My Problem with Raya and the Last Dragon 

Remember, kids, always trust the guy in the beat up windowless license-plate-less van handing out candy.

With Raya telling kids you should always trust everyone even if they openly threaten your life, and Wish telling kids they're entitled to anything they want regardless of the potential harm some people's desire would cause, I'm wondering what Disney is trying to achieve

My biggest gripe in this movie: when the druun are attacking and Raya and her dad are fleeing instead of bear hugging her and diving off the bridge together so he can protect her he stops, stares behind them, stares at raya, smiles, gives some inspirational BS, and tosses her. SHUT UP AND JUMP OFF WITH HER SHES LIKE 10

Just one thing I might add is this. In the scene where Sisu shares her plan of giving Namaari a gift, at first I thought it was just a joke. "Just walk up to Namaari and give her a gift, and she'll give us the gem piece and be best friends!" Of course, not a super funny joke (just like most of her jokes), but that's all I thought it was. Somehow it didn't even cross my mind that they would actually go with that plan. I actually thought to myself "What if someone made a parody where they actually followed Sisu's plan?" But when she proceeded to figuratively twist Raya's arm into going with her plan, I was like "oh... wait WHAT??? Are you kidding me right now?!" Although, in their defense, they didn't just walk straight into the palace like the original plan. What they actually ended up doing was slightly more logical.

Disney did manage to make a compelling, childishly annoying mysterious figure with Peter Pan. In the animated movie, Wendy is initially enamored and mystified by him because of the stories, but the mystery starts to unravel as the film progresses. At first, he seems rather gentlemanly saving her from falling, but then he starts laughing as the mermaids try to drown her, and Tiger Lily turns his face red. Wendy starts to realize how much of a child Peter really is and how much of a grown-up she has already become, and so she decides to go home.

The moral is that you're supposed to trust people... But they take EVERY OPPORTUNITY to show how trusting people is a bad idea. Literally _every time._ Whatever happened to "show, don't tell," the NUMBER ONE RULE OF STORYTELLING? Instead they _show_ the opposite of what they are trying to _tell._

Sounds like Disney has doubled down on going about the business of teaching children precisely the opposite of the morals and wisdom that they need. Thanks for the update and grats on the milestone!

There was NO character development. The main character immediately decided to trust an enemy, too. Such a weak movie

For the culture-review, watch Xiran Jay Zhao. She does not make the video by herself but gave the space to other people from the cultures represented, so I think of that one as a respectful and honest critique in good faith.

I tend to hyper-analyse movies and their plots when I watch them, so I for one am glad to have only heard of this movie twice. XD There's no way I would be able to sit through this. Honestly, as a huge fan of the original Beauty And The Beast, which has one of the best, most well-organized plots of any movie I can think of, it's sad to see how far Disney has fallen.

"Hey kids, you should trust everyone blindly and without question! That way, you'll turn into good little consumers - er, I mean children.

They trusted Sisu... and she failed... HARD. Proving that their trust in her was misplaced.

Thank you, this video is incredible!

I remember that a lot of people compared trusting in this film as forgiving. Which sounds like they go hand in hand, but not really.

Wait, hold on. This video should not be getting merely 15 views a day. For some reason RU-vid really doesn’t want to recommend this to your 600 subscribers

Me: Simple it’s Akwafina

I genuinely can not stand the fake out death trope, like if your going to kill a character kill them, not only is it a cheap way out (I might be a bit dramatic here tbf) I feel like way too many children movies do this and I think it's bad, like children shouldn't being taught that when people die the magic of friendship can bring them back to life like wft

Messages in Disney movies before: Be nice and others will do it too (Snow white) Your kindness and hard work will be rewarded (Cinderella) Follow your dream (Rapunzel) Be honest and brave (Aladdin) Your family is important, take care of her (Lilo and Stitch) They can help us to become better peoples and are easy to understand. The message in Raya and the last dragon: Trust anyone... even the persons who betrayed you or try to kill you. Yeah, that's not stupid and dangerous at all 😂Thank's for the advice disney!

Great video, and congratulations on 600 subscribers!

i think what would have gotten the message across better more if Namaari gave Raya the broken stone in the final scene instead of the otherway around, like as a show of being "sorry that everything happened because of me" or something along that line cause we didn't get to see Namarii character arc and didn't get that many scenes for us to see who she is as a character so it isn't really impactful of having her fix the stone it would've made more sense of having Raya doing it making it more impactful final scene cause we saw her gaining trust in people again and losing it, making her fixing the stones as her final character arc and fully trusting everyone again.

I hope u can reach 1k subs soon!!! Ur SUPER underrated! X3

...wait, hearing this now, it seems like gaslighting for kids.

😳 Woah.....I used to like this movie..... not anymore 😅 I'm one of those kids who had the trust message fly over their heads 😂🤣

This is kinda random but I really love your little amoeba icon and how it's in 4:3! It feels nostalgic 😭

I haven't watched this film, however a 'seeing eye to eye' message would have been a better idea than blindly trusting everyone. Not only should Raya learn to trust those that wish her no harm, but Sisu should learn that people can be cruel. And yes, this movie is already a total rip-off of ATLA, but here me out. I think Sisu should have found out that the real reason the dragon's had all died out was because of human cruelty, causing her to question everything she knows in utter shock. Eventually, she comes around and takes what she has learned to grow and become less naive.

I had forgotten this movie existed.

Hey it's up again!

I can’t wait to a wish movie review😈

Really great and entertaining video!! Quality made me think ya had way more subscribers~~

tbh i watched this movie bc i love dragons, the oriental ones are my favourite (i love how they don't have wings but can fly) but the design of the dragons make them look like big fluffy snakes fbiejsj i mean, they do have fur, but like a 'strip' that is on their back. other than that they're scaly 😮‍💨 and what's with the unicorn-like horns? (sorry, i'm just obsessed with dragons and wanted talk about the dragons design lmao)

I like your insight.

Such a good video and overview!

Did nobody noticed that this movie ripped off Avatar : the last airbender?

Ditto. :)

I'm going to leave my list here of every dragon better than Sisu Book Toothless from how to train your dragon books Movie Toothless from the how to train your dragon movies Furious how to train your dragon books basically most dragons from the how to train your dragon books Haku from spirited away The Dragon from Shrek Mushu from Mulan Sapphira from Eragon Falkor from the neverending story Smaug from the Hobbit All the Dragon ball dragons Every Zelda dragon Spyro the dragon The Gringotts dragon from harry potter Spike from my little pony All the Pokemon Dragon Types The Ender Dragon *EVERY SINGLE WINGS OF FIRE DRAGON* Maleficent when she turned into a dragon If you have any more suggestions ask I will edit the list because there's infinite amount of better dragons than Sisu

Frozen was an awful movie if you're looking at some of its messages.

Har Har. By this logic, Ratatouille justifies theft, murder, and all manner of ruthless pursuit.

You are way too hard on this movie. The film means that you cannot live an entire life without trusting anyone at all in the whole world. Sure, there are people you can't trust, but NOT EVERYONE is completely untrustworthy. There are actually people you can trust! 😮‍💨👎