Despite its issues, it proves that people can pull together to create compelling no matter what the circumstances may be. In the end, this is a mostly fun but occasionally frustrating adventure. One highlight is certainly its fight scenes, which typically have quite a bit of weight to them and emulate something seen in a proper martial arts flick (though they're obviously less violent). The fact that it was completed almost entirely from home due to COVID-19 is especially impressive it looks and moves just as good as any of Disney's recent efforts, if not better. For the most part, it's a solidly entertaining experience with some unique aesthetics and appropriately amazing animation. Still, it's not as if the flick isn't enjoyable. Rather than being outright bad, its least successful moments simply pull down its most successful ones and make the overall affair less effective than it clearly could have been.
These issues are particularly frustrating because there are segments in which the movie truly is great. It also has an odd pace that kind of makes it feel like a video-game truncated into two hours, awkwardly squashed to fit its medium. It doesn't help that the opening is pretty much played straight and that there is a rather serious undercurrent running throughout the entire affair.
'Raya And The Last Dragon (2021)' has a strange tone that actually sees its comedy clash immensely with its drama, rather than compliment it. Even if it were, there's nothing to suggest that they would follow the customs of that area as it is today. Though this would, of course, assume that Kumandra is in what is known today as South East Asia. So Raya would call Tong "Uncle Tong", Boun would call Raya "Sister Raya", and Raya would address deity-ish Sisu as "Master Sisu" or "Lady Sisu". In Asian cultures usually you would address people using familial relationship: you would call a person who is around your age or slightly older than you with "brother/sister", person who is in the range of your parent's age with "uncle/auntie", person who is older than that with "grandpa/granny", and revered/high status/deity figure with something like "master/lord/lady". In South East Asian cultures in particular and Asian cultures in general, it's considered very rude to address people who are older or in higher status than you with only their names, such as when Raya calls Tong or Boun calls Raya or Raya calls Sisu (a deity-like figure) with their names only.
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