island in between Right leg and Left leg: *._.*

I like the graphics, I liked the voice acting, I hated that stupid baby, and I liked the potential this movie had, HOWEVER the movie felt forced, and they spent so much time trying to give this movie a back story that they really didnt give us a chance to build an emotional bond with either of them. On top of that the message was very damaging and toxic, not at all something I'd want children to learn. Basically it was saying to trust people who mean you harm, forgive and forget people that never even bothered to apologize nor make things right towards you, that people who have done wrong deserve little to no consequences for their actions. In reality this is a horrible message. What I dislike most is the fact that they tried to paint Raya out to be the bad guy for RIGHTFULLY feeling the way that she did. The creators meant well, but their message does more harm then good. Most importantly, I REALLY hated that baby.

I feel like this movie could have been vastly improved if 1) Raya and Nemari had known each other for longer than a day, making the "betrayal" more impactful and, ya know, a betrayal; 2) They omitted the whole flashback to when they were kids entirely. I think it would have been much more interesting if the first time we learn about the betrayal (and her losing her father) is when Raya is doing the ritual and says "I trusted someone I shouldn't have," and we only learn more about it as the story progresses, instead of literally being handed it. It would also make the confrontation scene in the cave a lot more dramatic and tense since we wouldn't know who Nemari is at that point or her past relationship to Raya. And before anyone complains, yes, I know this is a kids movie, but that doesn't mean there can't be improvements or critiques.

I honestly think this movie had SO much potential. The animation was insane, the actors were well chosen. The issue is the plot was much too ambitious to fit properly into such a short movie. They rushed through way too many important details. Oh and the weird quirky modern-day relatable jokes were way cringe...

I'm surprised you didn't sin Sisu's annoying "trust strangers that are trying to trick you, steal from you and ruin the world" messages.

The fact that Raya trusted someone despite knowing them for probably only 20 minutes and then CONTINUED to trust her even after she is revealed to be in possession of something she shouldn't be in possession of deserves a sin, maybe even ten of them.

Really surprised you didn’t sin Namari’s “ you’re just as much to blame for Sisu‘s death as I am”

Wait, no sins for the fart bugs? Jeremy, you're slacking.

This movie literally feels like a video game story. With mini boss fights, and each location being a level. (And constantly checking the map)

Honestly, my biggest problem with this movie, and one of the reasons I feel like its message about trust doesn’t work, is because Raya and Namaari’s relationship is handled really badly and confusingly. The movie acts like they used to be good friends and that they really knew each other, but they didn’t. The only reason Namaari was being nice to Raya to begin with was because she was tricking her into letting her see the gem so she could take it. She literally meets Raya and betrays her in the same scene. I feel like if they did something similar to Moses and Ramses’s relationship from the Prince of Egypt where they grew up together as childhood friends, but due to the ongoing feud with their clans and their parents’ obsession with getting the gem, they slowly drifted apart and became enemies, then that would be a much more compelling and heartbreaking story, and it would at least give Raya a slightly better reason for being willing to trust her at all again. And I don’t normally say this, but honestly, I think Frozen did a better job with its theme about trust. While I would argue it’s not explicit or the main point of the story, I feel like there is an underlying theme when it comes to Anna and Elsa and how they trust/don’t trust people. Anna is extroverted, energetic, and willing to let anyone into her life, while Elsa is introverted, isolated, and unwilling to let anyone into her life out of fear of accidentally hurting them. The movie shows through Elsa’s isolation and through Hans being the twist villain that being too trustful or too untrustful can be dangerous. That is a way more interesting way to teach a message about trust to kids in my opinion. Anyway, let me know if u agree.

I'd also like to point out that it somehow took Raya 6 YEARS to get to the end of each river section (apparently there were hundreds of river endings but that map had no more than 30 at most) yet somehow she can hop around the whole world in about a day or less when trying to find the gems. Not to mention the way Namari can be ahead if Raya when she just riding her cats while Raya has a motorized dragon boat and a speedy ball of cuteness.

Sisu: "I've been asleep for 500 years" Cue: Robin Williams Genie

I liked this movie, but I have a feeling it’s original pitch was WAAAAAAY more interesting before Disney got ahold of it and put their “Disney Animated Movie Checklist” fingerprints all over it.

Raya: "I just really, really want my Ba back." What Sisu should have replied: "Your Ba? Bi***, i want my entire species back!"

Raya's biggest flaw is that it tried to cram so much into one movie. There was no time to get attached to any characters, or for them to develop a convincing bond. Imagine if this had been mini series instead. Even if the graphics took a hit, the writers would have had more time to work with to tell a compelling story.

Best “I don’t need THIS anymore” sin ever. 😂

"Quick, everyone to the water!" Finally! I'm not the only one who was like, "But... There's no water..?" Lol

My biggest problem with this movie was the pacing. The plot flies by at breakneck speeds and never gets time to breathe. It feels like their collecting the dragon shards way too quickly and with little difficulty. Cars had the same run time as this movie but feels much longer since the pacing is much slower.

When you gave a sin for Namaari's mom being turned to stone when she's always carrying the scepter with the stone on top, you forgot that Namarri swiped the gem stone during the night and met with Raya. So that sin shouldn't count.

I love how plot just conveniently has Namaari’s arrow have the ability to not only kill a dragon, but has enough power to push Sisu off the cliff and into the water

No sin for the father acting like his daughter isn’t all a sudden two times the size and age from when they were last together

12:13 do you know what else has nine stomachs? A flying bison from avatar the last airbender

10:37 Tuc Tuc’s expression is just perfect when he talks

I’m still wondering why they didn’t have like 30 guards all willing to commit Mass murder to protect the stone instead of 2 people who would be , so so to want to kill a single person

So me and my dad watched this film and at the end he was like "How is that Fang mother not locked up or something??" I mean, she was ready to backstab the world lol

3:27 The real question is why this test is the final test necessary, especially when that test forces the test taker to use offensive techniques, when a guardian would need to primarily use defensive techniques.

The "she shoots Sisu by the seashore" bit was hilarious! :D Well done!

also, "revered magical being of untold power is actually a bumbling idiot" cliche

I’ll say this about Raya and the Last Dragon: at least it wasn’t live action Mulan.

Movie: Raya and the Last Dragon RU-vid: Ah, yes, Moana

Oooh and don't forget! 1) The message of the movie is to learn to trust people... which they demonstrate by making the protagonist trust the person who practically caused the end of the world, has shown no remorse for it, and has only ever interacted with her when she was trying to kill her. 2) Making a movie themed around an action hero martial artist princess and giving her enemies that cannot be harmed by physical means 2a) ...which makes the climax just being people holding their little Not-Phials of Galadriel glowy rocks and shouting "Haaaa!" at formless shadow things 3) Everybody here comes from a warrior culture but the only people that we ever see really demonstrating that are Raya and Naamiri. Kind of makes the giant warrior guy from Spine pointless when there's nothing for him to do.

I feel like this movie also incorporated (too much) "modern slang" in a movie that was supposed to be in a somewhat ancient fantasy set and kinda... felt annoying at some points. Or is it just me?

This was the most gorgeous looking thoroughly average movie of the year. Didn't hate it, Didn't love it. It just made me feel nothing

Here’s some fun facts that people may not know about this movie. It’s not based mostly on China. It’s actually based on Southern Asian countries Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Sisu is based on the Nāga, a water dragon in Southeast Asia. According to the screenwriter, “The difference between an Eastern or Chinese dragon versus the Nāga is that a Chinese dragon is based on luck and power, and the Nāga, because it’s water, it’s life and hope. It’s just that slight little difference. We didn’t want a dragon that came in to empower Raya to hit people more; we wanted one that would inspire her to open up and trust.”

14:08 Technically, it happened several times in history. Vlad Dracula III “The Impaler” challenged Vladislav II of Wallachia to a duel near the town of Târgsor. Vlad’s Army was outnumbered yet Vladislav accepted. The same happened with Dan III. He challenged Vlad “The Impaler” to a duel when his army got ambushed by Vlad’s Army, and Vlad accepted.

The thing that kinda of pissed off was that Fang was like “who do you think they are going to blame, if everything goes back to normal?” As if they didn’t do anything wrong, of course they SHOULD have been held accountable, they started the fight!

I can't believe CinemaSins didn't sin the rather unhealthy message this movie attempted to deliver:trust everyone all the time,no matter what. Namaari never apologized about the coup she started when they were kids, stooped to victim-blaming Raya for killing Sisu when it was Namaari herself that brought a crossbow to their negotiation and aimed it at them in the first place.Her mother may have influenced her but in the end, the person who decides how Namaari acts is Namaari herself. She never apologized on-screen and that was a missed opportunity. Sisu's story about how her siblings trusted her with the gem is no way parallel to what Raya went through: Sisu was NOT harmed by what her siblings did, Raya was hurt by Namaari did and once again, Namaari didn't act like the adult she thought she was and apologize to Raya.

"the last one is always the right one" is ALWAYS true regardless of movies......why would anyone continue looking for something after they found it?

Assuming there’s only 6 rivers like we’re shown, it’s a 1/720 chance she picks the correct river last. That number increases factorially as you add more rivers into the mix

I thought for sure CinemaSins would point out the fact that they evacuated out into the empty canal, which filled back up almost instantly once the magic came back. All those people DIED!!!

You missed one glaring plot hole. Wasn’t one of the dragon powers the ability to run on rain? Why not use the ability to make water to defeat the Druune who don’t like water? Ug, this movie!

when i watched the movie, i called the protagonist 'walmart moana' and the antagonist 'karen'

The second I saw the rain magic all I could think was "So why is it not now always raining 24/7 to keep the Druun away?"

ah yes the typical "i'm the super optimistic legendary character" and the "i'm the super pessimistic main character" there's also the typical clans in animated fantasy being the clan the main character is from/the clan that can do no wrong, the bad guy clan, the big city/shopping district clan, the clan that always fights, and the minor/forgetful clan. this movie had so much cliches to me

To paraphrase Cinemasins a little: “ This the most visually interesting boring movie I’ve seen in a while.”

17:00 no, Namaari had Fang's gen piece with her. Her mother was unprotected at that moment.

when he started singing "look around look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now" i subscribed

I’ve realized that whenever a movie starts with “I know what your thinking …” I immediately check out. It’s like 1) don’t tell me what I think, that’s kind of pretentious and 2) a lot of times it’s not at all what I was thinking.

This movie somehow managed to overexplain everything and still leave me confused

13:00 when you put modern haircuts into a movie that takes place years in the past

16:53 Are we not going to talk about the fact that Namari stole the gem from her mom so her mom was defenseless?

I thought for a magic rock everyone wanted… She got the pieces back pretty damn easy.

The thing that pisses me off about this movie is the rivers. They could flow into the dragon shaped lake. But instead like 20+ lakes all flow OUT. Why are they flowing out? Where are they going? Where does the water for the lake come from? WATER DOESNT FLOW OUT FROM A LAKE IN MULTIPLE PLACES. All that had to happen is the water flows into the lake from these rivers. This one thing just pisses me off. Have they never seen how rivers and lakes work? Anyway. Please make reasonable water features in your magic dragon Disney movies.

THANK YOU for doing the Robin Williams Genie reference for Sisu's entrance! I cannot explain how much I *needed* it.

16:33 great! You invented a tongue twister

''Moana did it better'' Most true sentence ever.

As a joke, me and my brothers call it “Raya and the Overpriced Premier Access” Edit: I FORGOT I MADE THIS COMMENT! Thanks for the likes, like a ton, it may seem tiny, but I have never had a comment this popular!

I feel like Raya and Namaari's storyline had a lot of potential (along with the film itself, pretty much), but just ended in a "Forgive and forget." or "Be the bigger person." kind of message. It probably would've been a better message, and just better plot, to make them both learn to trust eachother and to build their friendship. Even if it failed, it could even still been a better message, since Namaari did do a lot of terrible things. Instead, it just felt really rushed and forced into being a friendship.

“He straight up drippin’” funniest stuff I have heard in a long time.

One thing that made me mad was that the dragons didn’t come back for whatever reason the first time, but then they MAGICALLY COME BACK THE NEXT TIME. There was no difference in the blasts.

This pacing was all over the place. 2 minutes bringing the dragon back to life and 10 minutes of the dragon giving a speech about trust that didn’t really do anything.

"The odds of the last one being the right one is only seen in movies." Clearly sir, you underestimate the power of my back luck.

6:16 Also Raya is thrown into a heavy current river with a surly very heavy metal sword strapped to her back and doesn't drown?

I watched this movie with some of my friends and when Namaari's mom said look around my friend said, "Everything the light touches is our kingdom."

For a movie called “Raya and the last dragon” I would’ve expected more Raya and the last dragon instead of “Raya and the broken world and oh yeah there is a dragon too”

The people were hoarding the stones like Gollum’s “precious”. That one chick was acting like it was the stone from the hobbit. The thing that I will only refer to as the “blob of darkness” was an animated version of either “the darkness” from Twitches or “the it” from A Wrinkle in Time. The flash to the present time in the beginning of the movie was similar to Rey’s introduction in The Force Awakens. Can we get ONE Disney movie that is completely original?

0:45 I’m sorry, but this transition/sequence, whatever this animation is, it’s just beautiful, all sinning aside. ❤

Only thing that i actually didn’t like was the ending, if the dragons stayed died it would have pushed the topic of we have to work/stay together

I realize that this is nitpicky, but this is a CinemaSins comment section. The projectile in question at 14:18 is in fact a shrimp tail. As it comprises the back half of the animal and provides propulsion, it fulfills the requirements for a tail and lacks the head that would mark it as a whole shrimp.

Oh my gosh, I don't normally just bust out laughing, but 0:54 got me. "This is what we used to be" "Antelope?" XD

Namaari had the dragon crystal part in the end to fool Raya and kidnap Sisu, that's why her mother was defenseless against the Druun

Definitely 10 dragon sized Raya's imo. This is the content I come to YT for, thank you.

This movie plot is kind of similar to the last air bender. One nation attacks and causes a war. Raya has to go find a a dragon that’s suppose to save the world. Then has to travel to the different nation so the dragon can learn different magic while gain information allies from each one. The bad guy later joins the group too.

I would like to point out a few suspicious similarities between this movie and Avatar the last air bender. 1. Tuk tuk is pretty much Appa. Both used for transport, both had scenes showing them as a baby but grow up to be enormous, and both are mythical creatures, both can swim. 2. The title. Raya and the Last Dragon; Avatar: the Last Airbender. The only thing that is different about the wording is the “and” in Raya and the Last Dragon. 3. Each of the dragons having different powers, just like the different types of benders 4. Lands were divided and each land hosts different powers (cough literally the same as avatar cough) 5. Namaari is Zuko 6. That scene where the monkeys knock out the guards is the same technique that Ty Lee uses. I know I’m forgetting some you I think you get the point. The whole time I watched the movie all I could think of was Avatar. A little weird if you ask me

The scene where Namaari accuses Raya of being equally guilty for Sisu's death as she is has to be the biggest sin in the history of cinema!!

*Raya's dad is preparing stew* Hey, what's up, guys, welcome back to Binging with Ba-bish.

Did he just add a sin for Raya and her dad sitting up straight? 😂😂

Can we appreciate that there are no unnecessary songs in this moive

A personal sin from myself. They set up the mom/queen of fang to be the big baddy, with her saying ominous sh*t like "I will take care of this." then she just stops existing for the last 30 minutes of the movie. it would have been more Disney if the daughter listened to them to put down the crossbow, and then the mother barged in and shot Sisu. My point being it feels like they rewrote the ending the way the mom acts like she is gonna do something stupid, and then just peaces out.

Okay so just because Frozen was successful doesn't mean every single god damn film has to have a character or characters stylized similar to Elsa and Ana.

Logic of this movie: 4 dragons turn themselves into a gem that protects people, but somehow if you break it and put it back together it will revive those 4 dragons as well as every other dragon who died... Imagine at the beginning of the movie when the gem gets broken, if people put the pieces back together, out of nowhere all the dragons get revived for no reason...

8:40 My favorite line in this whole video.

6:44 Perhaps Raya got chased away by Namaari and her crew and was unable to reach the river's end. 13:51 Tong was tied up, facing his enemy who had a sword, and an enemy clan outside the walls of his town. 15:04 Well, a lot of them did get Drunn'd... 16:52 Pretty sure that Namaari took her mom's dragon gem piece. So it's actually 133 sins.

I'm surprised you didn't sin the fact Raya acted like she knew Namari for ages when she betrayed her, when in truth it was like 6 hours. She goes on to say she knows how to push Namari's buttons as if she found out all of Namari's secrets and pet peeves in those 6 hours when she was like 12.

Raya; should have been a tv series instead of a movie. That's all I'll say.

i really really liked exactly one part of this movie- raya, and more specifically her animation. i literally only liked the movie bc i liked her character and design

I absolutely love this movie, but the ONE thing he mentioned that I hate is the position of the stone dragon siblings. I noticed it the first time I watched lmao

I like how he didnt sin one of the big things i noticed. The Dragon Scroll said Sisu was as the END of the river yet on the map it looks like she went to ALL the rivers even the ones upstream. IF they know Heart is where the dragon boom magic went down then all raya had to do was look at the rivers east. Hell i would have just looked at the very last river and went backwards from there.

at least once, i would like to see an ancient, highly revered person/creature/god/whatever from long ago be revived in the present for a story, and instead of them being another case of casual mannerisms like sisu again, we get more of the comically serious type.

is it just me, or is there significant "long ago, the four nations lived in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked!" vibes from the beginning of this movie? especially in the "what do you know about the other lands" part. editing now that i have actually watched the entire EWW vid; i am so glad CinemaSins caught it too!

"He doesn't let them steep " WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH THAT'S SO GOOD I WISH THEY PUT THAT IN THE MOVIE

This really would have worked better as a tv series. There's just too much plot, which makes the the pacing feel rushed.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who didn't find that baby amusing

17:29 so, the eternals.

all the random flashbacks feels like me trying to come up with a story in my head to fall asleep but feeling like i have to give it way more backstory and then never getting to the actual plot and falling asleep before anything happens