It is not stretching things at all, I'd say, to suggest that Raya is the single best-looking film of Disney's CGI era. Thank God for that, because if not for the wall-to-wall eye candy, I really don't know that we'd have anything to talk about here. The difference being that Onward isn't even very interesting to look at, all things considered, while Raya and the Last Dragon is, at least, sublimely gorgeous.

The two corporate cousins have had their similarities and dissimilarities over the years, but in this case, they've managed to overlap damn near perfectly, with a pair of films that shove anachronistic comedy, very unwillingly, into the material of a traditional fantasy quest, and not only for that reason mark the most acutely neither-here-nor-there, going-through-the-motions mediocrity that their respective studios are capable of shitting out. And this makes it just irresistible to compare the two of them, though I suppose there's at least a good chance I'd have wanted to do that anyways. Given the pandemic-related days to its release date, Raya and the Last Dragon, the 59th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animation Studios canon has by chance landed on exactly the same weekend, relatively speaking, as Pixar Animation Studios' first release of 2020, Onward - the tenth weekend of their respective calendar years.

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