Trailer live action Moana | "Official Trailer"

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-24T17:31:37+0000

I love Moana, but this shot for shot remake crap makes me very sad.

If they had to do a "live action" movie, give us a new story or something. It doesn't feel like anyone other than the poor woman stuck with the thankless job of playing Moana actually cares about this movie being good.

Stalker0 · 2026-03-24T17:32:24+0000

cbwjm said:
I just don't understand the drive Disney has to make live action movies (well, I guess I do if it's just "we want more money"), Moana is one of their more recent movies and it was great, I really don't think that it benefits from a live action adaptation. Still, I do think that Diseny is gonna make a lot of money off this.

Look, I mean I hate Disney as much as the next person with some of the shenenangs they have been pulling....but I cannot fault them for finding a new revenue stream that apparantely is popular and continue to give it to people.

It seems the live actions are making money, with only a couple of exceptions (Mulan and Snow white), most of the live actions have made hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions for some of the top ones. We can complain about them all we want, but clearly there are people that are enjoying them, likely taking their kids to see them.

So its just Disney giving the people what the people want.

Bagpuss · 2026-03-24T17:43:23+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
If they had to do a "live action" movie, give us a new story or something.

Yeah they tried that with Mulan and it was dire. Although I suspect it really only flopped due to timing (COVID era), more than anything.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-24T18:04:53+0000

Stalker0 said:
Look, I mean I hate Disney as much as the next person with some of the shenenangs they have been pulling....but I cannot fault them for finding a new revenue stream that apparantely is popular and continue to give it to people.

It seems the live actions are making money, with only a couple of exceptions (Mulan and Snow white), most of the live actions have made hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions for some of the top ones. We can complain about them all we want, but clearly there are people that are enjoying them, likely taking their kids to see them.

So its just Disney giving the people what the people want.

They're a big hit at the time, but they seem to vanish without a trace after that.

Other than the Lion King movies and the Little Mermaid (thanks to all the people angry that Ariel was played by a Black woman), I suspect most people would be hard-pressed to list off all of the live action movies that have been made. (There's a ton of them.)

This seems like something intended to goose quarterly earnings and then forget about, which is a terrible way for everyone involved to spend years of their lives, when they could be making something that lasts. People remember the Apple Dumpling Gang more than they remember the live action Jungle Book, for instance.

Tonguez · 2026-03-24T18:05:26+0000

Stalker0 said:
Look, I mean I hate Disney as much as the next person with some of the shenenangs they have been pulling....but I cannot fault them for finding a new revenue stream that apparantely is popular and continue to give it to people.

It seems the live actions are making money, with only a couple of exceptions (Mulan and Snow white), most of the live actions have made hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions for some of the top ones. We can complain about them all we want, but clearly there are people that are enjoying them, likely taking their kids to see them.

So its just Disney giving the people what the people want.

The successful live actions all had nostalgia on their side - they were all at least 25 years old, meaning that the old fans were now in their 30s or in some cases were watching with their grandchildren and had disposable income. Moana was only released in 2016, many of its fans are still children! (okay maybe not some of us older fans

)

I'm not sure who the target audience for this remake is. other than Dwayne's ego

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-24T18:09:21+0000

Tonguez said:
I'm not sure who the target audience for this remake is. other than Dwayne's ego

I was talking about him with my wife. Between his attempted coup of the DCU and then his failed Oscar dreams, he seems to be trying to figure out what he wants to do with the rest of his career.

jian · 2026-03-24T18:22:38+0000

Sacrosanct said:
Now you can never unsee it.

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*Edit, also probably why you won't see a Moana 3...

In traditional Māori mythology, the demigod Māui (the inspiration for the character in Disney's Moana) dies while attempting to win immortality for humanity by entering the vagina of Hine-nui-te-pō, the goddess of death and the underworld. According to the legend, she crushes him with the obsidian teeth in her vagina.

"Vagina dentata, it's a wonderful phrase... it means no wiener, for the rest of your days... it's a penis-free, girl cavity, vagina dentata!"

Queen of Wands - Wednesday, January 21, 2004

More seriously, maybe it's a weird thing to say, but Johnson looks completely wrong for Maui. You want a broad solid Maori-Pasifika guy, as wide as he is tall or as close as you can get it. All muscle and fat, no definition.