![]() ![]() ( Moana’s milieu is Polynesian, Raya’s Southeast Asian.) The more obvious point of comparison is Moana, Disney’s other action-princess movie with Asian-Pacific cultural and mythological roots. The most illuminating points of comparison, though, may be a pair of five-year-old Disney movies- Moana and Zootopia-and the extent to which Raya and the Last Dragon can be seen as a mash-up of these two popular 2016 films says as much about the culture of ideas at work at Disney today as any film they’ve released in the last five years. ![]() ![]() (For one thing, the plot takes the form of yet another Marvel-style scavenger-hunt to find and reunite magical stones of power.) If Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon seems familiar, that might be because…well, because of echoes of a lot of things, really. Cover image: Raya and the Last Dragon, © Disney
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