DisneyWarrior27
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They said “a less complicated version” of Spider-Verse. That description sounds more like Paperman.
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Moana 2 (Disney Animation - November 2024)
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Surferboy567
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Saw Moana 2 over the weekend, I am going to echo a lot of the sentiment online. Overall, I enjoyed the movie it wasn't a total slam dunk and the music is not as good as the first but it isn't a "bad" movie would call it "safe". The middle part of the movie I have the most issue with the beginning and end I enjoyed. 7/10, definitely not as bad as the reviews have claimed but Inside Out 2 is a better sequel.
Regardless of making sequels, Disney and Pixar will still create original movies. I mean, who knows, maybe Elio, Hoppers, and the Untitled Disney Animation 2026 9hopefully it's a musical and hybrid kind of film) might be box office hits. Strange World is understandable, but the box office of Wish is rigged in my opinion. Anyway, also, like I said, don't get your hopes up for the PATF sequel in theaters. Is probably most likely it'll stay as a series, whether they used hand drawn or maybe most likely Paperman technique. So please be careful what you expect. And on the bright side, despite of the okay reviews, Moana 2 is a box office hit. So WDAS is saved and WDWPro and his grifting lose this time.In my defense, while it underperformed, it is arguably seen as a financial success with a global gross akin to OG Lilo & Stitch with a $65-$105M budget. And it would have made more had Disney not released it only limited in NYC and LA over Thanksgiving weekend and released it wide that weekend instead, rather than release it wide a week before Avatar back in 2009.
With that in mind, it’s a good enough reason for why Disney should and hopefully will attempt to do it in a follow-up to The Princess and the Frog because it’s an established franchise where the trainees can get their tall order worked in a safe and established franchise.
Doing it with an original film is too risky in the wake of Strange World and Wish bombing, Pixar’s Elemental breaking even at the box office, and the jury still out on how Pixar’s next two originals (Elio and Hoppers) and Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 2026 original film will do at the box office.
I know people would personally prefer original but I think the safe bet for Disney to hand-drawn animated movies again is a follow-up to an established franchise that has gotten a lot of love and popularity over its last 15 years.
Plus, I know & hear people love their sequels.
Haha.
Anybody?
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Phroobar
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It was serviceable. Not great. Just mediocre. It felt like highlights for a long Disney+ show. (Which is what it is) You can feel were the episodes ended. Even the mid credits scene ripped off Thanos. Moana's crew did nothing during the voyage. The songs ranged between fine to bad. The first act was exactly like the original movie. It's pretty simplistic but decent. Now where is my Moana 2 live action and Moana 3?
DisneyWarrior27
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Beyond was the movie’s best song.
Remember: There's a Moana Spoiler thread:
mickEblu
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The first act was very annoying because of that. Literally the same almost beat for beat but this time rushed.
LittleBuford
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I'm surprised you paid to see it at the cinema given that you were convinced it wouldn't even make a billion pesos!
Phroobar
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Sure. They had to get it in an half hour episode.
DisneyWarrior27
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More like two 15-minute episodes.
mickEblu
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I don’t know. It didn’t feel episodic to me. If anything it feels like they slapped together a crappy first act to resemble the beginning of a movie after the decision was made but I could be wrong. Was it going to be a show on D+ or was it supposed to be some three part mini series?
DisneyWarrior27
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Per the issue of D23 Magazine, it was gonna be a limited series.
Disney Irish
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So Moana 2 should hit $500M WW by the end of this weekend, its second weekend, its at $423M WW right now before yesterdays totals are added in.
Funny to think that some posters just a couple months ago didn't think it was going to get to a Billion, one even commenting that we're living in Fantasyland if we think it'll hit a Billion. Guess we're all taking up residence in Fantasyland now.
Funny to think that some posters just a couple months ago didn't think it was going to get to a Billion, one even commenting that we're living in Fantasyland if we think it'll hit a Billion. Guess we're all taking up residence in Fantasyland now.
Disney Irish
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Director explains how they transitioned it from a series to a feature length movie -
‘Moana 2’ Debuts First 30 Minutes as Sequel’s Team Promises “Epic Scale”
The film's directors explained how the project evolved from being planned as a streaming series to becoming a feature that hits theaters later this year: "We had to rightsize it in a very dramatic way."
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Not a terribly informative interview...Director explains how they transitioned it from a series to a feature length movie -
‘Moana 2’ Debuts First 30 Minutes as Sequel’s Team Promises “Epic Scale”
The film's directors explained how the project evolved from being planned as a streaming series to becoming a feature that hits theaters later this year: "We had to rightsize it in a very dramatic way."
How did you adapt from a series to a theatrical released?
We 'rightsized' it.
What does that mean?
Cut some stuff out.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
I thought it was pretty informative, and said so when it was posted here last month.....
“The main core characters and the main themes are the themes that we were setting up to tell with the series,” said Derrick. “But then we had to rightsize it in a very dramatic way to make sure it was servicing a feature format. So there were some things that didn’t exactly fit from the series to the feature. But for me, one of the things I love is that everything blends through Moana and her personal growth.”
Bush agreed and added, “All of us felt like, it’s this unbelievable opportunity to tell this story on a very epic scale, which, in the world of Moana, is exactly what you want. The series version also had that epic quality, but knowing this version is going to be shown on the biggest screens in the world, it really allowed us to go all in on all of that.”
Phroobar
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Three episode story arc. You can tell in the post credits scene where
They did the same thing for the theatrical release of Star Wars the Clone Wars. That did not go over well.
Phroobar
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Cut all character development from the crew and Nalo's henchwoman.
LittleBuford
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Sorry to quote an old post, but I just learned that Moana was the most streamed film last year not just on Disney+ but across all platforms, which sort of blows my mind and easily explains the sequel’s box-office success.
Top streaming movies in the U.S. 2024| Statista
In 2024, the top movie on streaming services in the U.S.
www.statista.com
DisneyWarrior27
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More like a 6 15-minute per episode arc