Everything Wrong With Raya and the Last Dragon In 19 Minutes Or Less
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2021
- Raya and the Last Dragon has a lot of cool elements and interesting ideas. It's definitely a Disney movie. Oh well, it's got plenty of sins.
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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
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.
(opening line)
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...
Raya: "Each Island was named after a part of the body"
"Someone's stolen Fang's dragon scroll"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
“He’s straight up drippin” was the highlight of this video
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.
Raya: "I just really, really want my Ba 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.