re: Anyone watch Raya and The Last Dragon yet?

It’s excellent. I’m undecided if it’s their best movie since Tangled or Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was badass and I think Raya is at worst the third best Disney Princess (certainly behind Belle and again tied as of this moment with Rapunzel).

I mean this actually in a good way, but it felt more like a Dreamworks than a Disney movie. It seems like something the “How to Train Your Dragon” writers would follow up with. The fight scenes were excellent, all the characters were really good, and had a lot of good humor (Awkwafina killed it as the dragon).

But I wouldn’t show this to a kid under 5. The demonic creatures and some of the action I think may be intense for them. There’s the elephant in the room where they clearly got the plot from, but from taking major inspiration from the material they did a damn good job with it. It also ends on a note where you can definitely do a sequel on this unlike forcing it like they did with Frozen.

3.5 out of 4 stars

EDIT: Saw it in theaters, but I live two blocks from an Alamo Drafthouse.