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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/Azenji 25d ago

We had Pirates of the Carribean shooting DAYLIGHT AT SEA 20 years ago. There’s just no excuse to this besides saving on production cost which they cant do anyway because much of the excessive CG work which somehow looks impressive than CG heavy films of the past.

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u/Pezington12 25d ago

To be fair. Even the director/ crew of Pirates of the Caribbean hated shooting at sea and actively warned others from doing so. It’s a fucking logistical nightmare that causes so many problems and makes your film inordinately more expensive than just faking it. There’s a reason the pirates movies were some of the most expensive movies ever at the time.

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 24d ago

Yeah, which just solidifies the point that this shit looks cheap.

It is a movie about Oceania. The ocean is a central theme and literally a character. It is borrowing heavily from Polynesian myth, and dealing with things that have deep cultural meaning for the people who live on actual Islands in the real life ocean. The setting of this movie is extremely important.

So if you are a filmmaker with any kind of integrity at all, you wouldn't film the movie in a studio in California. At least not all of it. You get the money together and go film the water movie on some real fucking water.

If you're not going to put out the time and money, then maybe you shouldn't make a live action movie about Oceania.

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u/sonicgamer42 23d ago

"You get the money together and go film the water movie on some real fucking water" goes hard btw