Raya and the Last Dragon [2021] spoiler review

In a word - I thought it was okay. I felt like a good 80-90% of the acting and jokes was heavily geared towards kids so that wasn't really for me. Almost all of the jokes fell flat for me. I chuckled once or twice and smiled once. One of the characters says "butt-kickery", and the one kids behind me said, "he said butt" and was laughing so that may give you some indication of the level of humor. 

The animation was beautiful and the story was fairly straightforward. Thankfully you get a lot of title cards to remind you where you are in the story, but a little more map work might have helped. I got some Moana vibes and almost felt like an opening song was going to start as the plot was explained, but sadly there were no songs and very little music that I can recall. 

It definitely tugs at the heart strings, and I like a movie that moves me emotionally.  Upon leaving the theater, I think I personally connected more with the opening short "Us Again".