Raya and the Last Dragon
A fun girl's own fantasy adventure. Nicely animated with some good action and cute characters. A bit too long and complicated, with that exoticised-cultural mushyness that Disney overdo. And everyone is a yank high schooler.
Shorten it and add some songs would have been my direction. It's an improvement over Frozen 2 but falls short of Moana or the How to Train films. The dragon is effectively an animated Muppet which is cool.
Also it's a Thucydidean political realist screed with a literal Leviathan.
A fun girl's own fantasy adventure. Nicely animated with some good action and cute characters. A bit too long and complicated, with that exoticised-cultural mushyness that Disney overdo. And everyone is a yank high schooler.
Shorten it and add some songs would have been my direction. It's an improvement over Frozen 2 but falls short of Moana or the How to Train films. The dragon is effectively an animated Muppet which is cool.
Also it's a Thucydidean political realist screed with a literal Leviathan.
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