Raya and the Last Dragon
4/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟
This review may contain spoilers.
If any movie that can make me shed tears is a win in my book. I don’t know why it took me this long to wait for Raya and the Last Dragon, this movie’s culture shaping of Southeast Asia is really impressive. The technology of facial expression makes little Raya looks so adorable, eyes popping and vibrant spectacle. The villain character Namaari no longer acts like kind of stereotype villain, she and Raya are two sides of the same coin.
But a good movie isn’t only a collection of dazzling details. In the past Disney Princess Series, a good story always live with a reasonable character arc. The theme of this movie is Trust, but little Raya acts like a tourist, hopscotch from kingdom to kingdom in search of pieces of a dragon gem and keep talking don’t trust anyone. It seems a little empty and irrelevant because we cannot feel the heroine’s growing. And the most important part is why the filmmakers do not give Raya a chance to have sing-along songs, I mean without song and dance that really a pity.
