If there’s one thing that the COVID-19 pandemic altered for the foreseeable future, it’s film distribution. With the closure of many theaters, both temporarily and permanently, many studios quickly resorted to releasing movies digitally at a quicker pace than before the pandemic set in, chief among them Disney and Warner Bros. Disney opted for the Premier Access model for some of their films, where you have to pay a $30 fee on top of a Disney+ subscription for a limited time before being re-released for free on said service. One such films released this way was their latest installment in the Disney Animated Canon, Raya and the Last Dragon. Since I have a Disney+ account, this movie was on my radar, however, I decided to wait three months for it to be available for free before watching it, since I find the Premier Access model a little ridiculous. Now that I have seen it, while I generally enjoyed it, I’m not sure it would have been worth the Premier Access price.
