Raya and the Last Dragon is pretty disappointing 

Bro you are a filipino I do to

I agree with this video except for the dragon's design part, I agree that it's ugly BUT it's not supposed to look like a western or eastern dragon, it's supposed to look like a Southeast Asian dragon, so I was just bothered that you compared it to other culture's dragons. But again, the dragon design is still ugly

it was just predictable

This was so good plus and this was true

I thing the dragons are supposed to resemble aisan culture dragons

The message wasn't trust it was second chances I really wanted namaari dead along with her mother But once i saw she was alive (her mother) I realize it was about second chances the shit she said earlier doesn't matter because second chances

@@ItachiUchiha_1724 if someone causes a war they shouldn’t get second chances

@@jodysgamingchannle3444 So, someone going to war against a tyrannical government that is executing people for no reason is bad? I know this isn't related to the story or movie whatsoever but I'm trying to determine if you mean unnecessary wars such as idiots fighting for religious reasons or if you mean wars in general. Regardless if the war happened because of famine or, lack of resources. While yes, the war in the movie is completely and utterly stupid, real life tends to be a bit more gray area. Sometimes wars don't have a reason, sometimes they do. Its the ones with a valid reason that are in the gray area and tend to be morally confusing.

true They just keep saying it OVER AND OVER

@@ItachiUchiha_1724 it isnt second chances when you start a plague that destroys the world and when you are given a second chance you dont take it

Literally this was the first thing wich poked my eyes from the movie

That was my problem with the movie too with native trust it’s not good to teach people to trust everyone.

It felt like they were going for three moral lessons all in one go, causing it to get muddled. "Don't shut everyone out based on bad past experiences" is a great message, but Numaari WAS the bad experience, so Raya has understandable cause to mistrust her. "You can reach people with an open heart" and "some people are capable of change" are also great messages and are a solid approach to redemption for Numaari, but they don't have Numaari show this well enough to warrant Raya trusting her (hell, he main conflict is due to her betraying Raya AGAIN). Honestly if they'd tweaked the moment right before the second betrayal it could have been REALLY interesting. Have Sisu be a mediator between them as she almost was in the movie but, instead of Numaari betraying them outright, have both Raya and Numaari be so wary that something minor causes the situation to rapidly escalate (e.g. they agreed on no weapons but realise both brought them anyway "because I knew YOU would," or one sees the other is fidgety and assumes they're going to be cast out so begins to argue). This then leads to a conflict against Raya and Numaari that causes Sisu to be killed in the crossfire, rather than because Numaari was literally aiming an arrow at her and Raya had an understandable reaction. It shows that sometimes there's too much water under the bridge for certain people, but when they come together as a group for somebody else they reach some semblance of peace and closure.

TRUE like how is it rayas fault again!! and i felt like the movie was doing this : OH GOOD JOB NUMAARI YOUR SO GOOD FOR KILLING SISU AND LET THE MODSTERS FREE AND YOU!!! RAYA YOU BASTERD ITS YOUR FUALT THAT THIS HAPPEN " i mean like im sorry but i think its namaari to blame here

That was my big problem with it, we should teach kids to say no, if they don't like something or someone. It isn't that Raya was a stupid bias child, she was nice to Numaari and not xenophobic but then Numaari gave her a valid reason to not trust her

“You’re as much to blame for sisus death as I am.” -totally trustworthy best written character that totally wasn’t about to shoot sisu /s

EXACTLY and everyone wanted them to be lesbians/girlfriends 🧍🏽‍♀️

@@lll-dh3mk Well that actually makes sense. Twitter always ships mortal enemies who hate each other together.

@@revolvingworld2676 catdora *cough* (it was so rushed I literally laughed)

@@jammindragon1812 exactly like what??? Bro fuck you Namaari

I personally HATE Sisu's invocation. Like, she's a dragon, A DRAGON. For me, a dragon invocation would require a specific location and a lot of trial and error. But Raya did the invocation so easily, and it looked so rushed and boring. I literally did a monch to my lunch, and the invocation went faster than I did. Still mad about it

Mushu is great dragon, don’t diss or get dishonored 🤣

Yea and she’s fun and she has self esteem issues she’s more than just comic relief

@@erins.b6739 unique and whimsical Maybe ur just jaded and can’t appreciate those things

Actually its a water dragon originating from a southeast asian mythology

we don't talk about raya, ya - ya - ya...

@@w.larproducer we don't talk about rayaaaa but-

RIGHT also WHY did they have to add SNOW??? And a DESERT????? They could have just made the *entire* world tropical like South East Asia is , it's not even impossible for a world to be like that EARTH was once like that even

@@sekaranandati526 AND THEY FAILED AT LITERALLY SISU'S DESIGN. SHE LOOKS MORE OF A WESTERN DRAGON THAN SOUTHEAST ASIAN And as far I heard the VAs are mostly east asian, not southeast

@@w.larproducer funny enough "ya" means yes in malay

Can he swim?

@@PekoAnimePage I have no idea tbh

He used to be a guardian of the gem which means he must have been trained to overcome any obstacles and be strong enough in any situation. Isn't learning how to swim an essential to surviving and overcoming an obstacle?

@@SoelSofiaEloise pretty much!

i thought that too!! but i feel like because of his chief status it wouldn’t have been noble to bail like that, for lack of better terms. it was his duty to stay with his people and land until the very end. he probably felt guilty too and as if that’s what he needed to do, of course he didn’t want raya to pay that price

Pretty sure it wouldn't be much of a problem to rewrite Sisu's motto to "trust is earned not given" with just a few tiny changes to the story, because that dragon just doesn't really serves as anything. It could just be as well a statue of a dragon and nothing really will change that much.

Mary sue ass dragon

I don’t mind the message of learning to give trust first, but there’s still a breaking point. It’s one thing to offer it (as her dad did at the beginning), but a completely different thing to blindly trust people like Sisu. Wanting to see the good in people is admirable, but sisu was just being stupid, and she got taken advantage of very quickly in talon. What they should have focused on was finding a middle ground: don’t let past betrayals prevent you from trusting anyone else. Raya was betrayed, and reasonably didn’t trust Namari after. But Sisu (in the only part where I liked her) saw that she was hesitant and latched onto that, trusting that she would make the right choice, which she almost did. It’s a hard line to walk, but it could’ve been done better.

The characters designs look like xbox avatars

Not really found all the characters boring. Especially the main character. No personality apart from I trust no one and yes I know but that does not make her anymore likeable. I hope to god. To any god that she does not become an official princess. I love the first three(/the golden trio) princesses but I think Raya is a worst role model.

Yeah, but didn't she choose to die anyway after reassembling the gem?

Exactly! This would be like calling Megatron or Skeletor heroes for saving the day when they literally had no other choice.

who tf hates olaf??!??😭😭😭 Olaf was the best damn thing in that movie

@@a.t3107 i totally agree!! some frozen super fans hate that he's been overcommercialized and in all the shorts, which i do wish the new Olaf Presents featured Elsa & Anna. but disney will always be commercial! i still

Actually I don't like Olaf much, he was kind of annoying. While I enjoyed Sisu a lot in comparison!

@@yaoiloverstudio eh…. sisu was okay in my opinion…. i don’t know why… but it just felt like she lacked something

@@a.t3107 He was funny in the first movie till he was flanderized in the second movie with that horrible "joke"

Haku from "Spirited Away" has a mane, but it's much less prominent and it fits in well with his overall design.

@@CinnamonGrrlErin1 spirited away is such a great movie

Eastern dragons do have manes but a whole body of fur? Ehhh

I feel like it resembles something like an extremely stylized naga, as someone who’s Thai and has that as part of their culture.

I've seen better Asian dragons.

The baby had a family and so did he? It would be kinda weird if he went to her family like “I want your child cause we bonded.”

@@jammindragon1812 kindnapping but with extra steps

maybe it's a good thing it's not available in se asia

They always are but it hurts when they don't even try. There were some beautiful scenes that really showed culture like with the Sisu ritual or when they mourn their loved ones with the flowers etc. But it's so horribly overshadowed by the weirdly modern dialogue, unnecessary characters (looking at you monkey squad), messy story and horrible moral.

Bro, Disney did amazing representation of others cultures like Mulan, Lilo and Stich, Moana, Encanto. It depends a lot who's involved in movie project and how professional and competent they are. My country was represent by Disney not for a movie, but for only a character (José Carioca), and we, in Brazil, we love him and find him good, being a representative of us. Like I said, it depends who's working on it, like any job

Well, it's a shit representation but it's somehow hit home. You don't know how many times SE Asian trying to stab each other in the back for the last 700 years. Mainly Thailand and Cambodia but dang. The only reason 10 south east Asian managed to united as one because America and China want all of us their bitches.

Not for Mulan and Moana. Mulan was done with too little research and too many inaccuracies. Moana was fine but ppl complained it was just a story with Polynesian theming around it. Encanto seemed to do a great job with colombian culture from what I’ve heard

Her Build a Bear is cute! But that's not direct merch

Where did you read that this was in development during the avatar craze? I tried to find it but I can’t, anywhere I’ve looked says this movie was in production for 3-4 years

@@what6494 well it usually takes a few years for animation, but for Disney it only really takes a year or two at most, as the avatar craze was ending this was being teased and trailers came a year later and then it flopped (Plus if you watch raya it’s mostly just sitting and talking with the “big scenes” being mostly cgi and thus even easier to animate along with their extremely short time frames

Fun fact: this movie was originally titled "dragon empire".

@@MarkSamurai5 I'll be real MANY shows have names they know they're gonna change, it's like me calling my show hotdog as a place holder and then calling it FLCL to show the meme nature but also that it sounds like theres more to it

Even with that idea all of sisus merch looks absolutely terrible 😂

Disney channel SEA be like 🤡🤡🤡 Upin and Ipin and the last dragon

@@anadhdguy8101 No hate btw but what's wrong with upin ipin?

The real question is how beanie watched it then?

@@user-zi9pr9ic4z just a popular cartoon kids watch

They don't want any SE Asian watching Raya and pointing out all the things they did wrong.

It feels like they were trying to go for a "turn the other cheek/forgiveness" kind of moral, but didn't understand that forgiveness isn't the same thing as trust.

I don't understand why Numaari was the one person she had to trust, when Raya had a whole group she learned to trust especially the scene when she put her trust into the giant guy, because she had to and because she saw his whole village being stone. like that convayed the message of trusting much better than her having to trust everyone especially someone who did not deserved it at all.

​@zhengedi3859 It would have been a much better message if it was something like just because one person did something bad to you doesn't mean you you can't trust OTHER PEOPLE!

i saw a comment somewhere that said the dragon looked like a mix between sully from monsters INC and elsa :(

it's based on easter dragons more so the Chinese dragons so it is accurate to it's easten influence

@@silverfoxdemon9292 But I'm pretty sure they didn't have a fur (besides their mane), nor they weren't blue or in other, pastel/rainbow colours. In my opinion, it's just running my experience a bit being honest. I think, it would really fit better if the dragon was a bit more "serious" looking if that makes sense :V. Like, in darker colours, having actuall scales, maybe the face of it could be not as 'Elsa-looking' or something :0

It's based on East Asian dragons, not European dragons.

@@tylersmith3139 east asian dragons can still be scaly amd serious looking. Sisu looks more like a Kirin than an actual Eadtern dragon, which generallt are very scaly with fur only on maine, tail and mustaches and stuff

Considering Beanie is Filipeno, I'm not sure how he didnt notice this

Thank god other people feel the same! The script was terrible, the dialogue and language used is jarring and feels distinctly out of place, and the plot and characters are so weak. I think the reason the modern North American influenced phrasing is so out of place here is because in Aladdin he's a street urchin, in How to Train Your Dragon they're a rough Viking clan, in each case they're characters who even within the context of their own worlds would not necessarily be expected to speak in a formal or eloquent manner. Genie works as well on two levels because to us he's breaking the fourth wall and making funny, Loony Tunes wacky references to the real world, and for Aladdin and the others in the world of the film Genie is this chaotic force of energy where much of what he says and manifests don't make sense, so to them a reference to the real world is passable as just more Genie nonsense. In Raya, she and Namaari are basically princesses, their parents are well spoken, so we expect them to talk in a way that makes sense in that context, and a dragon from five centuries ago is the last character we'd expect to sound modern. For the script I just wish Raya would react like a human being to literally anything. She barely spends two minutes reflecting on the loss of her father, she never talks about growing up in the apocalypse alone as a child. She never expresses guilt, she barely hints at in any way blaming herself for her part in the gem breaking or in Sisu getting shot, she just always instantly jumps to: blame Namaari, try to kill Namaari, even when the world is ending around her. When a dragon appears before her she's not in awe or overwhelmed, she reacts to the MAGICAL CREATURE no one has seen for 500 years in the same way you might react to an app that's kinda cool. And it just seems like nonsense even if you do blame Namaari to not even countenance the idea of asking if she'd like to help restore the gem and save the world. Even if you hated each other, who isn't going to be on board with saving the world, bringing back everyone everyone has lost? No one reflects on how many people have been lost, not even the guy whose entire village is gone, or the children who lost their families. The Druun scourge is practically the Thanos finger snap but it almost feels like there's no repurcussions. You're totally right about the moral messaging too, it just doesn't seem to fit the story, she doesn't have to learn a lesson so much as in the end the world is ending and there are no other options, and then they have a group hug with the woman Raya has repeatedly tried to kill in the recent past, a woman Raya has expressed nothing but anger for and blames for destroying the world in the first place. If she felt like that, as the movie keeps telling us she does, then trust or not in her mind that's still the person most responsible for like half the world getting turned to stone including Raya's beloved FATHER. The script is just terrible, it really is. Visually stunning movie though.

Totally agree with you. Especially the dialogue messed with the immersion. Like in the other movies you mentioned, it sounds modern but still fits with the rest of the world. But here they make references to things that don't make even a little bit of sense in an apocalyptic monarchy driven wasteland. The whole group project line when Sisu appeared just felt so unfitting. Where would Raya have ever done a group project like this? She's the only princess trained to fight in a world full of hate and separation. It felt like cheap humor made to make uncritical viewers think "haha ancient dragon says relatable Meme" which just made me hyperaware that Sisu is an incredibly commercialized product and not an actual character.

You should check out Encanto, its visuals are even better and the story is insanely fun for me :D

T-T ngl. I wish I could fking rewrite this. Should I?

Totally agree with you on the modernized dialogue. It was so distracting. The first time I heard the term "dragon nerd," I think I physically cringed.

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Well there is one dragon that I know used to have wings in asia it's called the bakunawa

​@@chitae8551Bakunawa is a Naga. Nagas don't have wings! They're supposed to be serpentine and lives on bodies of water.

They're supposed to be snake-like. Not PONY like.

😂

I always hate when people pretend a character is dead and it isn't. I hate that trope sooooo much & glad I'm not the only one.

@@hearmeout1767 IKR I’m not gonna get into it cuz then I’d be here all day lol but I’m just gonna say if you’re gonna kill off a character then resurrect them or completely fake their death altogether, it better be for a DANG good reason. I’ve seen this done well only twice that I can think of off the top of my head

@@SignalFire_Animations a bit late but I’m really curious as to what the two examples are

​@@luckystarplays1837 I'm also curious

@@SignalFire_Animationsnot going to give the examples?

you lack in knowledge by south east asian cultures ;P

@@n1ck3f I live in South easr Asia and this movie is dumb and bland, Kung fu Panda is better than this Disney garbage

Moana??

@@laei6391 are you from china if so it’s not In Southeast Asia but in Eastern Asia 😭

@@mercury_icarus I mean, the representation of China in Kung fu Panda is better than the representation of SEA in Raya and the Last Plushie

Yeah!

YES this is what I kept saying while watching it, the “found family” trope that they tried to push so hard didn’t work because we had no reason to really connect and like the characters?? Plus so many things felt so rushed

Yeah that was my first thought at the end of the movie

Being one of the cherry-picked movies locked behind an additional $30 paywall on Disney+ also likely didn't help*

Ohhh Snap!

LMFAO

SO DAMN TRUE OMG, I DONT WATCH THE MOVIE BECAUSE OF THE DRAGON KINDA ANNOYING, will choose spirited away a thousand times than this

But they could have made a badass eastern dragon, just like in Spirited Away and Dragon Ball. The design of the Raya's dragon sucks because it's just too cute and childish. It doesn't even look like an ancient powerful creature.

​@@eduardonevesreis9299 I mean its Disney though- its expected that ts cute. I dont expect a bad ass dragon like spirited away or dragon ball in a Disney film. BUT yes, I will agree that the face they gave her was very uncool- and could have been way better. I just dont expect it out of disney

@@AlisterSweets I mean, it would be really cool, if the dragon design was more serious, like a real, ancient, powerful creature, and then changing to a human form like that, it would be a nice contrast in my opinion. I mean, not make it to be very dramatic, because it shouldn't be overdone otherwise it would just look stupid, but still, if done right it would be really nice. And the dragon doesn't need to look like an elongated furry lizard with a child's face to still look "nice and kindhearted" or stuff too :0

That part of the video bothered me too... he's Asian but doesn't know that Eastern dragons are a thing. Kind of embarrassing.

Chinese Lung Dragon, but they stated they based Sisu's design off the Naga.

Not only was and is MUSHU a better character design, he also has more personality than Sisu. Sisu is like a doll programmed to run on trust, Mushu had a mission, you could relate to him even if he ended up being the funny guy. He had his moment of glory. I still must understand where did Sisu stood in this movie...

I do love how much thought DreamWorks put into their dragons in the HTTYD movies and shows. Admittedly some aren’t the best and a few got kinda repetitive, but the main 5, Whispering/Screaming death, the Deathsong, Skrill, FireWorm, Typhomerang, and Changewings are my favorites. The designs, patterns, and personalities come across so well even though the dragons DON’T speak. I could see DreamWorks re-working the designs of their more elongated and serpent like dragons and easily make them look SEA.

Mushu: am I a joke to you?

At the end of the movie when she sees her dad, he limps to pick up a flag

Yea I kinda felt like it's become an annoying word of some sort

I mean, they trusted Namaari to save herself alongside the whole world. Namaari had no choice. A super way to hammer the trust message (no).

I've seen what Asian dragons look like in art. And they don't look like My Little Pony rejects. Do Better Disney!

It will probably be better

Yes I agree, this hilarious review could be made into a tv show.

Yeah

Only one joke in this movie legitimately made me laugh and that was "We still have a big chunk of it though... " "IF YOU LOST A 𝙋𝙐𝙋𝙋𝙔 AND I SAID " wElL wE sTiLl hAvE a BiG cHuNk oF iT" WOULD THAT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER?!"

They don't look very much alike, this is true, but one thing they both do have in common is that they don't look like My Little Pony characters. Sisu is for some reason designed very mammalian, and her face is awfully humanesque and "cute", but it just ends up making her uncanny to look at for me. She does not even remotely look like the Bakunawa or Phaya Nak she was based on.

i dont think its about the body structure. you even mention mushu having the same body type when he said in the video that mushu looks like a dragon. more about the face and color palette i think. she looks like an mlp dog cat elsa horse instead of having dragony features

You don't need to use your legs to swim. If you ever watch long distance open water swimming at the Olympics they essentially don't use their legs at all until the sprint to the finish at the very, very end. And it's not like he needs to go at Olympian pace, they established an understanding that the Druun don't like water, so even being injured and just floating with the river would have been enough to escape. And I think most people know you can just float on your back. It's just one of many nonsensical decisions characters make in the film sadly.

Either way, he could have used the gem to defend himself.

Dragons are covered in scales not fur.

@Gabriella Macieyowski sisu wasn't supposed to have leg's lol

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