Watching Raya And The Last Dragon (2021) FOR THE FIRST TIME!! || Movie Reaction! 

Hey everyone hope you enjoyed the reaction! Also please let me know if the watermark is too much, decided to do a lot less blurring in this reaction which is why the watermark is a little more visible. See you next for a surprise movie!!

This movie was good but there were so many elements I wish could be explored more, particularly the different locations and subcultures of all the characters.(and their backstories) It would’ve been a great tv series imo (even if a series wouldn’t get the same level of animation quality)

Another movie about Asian culture I HIGHLY recommend you watch is Over the Moon. Such an underrated and ignored movie. Its created by one of the well known Disney animators, Glen Keane.

I don't think the point of this movie is "Trust everyone", it's "Have faith in others. They'll prove who they are when the time truly matters."

The writers had a blast making researching South East Asian cultures. After they pitched that they wanted to make an "Asiancentric" film, Disney gave them a few weeks to fully develop their concept by sending them to Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia. If you watch Raya in its entirety, you'll see some aspects of lore and customs from each of the researched cultures. They came up with the name "Raya" for the protagonist the last minute before finalizing their pitch to Disney and came into being it after they unintentionally overheard some Malaysians use that name in a casual discussion.

I honestly don’t care what people think, this is one of my favorite movies and is a guilty pleasure of mine. I feel that all the negativity on this film recently has really gotten to me and made me afraid of saying I liked it when others didn’t, but still, I love it just the way it is.

Slight correction: those dragon statues weren't a memorial. That's where the Druun turned them to stone.

The true moral of this movie should have been forgiveness, not trust. True trust does not come from confide blindly in others (like Sisu) but from forgiving theme. The other morale should have been atonement and earning said forgiveness and trust, but let's be onest not once has Namari, nor Fang in general, did anything to redeem themselves for literally causing the end of the world, and earning the trust of others. Till the very end they keep plotting and betray, the only reason Namari returned back to form the gem was that there was no other way around it and everything was already lost.

A beautiful movie. Not just visually, but spiritually as well. It didn't pull any punches. It didn't have some magical plotarmor. Shizu died, and the heroes had to give up their souls and have blind faith to win. This is not something you would see out of Disney, or most studios now a days.

nick: that was so clever raya: alright tuk tuk lets show them what clever really looks like

Me watching Nick's happy reactions to Namaari and Raya's early interactions. "Oh, my sweet summer child..." "Does she like her?" LGBTQ Fans: It's free real estate! Love that its one person from each of the tribes coming together to fix the gem.

Ah everybody loves Tuk Tuk. I want a Tuk Tuk, I don’t care if he’s species is impossible I want him! Though you know a corgi could be a good real life example. Short, fluffy, and cute!

Raya and the Last Dragon is one of my favorite Disney films of the latest releases. The ancient setting of the story is what pulled me in, where people coexist with fascinating creatures like the dragons. Speaking of which, Sisu is my favorite character in this film. Her personality is enjoyable in my opinion, and I like how she she’s willing to put her trust in others (even though at times, it didn’t work out). I really like how heartwarming this film is, the feels hit me every time, especially when I see the families are reunited and all the tribes come together again in the end. Thanks for the reaction, Nick! 🙂 P.S: I really like the soundtrack!

Out of all the minority Disney princesses, we have 3 Asian ones: Jasmine from a Middle-Eastern-inspired land (West Asia); Mulan from China (East/Northeast Asia) and now Raya from a Southeast-Asian-inspired world. Maybe someday we'll get a Japanese-inspired epic musical--though I'd also enjoy another Native American story (preferably pure fiction rather than historical fiction).

13:40, to me I think she just offering like Bánh tét (savory rice cake) for the dragon. I know Kumandra is fictional but it’s really nice to see the wonderful culture of Southeast Asia like all the food and fruits that I recognize.

Alan Tudyk plays Tuktuk 😁 he is also King Candy from Wreck it Ralph, the Duke of Weselton from Frozen, Alistair Krei from Big Hero 6 and the toucan from Encanto. Oh and HeiHei from Moana 😁

Really glad to see you watch this! It's definitely my favorite animated movie of the year! I won't try to ignore it's flaws, but I really hope disney makes more content with it (like a sequel or a tv series), because i feel like its biggest problem was trying to cram such a huge impactful story into 2 hours of content. i genuinely believe that if it was a series, it would have had time to properly explore the setting, develop the characters further and maybe even execute the final message a little better. Otherwise, this movie ends up feeling like a crappy book-to-movie adaptation where half the book's contents were cut in order to have the whole story in one movie (there isn't a book, im just saying that these are the vibes it gives me)

This movie just makes me so emotionally, I love it so much. Also I am a HUGE fan of dragons so yeah.

The fact that much of this movie was made from home makes it so much better!

2:42 I guess you never saw a armadillo before? Well Tuk Tuk does look like a mix with hamster and those bugs that turn into balls

I watched this 3 times in the first week. My family and I are OBSESSED. Loved Awkwafina so much!

I loved the baby and the monkey in the movie! They are so cute and hilarious! You can't help but laugh at how ridiculous their rivalry is!

@16:06-@16:12 lol hahahahahahaha!!!!!! This is my favorite part in the entire movie. Awkwafina is always a win. Raya is voiced by Kelly Marie Tran from Star Wars. And along with Awakafina, there's also some well-known Marvel Studios alumni: Benedict Wong and Gemma Chan.

The best Disney adventure flick I’ve ever witnessed. It not only reunites stars Awkwafina (Sisu) and Gemma Chan (Namaari) with writer Adele Lim since Crazy Rich Asians, but my native heritage is one of several countries written into the film! Specifically, the use of Arnis (stick fighting) is notable in my family’s home country. Wonder if you’ll give Crazy Rich a shot in reactions?

So excited to see ur reaction to this😍i like how unique this storyline for this movie. Namaari has to be my favorite character, she goes to great lengths to gain her mother's appreciation & wants the world to be a better place despite her being distrustful to many people.

The message is about trusting, but literally the main characters are - Trust her.. *the world and gem fall apart*. NO, you need to trust her more! *Sisu fuxking dies!* The execution of the theme just throws the movie off, which is a HUGE shame. They push Sisus "trust blindly" way too much and basically screw over the main characters reason for not trusting the other chick.

Omg PLEASE you have to watch KLAUS on Netflix. It’s an animated Christmas movie and it is so so so good and beautiful 🥺❤️

Sisu the Dragon is basically the equivalent of past Disney characters with similar quirks. Awkwafina did say she was influenced by Robin Williams as the Genie from Aladdin, while I also see wittiness as shown through Hades (James Woods) of Hercules and Maui (Dwayne Johnson) of Moana.

Raya is the last dragon

I love your channel. You are so wholesome and it always makes me smile when i hear and see your happy reactions to pretty scenery or a happy moment. It's enlightening.

I don’t have Disney + , so thank you for letting me experience this movie. I’m always happy to see these with you and hear your perspective as well as get the chance of my own.🎉💯✅

My only real issue with this movie is the message sort of doesn't work :( literally every time she trusts and believes in someone things get worse for her except that one final moment :/

If you're looking for hyper realistic water, gorgeous backgrounds and touching emotional moments, may I suggest Pixar's The Good Dinosaur? A lot of people shit on that movie but really I think it's a very cute Pixar flick and honestly, it's right up your alley.

My problem was understanding the world order of the film universe. I think Avatar did a better job at this.

I feel like this film is underrated! I saw it multiple times when it first came out and the end credits song "Lead The Way" was in my top 15 songs of 2021 on my Spotify Wrapped!😀 This film made made me emotional a few times and I also laughed a lot as well!

"You got the magic sword!" Raya's sword isn't magic. It just extends into a blade-whip, that's it. "Maybe she's connected to this somehow." I think Sisu was just caught off guard by the tears that were in Nammari's eyes.

I didn't feel the dragon's voice matched the illustration. But, overall a good movie. And, her dad was hot... lol!.

I loved your reaction to Noi the baby and her monkey family. Your face when you realized she was part of a pickpocketing scam with monkeys!🤣🤣🤣🤣 I loved it!

I loved this animated movie

For me, this movie has some great elements! I really like Raya and the music and visuals are awesome! I think the themes would've worked better if it was more about forgiveness and second chances. The beauty of trust gets a little lost in unhealthy naivety. I love the scene where Raya sacrifices herself, but I wish it had been like Raya had seen the good in Naamari and used this moment to show the others. Except all Naamari had done was blame Raya for Sisu's death. I'm glad you enjoyed it though, and absolutely nothing against anyone who loves this movie, that's awesome! 😊

I put off watching this movie for the longest time, but having watched it on the plane when I was going on vacation I fell in love with it. Such a good movie, and the message was admirable. Please watch this movie and support it!

Yes! I've been waiting for this movie reaction! One of my favorite films of 2021 😍

i just realized the father's sword is like ivy"s from soul calibur

I love nick just vibing on the music

I don't know why Namari or whatever her name is became potential friends with Raya. She's so toxic, and you can NEVER tell if she's lying or not because she was so good at it. Not friends, but just being chill with eachother would be SMARTER. For everyone, relationship wise especially. Sure, she may not be bad deep down because she likes dragons and wanted a solution for her people, but that's not much at all. Idk maybe I don't see things the way some people do.

Tuktuk is not a traditional hamster. Besides growing to a comparatively enormous size, he has a protective exoskeleton, like a creature my family calls "a roly-poly." He may be a hybrid along the lines of many creatures from the ATLA series.

I believe the big guy is my fav character. He's sweet and he loved his kid

This film is hilarious and heartwarming

THIS IS MY FAVORITE DISNEY MOVIE!!! I CRY EVERY TIME I WATCH IT!!! 💖😢🤧💔

I feel like the ultimate lesson was that blind trust can harm (Raya blindly trusted Naamari without good reason and was betrayed), but blind MISTRUST can also harm. Many of the problems they faced could have been avoided if Sisu had simply presented herself openly as THE Sisudatu instead of remaining hidden as paranoid Raya insisted. Buun and Tong were instantly on their side as soon as they knew who Sisu was, and the Talon Chief, while suspicious of the motives of random women collecting Gem Pieces, never would have questioned at all why THE Sisudatu would be doing it and likely would have handed hers over immediately. There was even plenty of indication Naamari was never going to fire the crossbow due to the long hesitation, since she already didn't agree with her mother on this plan. It only went off because Raya jarred her arm trying to disarm her instead of trusting that Sisu was reading the situation right... which she was. Raya only trusted Naamari in the end because she could see she was just as broken up about Sisu dying, making Raya realize she never would have fired. So there was no reason for mistrust at all this time, and Raya chose not to blindly mistrust her. And wasn't blindly trusting her, either.

Loved this movie! Thank you for reacting to this

YES THANK YOU! ❤️ I LOVE THIS MOVIE!

This is very beautiful Disney movie thank you for this reaction I love you videos

You seem like really kind hearted person, thank you for these reactions ❤️

I remember watching this movie at the theaters, after it was reopening from March.

I thought it was ok. I didn't like how fast everything happened and I think the 'magic' of this source that helped dragons exist or if they exist because of peoples trust. It could also just be a place where dragons just exist and that's ok but they don't say that. I barely recognized the characters before they moved on to the next one. Ik there's boat boy, baby and monkeys, big buy with eyepatch. Lately names haven't really been resignations with me because I feel like the movies have been moving so fast. I wasn't invested tbh, but it's nice to see other people enjoy it. Not to mention that they butchered the message.

I've seen Raya's sword before. Jackie Chan used the same type of sword in "Dragon Blade" (2015). I wish I knew more about the sword.

the movie itself is entertaining, but I'm really against the message that it gives. It's basically "hey even when people really hurt you and betray you, trust them anyway! If you don't forgive them and something bad happens as a result, you share half the blame!" Not a fan. It essentially turned into "Trust blindly and fully, even after they have betrayed you and done nothing to show improvement or remorse".

I love this movie. Ron's gone wrong is a new animation that came out from Fox it is really good

I've got such a mixed love of this movie. On one hand the characters are great and the world is stunning, but so much of the potential gets lost in the execution of the story. There could have been something great in this if they'd focused on forgiveness & healing, not blind trust. I also hate the look of the dragons. There were some great concepts, but instead they pasted on a generic female disney character face and called it a day.

Did you know the tribes are named after the dragon body parts? For example heat is where the heart would be..tail is at the tail…fang is where the fang is

Now that you’ve seen Raya, please react to Crazy Rich Asians! Some cast members of that movie also made it here too!

I loved this movie a lot! I was surprised that people hated it. I understood the message and what they were trying to explain

If there is any Disney film I wanna see made into a TV show, it's this one. You do not throw this much world-building at us and spend this little time in each location.

This is a cool movie. I loved it. I really thought we we're gonna see the last dragon again. I got so sad. I really didn't expect the one who betrayed her to be the one who saved the world. Nice twist.

I love watching you watch movies! Your personality is golden! 😊

I haven't actually seen this movie, so this was my first time watching it as well. I honestly loved it, now I want to go watch the full film.

Happy holidays Nick! This movie was one of my favorite of this year :)

I loved this movie so excited to see ur reaction to it

I've been waiting all day for this 😭

I've seen this one lately too and it's one of those movies I probably won't watch again to be honest. What worked for me? The quality was top notch, as usual, Sisu looked amazing and the fights were great animation, too. What didnt? the message about trust/faith was questionable and the tone of the movie was all over the place. I mean, it's a postapocalyptic tragedy. Can we stop the jokes and smack talking one liners? Also the characters and places felt pretty rushed/flat and especially that baby was SO random and out of place.

the whole first time i watched this i was waiting for raya and namaari to kiss ??? i'm not even into shipping i literally thought that's where it was going :(

I love a lot about this movie, but I have very mixed feelings about the message. Blindly trusting people who knowingly and willingly betrayed you, especially when it led to so much harm both for you personally, and for everyone in general, is kind of a terrible thing to advocate for, especially to children. It works narratively because it's fiction in a kids movie, but maybe let's not teach kids to keep putting trust in relationships with people who have already proven to be abusive and destructive. I did love your reactions though!

I just watch this movie the other day and the story is really good. This film has a lot of inspiration from chinese myths and stories like with Avatar.

I love dragons so i really loved this movie

Trying again for LEGEND with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry. Thank you

DUDE YOU ARE SO WHOLESOME

What a horrible lesson. "Maybe after the 10th time someone stabs you in the back, maybe you can trust them when their life is literally on the line."

Your videos make my day!

The movie is beautifully made, but seriously not everyone can or should be trusted blindly, especially when that person wants to f*cking kill you and actually kill others you love. (yeah sorry but I actually really hate Namari, I completely understand Raya though. I see it more as forgiveness in the end instead of "trust". ) Forgiveness is a whole different thing. You can forgive anyone - doesn't mean you have to trust them again though.

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

This is the best Disney movie ever! 😀👍

the live action Aladdin!!

34:38 there is something bothering me here... if druuns are afraid of water... how did they get the whole spine population if their village is surrounded by snow? Because we saw that druun doesn't like the fog which is a form of water... and snow is a form of water too... and for those who might say that the weather might have been changing: 5:23 their village (i think) is permanently covered in snow...

Goodbye 2021

I would love it if you did a reaction to “the last unicorn” it’s a really unique movie for its age and I think you would like it so please consider it

I just enjoy movies for what they are I try to ignore other people's opinion because they think their opinion is mine.

the dragons remind me of Falkor from neverending story

Ha what a coincidence I just finished watching this movie for the first time aswell 😄

1st!?!!? Some of the best reactions!

Hey nick! I’d recommend Ron’s Gone Wrong if you haven’t already seen it. It surprised me :)

Please react to the all the live action disney movies you Will love them.

You know I think this movie would have been really good in 3d to.

Hey nicky how it Flo tho

I like your reaction very much and I was wondering if you can react to the cartoon of 1991 beauty and the beast (there is a film live action too) and to the cartoon lady and the tramp😊. I'm asking to you this because there are both beautiful☺

They should just call this movie Mushu the last water bender

Naamari and Raya: - exist.- Me: WEDING, NOW

So that's were all the money for Mulan(2020) went. Disney knew that it was doomed from the start when it was announced there'd be no Mushu, no Shang, no Cri-kee, no Grandma, and no songs. But instead, a witch, a phoenix, and stupid chi midichlorians(HELLO!!!). So they spent more money and heart into something original and awesome!

Idk I wish I would’ve liked this movie but it just left me with weird feelings. I like the comedy and the style but the story is just so twisted. I know adults can love these movies just as much as children but honestly I don’t think “blind trust” is a good message for a child to follow and they seem to hammer in the idea of “just trust me and everything will be fine” The characters literally did nothing to redeem themselves, they never held themselves accountable for what happened and even at the end she only decided to put those pieces together after she lost everything, she didn’t care once that raya could’ve had her dad back it was always about her village and their selfishness.

Like Encanto, I haven't seen this movie either. Ugh! I'm so far behind 😢