2021 · animation · family
Raya and the Last Dragon
Directed by Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada1h 47m2021
Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and its divided people.
Our read: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive animation · family entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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