Throw in a fluid foot-chase through Talon and a booby-trapped gauntlet-run in Tail (complete with explosive-farting beetles), and Raya is a rare family film with genuine action-blockbuster chops. Veteran Disney director Don Hall ( Big Hero 6) and Blindspotting’s Carlos López Estrada deliver impressively impactful fight sequences that hit harder than typical Disney fare - using crash-zooms and speed-ramping to accentuate the fighting techniques of Raya and her nemesis Namaari ( Gemma Chan) while invoking the cinematic language of Asian action cinema. The complex mythology does make Kumandra feel properly epic, and every stop on Raya’s journey - the desert wasteland of Tail, the lantern-lit market-town of Talon, the dense, foggy forest of Spine - has a distinct, gorgeously realised identity.
But the screenplay - from Crazy Rich Asians co-screenwriter Adele Lim and Vietnamese-American writer Qui Nguyen - is pacy and propulsive, punctuating the necessary narrative groundwork with bursts of action and excitement.
It’s a lot of lore, and the opening act of Raya has plenty to unfurl – there’s a prologue to a prelude, exposition to dispense about dragon magic and the five factions of Kumandra (Tail, Talon, Spine, Fang, and Raya’s homeland of Heart), and a MacGuffin-driven mission to establish, along with the introduction of Awkwafina’s anxious water dragon Sisu. Michael J.A rare family film with genuine action-blockbuster chops. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, and Chad Vader Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett (material provided by Riff Raff Theater) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (US: Sorcerer's Stone)įantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Heroes (" Genesis" and " Don't Look Back") Grey's Anatomy (" A Hard Day's Night" and " The First Cut Is the Deepest") Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Nelson and guest riffers have provided audio commentary, in order of the release date, for RiffTrax. Walt Disney Animation Studios' 'Raya and the Last Dragon' travels to the fantasy world of Kumandra, where humans and dragons lived together in harmony long a. The following is a list of films for which Michael J.
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