Raya and the Last

Dragon

Raya and the Last Dragon (/ˈraɪ.ə/ RYE-ə) is

a 2021 American computer-animated
fantasy action-adventure film produced by
Walt Disney Pictures and Walt Disney
Animation Studios, and distributed by Walt
Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The 59th
film produced by the studio, it is directed
by Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada, co-
directed by Paul Briggs and John Ripa,[4]
produced by Osnat Shurer and Peter Del
Vecho, written by Qui Nguyen and Adele
Lim, and music composed by James
Newton Howard.[5] The film features a
predominantly Asian American cast,
including the voices of Kelly Marie Tran as
Raya and Awkwafina as Sisu, the dragon,
along with Izaac Wang, Gemma Chan,
Daniel Dae Kim, Benedict Wong, Sandra Oh,
Thalia Tran, Lucille Soong, and Alan Tudyk.
 Raya and the Last Dragon

Theatrical release poster

Directed by Don Hall

Carlos López Estrada
Produced by Osnat Shurer
Peter Del Vecho
Screenplay by Qui Nguyen
Adele Lim

Story by Paul Briggs

Don Hall
Adele Lim
Carlos López Estrada
Kiel Murray
Qui Nguyen
John Ripa
Dean Wellins

Starring Kelly Marie Tran

Awkwafina
Izaac Wang
 Gemma Chan
Daniel Dae Kim
Benedict Wong
Sandra Oh
Thalia Tran
Lucille Soong
Alan Tudyk

Music by James Newton

Howard

Cinematography Rob Dressel (layout)

Adolph Lusinsky
(lighting)

Edited by Fabienne Rawley

Shannon Stein

Walt Disney Pictures

Production Walt Disney
companies
Animation Studios
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures

Release date March 3, 2021

(Netherlands)
March 5, 2021 (United
States)

Running time 107 minutes

Country United States

Language English

Budget $100 million+[1]

Box office $93 million[2][3]

Raya and the Last Dragon was theatrically
released in the United States on March 5,
2021 by Walt Disney Studios Motion
Pictures in standard 2D, 3D, Dolby Cinema,
and IMAX formats. The film's release was
also simultaneously available on Disney+
with Premier Access, which is in response
to the COVID-19 pandemic's negative
impact towards theatrical releases, with
many movie theaters across the United
States and other countries being closed.

The film has grossed $93 million

worldwide, making it the sixth highest-
grossing film of 2021 and received positive
reviews from critics, who praised the
animation, voice acting, and messages,
while drawing some criticism for the lack
of actual Southeast Asian representation
among the film's voice cast.

Plot
The prosperous land of Kumandra is
ravaged by the Druun, evil spirits that
multiply after turning the land's people and
dragons to stone. Sisu, the last dragon,
concentrates her magic into a gem and
banishes the Druun, reviving Kumandra's
people but not the dragons. A power
struggle for the orb divides Kumandra's
people into tribes, based on their
placement along a giant, dragon-shaped
river: Fang, Heart, Spine, Talon, and Tail.

500 years later, Chief Benja of the Heart

tribe has been training his daughter Raya
to guard the gem. Firmly believing that the
tribes can be united once again, Chief
Benja decides to hold a feast for all five
tribes. During the feast, Raya befriends the
daughter of Chief Virana of the Fang tribe,
Namaari. As an act of friendship, Namaari
gives Raya a dragon pendant as a gift.
Trusting her, Raya shows Namaari the
location of the gem but is suddenly
betrayed by Namaari who reveals that she
is only there to steal it, resulting in a fight
between the two. Alerted to the attack,
Benja and the other tribes arrive at the
scene and start fighting one another over
the gem, resulting in it smashing to pieces
which resurrects the Druun. As each tribe
steals a piece of the orb, the Druun lay
waste to the Land of Heart and its people
with a wounded Chief Benja getting
petrified as well after saving his daughter.

For the next six years, Raya treks across

the land to find Sisu in order to help her
recover the missing orb pieces. After
reaching a ship wreck, Raya finally
manages to summon Sisu, who admits
that she did not create the orb, but only
used it on behalf of her siblings. Sisu also
reveals that touching the orb pieces grants
her her siblings' powers. They recover the
second piece from a ruined, booby-trapped
Tail temple, granting Sisu shapeshifting
powers; and encounter a hostile Namaari
and her tribesmen trying to take back the
map Raya stole to find Sisu. Escaping the
temple, they escape on the boat of young
restaurateur Boun, who lost his family to
the Druun. Despite Boun's friendliness,
Raya does not fully trust him. During the
boat ride, Sisu explains the origins of the
Druun and their weakness for water.
The group arrives at Talon to claim the
third gem piece, during which Raya
encounters baby con-artist Noi and her trio
of monkey-like companions, the Ongis,
who adopted her after the Druun petrified
her family. After a chase, Raya recruits Noi
and the Ongis. Sisu goes into the
marketplace and encounters Talon's
chieftess, who sinisterly offers her to the
Druun for the other orb pieces. Raya
rescues Sisu and reclaims the third piece,
which allows Sisu to spew out fog which
aids in their escape. The group then arrives
at Spine, where they meet Tong, a
fearsome warrior, and the village's sole
survivor. Namaari arrives and Raya holds
her off in a fight while the others escape.
Before Namaari is able to defeat her, Sisu
saves Raya before leaving with the group
for Fang, with Tong handing over Spine’s
gem piece, giving Sisu power over rain.

As the group get closer to Fang, Sisu

suggests allying with Namaari rather than
stealing the final piece, in order to show
trust and good-will. When Raya refuses,
Sisu takes her back to the remains of the
Heart and tells of how her siblings' trust in
her was what really empowered her to
save Kumandra. Raya relents and decides
to give Namaari the dragon pendant as a
peace offering. Raya and Sisu meet
privately with Namaari, but Namaari, torn
by her responsibility to Fang and her wish
to help, threatens to shoot them with a
crossbow upon seeing the orb pieces. Sisu
tries to calm Namaari down but is fatally
shot when Raya lashes out at Namaari.
Sisu falls into the river below which begins
to evaporate at the death of the last
dragon.

With the water gone, Fang is overrun by the

Druun. Raya enters to confront Namaari,
whom she finds to be mourning over the
death of her mother. The two fight while
Raya's companions rescue the people of
Fang using the gem pieces. Raya, besting
Namaari, prepares to kill her, but stops
upon realizing her fault in Sisu’s death due
to her inability to trust others. Raya and
Namaari rush to aid the group in rescuing
Fang’s people. As the Druun advance
toward Raya's group, Raya remembers
Sisu's tale of how trust allowed her to save
the world. Raya urges the others to come
together and reassemble the gem, but her
friends refuse to forgive Namaari after
Sisu's death. To show her faith, Raya
hands Namaari her piece and allows the
Druun to take her. The rest follow suit, with
Namaari assembling the gem before the
Druun petrifies her as well.
With the gem reassembled and everyone
trusting each other at last, the dragons'
magic is finally able to manifest at its full
power, vanquishing the Druun and freeing
everyone, including the dragons, from their
curse. As Raya and her companions
rejoice, the dragons arrive and revive Sisu.
Everyone reunites with their lost loved
ones, including Raya and her father. The
dragons and the tribes gather at Heart to
celebrate and finally reunite as Kumandra.

Voice cast
Kelly Marie Tran as Raya, the fierce and
courageous warrior princess of
Kumandra's Heart Land who has been
training to become a Guardian of the
Dragon Gem.[6] To restore peace to
Kumandra, she embarks in search for
the last dragon.[7][8]
Awkwafina as Sisu, the last dragon in
existence. She has a wacky and
somewhat insecure personality, but she
is also brave, kind and wise.[9]
Izaac Wang as Boun, a charismatic 10-
year-old entrepreneur and owner of the
"Shrimporium", a boat restaurant in the
Tail Land.[10][11]
Gemma Chan as Namaari, the warrior
princess of the Fang Land and Raya's
enemy.[10][12] Jona Xiao voices young
Namaari.[13]
Daniel Dae Kim as Chief Benja, the chief
of Kumandra's Heart Land and Raya's
father.[10]
Benedict Wong as Tong, a formidable
but kind-hearted warrior giant from the
Spine Land.[10]
Sandra Oh as Virana, Namaari's mother
and the chieftess of the Fang Land.[10]
Thalia Tran as Little Noi, an infant con
artist from the Talon Land.[10]
Lucille Soong as Dang Hu, the chieftess
of the Talon Land.
 Alan Tudyk as Tuk Tuk, Raya's best
friend and trusty steed that is a mix of
an armadillo and a pill bug.[10]

Additionally, Dichen Lachman voices both

General Atitaya and a warrior from Spine;
Patti Harrison voices the chief of the Tail
Land (making her the first known
transgender actor to appear in a Disney
animated film[14]); Jon "Dumbfoundead"
Park voices Chai; Sung Kang voices Dang
Hai, the former chief of Talon; Sierra Katow
voices both a Talon merchant and a Fang
officer; Ross Butler voices the chief of the
Spine Land; François Chau voices Wahn;
and Gordon Ip and Paul Yen voice Talon
merchants.[10][13] Tania Gunadi was also
credited for an unspecified role.

Production

Development …

On May 24, 2018, That Hashtag Show

reported that Walt Disney Animation
Studios was developing an animated film
titled Dragon Empire, which would be the
directorial debut of story artists Paul
Briggs and Dean Wellins, written by Kiel
Murray.[15] In October of the same year,
Deadline reported that Adele Lim was hired
to retouch the script, and that Osnat Shurer
had been hired to produce the movie.[16]
On August 24, 2019, Disney officially
announced the film during their D23 Expo
Walt Disney Animation Studios'
presentation panel.[7] In August 2020, it
was announced that Don Hall (director of
Winnie the Pooh and Big Hero 6) and
Carlos López Estrada, the latter who had
joined Disney Animation in 2019, were now
taking over the reins as directors, with
Briggs remaining as co-director and John
Ripa joining him. In addition, Qui Nguyen
joined Lim as co-writer and Peter Del
Vecho joined Shurer as producer.[8][4]
Casting …

On August 2, 2019, during the D23 Expo,

Awkwafina and Cassie Steele were
announced to have been cast in the film as
Sisu and Raya, respectively.[7] On August
27, 2020, it was revealed that the role of
Raya had been recast, with Kelly Marie
Tran replacing Steele.[8] The recasting was
due to creative shifts in the character and
story.[17]

On the eve of the film's release in March

2021, Hall finally revealed the exact reason
for why the production team had decided
to recast the lead role: Raya was originally
a "stoic loner," but then the team began to
infuse her with elements of "levity" and
"swagger" similar to the character of Star-
Lord in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
(2014).[18] Tran was selected for her
"lightness and buoyancy, but also
badassery [sic]."[18] Tran had to go through
a process of learning to trust the
production team, since she had
participated in the original round of
auditions for Raya, without success. By
January 2020, when she stepped into the
role formerly occupied by Steele, she was
well aware that Disney Animation "had
already turned her down and removed
another actor from the project."[19]
On January 26, 2021, it was announced
that Gemma Chan, Daniel Dae Kim, Sandra
Oh, Benedict Wong, Izaac Wang, Thalia
Tran, Alan Tudyk, Lucille Soong, Patti
Harrison, and Ross Butler all have parts in
the film.[20]

Animation …

The film is set in a fantasy land called

Kumandra, inspired by the Southeast Asian
cultures of Brunei, Singapore, Laos,
Thailand, Timor-Leste, Cambodia, Vietnam,
Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the
Philippines.[21][22][23] To do background
research, the filmmakers and production
team traveled to all these countries except
Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore and
Brunei.[24][25][26][27] Thai artist Fawn
Veerasunthorn served as the head of story
for the film.[28] The filmmakers formed the
Southeast Asia Story Trust, a collective of
cultural consultants for the film which
included Dr. Steve Arounsack, an associate
professor of Lao Anthropology at
California State University, Stanislaus.[29]

Music
James Newton Howard composed the
score for Raya and the Last Dragon.[5] The
film marks the fourth time he has scored
an animated film by Walt Disney Animation
Studios, having previously composed for
Dinosaur, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and
Treasure Planet. The score was released
on February 26, 2021. Jhené Aiko wrote
and performed a song for the end-credits,
titled "Lead the Way".[30]

On March 2, 2021, Disney Studios

Philippines announced that Filipina singer
KZ Tandingan will be singing Disney’s first-
ever Filipino-language song, titled
"Gabay",[31] which means "guide" in English.
The track, the Filipino version of "Lead the
Way," will be part of the film's soundtrack.
Allie Benedicto, studio marketing head of
Disney Philippines said that "Gabay", the
first-ever Disney track sung in Filipino,
"demonstrates our commitment to work
with local creative talents to tell our
stories in a locally relevant manner."[32] In a
press release about the song's
announcement, KZ Tandingan said, “I am
very grateful and I feel very proud to be
singing in my language, and show off its
beauty to the rest of the world. I am proud
to be part of history. I grew up watching
Disney movies. Finally, there is a Disney
Princess who I can feel a very strong
connection to, and that is Raya as the first
one inspired by Southeast Asia."[33] “I love
that the song reminds us that sometimes
we feel we are weak, especially when we
are alone, but if we just learn to trust each
other, to come together, and to unite, only
then are we able to change the world,” she
added.[32]

Track Listing …

All lyrics are written by James Newton

Howard, except where noted.
No. Title Length
1. "Lead the Way (Performed by 3:44
Jhene Aiko)"
2. "Prologue" 5:44
3. "Young Raya and Namaari" 3:26
4. "Betrayed" 4:35
5. "Search for the Last Dragon" 1:13
6. "Into the Shipwreck" 2:52
7. "Enter the Dragon" 0:53
8. "Fleeing from Tail" 1:22
9. "Captain Boun" 1:02
10. "Journey to Talon" 1:19
11. "Sisu Swims" 1:45
12. "Dragon Graveyard" 2:54
13. "Escape from Talon" 3:43
14. "Noi and the Ongis" 2:33
15. "Being People is Hard" 4:05
16. "Spine Showdown" 3:27
17. "Running on Raindrops" 2:11
18. "Plans of Attack" 1:16
19. "Brothers and Sisters" 3:58
20. "The Meeting" 3:19
21. "Storming Fang" 4:09
22. "The Druun Close In" 2:59
23. "Return" 4:58
24. "The New World" 2:36
Total length: 64:11

Release

Theatrical and streaming …

Raya and the Last Dragon was originally
scheduled to be released in the United
States on November 25, 2020.[7] However,
due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film's
release was delayed to March 12, 2021.[34]
On December 10, 2020, as part of Disney's
Investor Day presentation, it was
announced that the film's theatrical release
date was pushed up by a week to March 5,
2021, along with the film being
simultaneously released on Disney+ with
Premier Access the same day.[35] Raya and
the Last Dragon will be available for
purchase through Premier Access until
May 4, 2021, and will be made available
for free to all subscribers on June 4.[36] In
theaters, the film was accompanied by a
new short film, Us Again.[37]

Home media …

Raya and the Last Dragon was released on

Digital HD by Walt Disney Studios Home
Entertainment on April 2, 2021, with DVD,
Blu-ray, and Ultra HD Blu-ray releases set
to follow on May 18, 2021.[38]

Reception

Box office …
As of April 2, 2021, Raya and the Last
Dragon has grossed $30.9 million in the
United States and Canada, and $62 million
in other territories, for a worldwide total of
$93 million.[2][3]

In the United States and Canada, the film

was released alongside Chaos Walking
and Boogie, and was initially projected to
gross around $6.5 million from 2,045
theaters in its opening weekend.[39]
However, after making $2.5 million on its
first day, thanks in-part to the re-opening of
New York City theaters, weekend
estimates were raised to $8.3 million. It
went on to debut to $8.5 million, topping
the box office.[40][1] Three theater chains,
Cinemark and Harkins in the United States
alongside Cineplex in Canada, did not run
the film after declining Disney's rental
terms, which led to Raya and the Last
Dragon failing to match the opening
weekend grosses of The Croods: A New
Age and Tom & Jerry, two other animated
films released amid the pandemic. Parents
and kids made up a combined 52% of the
opening weekend audience (with 57%
being female), with 37% being non-
Hispanic White, 22% Black, 21% Asian, and
20% Hispanic.[40][39] The film made $5.5
million in its second weekend and $5.2
million in its third, remaining atop the box
office.[41][42]

Critical response …

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes

reports that 94% of 269 critics have given
the film a positive review with an average
rating of 7.70/10. The website's critics
consensus reads, "Another gorgeously
animated, skillfully voiced entry in the
Disney canon, Raya and the Last Dragon
continues the studio's increased
representation while reaffirming that its
classic formula is just as reliable as
ever."[43] On Metacritic, the film has a
weighted average score of 75 out of 100
based on 46 critics, indicating "generally
favorable reviews".[44] Audiences polled by
CinemaScore gave the film an average
grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while
PostTrak reported 92% of audience
members gave it a positive score, with 78%
saying they would recommend it.[40]

Writing for IndieWire, Kate Erbland gave the

film a grade of B+ and said, "As the Disney
princess brand has continued to evolve,
from the introduction of newbies like
Moana to the continuing popularity of
classics like Tiana and Mulan, Raya and
the Last Dragon is a sterling example of
how the trope still has room to grow —
while proving that some of the original
ingredients can still deliver the goods."[45]
David Fear of Rolling Stone gave the film
3.5/5 stars and praised Tran and
Awkwafina's vocal performances, saying:
"...while the action-set pieces and stand-
offs and Raya–ders of the Lost Ark
sequences are indeed thrilling, it's the
buddy-comedy aspect that actually makes
the movie come alive."[46]

The Observer's Simran Hans gave the film

four out of five stars, praising its animation
and Awkwafina's voice performance, which
she compared to Eddie Murphy's Mushu
and Robin Williams' Genie.[47] While
praising the film's world-building and
attention to detail, Shirley Li of The Atlantic
opined that subordinating the story to
world building muddied the film's
message.[48] Besides complimenting the
film's animation, the SFGate's Julie
Tremaine praised the film's
characterization of Tran's character as a
powerful woman and "regular person, with
wits and heart, trying to make a difference"
rather than a character endowed with
special powers or one needing a prince to
save her.[49]
The film was criticized for the lack of
Southeast Asian representation in the cast,
as the film's setting is set in a fictional land
that represents Southeast Asia.[50] Most of
the cast are of East Asian heritage, with
the exception of K. Tran, Butler, T. Tran,
Wang and Harrison.[51][52][53] A. Felicia
Wade of DiscussingFilm pointed this out in
her review, commenting on the
disheartening lack of accurate
representation in the vocal cast and the
fact that it "misses the mark at its core."[54]

Sequel
The mentioning of a sequel comes from
Kelly Marie Tran, voice of Raya, who holds
the hope that Disney will proceed with a
lesbian relationship between Raya and
Namaari, stating that she intentionally
provided in-character hints of their
romantic interest in each other during an
interview with Vanity Fair, in the form of
Raya's line “Hey there, Princess Undercut.
Fancy meeting you here.” [55][56] Tran also
stated that in the case of a sequel or spin-
off being greenlit, that she would
"absolutely be interested" in reprising her
role as Raya.[56]

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Raya and the Last Dragon at IMDb 

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