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Moana 2 (Disney Animation - November 2024)
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mickEblu
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So the bad guy in Moana 2 is Bad Weather? Lol. I enjoyed the last 2/3 of the movie but would have enjoyed a better villain. The first act was really annoying how close it was a beat for beat copy of the first film. I really like the main song. The rest not so much. The Maui one might grow on me. Seriously was not including some monster foe at the end part of the budget cuts?
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Did you stay for the mid-credit scene?
mickEblu
Well-Known Member
You mean end credit? No I didn’t
Disney Irish
Premium Member
It’s a mid-credit scene, it was played before the end-credits were done.
Anyways it explains a bit more about the bad guy, and sets up a 3rd film.
mickEblu
Well-Known Member
Maybe I missed it. Was with a bunch of kids and had to take my nephew to the bathroom at one point. Got back when they had just finished fighting off some sort of giant sea eel.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
If you stayed to the end but left as the credits started you missed it.
mickEblu
Well-Known Member
Oops I read mid movie instead of mid credit. Yes we left as soon as the credits started.
DisneyWarrior27
Active Member
Now with the inevitability of Moana 2 making a billion thus making the experiment of turning a Disney+ series into a movie a success, there’s only one question… Will Disney turn Tiana into a sequel to The Princess and the Frog for a theatrical release in Thanksgiving 2029 and give it the needed money to make it fully 2D/hand-drawn animated?
Guess we’ll have to wait and see…
I would like to believe there will be C-suite level conversations at Disney about doing that when they come back from their holiday vacation tomorrow.
Guess we’ll have to wait and see…
I would like to believe there will be C-suite level conversations at Disney about doing that when they come back from their holiday vacation tomorrow.
Dude! I’m sorry, but don’t get your hopes up!
DisneyWarrior27
Active Member
I’m sorry, Wade.
But I gotta believe it’s still possible and that’s what I’m going to do. And I’m gonna use Moana 2’s success as reason for them to do it again with Tiana.
I have to try.
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Okay, but be careful!
Tha Realest
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DisneyWarrior27
Active Member
I’d like to think it’s possible they will.
BrianLo
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Honestly, I don’t entirely disagree with you. I doubt the art style changes (they’ve already adapted for the parks) and it most certainly would never be computer unassisted for coloring and shading. But it may be too strong a property, unless they really have a season length story they want to tell.
DisneyWarrior27
Active Member
Well, we’ll see what happens, but glad you think I might be on to something.
Though, I hope they do consider changing the art/animation style to a fully 2D/hand-drawn animated style.
They have to as a way to give hand-drawn animation on the big screen at Disney one last chance if they release Tiana: Princess of Maldonia and the Frogs” in Thanksgiving 2029.
I feel that’s the only way they can… because if Disney just released Tiana with a style that isn’t hand-drawn and feels more CG animated than hand-drawn animated when it should be the latter, I’ll be like “that’s so disrespectful to the legacy of Tiana and what she brought to Disney, as disrespectful as what Dreamworks Animation did to the legacy of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron by releasing an inferior computer animated sequel (Spirit: Untamed) to a hand-drawn animated movie, an inferior computer animated sequel that loos even worse when realizing Disney’s last hand-drawn animated film (Winnie the Pooh from 2011) was not only superior with reviews to Spirit: Untamed but beat out Spirit: Untamed by $8M.”
Like do you see what I’m saying?
The least Disney and Bob Iger could do is just delay this story to Thanksgiving 2029, get all the veteran hand-drawn animators of Disney that are retired and still alive to come back and work with the veteran hand-drawn Disney animators still at Walt Disney Animation Studios and the hand-drawn Disney animator trainees (thus giving them their ultimate chance to prove themselves on this story), and get the tech back up and running (Toon Boom Harmony) to ensure Tiana/The Princess and the Frog 2 goes to great lengths to give a hand-drawn animated big screen story for Disney with a big budget one last time and one last chance to have hand-drawn animated films of Disney on the big screen prove their worth once more and hopefully be released right this time and not the wrong way again like we saw in 2009.
And look if they wanna start of the 2030’s doing computer animated films again like Encanto 2, Moana 3, and more, fine.
But, if possible, just one last shot for hand-drawn animated Disney films in Thanksgiving 2029 as a poetic end to the decade of the 2020’s for WDAS with a hand-drawn animated film in Tiana/The Princess and the Frog 2/Tiana: Princess of Maldonia and the Frogs. a hand-drawn animated film that would only have taken long enough to release as, to quote Deadpool in Deadpool & Wolverine, “that only took 20 f-king years.”
Ghost93
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If Disney were to attempt hand-drawn animation in theaters again, it wouldn't be in a follow up project to a movie that underperformed in 2009. I say this as someone who prefers The Princess and the Frog to Moana.
While the Princess and the Frog is more appreciated today than it was back in 2009, I still think it's a situation where the movie has more of a dedicated cult following versus being a massive streaming hit.
While the Princess and the Frog is more appreciated today than it was back in 2009, I still think it's a situation where the movie has more of a dedicated cult following versus being a massive streaming hit.
DisneyWarrior27
Active Member
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?
Architectural Guinea Pig
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There's already a hand-drawn Tiana show in the works.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?
Princess & The Frog Sequel Story Details Confirmed
“Well, Tiana’s journey is far from over.”
screenrant.com
DisneyWarrior27
Active Member
Actually, the rumor is might be Paperman-style animated as a series, which happens to be the same series I was talking about that I hope gets turned into a fully hand-drawn animated theatrical Thanksgiving 2029-release date-set sequel to The Princess and the Frog instead.There's already a hand-drawn Tiana show in the works.
Princess & The Frog Sequel Story Details Confirmed
“Well, Tiana’s journey is far from over.”