Raya and the last dragon is a fantasy film. This film is produced by Walt Disney Animation studio and Walt Disney pictures. It is a Computer animated action and adventure fantasy movie. “Raya and the last dragon” releases on 5th March, 2021 in the United states by Walt Disney studios Motion pictures. It was originally scheduled to release in November, 2020 but was postponed due to COVID-19. This movie can be watched in 2D, 3D, IMAX and Dolby cinema formats. This film is available on Disney plus with Premier Access and will be free for users on 4th june, 2021. 



This film revolves around the fantasy land or realm of Kumandra and currently in the news as it is inspired by Southeast Asian culture. Raya and the last dragon film is criticized due to lack of southeast asian cast representation. Most of the cast is of East Asian heritage. Kumandra realm is a re-imagined earth which is inhabited by ancient civilisation. Raya played by Kelly Marie Tran is a princess warrior and in order to save her Realm from plague known as Drunn, she must find the famous last dragon.



The story of Raya and the last dragon is written by Qui Nguyen and Adele Lim. Raya is a magnificent martial Artist who’s been trained for the role of protecting the realm and a gem which has the last of Era’s Magic, after her Father played by Daniel Dae Kim. Kumandra is a beautiful kingdom filled with dragons and humans both. But after plague known as Drunn, coasted through the Kingdom, it turned everyone into stone. Then comes in picture the Last dragon named as Sisu played by Awkwafina, Sisu Made the last stand and tried to lift the curse of Drunn, he created a gem which is now guarded by Raya’s father. This gem defeated the Plague Drunn and transformed only the humans and not the dragons. Sisu sacrificed all her magic power to create this gem and went into hiding. People of Kumandra turned against each other as they were scared for the future. They start to fight over the Dragon gem which ultimately results in the division of Kumandra land into five parts.  The five divided lands are named after the Dragon shape they lived next to - Fang, Spine, Heart, Tail and Talon.  



Now, after five hundred years, these disagreements have turned deep and bitter. Everyone envy the keeper of Dragon’s gem - Raya’s Father. He believes that he can reunite and heal the rift between the people of Kumandra one day. So, he decides to invite leaders of each land for a sit-down. But a rival leader’s daughter Namaari played by Gemma Chan, befriends Raya with a motive of stealing the gem. Instead the gem got shattered into pieces and turned everyone into stone again. Raya escaped and travelled for six years to find the last dragon Sisu with the help of Tuk Tuk played by Alan Tudyk. Raya travelled through all five lands of Kumandra and made few friends including warrior giant played by Benedict Wong, con artist Noi played by Thalia Tran and her three little monkeys, Ship captain Boun played by Issac Wang and of course a water dragon sisu. Sisu is a beautiful and divine water being. She is a wacky teenage with undefeated divine magical power. Raya and Sisu are determined to fulfill Raya’s father's last wish to reunite all five landers of Kumandra. They Travelled all five lands in search of the remaining pieces of gem, in hope that uniting all the pieces can return the dragons and humans to Kumandra and lift the curse of Drunn once again. 


Director: Carlos Lopez Estrada, Don Hall


Cast : Gemma Chan, Sandra Oh, Benedict Wong, Kelly Marie Tran, Izzac Wang, Thalia Tran, Daniel Dae Kim, Alan Tudyk, Awkwafina