I don't want Disney to take the wrong lessons from this film, so I will say I'm sort of glad it's not getting acclaimed. But that being said, the film and theatre guy in me does need to parse through this a little.
The reviews are not not poor, they're mixed. That seems like an argument of semantics but in the world of film criticism, there is a rather pronounced distinction there. That is not to hand wave and say that it isn't taking heat, because it is, but there is a large chasm between a film receiving a middle of the road set of reviews and a negative set of reviews.
There's a world of difference between Moana 2's 57 on Metacritic/66% on Rotten Tomatoes vs. something like Red One's 34 on Metacritic/31% on Rotten Tomatoes.
That said, the film is poised for a massive opening weekend and it's comps are currently on pace with Frozen 2. With an A- Cinemascore (the same score as Frozen 2 funnily enough), I at the moment don't see a reason to believe this won't come close to or even pass the $1 billion mark unless it suffers a massive massive collapse from it's $100 million+ domestic OW and $200 million+ worldwide opening weekend.
So, even with the muted critical response, I definitely think Disney's gonna see a massive box office from this and, of course, take all the wrong messages from it.