There is a beautiful version of Moana already. I can't imagine needing to see this. I don't hate these remakes for existing, but I just don't see the point.
No one does... any why should they? The classic disney films are great, they don't need remakes...
Studios don't like risks nowadays. So they'd rather remake successful past movies.
My daughter loves the Moana movies. I've told her about this one - and the anti-excitement of "the same movie but with actual persons" is quite obvious. I can only conclude that no actual parents were involved in its inception.
Here's my pitch: Let's animate the live action Disney movies. They have these properties to draw from, and instead of making a live-action remake of them like Freaky Friday or Herbie, or a sequel like Hocus Pocus or Mary Poppins Returns, reinvent it as an animated feature.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks but the animated parts are live action…
Incidentally Bedknobs and Broomsticks is the better Mary Poppins, I know I know it’s an unpopular opinion but I stand by it.
I agree! As a kid I was obsessed by the final battle between the Nazis and the animated armors!
ah, but would Di$ney risk possibly alienating a few movie goers by depicting Nazis as bad and incompetent today?
Thats just because of how awesome Angela Lansbury is in everything she ever did.
Flubber (1997)?
That’s remake of The Absent-Minded Professor which is on the list.
Oh I didn't realize they were one and the same!
That’s an easy one to miss. Unlike The Shaggy Dog or Escape to Witch Mountain, for instance, Flubber isn’t named the same as the movie being remade.
Blank Check
Disney really wants everyone to forget this movie, wherein a thirty-something adult falls in love and makes out with a child, exists.
The Rocketeer (1991)
As much as I love good animation, nothing can possibly replace 1991 Jennifer Connely.
I came back to see if The Black Hole was on your list. That would be an interesting one too, The Black Hole was actually one of the last movies to use the hybrid hand drawn animation/live action approach. It’s hard to tell though because it’s only used for the special effects like the black hole itself.
Disney: Every one of our animated films requires a half-hearted live-action remake.
Everyone else: No.
I mean...I already watched this movie like 10 years ago. I know what happens already.
OK, Maui is now The Rock in a muscle suit and a wig. But most of the new movie is CGI. The original movie was also animated. Why do I need to watch the new one?
Also, The Rock's acting in the trailers looked... stiff as a rock
But seriously, he doesn't have the charisma of the original Maui
Which is funny because he voiced the original Maui too. I guess the animators did a lot of work to sell his voice acting.
At least with the lion king there was a 25 year gap between the two movies so the target audience would've been entirely different generations.
But Moana 2 came out 2 years ago. Anyone who watched it, probably watched the first one beforehand, even if we're talking about a 5 year old in 2024 who wasn't around in 2016 - the kid's parents would've probably pirated or streamed it to watch before going to the movies to see Moana 2.
Nobody asked for this movie.
The Rock did
I remember seeing a headline of "how The Rock co-opted Hollywood" some time ago, guess he really has a lot of influence there?
Moana is probably my favourite animated movie. I see absolute zero reason to watch the remake.
I didn't even know it was coming out and even after seeing this post I still don't care enough to click the article
Feels fucking good leaving this nasty-ass comment though haha
Yes, but at least the intellectual property claim lasts ten years longer.
Let’s dump all the charm and character of the famously last major hand-drawn animation and cover it in slop.
Wait, why aren’t people fighting to give us their money?!?!
Moana was hand drawn??
I’m an idiot. And/or didn’t have my coffee yet.
I was thinking of Lilo And Stitch.
Hand-drawn moana is an excellent idea actually
THAT is a way to get me to watch Disney remakes.
That's still not the last handrawn movie, that would be the Princess and the Frog (although technically one of the Winnie the Pooh movies)
It’s pretty obvious:
Good, hopefully this will serve as a message to stop making pointless live action remakes. The fact they didnt cast the original voice actress for the lead role is bewildering, but maybe she read between the lines and didn't want it.
Feels pretty disrespectful to the audience of the original, like “you watched an animation but it’s a real movie now!”, except the real movie is just as much an animation.
The hierarchy of power in the live-action remake universe is about to change.
We. Don’t. Need. To. Live. Action. Every. FUCKING. Thing.
Good.
Disney's live action remakes are wank, and I'm really not sure why they started doing it or are continuing with it.
This is pure CEO "no, it's the children who are wrong" mentality.
Nowanna.
I prefer the Italian version of the live action. It came out in the 80s and is much more entertaining
I don't understand why these articles treat this kind of film as having a single income stream (i.e. box office ticket sales). In fact, one could argue that these articles themselves serve to market the film. We know, for example, that movie theater viewership is declining rapidly. Given that Disney will have multiple income streams planned for any given movie, the box office will only be some portion of the total, and you can bet that The Mouse has done the math. The linked article even alludes to this:
(the two Moana animated movies have sold $22M in toys, generated $26M in music streams and have clocked 1.5B hours watched on the streaming service)
But crucially, that 1.5B hours watched on the streaming service is hard to quantify in dollars -- for the public, but not for Disney. They have a number of subscribers and a dollar amount that time corresponds to. They are folding those numbers into their calculations.
Disney knows that people aren't going to the movies, but their stranglehold over them is such that the film is shown widely anyway. Terms for showing movies in the theaters are famously pro-studio. It's almost certain that the box office isn't even the key factor for the studio heads here. It's likely that they didn't greenlight yet another flop; rather, they have more data than we do.
Then people read these articles, and they say "damn, it sounds so bad! We'll have to see how bad when it comes out on streaming." And the cycle continues. Movie theaters should not be the yardstick by which anything is measured. There is a reason why seemingly every studio is losing money at the box office: it's because they actually aren't losing money overall, or at least not as much as these kinds of articles would have you believe. Even if they did have numbers available, streaming income, like toys / music / etc, do not come in until well after a film's release.
This probably would have been okay if they made it first, but they didn’t.
It’s a good story, but why would anyone want to watch the same story, just told in a way that was done for fast money instead?
It was aight, my toddler sat through all 2 hours of it which is saying something. But it didnt need to exist; the best parts of Moana are the songs and performances, which are mostly unchanged. I did think The Rock's song was beautifully animated and was nice to have as an addition to the canon.
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