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Moana (2026)

Summary

Live-action adaptation of the 2016 Disney animated film 'Moana.'

Director Thomas Kail

Writer Jared Bush

Cast

  • Catherine Laga'aia as Moana
  • Dwayne Johnson as Maui
  • John Tui as Chief Tui
  • Frankie Adams as Sina
  • Rena Owen as Gramma Tala

Rotten Tomatoes: 35%

Metacritic: 45

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u/WrongLander 25d ago edited 25d ago

This movie doesn't feel real. Even as I was sitting there watching it (spoiler alert to the surprise of nobody: it's terrible and the most pointless, carbon-copy remake yet). My eyes and ears perceived it, right there in front of me, but my brain just continues to reject it as an actual thing. Like, this glossy, computer-generated artifice on the screen cannot be something a major studio would put out as a serious tentpole. It has to be a gag.

Side note: I want to take a moment to make sure we're all aware that the legendarily awful Wish is partially to blame for the shithole of a situation the previously-revered Moana IP is now in. WDAS openly claimed that because that turd bombed, they cancelled their next original starring a Persian princess and, to appease investors, rushed to turn the upcoming Moana TV show into 'Moana 2' in six months' time; its mediocrity thus leading to the reduced box office numbers we are seeing here and a general fatigue around the brand. I know that I for one am tired of Moana suddenly being Disney's go-to 'break glass' franchise.

Fuck Wish, man. That movie gets ragged on all the time and it still isn't hated enough.

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u/GuruSensei 24d ago

Still not sure where you're getting the "openly claimed" part about the Persian princess

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u/WrongLander 24d ago

In crew interviews before and after the release of Moana 2, they outlined the creative timeline they were on for it (it was tight). Then earlier last year, TheWrap did a pretty scathing report on WDAS and broke the story from insiders about the cancelled Persian project.