The movie moral is about having trust in others. The main character gets back stabbed every single time she trusts in someone.
@DaMaster0123 жыл бұрын
I was going to ask if Meghan McCarthy had a writers credit for this movie, but then I instantly realized if she did, it would instead be the main character who did all the back-stabbing.
@rockymountaintelevision10083 жыл бұрын
Ya know, if the countries didn’t trust each other, they wouldn’t be fighting each other they would simply shut up and mind there own business
@HBKnowItAll3 жыл бұрын
I know, that is my main issue with the film.
@damotoneko15003 жыл бұрын
SnowWhite did the moral better.
@thunderbird19213 жыл бұрын
To me, this is the moral of the film: "There is no real evil, only misunderstood people". That is an INCREDIBLY dangerous moral, and it seems Disney's done it a lot lately.
@erinwitcraft91413 жыл бұрын
Finally, someone calls out the fact that it has nothing to do with Southeast Asian mythology. There are plenty of Vietnamese, Filipino, and Indonesian fairy tales that would have made lovely films, but we just got some half-assed vaguely "Asiatic" story.
@beardbeardedbeardsbeardedh93743 жыл бұрын
That's modern disney for you :/
@tfgenobatssasin17883 жыл бұрын
Bear in mind, the writer who wrote the movie is a malaysian. I felt ashamed as a malaysian myself
@Cosmiichu3 жыл бұрын
still cool seeing an environment we never saw specially with asian dragons i only remember mushu.
@Sir_Crow3 жыл бұрын
@@Cosmiichu The environment’s cool, but it’s disrespectful for Disney to place a story in Southeast Asia and not actually use any of the region’s cultures for the story.
@onepunch23103 жыл бұрын
They wanted the brownie points and needed an animated movie before cruella comes out
@calebjackson38953 жыл бұрын
I thought Raya's lack of trust vs Sisu's naivety was the perfect grounds for a story about knowing WHO to trust. But nope: trust good, discernment bad.
@DrDolan20002 жыл бұрын
Who would've guessed?
@laughingmask31182 жыл бұрын
I like the point of this comment but it feels unnecessarily sarcastic. I agree with the point but find myself trying not to retort in some hypocritically sarcastic regard rather than simply saying "Exactly!" There's a right and a wrong way to do things and I feel like you have the right idea but voiced it poorly.
@arsann8701 Жыл бұрын
@@laughingmask3118 why tf do u care gimp
@renemartinez34513 жыл бұрын
4:14 Actually, China in general praised Kung Fu Panda for it’s accurate and tasteful representation of Chinese culture. Each film is ranked as the highest animated films at the Chinese box office. And it apparently pushed Chinese 3D animation to improve because apparently the Chinese were embarrassed that an American made movie was one of the best animated depictions of their culture. The more you know.
@pancakeswithktkaty77843 жыл бұрын
I like this.
@capitatecab60493 жыл бұрын
I've heard in an interview that the team behind the film went to China for 6 years before making the film, so that tells you something
@Drixenol863 жыл бұрын
Dreamworks actually did some research unlike whoever made this movie.
@cazterjamessantos36523 жыл бұрын
And also the fact that this movie(Kung Fu Panda obviously) had many characters that were already anthropomorphic in the first place.
@sauzeeee3 жыл бұрын
And then you have the latest Mulan...
@Pelagion983 жыл бұрын
Kung Fu Panda actually represents Chinese culture quite well. Besides the anthro animals of course.
@xenomorph65993 жыл бұрын
Didn't the Chinese Government convene to discuss why an American movie was portraying Chinese culture better than Chinese movies were or something
@pureevil94963 жыл бұрын
@@xenomorph6599 lmao
@odst_7353 жыл бұрын
@@xenomorph6599 Bruh
@BrickfallOfficial3 жыл бұрын
Orrww muy peynis is sew swmall compweard to yew amwewecum swuper mwan! Hahahahaha (Laughs in famine)
@pureevil94963 жыл бұрын
@@BrickfallOfficial Are you okay
@Mr_ice513 жыл бұрын
Honestly it feels like Disney isn't even trying anymore when making movies about other cultures it feels like they're just making these for fast cash.
@jabby67093 жыл бұрын
they very clearly are tbh. they don't actually care about representing other cultures, or anything really. they just want the money
@kwertyskewrty40463 жыл бұрын
Besides that dragon and it's powers there was a lot of thai foods and thai words plus places shown
@rodracer45673 жыл бұрын
Disney's hurting for cash so no wonder they're just churning out cash grabs
@lunamariahawke93203 жыл бұрын
Isn´t something new.
@alecelliott75063 жыл бұрын
Duh. That's why your watching KZbin right now and not disney plus.
@johnkubiak11543 жыл бұрын
Actually this movie represents east Asia far worse than kung fu panda represents China. Chinese people love Po to death. Its one of the most successful foreign animated movies to release in China.
@osets21173 жыл бұрын
Probably because kung fu panda and by extension dreamworks respects the culture, Disney is just trying to make money off of it
@ihateindices3 жыл бұрын
@@osets2117 Yep. Kung Fu Panda's got the Chinese philosophies to play a part in the story, of course- because (duh) set in China. But Raya and the Last Dragon's story can be used anywhere else, instead of creating a story loosely based off an SEA folktale, overall makes it heckuva lot disappointing.
@kanyeeast82483 жыл бұрын
@@ihateindices its sad they could've made something really cool.
@j.t.01453 жыл бұрын
aye bro, southesast asia and east asia are pretty different if you didn't know. Not every just because you read asia doesn't mean China, Korea and Japan
@johnkubiak11543 жыл бұрын
@@j.t.0145 yes but I was comparing how china was represented in kung fu panda vs how this movie went at Asian culture as a whole. Because the dragon in it is a Chinese dragon
@arat71063 жыл бұрын
raya is like that one kid who talks about the same thing the whole school year “did you know i don’t trust people?” “hey speaking of, i don’t trust people.” “hey man! i just read something about not trusting people, i knew i was smart not to trust anyone!” *”I DON’T TRUST ANYONE!”*
@justinbruce98083 жыл бұрын
Oh hi Carth from kotor
@SonofTiamat3 жыл бұрын
No one understands me! 😡
@arikweaver48673 жыл бұрын
Like Katara constantly saying her mom was killed.
@PIB20003 жыл бұрын
"I trust you enough to tell you I DON'T TRUST ANYONE!"
@arat71063 жыл бұрын
@@arikweaver4867 yes
@SeaHumanoid3 жыл бұрын
I'm Southeast Asian. Imagine a movie where the main character wears cheongsam, wields katana, eats kimchi, and speaks a few mongolian words. That's what Raya felt like to me. Honestly i would rather see a movie with a setting fully inspired by one country like Vietnam (i heard it was inspired by vietnamese folklore) than a mish-mash of all these cultures.
@Akatsukileader93 жыл бұрын
I mean Raya is not from Earth.
@Akatsukileader93 жыл бұрын
@Doofus There's a ton of worlds based on Earth that are a mixture of several cultures put together.
@dementiaravenway3 жыл бұрын
I kinda agree but Avatar: The Last Airbender also mishmashed cultures, yet they got higher approval anyway. I guess it's because each nation had almost just one country or their story was actually good (I mean, it is).
@Swigbro3 жыл бұрын
@@dementiaravenway I did not see a hint of Filipino there at all so in my opinion that's not true. No offense tho. We all have our own opinions and this doesn't harm others so I'll let it be:)
@ghostleemann9553 жыл бұрын
that would never exist
@genemelendez81573 жыл бұрын
Wait, so this is a movie about finding crystal shards, using them to vanquish a mysterious dark evil force, while being joined by multiple characters that tag along for the whole adventure? This is literally just Kirby 64; The Crystal Shards
@youcantbeatk70063 жыл бұрын
Get that game's name out your fucking mouth when talking about this trash.
@VelkanAngels3 жыл бұрын
Oh, I thought you were gonna say "Darkstone", lol.
@iraqifoodcart84473 жыл бұрын
I'm going to assume you only know about that game because you actually played it when N64 was the hot console. I've played a few games on N64 but none of them were kirby games.
@youcantbeatk70063 жыл бұрын
@@iraqifoodcart8447 It's a timeless masterpiece.
@genemelendez81573 жыл бұрын
@@iraqifoodcart8447 Kirby 64 was rereleased on the Wii/Wii U virtual console and included in Kirby’s Dream Collection. It’s not a hard game to find
@ロロノアゾロ-h4m3 жыл бұрын
Where did they even get the dragon's design? Most SEA dragons are protrayed as huge monstrous beasts with scales. They're also mostly wise, all-knowing and serious, not naive and comical.
@nobodyimportant42103 жыл бұрын
I don’t know much about Southeast Asian culture. But I have seen images of SEA dragons, and they look really majestic. It would’ve been cool to see one in animated form, but they went with Elsa mixed with a worm on a string instead. Also I despise Sisu’s personality. When I saw her original design that was shown at D23, I figured she would be wise and grumpy, but with a soft side to her. But no, instead she’s loud, annoying, naive, and hardly says anything thought provoking or funny. I know some people don’t like the fact that she can speak, but her speaking isn’t the problem, it’s what she says that bothers me.
@nobodyimportant42103 жыл бұрын
@@CandyApples4ever this represents disney as whole in fact. making something cutesy and safe rather than something actually good
@doridoriyaki53113 жыл бұрын
Their main target are kids. Not college students.
@aellasky30823 жыл бұрын
Well, are they not allowed to make up their own thing, in the land that they made up?
@Liashideout3 жыл бұрын
@@aellasky3082 well, then, they don't need to promoted it as a "representation" of SEA culture if they aren't gonna stay true to it. The dragon design and personality don't reflect actual SEA mythology and it's extremely frustrating to watch as a Southeast Asian. I expect myself to be dissapointed since Disney revealed Sisu's design and here I am...
@treymtz3 жыл бұрын
Kung Fu does represent China. They literally love the character over there and was the sole reason China realized "wait this is actually an amazing movie, why are their movies about china better than ours" To which sparked a boom in Chinese animations to try to catch up to pixar/west.
@laznoland45583 жыл бұрын
I like to imagine possum going and watching a children’s movie at a theater, and just sitting there stonefaced for the majority of the run time, and the only times that stone faced expression changes is when the credits finally roll, and then he leaves the theater and sits in his car and cries because of the shit he just watched.
@chadatchison1453 жыл бұрын
No he's crying cos he spent 80k to go to film school and now he reviews shit movies on KZbin lol.
@manboy47203 жыл бұрын
he just has a visage of pure grimace the entire time.
@miroslavzima88563 жыл бұрын
Heh, this reminds me of Nostalgia Critic´s christmas episode (I think Carebears), so I can almost see his expression xD Good one.
@whooshylushy7433 жыл бұрын
666
@GUSLOL1613 жыл бұрын
you give this simple man too much credit... I think He still doesn't know what He talking about... this Movie is amazing.
@Drizzly303 жыл бұрын
As an south asian, that's bad dragon design, our dragon not a furry, they're have scales, lizard eyes, no eyelashes.
@arsen25063 жыл бұрын
That's Elsa's fursona
@Drizzly303 жыл бұрын
@@arsen2506 i know, that is the worst thing
@cubriffic1723 жыл бұрын
Have you seen the concept designs? Theyre so much better compared to what we got
@wos_liwet3 жыл бұрын
@@cubriffic172 Wait where did you see the concept designs?
@tomthestone14703 жыл бұрын
Some have the beard though
@Anchor-Supreme3 жыл бұрын
I miss hand-drawn animation. This CGI animation style is just so damn boring.
@javierfebronio89073 жыл бұрын
@Crane What about Flash? Not all computer animation has to be 3D. According to Wikipedia, My Little Pony the Movie, Steven Universe the Movie, and the Princess and the Frog were all animated through Flash and most animated shows use it because it is low cost and has the potential to be a variety of different styles. Hand-drawn films are unique works of art but at the same time are expensive and tedious to make compared to CGI. So the question is not should Disney bring back hand-drawn films but should they bring back 2D films?
@Tiepobadaae3 жыл бұрын
@@javierfebronio8907 they should def bring back 2d. Tangled the series was 2d, and I thought the art style looked WAY better than the film. For one thing, Rapunzel had serious baby face in the movie, which she didn't for the show.
@brianaguilar82833 жыл бұрын
@Royah the knight don’t act like anime doesn’t have its flaws now
@semolinalibra3 жыл бұрын
@Royah the knight nah I prefer western animation
@matchamakess3 жыл бұрын
Yeah wolf walkers was prob the best ever
@ljuc3 жыл бұрын
People told the truth. that dragon does look like Elsa.
@Jormyyy3 жыл бұрын
It's the eyes I think, they have the same eyes.
@PolskiKrajowa3 жыл бұрын
@@Jormyyy no, she's furry elsa
@pyraffin3 жыл бұрын
@@Jormyyy Same eyes and same kind of 'smokey eyes' makeup, too.
@waltercomunello1213 жыл бұрын
reusing assets? it's the beginning of the end.
@LargeMetallicFellow3 жыл бұрын
That explains why the dragon looks so hot--wide eyed. It looks wide eyed.
@GiantFluffyShark3 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU for acknowledging the moral of the story is so flawed. While I was watching it I was frustrated that Sisu was all like "oh you just have to trust people!". What's even greater is that she trusts people and they betray her CONSTANTLY. She just seemed like she was dumb and had no street-smarts. I really didn't like how the moral of the story is basically believe people at face-value when they say you can trust them and if they betray you, just trust them again! Really flawed logic here. Trust is important, but it has to be EARNED.
@ziimulhah32233 жыл бұрын
Honestly. If the only time Sisu put her foot down or went out on her own to trust an enemy was Namaari, it couldve had an actual impact and show her that people aren't always the best morally. But the fact that it happened before just makes Sisu feel like an idiot.
@DaMaster0123 жыл бұрын
Such a bass-ackwards connector of portraying a moral through a dirty that I'm surprised Meghan McCarthy didn't write it.
@shaniadirstein36503 жыл бұрын
Not to mention a bad message to teach kids.... no matter what someone does to you, touch you inappropriately, hurt the people you love, trick you, and lie, you must still trust them... like no. My kids are gonna know that if someone hurts them they dont have to trust that person ever again for the sake of their own mental health. If anyone backstabs me or betrays my trust they are erased from my life. Dont need that kind of toxicity in my life
@ShadyDoorags3 жыл бұрын
"It didn't make me angry..." Well that makes one of us. The line "Shisu's death is just as much your fault as it is mine." made me LIVID.
@thebishopoftherailway47192 жыл бұрын
Oy shady was here!
@ntfoperative9432 Жыл бұрын
Sup shady
@geardog243 жыл бұрын
Everyone says the dragon looks like Elsa but all I see is a stretched out My Little Pony.
@elinfini3 жыл бұрын
They aren't mutually exclusive.
@pyraffin3 жыл бұрын
Elsa's Mary Sue MLP pony/dragon mix OC
@RC.-3 жыл бұрын
It looks like Rainbow Dash as a dragon
@jnoirj31243 жыл бұрын
So you see, the lesson in this film is that Friendship is indeed magic.
@lpsquestie34953 жыл бұрын
Discord looks way better than Misus
@Passw0rdYT3 жыл бұрын
the main character looks like Disney put Moana and Mulan into a bottle, shook it up, aged the result a few years, gave it Rey's personality and plot armor, than said "yep, this is original."
@CHKNSkratch3 жыл бұрын
ZZAAAAA WWWUUUURRRRDDDDOOOOO!!! And yes, something that is just derivative of other things is not original
@enumaelish91933 жыл бұрын
@@CHKNSkratch The sky is up
@CHKNSkratch3 жыл бұрын
@@enumaelish9193 ?
@tfgenobatssasin17883 жыл бұрын
I remember a youtuber litreally said that Naamari is acting more like catra than zuko.
@shaniadirstein36503 жыл бұрын
they use the same face over and over and over. Just Google "Disney Copying Own Designs Over" and compare Elsa and Raya and Moana and Tiana and Rapunzel. They all have the circular face with big eyes and a small nose, and a smaller mouth. Which is why I enjoy Emperors New Groove. The characters were all uniquein design and Yzma really stands out in her animation/face/style and why I enjoy the older films as 2D hand drawn animations make the faces more unique as there are angles and differences and not just round and smooth.
@markl41593 жыл бұрын
the main antagonist looks like a cyberpunk character
@VergilsLastName3 жыл бұрын
Oh my god
@monicad.22693 жыл бұрын
One of the things I really dislike about this movie is the people in it are basically western people wrapped in SEA skin and clothes. I can's see any of my people in the characters! They don't have SEA body languages, they don't talk like SEA people... And the religious stuff? Don't get me started on the religious stuff. Savior dragons turned into statues... left unattended for centuries to grow moss and plants and erode? Please, if it's really based on SEA culture, they'd be CLEAN. Their surroundings will be places of worship! There will be offerings placed before them as THANKS! You can have beautiful palaces but can't get rid of the ivy wrapped around a mythical being? Ugh! And OMG Raya's father!!! Sir, please... How can an adult be THAT naive? Like, I know this is a children's movie but??? *facepalm*
@rosendofernandez71463 жыл бұрын
Hear, hear!! Originally, a part Filipino was the first voice actor for Raya. It irked me that they recasted her. :(
@RazorO2Productions3 жыл бұрын
@@rosendofernandez7146 I'm still mad about that, and I'm white.
@monicad.22693 жыл бұрын
@@rosendofernandez7146 WHAT???? WHY???
@rosendofernandez71463 жыл бұрын
@@monicad.2269 Honestly I dont have any idea about the changes. You can actually see a promotional video of the two lead voice actors, Awkwafina as Sisu and Cassie Steele as Raya, here in youtube. :(
@wos_liwet3 жыл бұрын
Let's address the field of dragon statue story-wise. The thing about the dragon statues not being worshipped and given offerings turns out to be more and more confusing to me. After watching it, I'd consider how the dragons aren't being taken care of a bit disrespectful for them cause the Kumandrans basically worshipped them, but they didn't bother to even take care of their remains for years? Then again, an in-world mechanism actually addresses this issue, it being the Druuns. Iirc from the scene, there aren't any bodies of water surrounding the area-which makes it a place susceptible for Druun attacks. And since the tribes (? I'm gonna call then tribes) are at war between each other, they don't have any reason to gather together in the field to worship, else they'd be attacked. If you see closely, the tribes all live surrounded in waters, securing them from any Druun attacks. It's a perfectly understandable reason why the dragon statues aren't worshipped or given offerings, given the Druuns could've shown up anywhere at any time, and Namaari was just lucky to be not attacked. If only the Druuns didn't existed, I'm pretty sure the people would've erected temples and such.
@oneangryboi4083 жыл бұрын
For people who 'didn't want to offend the Asian community', they sure don't show it. Then again, who am I kidding? They did the live action Mulan in a fucking concentration camp.
@giuliacf41803 жыл бұрын
Everyone in China hated the live action Mulan
@lumethecrow26323 жыл бұрын
@@giuliacf4180 Everyone in general hated live action Mulan
@muglymae74083 жыл бұрын
Didn’t they do the ‘didn’t want to offend’ thing with Princess and the Frog? It had rehashed Aladdin and weak character development and plot all over it
@sweetbunnybun3 жыл бұрын
at least a few Asian ppl helped to make it. But anyway, moana was better. this movie is so bland, ppl are too realistic, their designs are boring, they're too bland (look, a baby who's not so innocent, look a masculine female villain who kicks butts, look a gentle giant who kicks butts, look a funny boy, look a strong whamen who fights, look a quirky sidekick)
@Ty_the_true00003 жыл бұрын
@@sweetbunnybun the dragon us just Elsa's fursona
@excaliburblaze49533 жыл бұрын
I personally thought that it would be kinda cute if the dragon did not talk, (I don't mean that in a mean way though, I just think that characters such as wall-e and eve are cute because they have a limited vocab) and a little change in dragons design.
@jamssy34093 жыл бұрын
It would've been so much better if the dragon didn't talk but had dad humor/capabilities to fulfill Raya's needs after her lost
@juice32873 жыл бұрын
silent beasts are the most powerful in storytelling, to me at least. toothless in httyd 1&2 (we don’t speak of the trash that was 3) was a masterpiece. masterbeast? that rhymes! Sisu and raya having no language barrier just kills a lot of the potential awe there could’ve been with this movie. Funny how this movie aims for trust, yet HTTYD intergrates trust into its first movie far better than raya ever could despite that not being the main premise of HTTYD. (which was fighting against the laws of nature, forbidden friendships and the relationship between beast and boy. ironically, that involves trust too.)
@hunterolaughlin Жыл бұрын
Mushu honestly would’ve been better if he didn’t talk but pantomimed or got across a lot of his words by his facial expressions. Plus, it would avoid making him too much like another Genie clone and making him his own unique comedic sidekick.
@KaiNLinda3 жыл бұрын
As an Asian, I can say the one thing it represents Asians correctly is when everyone fighting over the dragon ball in the beginning. XD That said, maybe that's not an exclusive Asian thing. I honestly hate the message of trust people when she trusted the other girl very early and kinda got f*cked. If they wanted the message to be about trust then they should have made it that she never trusted them and her father not trusting the other countries too and that caused the issue. I think they were afraid to label Raya or her dad to have bad traits as can't have a female hero who isn't perfect. All-female heroes must be Ma ray sue. I hated the dragon character, the dialogue is so cringed bad especially in the beginning.
@randomelite45623 жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t say Raya is presented as perfect, just that her trust issues arc was executed poorly
@elinbird003 жыл бұрын
Yeah the dragon sucked
@scooter27463 жыл бұрын
100% agree
@iammar11593 жыл бұрын
Sisu was really annoying and unfunny
@elinbird003 жыл бұрын
@@iammar1159 ya
@BrickfallOfficial3 жыл бұрын
The moral of the story? Never trust someone with an undercut.
@waltercomunello1213 жыл бұрын
Disney put labels on women with undercuts. They must be insensitive straight white males!!
@mr.x25673 жыл бұрын
Or that we probably shouldn’t trust Disney.
@mariokarter133 жыл бұрын
Undercut. Definition: To diminish or destroy the province or effectiveness of; undermine.
@runforestrunfpv43543 жыл бұрын
The villain looks like very popular gay celebrity from the Philippines. Surely the woke would be mad about it?
@justasimplemanworkinghiswa15693 жыл бұрын
"I like ya cut G."
@monkeyming55453 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie, I’m getting tired of the whole warrior Princess thing. It was cool when Mulan did it but recently, it feels like Disney is afraid to make a Princess that can’t fight or isn’t trained in some kind fighting style. I’m ready for a different kind of Princess or even just the old kind of princesses
@ENOINN3 жыл бұрын
old kind princess are boring
@ENOINN3 жыл бұрын
Except for the ones that already exists, they are iconic but I could not digest a movie with an old kind of princess now. Times and media change wether we like it or not, is just that the media that appears now is not good enough, maybe in a couple of years.
@whiteeye3453 Жыл бұрын
Which ones exactly the prize trope or what?
@chupacadabra51613 жыл бұрын
Moana didn't have a very unique story, but it made up for it with fantastic songs and fun and memorable characters and some decent comedy imo.
@randomcatmeow13943 жыл бұрын
Ikr this movie doesnt even have a single song like bruh that is literally the bread and butter of disney
@Jose045373 жыл бұрын
The ocean robbed the show in Moana
@ggt473 жыл бұрын
Meh. It was bland.
@staringcorgi64753 жыл бұрын
@@randomcatmeow1394 disney movies with songs are great but some of them could be better if they're musicals like Tarzan but other movies like lilo and stich doesn't need to be a musical to be amazing
@VigilanteLulu3 жыл бұрын
@@Jose04537 Nah, Tamatoa did!
@Dreadjaws3 жыл бұрын
For real, I'm getting sick of Disney's stagnant art style. Look at any of their old 2D movies and you can easily recognize it by a random screenshot. And this is especially annoying with Raya, who has such a generic face that you're more likely to think she's a background character from looking at a picture of her. I could put up with it if at least their storytelling was good enough, but it has gotten stagnant too. Frozen 2 was painfully forgettable. I literally cannot remember anything of the plot save that it has a ridiculously convenient ending where no one has to pay any kind of price and everything is perfectly solved, and I only remember that because it annoyed me to no end.
@juanstrong36953 жыл бұрын
What about the artstyle was stagnant?
@coolnormalandwelladjusted3 жыл бұрын
@@juanstrong3695 the fact that the majority of their recent films have the exact same art style and you could edit the characters into screenshots from a movie from 5 years ago and they wouldn’t look out of place?
@juanstrong36953 жыл бұрын
@@coolnormalandwelladjusted This movie isn't the exact same art style as Zootopia, or the Frozen movies, of Wreck it Ralph, etc.
@coolnormalandwelladjusted3 жыл бұрын
@@juanstrong3695 if you say so lol. idk what people get out of defending lifeless mega corporations that care only about making a profit
@Ikouy3 жыл бұрын
@@juanstrong3695 I think the way I look at it (from a gaming perspective) is that 3D art that leans towards realistic proportions tend to be too symmetrical and clean. I think it’s why Zootopia and Wreck-It-Ralph work well is because the animation isn’t bound by that constraint. Traditional works tend to be stylized and reflect the artists whereas computers not so much.
@cooldog85803 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I'm getting pretty sick of mythical/powerful beings in Disney movies being super upbeat or sassy, and only being serious in certain, short scenes.. It has happened so many times that I've lost count.
@residentantagonist53523 жыл бұрын
Is it weird that I value the opinion of a trash hunting rodent over the trash content produced by Disney?
@Nordisk113 жыл бұрын
Well to be fair, opossums aren't _really_ rodents-
@Nordisk113 жыл бұрын
@The_Jaguar_ Knight "Marsupial, to be exact," exactly.
@breezetha273 жыл бұрын
Marsupial*
@edmondantes43383 жыл бұрын
Possums are not rodents! You are closer to being a rodent than a possum (or opossum, makes no difference to this specific point) is; unless that is, you're an internet browsing kangaroo.
@manboy47203 жыл бұрын
@@edmondantes4338 i'm actually just a giant rat in real life. but you'd never know.
@fakenamerton25683 жыл бұрын
Is there a single Disney Asian character who isnt a martial artist? just sayin
@Prodmullefc3 жыл бұрын
Snow White
@AnomalyINC3 жыл бұрын
@@Prodmullefc Snow White wasn't Asian, she was Zimbabwean!
@Lammy20233 жыл бұрын
@@AnomalyINC she still kicked ass in Shrek the third
@imdead95373 жыл бұрын
Mulan's grandma
@riftvallance20873 жыл бұрын
Maybe the siamese cats from lady and the tramp?
@demontamerbf183 жыл бұрын
The plot sounds like something I would write back in middle school, I couldn't think of other plots so I'd just use a videogame's way of progressing.
@gidofter_lukge3 жыл бұрын
4:13 Kung Fu Panda is actually quite beloved by the Chinese
@PolskiKrajowa3 жыл бұрын
No, he said how it represents china
@Pelagion983 жыл бұрын
@@PolskiKrajowa Which it does? Like I have heard nothing but praise about how it represents China?
@PolskiKrajowa3 жыл бұрын
@@Pelagion98 well I meant to say how he said it didn't
@McCammalot3 жыл бұрын
@@PolskiKrajowa He was incorrect there. Chinese officials had massive discussions about why they hadn't made a movie of that caliber; they were particularly impressed by the creatures chosen. (I like to think they've done so by now, but like most of the world for the past year I'm not leaving my house much and I don't have the $£€ etc. for 19 extra streaming services.) He can be wrong about one thing and still be taken seriously (nobody is flawless), and he can defend himself fine if he wants to. He's a smart guy.
@captainseyepatch38793 жыл бұрын
@@McCammalot Ya I hate to just come onto the guys channel and smack talk him but... He honestly gets a lot of shit wrong. I like some of his content, but he clearly is not that knowledge about what he is talking about.
@thereptilefreak48723 жыл бұрын
I wish we could go back in time to when kids movies and cartoons were genuinely entertaining and fun but still containing lessons of friendship, responsibilities, doing the right thing, learning from your mistakes and forgiveness. That's not going to happen anytime soon nor are we going to see any good movies or cartoons for kids ever again. To quote possum: "kids movies should be held to a higher standard than movies for adults, because kids are more impressionable than an adult" end quote.
@privatehere33243 жыл бұрын
Thats a little too cynical their are good cartoons still.
@thereptilefreak48723 жыл бұрын
@@privatehere3324 Yes i am cynical.
@zestytriss52823 жыл бұрын
Ugh of course......
@dakodablack73123 жыл бұрын
@@privatehere3324 like clone wars was
@St4ticScratch3 жыл бұрын
There is good stuff out there it's just not new
@fightingmedialounge5193 жыл бұрын
4:17 that's funny considering China was jelaous of kung fu panda being better than most of their movies .
@qwertycrusader27403 жыл бұрын
This movie should’ve been about learning to trust people other than “I want to trust people constantly even though I was back stabbed in the beginning”
@Steven95673 жыл бұрын
or better yet relearning to trust people
@6ixlxrd3 жыл бұрын
@@Steven9567 Like everyone else keeps saying, Avatar handled this better in the span of 2 episodes (40 mins) than this movie did in going on 2 hours. Katara forgives the man who killed her mom without trusting him, and trusts Zuko (a man who had constantly antagonized her group) without forgiving him. In all honesty, I wouldn’t even say she forgave her mom’s killer...she overcame him, which is something even more difficult to do. But Raya? Shows a stranger THE most important item in her group’s protection within the first few minutes of meeting her, gets betrayed, starts the literal apocalypse because she was betrayed, loses her dad, trusts the person who betrayed her again for no reason, gets betrayed again, loses her dragon and levels up the apocalypse, then chooses to trust the person who betrayed her AGAIN and even sacrifices her life (and her friend’s lives) to do it. This movie’s message in a nutshell: “If you’re betrayed by someone, keep trusting them until they stop betraying you.”
@gc00093 жыл бұрын
@@6ixlxrd perfect cheff kiss
@PopelessCatholic3 жыл бұрын
She doesn’t trust until the end, that’s the point
@PopelessCatholic3 жыл бұрын
@@Steven9567 that’s what she does
@ButtersTheGreat13 жыл бұрын
This is gonna flop and Disney is going to walk away saying. "Well people just don't like animated movies anymore"
@osets21173 жыл бұрын
No, no, they'll say we're racist cause it's about Asian people
@ballthatbounces6263 жыл бұрын
It'll succeed because disney movie and maybey girl power because people are ignorant.
@riftvallance20873 жыл бұрын
@@osets2117 Wait I didn't think Asians counted as poc's anymore.
@LittleunlikelyGiant22223 жыл бұрын
@@riftvallance2087 This is a joke right?
@riftvallance20873 жыл бұрын
@@LittleunlikelyGiant2222 I meant it ironically, but it really is a leftist talking point.
@davidminken40943 жыл бұрын
We can't have actual antagonists with purpose and motivation anymore, so all the heroes are just gonna fight smoke and purple lights from now on.
@sel99813 жыл бұрын
I bet during the oscars this is gonna win best animated film -Because disney paid them-
@Jose045373 жыл бұрын
There's a reason their ratings keep falling, that, and preachy politics from smug rich people.
@staringcorgi64753 жыл бұрын
I think we can't detrime the best animated film of 2021 because luca didn't come out yet
@jamssy34093 жыл бұрын
@@staringcorgi6475 oh boy, Luca was phenomenal!
@staringcorgi64753 жыл бұрын
@@jamssy3409 nope just another generic kids movie with a predictable plot at least vs the machines had a great presentation and had soul in it the movie felt like a discount coco with the oh no parents are strict or also special forms like skeletons the only difference is the unique setting but if it was in a small American third class town than nothing would change
@jamssy34093 жыл бұрын
@@staringcorgi6475 hm, I do have to agree with Mitchells vs the Machines. It had so much life to it and personality. It completely ignoring the "internet bad" movie trope I expected from it. Dang, I can't believe I forgot about it! But the reason I brought up Luca was how it hits close to home. I actually related to the characters. I guess that's just me
@ChiralSpirals3 жыл бұрын
"I'm not going to pretend that the movie is good just because it crosses off some demographic check box" 👏👏👏😢 that was beautiful.
@robertcurry3893 жыл бұрын
What happened to Disney Movies like Mulan, or The Little Mermaid, or Aladdin? I mean those are the ones I grew up with. All these new ones all look similar. I mean so did the old 2D Disney movies they looked similar too. But they also had distinct changes in character design. Like in Mulan all of the characters have a different overall artistic look compared to characters in Pocahontas. In Pocahontas all of the characters are very well defined and look very real. In Mulan there’s more cartoony characters that are silly and more eccentric. All the 3D Disney movies all follow the same basic layout of how their characters look. There are distinct differences in the 2D movies.
@camarokidbb43473 жыл бұрын
Funny enough those all got remade (except TLM). Also funny how all the remakes either suck, or are at least considered inferior to the originals.
@BrokensoulRider3 жыл бұрын
@@camarokidbb4347 The Little Mermaid is on the way with a black Ariel. Fuck us redheads.
@BrokensoulRider3 жыл бұрын
@A Zee Pretty much.
@anathemat-0023 жыл бұрын
@A Zee Exactly. While a lot of the most popular mermaid myths come from around the Gulf of Mexico area, they're far from the only ones. Mermaids/sirens are on of the few universal myths between nearly every single coastal country. Even inland Russia had folk tales of the Selkie, who would sing songs to lure people in so she could drown and eat them in various rivers. So it's not like Disney couldn't have dropped a pin anywhere else on the map and found a suitable non-white alternative to Ariel without just dropping some random dark skinned person into old timey Denmark, which is *still* a super white place to this day (98%). It's genuinely disrespectful to both parties.
@randyrichmondiii34153 жыл бұрын
It looks like the epitome of those geniric, squeaky clean movies Disney loves to pump out.
@Jormyyy3 жыл бұрын
It 100% looks too clean
@cartooncritique66253 жыл бұрын
Yeah, because being creative and original is too hard.
@realamerican32823 жыл бұрын
at least its not a live action remake
@cartooncritique66253 жыл бұрын
@@realamerican3282 True. It has THAT at least.
@thetowerofbabble63073 жыл бұрын
@@realamerican3282 don’t give them ideas
@theangrycheesehead3 жыл бұрын
It was a dull movie with plotholes, unoriginal story done by 8 writers, a Mary Sue, a forced moral, poor jokes, and Awkwafina being terrible and annoying as the dragon. The only good things are the visuals, the one joke with the puppy, and the rest of the voice acting being decent. At least it's a little better than Frozen.
@brianaguilar82833 жыл бұрын
The only good movie Awkwafina has done is Crazy Rich Asians
@tailfin65953 жыл бұрын
Awkwafina? That’s her name? Awkwafina? You fucking kidding me?
@brianaguilar82833 жыл бұрын
@@tailfin6595 no, her birth name is Nora Lum. Awkwafina is a stage name
@RollingDodge3 жыл бұрын
Sounds worst than Frozen to me.
@theangrycheesehead3 жыл бұрын
@@RollingDodgeI at least gave this movie some credit. There was no redeeming qualities in Frozen
@whynot-tomorrow_19453 жыл бұрын
"Princess Celestia hair." Ah, a man of culture.
@meleqento95653 жыл бұрын
Yeahh
@saquial3 жыл бұрын
Being honest that movie’s story sounds like a generic manga plot. Specially the part of “There’s a dragon which transforms into a human and stays that way most of the time”.
@genocider97823 жыл бұрын
Aight don't insult miss Kobayashi's dragon maid like that, that is top tier compared to this movie
@saquial3 жыл бұрын
@@genocider9782 I didn't even think of that while writing this comment, I was thinking of generic isekais where a dragon transforms into a little girl and becomes a side character. I also like Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, but I have to admit that technically it falls in this category (maybe not the "generic" part).
@genocider97823 жыл бұрын
@@saquial oh lol k my bad 😅
@MisterJang03 жыл бұрын
She was actually a dragon most of the time. She was a human for a large chunk of the movie though.
@6ixlxrd3 жыл бұрын
@@MisterJang0 Wot?
@ilikebeanies34993 жыл бұрын
Why is the dragon talking like a middle aged woman who frequents Starbucks, and everyone else has a serious and fantastical voice? I hate it. Instantly disliked that about it because it's just so stupid. It'd be better if the characters addressed the dragon's weird voice, and the movie was self aware. But no. The animation is high quality and gorgeous though, I have to admit. But yes it looks like everything else. XD
@dragonheart12363 жыл бұрын
They're trying to do Mushu again.
@randomelite45623 жыл бұрын
Because the voice actor’s voice sounds like that
@souhiyori80323 жыл бұрын
@@dragonheart1236 Mushu done wrong then XD
@RalphJr-xp3hp3 жыл бұрын
So basically everyone at Disney must’ve watched Eddie Murphy’s performance as Donkey in Shrek and said, “Yeah, the kids will love this type humor with this film’s tone.”
@juice32873 жыл бұрын
unrelated but i like ur pfp
@IsabellaCataldo3 жыл бұрын
I don't think representing different groups or cultures is necessarily a bad thing. When done well, they can be really good. But I've been growing increasingly sick of this recent trend of putting representation first and writing good characters second. True story: I myself am on the Autism Spectrum (specifically Asperger's/high functioning Autism), and while it definitely played a part in shaping who I am, I never considered it the core of my identity. A few years back, I remember Sesame Street introducing an autistic Muppet character named Julia. I was intrigued at first, but after watching her debut episode, I found myself a bit disappointed. She was okay as a representation, but I found her personality a bit lacking. I'm not expecting Shakespeare levels of depth from a Sesame Street character, but it seemed like "Autism" was the be all end all of her entire identity. I've related to numerous fictional characters over the years, but I related to them organically based on _who_ they were rather than _what_ they were. It's really frustrating when the media tells me I _should_ relate to a certain character that looks like me or has the same condition as me only to find I can't really relate to them at all.
@g.k.47103 жыл бұрын
I agree. Even tho a learning disability is different from ethnicity, as someone who's also on the spectrum, I hate when people try to pretend they're breaking ground by representing me. Because it's a learning disability and they're trying to portray us in a positive light despite using us for a pat on the back at the end of the day.
@anathemat-0023 жыл бұрын
A note on Julia- ASAN partnered with Autism Speaks in order to make her character. So it's really no wonder that she doesn't feel quite right, considering the awful shitshow Autism Speaks actually is.
@g.k.47103 жыл бұрын
@@anathemat-002ha, autism speaks, more like autism.... Isn't... Speaking... (nailed it)
@lekhaclam873 жыл бұрын
I feel like this movie pandered to American Asians, not actual South East Asians.
@greenergrass40603 жыл бұрын
Well it makes sense, Actual southeast asians barely even has access to disney+
@tiny23153 жыл бұрын
ding ding ding They should have focused on a specific country. Instead they did a disrespectful mashup of SEA cultures, as if it were a monolith
@cerridianempire16533 жыл бұрын
@@tiny2315 yeah SEA are pretty different, languages, people, religion, etc
@siegfried2k43 жыл бұрын
I don’t think that “Asian Americans” should be called Asians. They’ve lived there for so long that they’re more called Americans than Asians. Just like how White,Black Americans are not Europeans or Africans
@tiny23153 жыл бұрын
@@siegfried2k4 Whatever your background is, if you were born and raised in USA, you’re just american. Just because your parents were asian for example, doesn’t mean they will keep their culture to a T or that you will live through the same experiences an actual asian does.
@tipsycat273 жыл бұрын
the movie is PAINFULLY unfunny. Not even in a family-friendly kind of way, because there are sooo many family friendly/kids movies that are genuinely funny. This isn't.
@trashykhun08213 жыл бұрын
Their attempts at humor suck
@ebbiebean93853 жыл бұрын
It’s called being so out of touch with their core audience, that they just make up what they think would be funny.
@fieldrook16133 жыл бұрын
My brain shuts off when I see a modern Disney movie. Makes it more enjoyable.
@tipsycat273 жыл бұрын
@GENESIS CUETO have you actually been on tumblr?? lmao its nothing like it. its more like facebook or reddit humor
@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr3 жыл бұрын
@@tipsycat27 before TUMBLR banned porn I’ve seen posts on TUMBLR, and the humor in Raya isn’t any different than TUMBLR humor.
@corncrackerkid50923 жыл бұрын
It’s really funny that everyone is going on about how ”representative blah blah” this movie is of SEA people and half of them can’t even watch it
@randomelite45623 жыл бұрын
Apparently SEA people don’t exist outside of SEA
@apehawk3 жыл бұрын
Yet another soulless Disney movie that just appeared out of nowhere. I guarantee you if it wasn't for this video I would have never found out this movie existed.
@waltercomunello1213 жыл бұрын
same here.
@wikistacks93963 жыл бұрын
I saw the toys at WalMart b4 hearing bout the film.
@jnoirj31243 жыл бұрын
About as Soulless as the movie Soul...
@VigilanteLulu3 жыл бұрын
@@jnoirj3124 Hol' up! If you think Soul doesn't have any soul, then you probably haven't seen it! One of Pixar better ones!
@jnoirj31243 жыл бұрын
@@VigilanteLulu "If you think Soul doesn't have any soul, then you probably haven't seen it!" What a weird strawman to make; mainly because you can't prove if I have or have not seen the movie; which I have. Sorry, I think it lacked "soul", which is pretty ironic. The other character, 22, was probably one of the worst characters in the movie to me. She/It reminded me of the "Meh" emoji from the Emoji movie. I think 22's existence was mainly for marketability...The main character was pretty good though. Honestly, if they had focused more on the main character and the unfullfilling life he lead and that conceptual afterlife zone, or better yet, he could try to help one of his students who would end up the same way he had; unfullfilled and simply wondering "what could've been".
@legacytrails59023 жыл бұрын
The dragon's design is so crap that r34 and e621 can't make anything out of it
@Zack-xv2yc3 жыл бұрын
There's a reason it's Disney's "safe artstyle".
@gamalielvacasolis34843 жыл бұрын
When your design is so bad, Rule 34 ignores your existence.
@613-shadow93 жыл бұрын
@Jaidon Brown make it athro
@ProxiProtogen3 жыл бұрын
@@Zack-xv2yc bro if e621 can some how lewd a fucking ship but not the dragon that can tell alot
@GloriousSquizoKing.3 жыл бұрын
Honestly, that's impressive on Disney's part.
@ThatLittleKitten3 жыл бұрын
The whole “find this object in another setting and rinse and repeat” reminds me of that movie Onward, didn’t they do that in that movie? It was a fine movie but god there is so much stagnation in some places, and really needed a few more drafts
@Coughdropeater3 жыл бұрын
And also she does it too fast, I feel there should've been more challenge tbh :/
@RYMAN13213 жыл бұрын
Onward was very weak, boring, and forgettable. Some good scenes? Yes, but not enough IMO. Ironically, that film I was planning to see before COVID shut down everything. I eventually rented the DVD, and am glad I did.
@BrokensoulRider3 жыл бұрын
@@RYMAN1321 Onward wasn't about the 'find the mcguffin' journey. It was about the bonding of two brothers over the only chance they have to see their dad one last time. It might be forgettable to people who haven't lost family members that are extremely close to them, but it hits home for those of us who did, and harder if it was the father.
@linwong14943 жыл бұрын
As a South East Asian (hello from Hong Kong :), when I first saw the advertisement, "asian" was not the first thing to come to mind at all. The fact that I required this review to make it a conscious thought that "oh, this is meant to be asian representation" is sad. Frankly, it is a bit insulting that this movie was meant as Disney's way to virtue signal/check the demographic box by pretending they care about SEA culture, but treating it all as interchangeable symbols to be used as fancy decoration. Looking at the footage here, the visuals completely confused me because while I recognize some parts (her father with Ming Dynasty topknot hairstyle), but then it immediately shows Raya, who's hairstyle and design does not at all align. It is jarring to look at, like someone made knock-off cursed Asia.Through trying to mash all SEA cultural aspects into one movie, they've created some terrible, nearly unrecognisable amalgamate of SEA symbols that fails to represents the very people they say they intend to portray.
@watermelon12193 жыл бұрын
as a fellow south east asian, i couldn't have said it better
@Rabbit-uc5kg3 жыл бұрын
As a confused Westerner, I'm glad you pointed that out.
@Poedoco3 жыл бұрын
They did the same with Moana and PI culture 😥 ...People assume it’s just Hawaiian which it definitely isn’t just that. Makes me sad, really.
@tiaraalishaamalia33963 жыл бұрын
I agree with what you say. I'm also a SE asian, and it kinda weird that they try to make this morph between all the cultures. I appreciate they tried to make as many representations as they can, but it ended up looking forgein to me.
@tiny23153 жыл бұрын
Disney, and the US in general, loves to generalize countries that aren’t from Europe. Look at Moana, it showed “Polynesian culture”. Look at Elena de Avalor, it shows “hispanic culture”. This movie, shows “SEA culture”. Also Wakanda from Marvel, is a mashup of various african cultures to portray “african culture”...Etc. On the other hand you have movies like Frozen, which are way more specific (scandinavian), Hercules (greek), all based on some european region or country. Then all who watch those movies have the perception that all SEA people are a monolith. I’m from Chile and it’s so tiring to see them depict all latin americans as salsa dancers who eat tacos. I’ve literally never done either of that.
@101Youfail3 жыл бұрын
This film was disappointing. It’s moral of trusting people is completely broken.
@bruhSaintJohn3 жыл бұрын
.... melons
@tourmelion92213 жыл бұрын
@@bruhSaintJohn this made me wheeze
@doridoriyaki53113 жыл бұрын
It is a fact tho, who can you even trust on the current society we live in.
@adalineharbert23713 жыл бұрын
Honestly I only watched this movie because James Newton Howard did the score, and I wanted to hear what he would do in this movie given his amazing work with Atlantis. He did not disappoint with scenes like the dragon graveyard and running on raindrops. Did not care for the story at all.
@cpt.psychosis34393 жыл бұрын
I feel like Raya would have benefited far more from being a show instead of a movie, seeing as the plot would fit pretty well with that episodic format akin to Avatar. An episodic format would also likely help to flesh out the world and characters shown in the movie. Shame that the movie was meh, but I'll take a meh movie to a garbage cash grab anyday.
@Poedoco3 жыл бұрын
This!!
@wos_liwet3 жыл бұрын
Agree, the setting's scope is too far and wide for a single 2-hour movie to cover. Not even a single village got a nice enough screentime to be fleshed out! If they would do something similar to Tangled and turn Raya into a well-managed series, it'd be really wonderful
@Alondro773 жыл бұрын
Imagine the Unicorn/Amalthea from the "The Last Unicorn" declaring, "Look how close my head is to my butt!" after she was transformed. Yeah... Disney cannot do that whole 'gravitas' thing anymore.
@TheAtroxious3 жыл бұрын
The Last Unicorn isn't Disney, but I agree. I don't even like The Last Unicorn and yet I think it did fantasy better than Disney does now. Growing up I saw a lot of fantasy movies that felt huge and impactful. Even the body humor in those older movies felt cleverer and more subtle that you could ignore it if you wanted to. Now we have...whatever this is. I really don't think Disney likes dragons very much. Between Sisu and Mushu, they are dead-set on portraying dragons as goofy, kind of dumb comic relief characters.
@Rabbit-uc5kg3 жыл бұрын
It's a motherfucking dragon. Couldn't it have been majestic or cool even once?
@JTPMalavet3 жыл бұрын
@@TheAtroxious that’s why I prefer Universal dragons!
@BRAINFOXINFINITE3 жыл бұрын
I shudder at the thought of them getting so desperate for live action remake fodder that they dig up The Black Cauldron.
@milcahreyes52873 жыл бұрын
@@TheAtroxious Well in sleeping beauty, there's a villain who can turn herself into a dragon
@jemileedabear96303 жыл бұрын
Raya: The Last Dragon Moana: The Cooler Last Dragon
@DevourerOfPlanets3 жыл бұрын
In your opinion lolol
@sakurabiskuit3 жыл бұрын
Oof. I'm kinda sad to see this movie flopping because that's Disney's first original animated movie since Moana. I was hoping that it would be succesful enough for them to start making original movies again, but looks like they'll be going back to crappy live actions...
@kingwolf94473 жыл бұрын
Their at a point where simply having the name "a Disney film" brings in lots of money,even if their work is half assed or mediocre. They basically barely have to try now,and this movie is proof.
@HenryAnzzplayer3 жыл бұрын
Disney stop making shit movies challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
@kanyeeast82483 жыл бұрын
(GONE SEXUAL)
@shubalasko3 жыл бұрын
(DEMON EMOJI)
@jadyngeo70883 жыл бұрын
(ELSA CALLED!!)
@insertmemorableusernameher67953 жыл бұрын
(ALMOST ARRESTED)
@lordvictor97933 жыл бұрын
(Dad beat me)
@jentoons57323 жыл бұрын
I’m guessing the writers had that one rival girl betray Raya despite the lesson being “trust people” as a poor attempt to subvert expectations or to “show reality” in some way. But the thing is, doing that does not make your film more “mature” or “shocking.” It’s just poor writing.
@Lonewolf360gaming3 жыл бұрын
That cursed frame of the dragon tho...
@megaapollo10633 жыл бұрын
Which one lol
@horseshoeanimates20453 жыл бұрын
This is just the plot of Ori and the Will of the Wisp done bad.
@ddubsquizzee21583 жыл бұрын
haha. This gave me a good laugh
@ruphite95213 жыл бұрын
No this is correct
@ddubsquizzee21583 жыл бұрын
@@ruphite9521 I wasnt saying it was wrong, I was just laughing
@ltb13453 жыл бұрын
True.
@minespatch3 жыл бұрын
I'm scared for Disney's Hollow Knight...
@ForTheOmnissiah3 жыл бұрын
This movie was ok. Main issue is it played it ridiculously safe. The story was predictable and meh, none of the jokes landed for me, there wasn't enough time spent on the father for us to care what happens to him, the skrillex-hair chick saying near the end "I don't have a choice" makes no sense, there is nothing provided to show that she doesn't have a choice, she very much does. The dragons all look like the same fckn model, and they probably are, just slightly modified versions of the same model with some different thing on their heads. The dragons are scarcely in the movie (besides one obviously) so I get spending time on a big variety of dragons is asking for a bit much... but it's disney... and they're asking for $30 to see this. They really dropped the ball on the dragon design, the males and females look identical and they all have elsa's face. Things I do like however, it doesn't have singing, THANK YOU disney for making an animated flick without it being a musical, I'm sick of your garbage songs. The characters that were supposed to be likeable were pretty likeable (the boat kid was pretty great). The pacing is good, I didn't feel any parts in particular were dragging or felt too out of place, the scenes flowed from one to the next pretty solid. All-in-all, certainly can't consider it bad by any stretch, but it definitely isn't great. It's just a fun watch and i'll probably never see it again. $30? Big nope.
@RYMAN13213 жыл бұрын
Definitely agree on your points.
@Jose_Doe3 жыл бұрын
Bruh we different the fucking pacing was too fast i didnt have enough time 5o care about anyone
@Jormyyy3 жыл бұрын
I could just tell by the trailers that the goofy marketable plushie dragon is going to be the weakest part of this film. Gods forbid Disney don't make a silly character that sells toys in their films. Edit: oh lawd there are even worse characters, seriously a baby that knows kung fu??
@Gruntvc3 жыл бұрын
Disney did dragons better with American Dragon Jake Long lol.
@Jormyyy3 жыл бұрын
@@Gruntvc ah good times good times
@workshaw11953 жыл бұрын
Trying to make another Olaf
@Rosey09283 жыл бұрын
The shrimp boy Boun looks like the only amazing character they should have just made a movie about him*cough*cough*
@daschlubbster3 жыл бұрын
WOAH!!! IS IT A BABY THAT KNOWS KUNG FU?? HAHAHA THATS SO FUNNY BECAUSE DID YOU KNOW THAT BABIES DON'T USUALLY KNOW THAT WOAHHHHHH I AM ROFLING RN
@onhold17063 жыл бұрын
I ended up accidentally getting tickets to see this movie, and I figured "eh, it's better than buying it on Disney+". Looking back, I didn't even pay for those tickets and I still want my money back.
@blakberri14603 жыл бұрын
@The_Jaguar_ Knight DUDE FOR REAL XD
@elinbird003 жыл бұрын
It was that bad?
@onhold17063 жыл бұрын
@@elinbird00 The other characters on the poster have a combined 15 or so minutes of screen time and the world is beautiful but is lacking depth or substance. They jump from location to location so quickly that it makes it hard to get invested in everything happening, as that’s not even counting the PLENTIFUL amount of cliches.
@elinbird003 жыл бұрын
@@onhold1706 so basically it’s bad
@onhold17063 жыл бұрын
@@elinbird00 Yeah, pretty much. Not to mention, I don’t see why Onward and Soul were completely free on Disney+ but this wasn’t.
@chriswentz51973 жыл бұрын
The dragon is literally Elsa Fursona mixed with Shenron from DBZ but scaled down and neutered
@tultsi933 жыл бұрын
To me, that dragon looks more like a character from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
@kaiserproductions12783 жыл бұрын
I think Disney is making their animation too realistic. Like, dude, animation was made to look and do things unrealistic.
@El-de6nj3 жыл бұрын
Not necessarily. Animation is a form of art used to tell a story, making more realistic animation is a stylistic choice. This movie is supposed to have a bit of a darker theme, though it doesn’t exactly succeed. It takes place in a dystopian setting, with a somewhat saturated color palette and constant betrayal that contribute to the setting. Having a grittier animation style helps contribute to the arching story.
@kaiserproductions12783 жыл бұрын
@@El-de6nj I would argue that making your animation realistic does nothing for it. As stated, animation was made to do unrealistic things and look unrealistic and I believe that making it realistic sort of just wastes that. Not to say I don't enjoy realistic animation, I just think it's more of a wasted opportunity. As another note, although realistic animation could supposedly help stylistically to convey a more abstract tone my comment singled out disney because many of their projects now attempt this realistic animation which is weird in my opinion. Why confine yourself to that style?
@maximumrebo20303 жыл бұрын
@@El-de6nj yeah the best animation the kind that strays away from reality
@Whizzkid30003 жыл бұрын
Depends on the animation
@zoltanormosi56173 жыл бұрын
@@kaiserproductions1278 Most Near-future themed animes tend to be realistic. Boy, Patlabor the Movie had Awesome cityscapes. Whisper of the Heart level but on a dark and rugged tone.
@Floridamangaming7293 жыл бұрын
And yet another reason to not buy disney plus. Its really sad seeing disney this low. So low to the point where they just ignore incarceration camps in china. unbelievable.
@youcantbeatk70063 жыл бұрын
They always have.
@theonefreeman52843 жыл бұрын
Well, that's Disney for you. Ignoring morals for profit, and making everything really basic to not offend the snowflakes known as "feminists", and so that China can view it, for profit, of course.
@liverwind39583 жыл бұрын
Man I hope lagiacres gets into rise he was always one of my favorite leviathan monsters
@workshaw11953 жыл бұрын
@@theonefreeman5284 It's more of south east asia, like Indoesnia, Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), etc
@ballthatbounces6263 жыл бұрын
Dude I love lagiacris. Mh3 was my first monster hunter and one of the games that got me into gaming. I get alittle nostalgic thinking about it. Why did they ever remove water honestly.
@QrypticNessus3 жыл бұрын
Honestly, it probably would've been better if the designs were different, different dragons, maybe change up the designs for the different lands, like their individual tribes could've had more design. The whole, "It only worked because they trusted her" thing kinda ruined the film for me, like you telling me that you're gonna leave the last pieces of Dragon magic to the girl that got your father turned to stone. I wouldn't even trust the girl with putting on my seat belt, let alone putting together a cosmic dragon EMP. Only thing I liked in the whole movie, was the baby and the Monkey, that had me laughing out of my chair almost.
@drgrounder3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Raya was one of the most terrible and lazy Disney movies I've seen, and I'm normally a pretty forgiving Disney fanboy. The dragon's face. Just why.
@cauliflower99673 жыл бұрын
And the fur.
@ThyWeepingWillow3 жыл бұрын
@@cauliflower9967 the fur isnt strange tho for asian dragons, just the face is too humanized as if shes elsa.
@cauliflower99673 жыл бұрын
@@ThyWeepingWillow That too. The fur around the neck only would be acceptable but the whole body being furry is just ridiculous and I suspect they did that just to sell toys :')
@Пинагод3 жыл бұрын
@@ThyWeepingWillow Dude, they covered her entire body with fur even if she's leaning to be serpent. Even in Asia, serpents typically have scales. The fur was just so out of place
@ThyWeepingWillow3 жыл бұрын
@@Пинагод for the fact that it was supposed to be a naga, it shouldve had mane/neck fur mixed with scales yes. But there is asian dragons that are depicted with mostly fur
@CapucineNighly3 жыл бұрын
Lives in SEA. This movie doesn't really attract me to watch it, just because it has SEA elements hammered in there. Somehow glad they haven't bastardized my SEA roots. Disney will get there eventually since they have no more original ideas of their own. I don't see this being popular in China coz they legit look down on other Asian countries, especially from the SEA region.... But yanno we'll see.
@noishfanboy11413 жыл бұрын
lmao im a SE asian and i cant even watch it bc no disney plus
@rancidmeatpuppet86503 жыл бұрын
@@noishfanboy1141 Its in the cinemas here in Thailand. But no one cares.
@justiceofbook3 жыл бұрын
@@rancidmeatpuppet8650 lol rip, it’s the exact same here
@lemmeuseyourecvmassunscree93893 жыл бұрын
@@rancidmeatpuppet8650 🤣 the irony
@cynthiavictoria45493 жыл бұрын
@@rancidmeatpuppet8650 really? Raya is quite popular here in Thailand ka
@mabimabi2123 жыл бұрын
I'm South East Asian, they literally just colored the characters darker smh.
@r.j.penfold3 жыл бұрын
Y'know, when I was seeing the trailers in ads, I thought it looked interesting. But that's what trailers do. I'm not surprised it wasn't 10/10 amazing. Disney needs to get out of its "safe samey animation" box and try something different. I think a lot of people loved Spiderverse for multiple reasons, but the animation style was a huge plus to many. Because it mixed things up and gave us the feeling of an actual comic book coming to life. That was fun to watch. But when you're hit with the same animation style over and over it gets monotonous and it all starts to blend together. Disney used to be ground-breaking for how they animated, and while a lot of their 2D movies did look a bit similar from a technical standpoint, the style and every other thing gave them more character and personality. But now I guess we're stuck with Tangled animation style and "live action remakes" because Disney is a big fucking monopoly and no matter what they do they know they'll make money.
@osets21173 жыл бұрын
They're going down the same road as illumination with their fucking minions, in Disney's case most everything looks the same
@marcosrecio40623 жыл бұрын
A movie about trusting other people after the main protagonist trusted someone that ended up betraying her Sounds like fans forgiving Disney with The Mandalorian only to keep getting shit again.
@nicolasnamed3 жыл бұрын
I like the mandalorian but hate Disney as a company so that's why I pirate it :) The sequels are and will always be hot garbage
@KaNoMikoProductions3 жыл бұрын
Well, the Mandalorian is shit as well, so business as usual.
@CandyApples4ever3 жыл бұрын
I think the dragon was purposely designed like this to sell toys of it. It’s safer and overly cute. They likely think having a properly designed Asian dragon animated or as a toy isn’t cute and children won’t buy it. I can smell the “buy my toys” coming from it.
@hassathunter24643 жыл бұрын
"This movie represents SEA as much as Kung Fu Panda does China" China: "Why do we not make such great movies about our culture?" SEA: "Why is this nothing like our culture at all?" Not sure if that comparrison worked.
@NgocAnh-ef5gr3 жыл бұрын
This movie comming out after Mulan liveaction give me a feeling like they have failed kissing China’s ass so now they switch into another one but no Asian country has big population as China so they go with the entire region
@randomelite45623 жыл бұрын
*cultures SEA isn’t homogenous and even individual countries will have a wide array of languages of cultural subgroups
@extrasalt53033 жыл бұрын
how to make a modern Disney movie: * Make an interesting looking world but don't actually explore the politics or world it's just a back drop out side of a few times for scenes added just to pan the run time. * Make a boring princess with one or two unique things about her. * Have her go on a quest to stop a big that destroying the world and have grab some required item to pan the run time. * Add a sidekick(s) that are as boring as the princess to turn into figures to make money. * Add some unfunny humor. * You also add a twist that makes the film worse. and boom! a modern day Disney movie at your finger tips!
@VigilanteLulu3 жыл бұрын
At least Moana was a fun time that executed its basic setup with SOME character!
@bachelorsgrove0003 жыл бұрын
* make all the characters look similar to other modern Disney films (especially the women) *make the designs unremarkable and forgettable * botch the culture they're trying to represent
@VigilanteLulu3 жыл бұрын
@Simple Weirdo Tamatoa, MVP of the movie and BEST DISNEY VILLAIN EVAH!
@Webwra3 жыл бұрын
Here I fixed it for you: How to make a modern movie: * Make an interesting looking world but don't actually explore it. * Make a boring main character with nothing unique about it. * Have it go on a quest to stop the end of the world and/or grab some required item to pan the run time. * Add a sidekick(s) that are as boring as the main character. * Add some unfunny humor. * You also add a twist that makes the film worse and/or makes no sense at all. and boom! a modern day movie at your finger tips!
@Webwra3 жыл бұрын
@Simple Weirdo No, please no, just not mention that abomination, worst part of an already medicore film.
@mariaandersson30133 жыл бұрын
One of Disneys best composers cane back for this movie, James Newton Howard, he last made the soundtrack for treasure planet and this movie had one of the best soundtracks of the 21st century! The asian instruments were very prominent, sometimes minutes were dedicated to a certain drum or flute, like during battle scenes. Not to say the movie wasn't bad, i kinda thought it was painfully average, but i kinda liked the world building and character design.
@MizfitZer03 жыл бұрын
Looks like another generic boring and bland pile of disney garbage. All the characters look alike from all their films now. This girl looks no different from that moana girl from a previous movie
@Freezy3103 жыл бұрын
Except Mona has a crab that saves the film
@a-posingroach3 жыл бұрын
Yea they are Asian
@kaijukingdom26863 жыл бұрын
Honestly it’s not a bad film -Eh somewhat not- it’s just the execution sucked ass honestly. It doesn’t have that love put into it like soul.
@ballthatbounces6263 жыл бұрын
@@Freezy310 what do people see in that crab
@Prodmullefc3 жыл бұрын
it's just for representation. these animators all expect all brown people to just gratefully gobble up the character just because "hey she's brown like me" so they don't feel the need to develop the character beyond "she brown". It's so disgustingly patronizing.
@ThieflyChap3 жыл бұрын
What annoys me the most about modern animation, is the way they over-articulate the mouth/face movements, like they're trying to talk to a deaf person they think is also mentally slow. Star Wars Rebels had this issue, as did the Clone Wars to a certain extent in the later series.
@pyraffin3 жыл бұрын
Exactly. It's like they think animating them as if it's exaggerated slow-mo but at normal speed = funny, but it's just distracting and takes away the more serious tone they were going for. Subtle doesn't exist anymore
@ltb13453 жыл бұрын
I didn’t notice that in The Clone Wars, but in Rebels, definitely.
@Luis-yh9xd3 жыл бұрын
That’s basically how every character from an Illumination movie talks.
@kerruo26313 жыл бұрын
0:25 Excatly! The originality has been thrown out of the window!
@zenithstudio68193 жыл бұрын
This movie was more bland then white bread
@MizfitZer03 жыл бұрын
White bread is the best bread though so your analogy doesn’t really work
@maximumrebo20303 жыл бұрын
@@MizfitZer0 more bland than water
@imnotpayingchildsupport45063 жыл бұрын
@@maximumrebo2030 more bland than rocks
@patchmoulton54383 жыл бұрын
@@MizfitZer0 Incorrect. That rye bread from Outback is the best bread.
@pyraffin3 жыл бұрын
They gotta keep it safe for the Chinese censors so they can pander properly. So they can't really do anything with these movies because, you know, Chinese censors.
@uhoh67063 жыл бұрын
Even if this was an amazing film, no way in hell am I paying 30 dollars for premium access when I’m just watching it at home. I’d understand 30 dollars if I bought some snacks with my ticket that added up to 30 dollars in a theatre, but 30 just for a movie alone in my own house for a service that I’m already paying for?! How is something like Soul “free” on Disney+ yet this movie is considered 30 dollars worth in their eyes?
@bayonetababe96973 жыл бұрын
I know right. Soul was amazing. I might would have paid extra for that. Pixar has been killing it lately. But $30 is outrageous I mean most VOD are at the most $20 and you don’t have to pay for a streaming service on top of that.
@roberthan51093 жыл бұрын
Why do they keep charging Asian inspired films $30? First mulan, now this
@brokenland51543 жыл бұрын
Another thing about the dragon characters, every time I saw them using body language or just moving in general, it was so similar to Zootopia's animation that I swore Nick or Judy had the exact same body movement. It just seems Disney doesn't even want to try anymore.
@bloodrunsclear3 жыл бұрын
The hero needs to find four magic crystals to defeat evil mindless villain. Congrats Disney. You have the same depth as an Atari game.
@Bacony_Cakes3 жыл бұрын
And not one of the good ones.
@bloodrunsclear3 жыл бұрын
@@Bacony_Cakes Very much no
@camarokidbb43473 жыл бұрын
Is it 1983 video game crash bad?
@bloodrunsclear3 жыл бұрын
@@camarokidbb4347 Pretty much
@austinreed73433 жыл бұрын
I thought you completely stopped caring about this company after the Fox merger
@sarissophori3 жыл бұрын
Watching before Disney takes it down.
@cossacktwofive49743 жыл бұрын
Additionally, I don't remember the Indonesian and Malaysian Keris and the Philippine Kalis swords can become a whip sword. I must have missed that in history class!
@rachelciel33303 жыл бұрын
It can also turned into a snake or demons, depend on how creative you can be. *Trust* is the greatest power.
@vernyulkisasszony47083 жыл бұрын
"Princess Celestia-hair" is one of the best things I've ever heard.
@SkorpTS3 жыл бұрын
Seems like modern Disney animated movies are very hit or miss.
@cartooncritique66253 жыл бұрын
With more misses than hits.
@superstarultra283 жыл бұрын
@@cartooncritique6625 Definitely.
@silverscorpio243 жыл бұрын
Mostly misses.
@VigilanteLulu3 жыл бұрын
Those misses mainly from the live-action remakes! Tangled, Moana and the first Frozen were good! Edit: Oh, and Wreck-It Ralph!
@superstarultra283 жыл бұрын
@@VigilanteLulu Frozen was okay.
@cylihou53073 жыл бұрын
Honestly his voice is perfect for complaining he could never leave a non sarcastic comment
@roberthan51093 жыл бұрын
The main thing I heard during the commercials is that this film is "remarkablly original". But really this movie basically has the same plot as dragon ball z, legend of Zelda, final fantasy and many others, where they have to collect a certain number of stuff in order to banish an evil. I'm honestly struggling to find anything original about this film, unless you consider the idea that the world is fictional which means someone technically had to make it up
@sweetbunnybun3 жыл бұрын
yup and characters are meh
@fuckalldisneyremakesorigin55603 жыл бұрын
@@sweetbunnybun yeah, especially Sisu acted like a teen girl that frequents Starbucks and her design looks like an Unicorn.
@eatatjoes67513 жыл бұрын
It's remarkably clichè.
@elitemook42343 жыл бұрын
This is the future of Disney animation. recycled 3d models, the aesthetic of a culture that seems hip and novel, and plots and shoehorned morals that seem written by a half formed AI which is still trying to figure out human morals and interactions.
@Coughdropeater3 жыл бұрын
[ 50 years later ] " look at these old movies, they all have the same face though... " " Ah, the good old days... "
@austinreed73433 жыл бұрын
Because the alternative is Minions, this will still be considered “good enough to pass” until those other films die.
@shaniadirstein36503 жыл бұрын
they use the same face over and over and over. Just Google "Disney Copying Own Designs Over" and compare Elsa and Raya and Moana and Tiana and Rapunzel. They all have the circular face with big eyes and a small nose, and a smaller mouth. Which is why I enjoyed Spiderverse (Sony) and Mitchells VS Machines (Sony). The characters were all unique in design and the animation style really stood out. This is why I enjoy the older films as 2D hand drawn animations make the faces more unique as there are angles and differences and not just round and smooth.
@thunderbird19213 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the corporatist era of Hollywood, where the capitalist market is strangled by supercorps, competition is hardly even existent and crap is common product. Back in the day, Disney had to fight with MGM, United Artists and Republic Pictures among others to get folks to their family films. Even DreamWorks is only a limited rivalry for them now since they've bought up so much. Hollywood is an absolute DISASTER today.
@redreaven11z273 жыл бұрын
Is it weird that the main protagonist blindly trust the main villain even when she has shown multiple times that she must not be trusted it seems more like a toxic friendship and it just seems like bad message for kids to take in .
@ne38563 жыл бұрын
This movie was bland and forgettable.
@VigilanteLulu3 жыл бұрын
Doesn't look TOO bad, but yeah, not worth paying a £20 fee on top of your monthly subscription to watch!
@thevarietychannelofyoutube47693 жыл бұрын
Also, the dialogue was cringey
@chupacadabra51613 жыл бұрын
@@thevarietychannelofyoutube4769 Can you share some of the more cringey lines? I don't plan on seeing this movie.
@bobbobbo52783 жыл бұрын
@@chupacadabra5161 the line “dragon nerd” is used
@chupacadabra51613 жыл бұрын
@@bobbobbo5278 Ow that hurt
@ItachiAnime13 жыл бұрын
Finding crystals to banish some type of evil with some chase/ fight etc happening in between? Is this just watered down Inuyasha?
@Rabbit-uc5kg3 жыл бұрын
I think you're onto something.
@spockle3 жыл бұрын
agreed there. typical macguffin quest... shame it wasn’t executed well enough. also, i can’t beat the shit out of you without getting closer
@tfyk56233 жыл бұрын
I feel like rango is one of the best kid's movies and more movies should try and learn from it.