This week’s Watch Party is another mini-edition as Elizabeth and Kathryn sat down to watch Raya and the last Dragon.
(Warning: many many spoilers below.)
Kathryn
Ready to hit play!
Elizabeth
Playing!
Kathryn
Playing
Different
Elizabeth
Very
Kathryn
Who’s this actress?
Elizabeth
Don’t know, sounds familiar as heck though
Kellie Tran, Rose from Star Wars!
That little guy is the cutest freaking thing
Kathryn
So cute!
Is there a type of steampunk that’s mostly stone?
Elizabeth
Good question, I bet it has a name. Templepunk?
Kathryn
Oo, I like that
Elizabeth
It’s funny, the very earnest parts of a Disney movie are sort of my least favorite?
Kathryn
Kinda. Good expression work on the animation tho’
Elizabeth
Very, the details in this palace are pretty amazing too
Yay land of angry cats!
Kathryn
Of course she makes friends with someone from the land of angry cats
Elizabeth
Heh, bring on the angry cats!
Uh oh
Bets this is gonna go bad?
Kathryn
Uh oh, I sense this will cause problems
Elizabeth
Jinx
And there we go
Kathryn
I like that sword
Elizabeth
same!
Kathryn
Yikes
Gaah, Disney being Disney with the Dad.
Elizabeth
I mean he was already a single dad so that’s on brand for Disney
Kathryn
Jeez, 6 years
I wonder why that specific pose for the statues.
Elizabeth
Same here, maybe agonized fear was too dark for Disney?
I love that armadillo creature
Kathryn
Armadillo or anthropomoephic pillbug?
Elizabeth
Why not both?
Awkwafina is the voice of Sisu, but I’m less famliar with her
Kathryn
I am so enjoying the dragon’s expressions
Elizabeth
Yes!
CATS
Kathryn
Hee. So awkward
Elizabeth
I love her
Putting her in the big hat was a stroke of genius
Kathryn
“Look how close my butt is to my head!”
Elizabeth
Look how close my butt is to my head!
Jinx!
Hahah the farting noise from the bugs
Kathryn
So smarmy
Elizabeth
Yay dragon escape
Can’t tell you how much I want to have a cat steed
Kathryn
Same
Or a dragon best friend
“It’s haaaat.”
Elizabeth
hee
Kathryn
Message folks, here’s the message, make sure you don’t miss the message.
I love boat cities!
Elizabeth
Yay water market!!!
Kathryn
Trap!
Elizabeth
SERIOUSLY THAT’S A TRAP
Kathryn
Credit is a poisonous concept
Elizabeth
THIS IS ALSO A TRAP
Awww.
Kathryn
Cute
Elizabeth
Adorbs
Kathryn
Yikes, scary innocent old lady
Elizabeth
Oops
Kathryn
Fog!
Elizabeth
POOF
Kathryn
Especially babies!
Elizabeth
Here’s the message folks..
Cat land!
Kathryn
Definitely a video game kind of plot
“I can see how that makes me look like a liar.”
Hey, it’s Wong!
Elizabeth
Oh yay!
Aw, he’s the only one left
Heh, Princess Undercut
Kathryn
Yay
Elizabeth
GET EM DRAGON
They’re all thinking “…..this changes thing…”
Kathryn
Oooooo!
Elizabeth
So fun!
Kathryn
Water dancing in the sky!
Elizabeth
So cool, keeping to the myth that asian dragons don’t have wings
Heist music!
Kathryn
Hee. Rashamon-type planning.
Elizabeth
Hahahah “Best Friends Forever!”
Kathryn
So who are the statues we saw earlier.
Elizabeth
All the other dragons?
yep
Kathryn
The imagery is just stunning.
Elizabeth
Really lovely
Kathryn
The story’s definitely following a lot of the usual Disney beats.
Elizabeth
Yep, but with dragons and cats, so I’m good
Teeny baby mob, what a delightfully random choice
Kathryn
Super appealing squad.
Aw crap
Elizabeth
Eep, pause a sec
Elizabeth
Rewind a few seconds? I hit the space bar and somehow turned the subtitles on
Kathryn
Hang on
Sorry, paused at a really good image
Elizabeth
Hee
Kathryn
Elizabeth
Awwwww
Kathryn
Lemmie rewind.
1:16:32
Elizabeth
Perfect.
Playing!
Kathryn
Playing
Elizabeth
I reiterate that “crap”
Kathryn
AAAAAAAA
Elizabeth
OH NO!!!!
Kathryn
Eep, this is bad
Elizabeth
Raya is out for blood
Kathryn
The cinematography man, knocking it out of the park
Elizabeth
Oh dear that’s namari’s mom
That baby is stupid cute
Uh, no she’s not.
Kathryn
I think Namaia has a little bit more in the blame department
Elizabeth
I mean yes taking responsibility but clearly Namari is a lying liar
Surprisingly nightmarish for a disney film
Kathryn
MESSAGE FOLKS
Elizabeth
Heh
But man that image of all the dragons handing her the gem is so pretty
Kathryn
So very very pretty
Now this is a very interesting storytelling choice.
Elizabeth
Getting choked up here
Yay!!
Kathryn
Wheeeeeee!
That long pause with the statues of the main characters and NO SOUND was super powerful.
Elizabeth
Yes!
Sort of echoes of Endgame after the blip idnit?
Kathryn
Quite
Elizabeth
YAY ALL THE DRAGONS
Kathryn
Hooray!!
I adore the way Sissu grins when she talks.
Elizabeth
“Not that hungry”
Awww, his town
Kathryn
All their towns!
Elizabeth
Hahah,. and that baby’s mom’s gonna have a handful on her hands
Kathryn
Right?
Heh. Came a long way to loop back to the beginning, didn’t we?
Elizabeth
Right??
Kathryn
Sweet!
Elizabeth
Woo!!
Music video time!
Kathryn
Wonder if they have an end credit scene?
Elizabeth
Hmm
Wouldn’t put it past em
Kathryn
Always worth it to watch the credits of a Disney movie, they always put some nifty music to them.
Elizabeth
Seriously
Kathryn
Hee. Nathan just caught Alan Tudyk’s name in the credits.
Elizabeth
HA, no way
who’d he play? Dude’s in EVERYTHING
Kathryn
Tuck tuck
Elizabeth
AAAAA
Of course
Kathryn
Didn’t he do the voice of the chicken in Moana?
Elizabeth
Hee, I think you’re right
Kathryn
Okay, I’m gonna fast forward now.
Elizabeth
I scanned forward a bit and I don’t think they’re gonna give us a PCS
Really good music for the whole thing
Man, it’s like ten minutes of just the credit scroll
I mean, it makes sense, the effects and animator folks would be in charage of the credits too and they’d be like “oh no you DON’T just blip past us in the credits you WILL be able to read our names.”
Kathryn
Yep. Now I’m off to read some imdb trivia!