I gotta hand it to Disney animation that dragon looks more like Aquafina than I
could ever imagine and yes Disney shares in the Aquafina
business these days not only is she the female lead in shang-chi voicing scuttle
in the live-action Little Mermaid but now it's been announced she's voicing
one of the two leads and Disney Animation's rare and the last dragon uh
and it just gets juicier and a one-two punch to DreamWorks Animation Disney
Animation is muscling in on How to Train Your Dragon franchise and DreamWorks
upcoming co-production with China animation studio pearl which DreamWorks
helped set up in their film of course abominable that's right here comes
Disney Animation's Southeast Asian epic fantasy adventure meets Hong Kong action
movie hmm I like that that's how they described it at the d23 Expo today and
one has to wonder if it will have Legend of Korra level action why has nobody
else done Legend of Korra level animated action it was amazing to behold come to
think of it even Toph in The Last Airbender blew our minds so good if this
can do that I will have new respect for Disney animation because that is an area
they've never ventured into the movie is set in the fictional land of Kumaon drah
made up of five clans and we get some frozen style Bechdel test passing action
as a female warrior voiced by de grassi's Cassy steel searches for the
last dragon to bring and I quote light and unity back to their world and the
hiccup get it hiccup is that this dragon Sisu is in human form another woman and
needs the Warriors help to regain her power and turn back into a dragon I love
the style of the Dragon very Southeast Asian which we've never you know I said
actually in the last time I reviewed last How to Train Your Dragon
considering the popularity of the Chinese you know the Asian box office
you know the Asian Trinity box office why don't they have more Asian style
dress in that movie you know they could
literally could go anywhere they have dragons they never did that there but
they had that kind of style dragon in the Kung Fu Panda movies which were
quite successful but I'm excited to see Disney do this and they can certainly
they're building a nice group of things to put in the China China pavilion and
all their Asian theme parks with shang-chi Mulan and now this movie Raya
and The Last Dragon and of course the original animated Mulan thank you very
much let's not forget about that ah now let's see here crazy rich Asians
screenwriter Adel Kim is scripting for Thanksgiving 2020 which has been a
choice release date for Disney Animation and sometimes even Pixar and Disney has
Thanksgiving staked out through 2021 and I imagine they'll call it probably until
the end of time fire another studio since they only have it until 2021 why
is another studio scoop that up I'm sure because Disney's like we're still gonna
come and plant ourselves down there with an animated animation juggernaut so
you're just gonna have to move and they probably would have to move if the movie
has koco's authenticity but for Southeast Asia that could be really
exciting the concept art is beautiful and I do like this I think this idea of
you know Hong Kong action movie with female leads the friendship angle my
only concern I have two concerns first is that I think awkwafina who I
absolutely adore isn't danger of pulling a dwayne johnson and over exposing
herself but will say i hope that doesn't happen
also for a division does the animation so female-friendly that it costs
Disney's a company to have to go on a buying spree to get things that appeal
to the male demographic well here's hoping that this animated movie has some
strong male characters in it as well you want everything to be well balanced
especially because Disney's working so hard to have strong female characters
and other verticals so Disney Animation I think has you know there are you know
I guess they're you know obviously there are other movies they're making that
have male leads that's fabulous Pixar has all male leads for 2020 but I still
feel that every movie should be you know have some degree of balance in terms of
representation alright so what do you think of Raya and the Last
Dragon is it too close to How to Train Your Dragon is there room for both or
are you like hey How to Train Your Dragon is over so let's move on to the
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