but as an Arab, I find it hard to watch Aladdin and be proud at the same time since it has so much misrepresentation. They mixed Arab and south asian cultures and just ended up butchering both. I really hope Disney makes up for it by possibly making an accurately represented Arab princess (even though I know that isn’t likely to happen) and an accurately represented south Asian princess in the future.
@@naif_alm1548 yea im Arab too and its hard to watch Aladdin and ignore the misrepresentation, because they just mixed a bunch of very different cultures and called it representation، Which it wasnt so i wish they would have worked on that better. I really hope we get to see actual Arab representtion from Disney soon!
@Dragon Fire It’s a Disney movie, but you don’t know it because it wasn’t popular, so advertisement or merchandise was made of it. I personally think it’s one of the best Disney movies using traditional cartoon animation and I highly recommend it :)
Part of me still thinks that the only reason she isn't is that it underperformed at the box office and everything they had planned related to the movie (rides, a theatrical sequel, a tv show,) got cancelled and Disney rarely acknowledges it as a result
I mean, it's possible. When you think about it, she was dedicated to saving the world, but she was mostly doing it to save her father. So if her father was in danger, would she risk his life to save the world? Is she willing to do what it takes?
Yes and.... I kind of want namaari to be one too because I empathise with her and her being a Disney princess would show young kids that even if you make mistakes you can still be a good person and you can still be forgiven. Oh also she has a cat side kick (the one she rides) and technically she is a leading role (as an antagonist sure but I don’t care!)
The only real Easter Egg I noticed was the Baby and the monkeys using the same chop to the side of the neck/shoulder from behind to knock out one of the guards that Bolt uses when he thinks he still has super powers.
Firstly: you must pass all 3 of these rules: 1: you must be a female lead in an animated movie. 2: you must not have been introduced in a sequel. 3: you must be human. Secondly: you must pass at least one of these 3 rules: 1: you must be born royal 2: you must marry into royalty 3: you must do some significant act of heroism (created just for Mulan) Also, an unwritten rule: you must have an animal sidekick (idea introduced in Moana) And finally, you must make not too little money so you're not popular enough, but you must not make too much money, otherwise you transcend the rank of Disney princess and get your own franchise. You gotta make that gray area.
@@unitds27-delta It's only recently that they've started specifying in their videos that you have to be the FEMALE lead - previously they just said that it had to be a 'primary role', but there were a lot of comments suggesting that certain male characters should be on the list because none of the rules say they have to be female (even though I would've thought that it was obvious that they had to, given that PrincESS is a female title!), so I suggested that it might be an idea to include that so as to stop people making such comments!
is 477 million enough globaly and quote from google "Now it's the second-biggest grossing anime title in North American box office, behind only the first POKÈMON movie ($85 million in 1999)"
Yess the amount of gay energy between them is unreal and Kelly-Marie Tran said she thinks Raya’s gay too! Raya and Namaari kind of remind me of Adora and Catra from She-Ra so maybe that’s why
To make clear ice, the water needs to be frozen from one direction. The easiest way to do this is to use a small cooler (I use Playmate coolers), fill it with any water, then wait until only about 2-3 inches have frozen. Then you can use a serrated knife to cut the ice into cubes.
A series rather than a movie would be a DQ for Official Princess Status, but I really think the story would have been better served out over a couple of seasons. They created a fascinating world and some interesting characters and then had to rush us through it all far too quickly to really take advantage of what they had. Imagine getting to know Namaari like a Zuko and her turn at the end is much more impactful.
If Disney added having a series as a possible requirement for princess status, there will be a demand for other Disney TV princesses to make the cut like Elena of Avalor and Princess Sofia from the Disney Channel. I'm not sure Disney wants to complicate the rules further.
@@mehfin If Nomura likes her and considering what hoops he had to go through in order to have Frozen and Tangled, i'd say he will prefer not to include any problematic elements!
I honestly would like to see Raya join the official Disney Princess line-up because she would make wonderful 13th member and next step for more new Disney princesses in the future. Note: I saw Raya in theaters a day before it’s release date and I loved it. I really liked the story, characters and the animation.
Wait, Disney Princesses of Asian descent are currently two (2) - Jasmine in Aladdin (a West Asian princess) and Mulan (a Chinese warrior princess). So if Raya becomes a Disney Princess, then there would be 3 Asian princesses. Therefore, Raya would be the 3rd and not the 2nd.
@@nicole-im6sl Moana is a Pacific Islander. She's Polynesian if I remember right. She's the first Polynesian Disney Princess and the 5th nonwhite Disney Princess.
I think the reason why Raya would be considered the 2nd Disney princess of Asian Descent is because although Mulan is a official Disney Princess she isn't a real "princess" and so therefore isn't exactly considered an Asian princess.
@@kyelee6632 not sure. For me it's because I count Mulan as an Asian Disney Princess, but I count Jasmine as a Middle Eastern non-Asian Disney Princess.
I thought it was obvious she and the other girl from Fang had like that enemy to lover chemistry. It's like they only were enemies bc of their parents.
Disney's had many "first gay character in a Disney movie" moments... like so many...often with side/unnamed/non-speaking characters... but at least if they do decide to make Raya canonically lesbian/wlw then it won't be some random throwaway character... not to mention the clear chemistry/enemies-to-lovers tension between Raya and Namaari... they will have included such a character in their most lucrative and revered "club", the Disney Princess line up... which, putting aside all other issues with the film, would be a wonderful opportunity for representation...
I don’t see them doing that. Not currently. They usually adjust their amount representation according to what the general populace could all accept. We got too many homophobics i think.
@@izzywoods794 Sad but true. Even if she doesn't become a princess, they could always flesh out character relationships in a tv series(which to be honest, I think the film it self should have been a tv show in the first place).
Actually Jasmine qualifies as an Asian princess because the Middle East is in the continent of Asia. If anyone would like to argue that, please take this up with Mikan (search TH-cam channel Mikan Mandarin) who is a Middle Eastern girl living in Japan and has defended her identity as an Asian many times. ✌🏼
It really depends on what you count as Middle Eastern, as the broadest (or maybe narrowest?) definition includes places outside of Asia like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, most if not all of the Persian countries, etc. All of which exist in either Africa or Europe (though sometimes it's how you define where the continental borders lie, especially if it's based on cultural or even self-identity reasons). So it's possible that the specific Middle Eastern country Mikan is from is counted as being in Asia (or she personally counts it as being in Asia), while also at the same time other Middle Eastern countries aren't. In other words, it's not exactly a one or the other scenario, it's sorta kinda both.
@@mailyak442 She will be the third Princess to wear trousers (after Jasmine and Mulan) and the second Princess (after Jasmine) to have trousers as part of her signature outfit!
There was the part at the beginning of the movie where Raya and Namaari are fighting after she betrays Raya, and TukTuk tries to help Raya but Namaari kicks him away. Idk if it was intentional or not, but that reminded me so much of the scene in Tangled where Mother Gothel kicks Pascal 🤷♀️
11:35 So THAT was the vibe she was giving off! I couldn’t put my finger on it while watching, but neither Raya or Nagini-Natasha-Naegi-Whoever give off _any_ straight energy. Friends>enemies>friends>lovers anyone?
I think you’ve neglected one very important part of the Disney Princess franchise. The music! Every single Disney Princess movie has been a musical with the exception of Brave, but there was still a song in the movie and I always interpreted it as it being Merida thinking those lyrics. Most of the snubbed Disney princesses have their own songs (Meg, Esmeralda, Nala, Giselle, Anna & Elsa). They make it out to be a pretty big deal in Ralph Breaks the Internet, with all the others saying that Vanelloppe is a princess but she needs to sing. And they also definitely see Merida as an outcast, maybe because she doesn’t actually sing. Obviously you see where I’m going with this. Raya doesn’t sing, nor does any other person in her movie. There isn’t even a song with lyrics there to pretend that she’s singing. Singing just feels like such an integral part of being a disney princess, like you can’t market them as a princess if they don’t have their own theme song. Raya just altogether has a different vibe than the disney princess movies. It puts more focus on world building and history and culture than any of the other ones do and have more of a variety of characters all with their own stories. It feels a bit similar to Frozen 2, which also focused on expanding the world and explaining more of the magic that exists there. And Frozen 2, unlike the first one, wasn’t made to be a Disney princess movie, it was meant to be part of a bigger franchise.
Omg the nostalgia... I stopped watching this channel over a year ago because i lost interest in the topics they cover but I just came across the channel again and omg
Having her join the lineup would definitely be awesome. _But_ the only way for that to happen would be for her movie to be dying and I don't want that... You didn't really go into the reason why the Disney princess lineup exists. The reason is to keep those specific characters relevant and popular throughout the decades, so that Disney can keep earning money on merchandise. Disney puts female characters (that fit the requirements) into the lineup when they start selling less merch after the release of their movie. That's why they put Moana into the lineup, she was starting to become irrelevant and the Disney princesses will keep her from being forgotten. I don't want Raya's franchise to die because I feel like there's so many stories left you could tell of her. Her movie is unlike all the Disney princess movies in that they've created an entire new fictional world for her. All the previous movies have had magic and fantasy elements in them but they've still taken place in the real world. Raya has completely made up a new nation with it's own history and conflicts and fictional creatures. Because of this, there is so many possibilities for sequels. Like, what exists outside of Kumandra? If trust is really the key then is it possible for people to use magic too? Is magical glow ever useful other than to set up the main goal of a movie? We don't know! And in order to find out, the movie has to be relevant and that means Raya can't be a princess...
It is perfectly safe to to to a theater. If you can go to a restaurant, you can go to a theater and use every other row to see a movie. There is no reason for theaters to be closed at this point.
Raya does not sing anything (near water as we got described in wreck-it Ralph) so nop she is not gonna be in the same group as the other princeses. Man I hated how many songs there were in Frozen, but not having at least one....makes this movie feel more like Pixar than Disney
Ben: "I don't think there is a male character who could be a love interest" Me: BECAUSE THEY'RE GAY ITS SO CLEARLY ENEMIES TO LOVERS LESBIANS COME ONNNN
Bruni is in the beginning! I made a TikTok about it when they first show grown up Raya and Tuk Tuk. He’s a different color but the character design is the same and he even does the same cute little jump.
Yeah I totally agree, but they didn't build up their relationship and Namaari as a character enough. Which is why I agree that the movie would have been so much better as a miniseries, I really wanted the gay
I did sense a spark when they were children and I noticed Namaari look away and kind of shyly tuck her hair behind her ear. My mind immediately went to Amy’s double tuck in Brooklyn 99. However, I kind of like that they left it open to interpretation.
With everything streaming because movie theatres started to shut down it just takes one person to get a copy of the movie on a free site makes that box-office number very low
great video! jasmine is a favourite of mine but aladdin was the main character, (maybe its just me whos confused) but i'm glad shes part of this line up! ♥
BEN! I CAN TEACH YOU TO MAKE CLEAR ICE! The problem is the air dissolved in the water, which gets trapped as the water freezes. What you need to do is make the water push the air out of itself as it freezes. There's two ways of doing this: 1) Put your freezer to a fraction under 0C so the ice freezes veeeeeeeeery slowly. Potential problems are: the other stuff in your freezer may thaw a little, and every time you open the freezer you will essentially have to restart the process. 2) Put the water you are freezing in a very large insulated container, such as a plastic cooler, which then goes in a normal freezer. The cooler will slow the freezing process, and the volume allows the ice to form at the top of the water and freeze downward. This has the added advantage that you can just take chunks of ice off of the top of the water and top it up. Potential problem: needs a lot of space. Filtered water still works best with either method.
Right? I feel like peopel only ship these two because it looks cute or they seem gay but personally they dont seem like couple material for each other. Especially Namaari who doesnt have that much going for her, other than "I'm like the bad guy but not really" and being a dragon geek. What her and Raya have are surface level
I think there's too much history of distrust between them for any romantic relationship to work. Also, how sad is it that no single female lead can ever have a female BFF again without automatically having people ship the two together? As soon as the movie flashed back to the two interacting as children I immediately knew that everyone would slap the LGBTQ label on them. Why can't a BFF just be a BFF anymore? Why does every single princess need to automatically be an LGBTQ? I'm single and not looking for any type of romantic relationship in my life right now, so why can't the same be true for Merida, Elsa, Moana, and Raya?
@@sassys5614 I agree with you. They are in the end all children's movies i think that finding lasting friendships should play a larger role than finding love interests
@@sassys5614 I just want representation :( It doesn’t need to be all! Single Moana, single Merida, even single Elsa - awesome! We just want at least onnnneeee 🙏 Especially for the kids!
1. I love that I can rewatch these videos whenever I want a refresher on what you guys said about these 2. I actually saw this movie in theaters and bought premiere access
I would go see Raya in cinemas...once the cinemas are open in the UK, which is like May .... international cinemas being closed must be effecting the box office numbers big time
@@patax144 Brave isn't a musical, but it does have "Touch the Sky" which I clearly link with Merida due to it's placement in the film. Raya doesn't really have a song at all, which does make me question if she may be the next D.P. snub like Kida before her...
ofc. after the world returns & the 2 make their relationship public the tribes all decided to fully unite. they have a giant correntation where they both get married & become the leaders. all 5 of the previous leaders have a part in the ceremony- with the 2 parents having the biggest parts (besides the queens obviously)
Got me thinking, Jasmine doesn't qualify. Yes she's royal Yes she's in the first movie Yes she is human and has an animal side kick BUT she is not the main character the movie is called Aladdin he's the main character. He doesn't qualify because he doesn't marry royal until a sequel.
It isn't really having to be the main character, it is just having to be the leading, or one of the leading females in the movie. Which is why disney once classified Jane from Tarazan as a disney princess before shortly demoting her.
I really want Raya to become a disney princess because the movie is just freaking awesome, but can we just talk about how sweet, funny, and precious Boun is???🥺🥺🥺🥺
Wait Jasmine, I completely forgot about her. Isn't she Asian? Does she not meet the qualifications? Didn't he just say that Raya would be the second Asian after Mulan?
I’m pretty sure right at the beginning of Raya there is an Easter egg for Finding Nemo. When Tuck Tuck sets off the traps for Raya she says “give me some shell”
Considering that they did an entire video of the voices of most of the other princesses (and Jonathan Groff for some reason) "welcoming" Kelly Marie Tran 'into the Disney family.' I'd say it's likely
11:20 Ngl, but I'd really like it if Raya and Namaari got together. They sound adorable together. They'd be awesome queens and, politically, it would be a good move since there would likely still be distrust towards those from Talon since they made the Drunn come back in the first place.
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Probably should have said this in the video but this video does NOT contain spoilers for Raya and the Last Dragon!
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Oh that’s good, I haven’t seen it 👍
Question, what happened to the slotherin pillow that was on the old videos ?
Can you do more marval content
I cant wait for falcon and winter soldier and to see all your vids on it
the "hey brother" will never not make me overwhelmingly happy
Billy to Tommy: hey brother
Yee
Same!
Same
Yes, a tradition that survived unlike "These socks are amazing!"
She would actually be the third of Asian descent since jasmine is west asian
That’s a good catch. I think people lump Jazmine in with us Black ppl because she was the first non while princess they gave us
but as an Arab, I find it hard to watch Aladdin and be proud at the same time since it has so much misrepresentation. They mixed Arab and south asian cultures and just ended up butchering both. I really hope Disney makes up for it by possibly making an accurately represented Arab princess (even though I know that isn’t likely to happen) and an accurately represented south Asian princess in the future.
@@izzywoods794 I have never heard anyone say that, stop making things up!
@@izzywoods794 no says she is black wut
@@naif_alm1548 yea im Arab too and its hard to watch Aladdin and ignore the misrepresentation, because they just mixed a bunch of very different cultures and called it representation، Which it wasnt so i wish they would have worked on that better. I really hope we get to see actual Arab representtion from Disney soon!
That "I went to Juliard" chuckle from Alan Tudyk is hands-down my favorite quote ever.
I'll never be over Kida not being a princess, Atlantis is so underrated 😭
I know it's so sad.
What is atlantis
@Dragon Fire It’s a Disney movie, but you don’t know it because it wasn’t popular, so advertisement or merchandise was made of it. I personally think it’s one of the best Disney movies using traditional cartoon animation and I highly recommend it :)
*wasn’t
Part of me still thinks that the only reason she isn't is that it underperformed at the box office and everything they had planned related to the movie (rides, a theatrical sequel, a tv show,) got cancelled and Disney rarely acknowledges it as a result
The real question is:
is Raya worthy of Thor's hammer?
Discuss
Yeah?
Friendly reminder: not all heroes are worthy of it. Hence why I said "discuss".
At the beginning of the movie, no. At the end, debatable.
I mean, it's possible. When you think about it, she was dedicated to saving the world, but she was mostly doing it to save her father. So if her father was in danger, would she risk his life to save the world? Is she willing to do what it takes?
Beginning no at the end for sure
I love seeing Ben’s rant on how he couldn’t make clear ice 😂. I remember those times.
What do you think? Should Raya be the next Princess??
Yes and so should Anna and elsa if they aren't already!
Of course Raya will become a Disney's Princess, she just had to. If Mulan, Merida and Moana can be, so can she.
Yes and.... I kind of want namaari to be one too because I empathise with her and her being a Disney princess would show young kids that even if you make mistakes you can still be a good person and you can still be forgiven. Oh also she has a cat side kick (the one she rides) and technically she is a leading role (as an antagonist sure but I don’t care!)
Yes
Sure why not
literally all the characters of Atlantis were my favorite Disney characters during childhood
Atlantis is my favorite Disney movie.
@@jediknightk6803 yeah same, it’s literally so perfect and so different from the stereotypical Disney film
The only real Easter Egg I noticed was the Baby and the monkeys using the same chop to the side of the neck/shoulder from behind to knock out one of the guards that Bolt uses when he thinks he still has super powers.
I wanna watch Bolt now
now i gotta rewatch the entire disney princess series to remember these rules
Dont worry we go over them again!
😂😂🥰
Scb we need a reason to go rewatch scb
Firstly: you must pass all 3 of these rules:
1: you must be a female lead in an animated movie.
2: you must not have been introduced in a sequel.
3: you must be human.
Secondly: you must pass at least one of these 3 rules:
1: you must be born royal
2: you must marry into royalty
3: you must do some significant act of heroism (created just for Mulan)
Also, an unwritten rule: you must have an animal sidekick (idea introduced in Moana)
And finally, you must make not too little money so you're not popular enough, but you must not make too much money, otherwise you transcend the rank of Disney princess and get your own franchise. You gotta make that gray area.
@@unitds27-delta It's only recently that they've started specifying in their videos that you have to be the FEMALE lead - previously they just said that it had to be a 'primary role', but there were a lot of comments suggesting that certain male characters should be on the list because none of the rules say they have to be female (even though I would've thought that it was obvious that they had to, given that PrincESS is a female title!), so I suggested that it might be an idea to include that so as to stop people making such comments!
When they said she was a “Princess of Heart”, I immediately thought Kingdom Hearts and now I can’t until Raya is in a Kingdom Hearts game.
I thought of Captain Planet….I’m old.
Summary: She's technically a princess. But she'll only be officially a princess if she makes a lot of money
*DISNEY*
Well for now the box office is 119.6 million USD
But not too much, or we'll have another Frozen situation.
is 477 million enough globaly and quote from google
"Now it's the second-biggest grossing anime title in North American box office, behind only the first POKÈMON movie ($85 million in 1999)"
I honestly thought Raya and her rival were gonna end up together
Yess the amount of gay energy between them is unreal and Kelly-Marie Tran said she thinks Raya’s gay too!
Raya and Namaari kind of remind me of Adora and Catra from She-Ra so maybe that’s why
YES RAMAARIIIIIIIIII 😍😍🏳️🌈 (pretty sure Kelly-Marie also ships them hahaha) (I so wish they DID end up together omg!!!)
@@Sirens_kai EXACTLY
Like Rey
@@mailyak442 miss opportunity honestly
To make clear ice, the water needs to be frozen from one direction. The easiest way to do this is to use a small cooler (I use Playmate coolers), fill it with any water, then wait until only about 2-3 inches have frozen. Then you can use a serrated knife to cut the ice into cubes.
Last time I was this early frozen had just come out.
A series rather than a movie would be a DQ for Official Princess Status, but I really think the story would have been better served out over a couple of seasons. They created a fascinating world and some interesting characters and then had to rush us through it all far too quickly to really take advantage of what they had. Imagine getting to know Namaari like a Zuko and her turn at the end is much more impactful.
Everyone did the best they could and it was stunning but you're right, the artists should have gotten a tv show from this
Given that both Big Hero 6 and Tangled got animated series, who’s to say one won’t be made for Raya?
@@directorforplastic7929 We'll have to wait and see will Raya making enough money for The Mouse's satisfaction to make a series?
If Disney added having a series as a possible requirement for princess status, there will be a demand for other Disney TV princesses to make the cut like Elena of Avalor and Princess Sofia from the Disney Channel. I'm not sure Disney wants to complicate the rules further.
Exactly! This is what I have been saying! It felt very rushed, and there was not nearly enough room for character development
The only Easter egg I found was Hei Hei with a bowl on his head when Raya first arrives in Talon and she’s walking past people selling food.
The real question is “Will Raya be one of the new Princesses of Hearts in Kingdom Hearts 4.”
Yes! They even literally call her "Princess of Heart" in the movie. I mean she must be in KH, right?
@@mehfin
If Nomura likes her and considering what hoops he had to go through in order to have Frozen and Tangled, i'd say he will prefer not to include any problematic elements!
I honestly would like to see Raya join the official Disney Princess line-up because she would make wonderful 13th member and next step for more new Disney princesses in the future. Note: I saw Raya in theaters a day before it’s release date and I loved it. I really liked the story, characters and the animation.
Wait, Disney Princesses of Asian descent are currently two (2) - Jasmine in Aladdin (a West Asian princess) and Mulan (a Chinese warrior princess). So if Raya becomes a Disney Princess, then there would be 3 Asian princesses. Therefore, Raya would be the 3rd and not the 2nd.
i thought moana was one of the asian princesses.. or is it just the real princesses? like the old ones and stuff?
@@nicole-im6sl Moana is a Pacific Islander. She's Polynesian if I remember right. She's the first Polynesian Disney Princess and the 5th nonwhite Disney Princess.
@@romguid oh.. alright! thanks for the information
I think the reason why Raya would be considered the 2nd Disney princess of Asian Descent is because although Mulan is a official Disney Princess she isn't a real "princess" and so therefore isn't exactly considered an Asian princess.
@@kyelee6632 not sure. For me it's because I count Mulan as an Asian Disney Princess, but I count Jasmine as a Middle Eastern non-Asian Disney Princess.
When the dragon were reviving Sisu the water formed the Disney castle
I thought it was obvious she and the other girl from Fang had like that enemy to lover chemistry. It's like they only were enemies bc of their parents.
Um YES
Last time I was this early they still said these socks are amazing at the end of the video
When you're early enough to experience drunk TH-cam
"we're living through kind of unusual times" love the understatement
She’s expected to join the lineup and be the 13th Disney princess in the lineup
Then why hasn’t she made an appearance in this week’s Disney Princess magazine?
It takes time to become an official Disney Princess. Between 7 months and 4 years
@@YellowBear-kx1ff That's a thing?
@@pimakpimak yeah it took like 2019 (a little over 2 years) for Moana to be officially a Disney Princess
Welp goodluck with that at 54 million box office after 2 weeks.
Last time I was this early, Sleeping Beauty was still asleep.
Was*
2014 or 1959
@@akinschalkwyk8998 There, I fixed it
Leave Aurora alone.
Raya was BORN ROYAL!! So she's a Disney princess/ warrior HANDS DOWN 😏😏😏😁😁😏😄
Uhhhh.......
Did you skip over for, like, 6 minutes of the video explaining the difference between a Disney Princess and a Disney princess?
K
I ship Raya and Naamari, that’s it
RAMAARI FOREVER
No
I say make her a Princess. Female Disney characters have come a long way from being Damsels.
Atlantis The Lost Empire and the sequel was one of favorite movies as a child. Kida will always be in the Disney princess line up in my heart.
100 percent
Disney's had many "first gay character in a Disney movie" moments... like so many...often with side/unnamed/non-speaking characters... but at least if they do decide to make Raya canonically lesbian/wlw then it won't be some random throwaway character... not to mention the clear chemistry/enemies-to-lovers tension between Raya and Namaari... they will have included such a character in their most lucrative and revered "club", the Disney Princess line up... which, putting aside all other issues with the film, would be a wonderful opportunity for representation...
I don’t see them doing that. Not currently. They usually adjust their amount representation according to what the general populace could all accept. We got too many homophobics i think.
@@izzywoods794 Sad but true. Even if she doesn't become a princess, they could always flesh out character relationships in a tv series(which to be honest, I think the film it self should have been a tv show in the first place).
Kida and all of Atlantis is seriously underrated and deserves more respect.
Actually Jasmine qualifies as an Asian princess because the Middle East is in the continent of Asia. If anyone would like to argue that, please take this up with Mikan (search TH-cam channel Mikan Mandarin) who is a Middle Eastern girl living in Japan and has defended her identity as an Asian many times. ✌🏼
It really depends on what you count as Middle Eastern, as the broadest (or maybe narrowest?) definition includes places outside of Asia like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, most if not all of the Persian countries, etc. All of which exist in either Africa or Europe (though sometimes it's how you define where the continental borders lie, especially if it's based on cultural or even self-identity reasons). So it's possible that the specific Middle Eastern country Mikan is from is counted as being in Asia (or she personally counts it as being in Asia), while also at the same time other Middle Eastern countries aren't. In other words, it's not exactly a one or the other scenario, it's sorta kinda both.
*NEW INTRO* 2 grown men taking about Disney princesses since 2012 *NEW INTRO*
Ngl, I mostly clicked this because her sword resembles the Soul Reaver.
There is also another off screen requirement, your dress must be pretty and distinct from the other princesses'
Yeah, that's why Jane didnt make the cut because Belle was chosen over her.
@@mythoughtsexactly2145 and they look too much alike. And Tarzan literally overshadows her.
Raya's dress is very distinct from the other Princesses
@@Wizard608 and it’s not even a dress, right?! It’s so cool 😍
@@mailyak442 She will be the third Princess to wear trousers (after Jasmine and Mulan) and the second Princess (after Jasmine) to have trousers as part of her signature outfit!
Disney is losing it’s touch, I think Pixar (despite being owned by Disney) is much better at making films in general. And sequels.
Yes! I have better ideas for originality or sequels.😂
They always were, Pixar is much better in making good movies
Yeah, like WALL-E
My personal vote still goes to Deadpool. Best princess ever.
Raya and the last dragon was an amazing movie
Ben’s ice rant never fails to give me life
Everyone: Too early to find something relatable to comment.
Also everyone: Comments anyways
I love this little community
She is a Disney Princess. Disney said themselves in their Instagram for one of their promos.
Just have to say, great pfp
Oh rlly?!
@@bertoandon9681 Thank you so much
@@mailyak442 Yeah!
There was the part at the beginning of the movie where Raya and Namaari are fighting after she betrays Raya, and TukTuk tries to help Raya but Namaari kicks him away. Idk if it was intentional or not, but that reminded me so much of the scene in Tangled where Mother Gothel kicks Pascal 🤷♀️
11:35 So THAT was the vibe she was giving off!
I couldn’t put my finger on it while watching, but neither Raya or Nagini-Natasha-Naegi-Whoever give off _any_ straight energy.
Friends>enemies>friends>lovers anyone?
they are l i t e r a l l y catradora
but disney
Why isn't this a Wanda video? I'm dying for you guys to cover the finale'
Such old school SCB vibes with this discussion coming back again! We love to see it! I agree, I think she will become one.
I think you’ve neglected one very important part of the Disney Princess franchise. The music!
Every single Disney Princess movie has been a musical with the exception of Brave, but there was still a song in the movie and I always interpreted it as it being Merida thinking those lyrics. Most of the snubbed Disney princesses have their own songs (Meg, Esmeralda, Nala, Giselle, Anna & Elsa). They make it out to be a pretty big deal in Ralph Breaks the Internet, with all the others saying that Vanelloppe is a princess but she needs to sing. And they also definitely see Merida as an outcast, maybe because she doesn’t actually sing.
Obviously you see where I’m going with this. Raya doesn’t sing, nor does any other person in her movie. There isn’t even a song with lyrics there to pretend that she’s singing. Singing just feels like such an integral part of being a disney princess, like you can’t market them as a princess if they don’t have their own theme song.
Raya just altogether has a different vibe than the disney princess movies. It puts more focus on world building and history and culture than any of the other ones do and have more of a variety of characters all with their own stories. It feels a bit similar to Frozen 2, which also focused on expanding the world and explaining more of the magic that exists there. And Frozen 2, unlike the first one, wasn’t made to be a Disney princess movie, it was meant to be part of a bigger franchise.
Omg the nostalgia... I stopped watching this channel over a year ago because i lost interest in the topics they cover but I just came across the channel again and omg
Why is ben acting like he hasn't made; and then showed off his clear ice to us already ? Don't lie to me man
Having her join the lineup would definitely be awesome. _But_ the only way for that to happen would be for her movie to be dying and I don't want that...
You didn't really go into the reason why the Disney princess lineup exists. The reason is to keep those specific characters relevant and popular throughout the decades, so that Disney can keep earning money on merchandise. Disney puts female characters (that fit the requirements) into the lineup when they start selling less merch after the release of their movie. That's why they put Moana into the lineup, she was starting to become irrelevant and the Disney princesses will keep her from being forgotten.
I don't want Raya's franchise to die because I feel like there's so many stories left you could tell of her. Her movie is unlike all the Disney princess movies in that they've created an entire new fictional world for her. All the previous movies have had magic and fantasy elements in them but they've still taken place in the real world. Raya has completely made up a new nation with it's own history and conflicts and fictional creatures. Because of this, there is so many possibilities for sequels. Like, what exists outside of Kumandra? If trust is really the key then is it possible for people to use magic too? Is magical glow ever useful other than to set up the main goal of a movie? We don't know! And in order to find out, the movie has to be relevant and that means Raya can't be a princess...
Good news people! She is now officially added to the line up!
11:47 "The second Disney Princess of Asian decent." Jasmine, Mulan, and Raya. You might wanna check your numbers again.
i *SENSED* the tension between Raya and Namaari 🏳️🌈🥰
its the 'hey adora' energy for me
If the person make a friend with a person from the same gender that doesn't mean lesbian
Kida needs to become a capital D Disney Princess. Her and Eilonwey (is that how you spell it) are the best princesses ever
Disney always has a capital D anyway!
Honestly Ben is Kristoff gushing over ice. And everytime Ben talks about ice, I can hear "ice is my life"
It is perfectly safe to to to a theater. If you can go to a restaurant, you can go to a theater and use every other row to see a movie. There is no reason for theaters to be closed at this point.
i agree :(
Raya does not sing anything (near water as we got described in wreck-it Ralph) so nop she is not gonna be in the same group as the other princeses. Man I hated how many songs there were in Frozen, but not having at least one....makes this movie feel more like Pixar than Disney
If raya becomes a princes I think she’s my favorite princess⭐️
I’ve been subscribed to this channel for years and somehow this is the first time I remember hearing about the clear ice thing
Same
Ben: "I don't think there is a male character who could be a love interest" Me: BECAUSE THEY'RE GAY ITS SO CLEARLY ENEMIES TO LOVERS LESBIANS COME ONNNN
YES EXACTLY THANK YOU
YES
no your wrong
@@ProjektTaku *you're
Bruni is in the beginning! I made a TikTok about it when they first show grown up Raya and Tuk Tuk. He’s a different color but the character design is the same and he even does the same cute little jump.
Get fresh ice from your local Norweagien lake and then you will have clear ice, how hard can that be???
I am so salty Kida doesn't qualify... Atlantis is one of my favorite disney movies ever
Same
She is super gay...I was yelling at the movie "KISS" during raya and namaaris fight
I was honestly chanting that too
I wanted them to have an enemies to lovers arc so much
Yeah I really got that vibe too.
Yeah I totally agree, but they didn't build up their relationship and Namaari as a character enough. Which is why I agree that the movie would have been so much better as a miniseries, I really wanted the gay
I did sense a spark when they were children and I noticed Namaari look away and kind of shyly tuck her hair behind her ear. My mind immediately went to Amy’s double tuck in Brooklyn 99. However, I kind of like that they left it open to interpretation.
Am I the only one who thought young Raya looked like Korra from LOK? By that I mean they were dressed practically the same!
I thought that too honestly
@@hayamihinata4135 oh thank the stars someone else saw it! Lol I thought I was gonna be called crazy or something
With everything streaming because movie theatres started to shut down it just takes one person to get a copy of the movie on a free site makes that box-office number very low
But the film is getting popular in it's own right so hopefully Disney will reconsider that.
@@Wizard608 oh no the movie is great its people who are downloading the movie and selling it to sites that bring the box office numbers down
@@avarice7577 True, but still it doesn't change the fact that it is making noise
This movie was honestly one of the best animated movies of all time. I saw it in theaters and really want to see it again.
Given that the Disney Instagram page called her the next princess ima go with yes
Raya is one of the few animated Disney characters to have the same person voice the child and adult versions, another being Gideon Grey
great video! jasmine is a favourite of mine but aladdin was the main character, (maybe its just me whos confused) but i'm glad shes part of this line up! ♥
Aladdin is the main character, but Jasmine is the lead female, which makes her eligible. Also yeah she is definitely a favourite of mine too! 💜
@@sylvereon i see! thank you! ♥ she's definitely a great character!☺
BEN! I CAN TEACH YOU TO MAKE CLEAR ICE! The problem is the air dissolved in the water, which gets trapped as the water freezes. What you need to do is make the water push the air out of itself as it freezes. There's two ways of doing this:
1) Put your freezer to a fraction under 0C so the ice freezes veeeeeeeeery slowly. Potential problems are: the other stuff in your freezer may thaw a little, and every time you open the freezer you will essentially have to restart the process.
2) Put the water you are freezing in a very large insulated container, such as a plastic cooler, which then goes in a normal freezer. The cooler will slow the freezing process, and the volume allows the ice to form at the top of the water and freeze downward. This has the added advantage that you can just take chunks of ice off of the top of the water and top it up. Potential problem: needs a lot of space.
Filtered water still works best with either method.
Honestly I thought that if there were a love interest in Raya it was Namaari. But i don't think their connection was that strong.
Right? I feel like peopel only ship these two because it looks cute or they seem gay but personally they dont seem like couple material for each other. Especially Namaari who doesnt have that much going for her, other than "I'm like the bad guy but not really" and being a dragon geek. What her and Raya have are surface level
I especially felt it when they were kids before the betrayal tho~
I think there's too much history of distrust between them for any romantic relationship to work. Also, how sad is it that no single female lead can ever have a female BFF again without automatically having people ship the two together? As soon as the movie flashed back to the two interacting as children I immediately knew that everyone would slap the LGBTQ label on them. Why can't a BFF just be a BFF anymore? Why does every single princess need to automatically be an LGBTQ? I'm single and not looking for any type of romantic relationship in my life right now, so why can't the same be true for Merida, Elsa, Moana, and Raya?
@@sassys5614 I agree with you. They are in the end all children's movies i think that finding lasting friendships should play a larger role than finding love interests
@@sassys5614 I just want representation :(
It doesn’t need to be all! Single Moana, single Merida, even single Elsa - awesome! We just want at least onnnneeee 🙏 Especially for the kids!
That was the wrong time for me to take a drink of water. "Paper clips. Big ones."
Also we need to make Atlantis popular, it's really good.
Me who was pronounced Raya wrong the whole time:😲
Reya I guess
Keep waiting for SCB WandaVision finale reactions/theories. Keep getting Raya 😭
Been waiting for a rays theory
me too
honestly when i first watched it i thought Raya and Namaari were gonna have an enemy to lovers arc
Last time i was this early Ben was clean shaven
I liked this as soon as "paper clips, big ones." XD
but "I went to Julliard" also got me
Where is Wandavision?!!
1. I love that I can rewatch these videos whenever I want a refresher on what you guys said about these
2. I actually saw this movie in theaters and bought premiere access
I would go see Raya in cinemas...once the cinemas are open in the UK, which is like May .... international cinemas being closed must be effecting the box office numbers big time
Yeah... I was luckily able to (I live in NZ) and it was so cool in cinemas! Such a pity most people will miss out :((
Who are Anna and elsa’s animal side kicks in Frozen 1? (Olaf doesn’t count - he’s a snowman - and Sven is Kristoff’s sidekick)
If the glove fits
Only Qualifications for Disney Princess:
Does she have a pretty dress?
Does she sing a song?
Does she have an animal sidekick?
Merida doesn't sing, Brave isn't a musical
@@patax144 Brave isn't a musical, but it does have "Touch the Sky" which I clearly link with Merida due to it's placement in the film. Raya doesn't really have a song at all, which does make me question if she may be the next D.P. snub like Kida before her...
@@sassys5614 Lead The Way is Raya's song 🤨
Raya is actually the third Asian Disney princess. Jasmine is the first, Mulan is the second.
Right?! Also Aladdin is older than Mulan?
I think different countries view ‘Asian’ as covering different places? Idk I had this discussion in the comments of some other video hahaha
Wait, Jasmine is Asian? I never thought she was Asian... *confused face*
@@silver9wolf6 I think she's Persian, but definitely middle eastern
@@bertoandon9681 Ok!
its my personal headcannon that her and namaari are the queens
ofc. after the world returns & the 2 make their relationship public the tribes all decided to fully unite. they have a giant correntation where they both get married & become the leaders. all 5 of the previous leaders have a part in the ceremony- with the 2 parents having the biggest parts (besides the queens obviously)
Got me thinking, Jasmine doesn't qualify.
Yes she's royal
Yes she's in the first movie
Yes she is human and has an animal side kick
BUT she is not the main character the movie is called Aladdin he's the main character.
He doesn't qualify because he doesn't marry royal until a sequel.
It isn't really having to be the main character, it is just having to be the leading, or one of the leading females in the movie. Which is why disney once classified Jane from Tarazan as a disney princess before shortly demoting her.
I really want Raya to become a disney princess because the movie is just freaking awesome, but can we just talk about how sweet, funny, and precious Boun is???🥺🥺🥺🥺
I feel like Raya will be up there with belle and jasmine, wil she go higher to elsa, vanellope and others? We'll find out
Wait Jasmine, I completely forgot about her. Isn't she Asian? Does she not meet the qualifications? Didn't he just say that Raya would be the second Asian after Mulan?
@@bertoandon9681 that's even better
@@Orto-jj2di oh definitely, but did I, a mere simpleton, catch the Disney man's Disney mistake?
@@bertoandon9681 in a Disney way
Quote from Jay "I LOVE ICE"
FBI: Hold up..
Great rationale! Can't wait to watch the movie myself!
I’m pretty sure right at the beginning of Raya there is an Easter egg for Finding Nemo. When Tuck Tuck sets off the traps for Raya she says “give me some shell”
Oh yeah, good catch! I didnt think of that!
But also, Ana and Elsa are Queens, therefore not princesses.
er- mulan is not a priness too tho
@@asmiaryal3942 True. But that ship sailed long time ago. Also, nobody wants to take away the Princess title from a hero as Mulan 😉
@@tigrezangel yaah, she is my favorite disney princess!!!
But Anna and Elsa were princesses first. So if they later get added, they still qualify.
The act of heroism used to be there for Tinkerbell and Esmerelda as well.
I'm confused, she's already being marketed as a Disney Princess (On the official website and her merch)
Considering that they did an entire video of the voices of most of the other princesses (and Jonathan Groff for some reason) "welcoming" Kelly Marie Tran 'into the Disney family.' I'd say it's likely
11:20 Ngl, but I'd really like it if Raya and Namaari got together. They sound adorable together. They'd be awesome queens and, politically, it would be a good move since there would likely still be distrust towards those from Talon since they made the Drunn come back in the first place.
It was actually Fang, not Talon that brought the Druun back