However, Bui criticized the tone of the film, calling it uneven. Hoai-Tran Bui of SlashFilm was certainly impressed with Raya and the Last Dragon, praising the beautiful animation and the characters, specifically calling Kelly Marie Tran “absolutely perfect” as Raya.
While some of the themes eventually feel heavy-handed (one can only endure a handful of monologues about trust before tuning out), the resulting final sequences illuminate those concepts in fresh ways. She called it “a rich story about acceptance, found families, and the power of trust.” Erbland continued, saying: Kate Erbland of IndieWire was overall very pleased with the film. Raya herself is an appealing amalgam of countless smart, unpretentious, down-to-earth action heroes before her - the kinds of characters that, as with this movie, you gravitate toward as much for their familiarity as for their novelty. Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times praised Raya and the Last Dragon for its representative value, noting that the film is “an ambitious, imperfect stew of cultural inspirations, in which sharp new flavors and textures jostle with flat, derivative ones.” Though Chang comments that the narrative skeleton is somewhat generic and perhaps reminiscent of previous fantasy literature, generic is still entertaining. Just as impressively, it builds to a deeply moving climax whose resolution is unexpected yet consummate. Raya and the Last Dragon occasionally crawls, but most of the time it’s got urgency and momentum to spare. Kang praised the imagery of the movie, the tributes to Southeast Asian cultures, and the character design. Inkoo Kang of The Hollywood Reporter notes that Raya and the Last Dragon is a film you’ll desperately wish you could see on the big screen (which, incidentally, you can, just in limited theaters). The real stand-out aspect of Raya and the Last Dragon is the film's action… While we've certainly seen great action set pieces in animated Disney films now and then, they've never been quite so well animated, or so plentiful.
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