You were saying how bad the live action was and “how good the original was”, yet you were fueling the haters who said“Moana was bad all along”. You claimed the bomb of the live action won’t affect the third movie, yet here we are. I hate all of you.
It’s not Moana’s fault that Tiana didn’t get more content. It looks like Disney keeps making Moana content, but none of them were quality work, at least for now. We fans didn’t want a sequel cobbled together from a TV series and a shot for shot remake, especially the latter. They tore the fandom apart. I liked Tiana and her movie, I’ll support you if you want more content, but please, it’s nothing to do with Moana.
It’s a song called “A New Area”, right before the final We Know the Way. It’s classified as a score on the soundtrack. It accompanies a Polynesian dance sequence during the ritual where Moana places a shell atop the mountain. The melody reminded me of Finding the Way from Moana 2. I have to say the dance is quite impressive to me, and it’s maybe the best part of the remake.
I don’t care about the remake, but I’m really worried that Disney loses its mind again or suddenly starts to listen to the internet, to cancel or delay Moana 3 because of the bomb of the remake, for some bullshit reasons like “let the brand recover”. If Disney ever cared about Moana’s reputation, they shouldn’t have made this remake and should’ve made Moana 2 in a serious way. The past couldn’t be changed, the only right way to save everything is to make a truly good Moana 3. Moana 3 has so much potential, the new identity, new arc, are ready to go. But I have doubts about Disney's intelligence. They may not be able to make the right choice.
I’m getting old and I’m tired of waiting. I love Moana so much and I love to see her as a demigodness, with powers. I love Auil’i and her performance as Moana. She will get old too.
Generally, the awareness of a blockbuster movie only exceeds 70 during its opening week. For example, the Super Mario Galaxy Movie achieved the awareness score of 71 only on its opening day:
As far as I recall, this might just be the film on The Quorum website to reach an awareness score of 70 faster than any other in history. I didn't check it carefully, but it's a near record level anyway. The film's other metrics—such as Interest—are relatively lower; while not poor, they can best be described as merely average. I believe this performance is entirely reasonable, as Disney has yet to fully demonstrate to audiences why seeing this film in theaters is an absolute must. However, the true trump card of Moana lies in its soundtrack; if Disney employs the right marketing strategy, there remains ample room for its Interest metric to climb even higher. After all, awareness serves as the foundational bedrock upon which all other metrics rest.
As others have noted, Moana LA is a wild card, I would be neither surprised by a complete box office flop nor by a resounding triumph. However, as things stand, the film appears to face no risk of catastrophic failure; even if it were rushed into theaters right now, it would at the very least manage to break even. If everything goes ideally, it even holds the potential to shatter the record of Beauty and the Beast.
As is well known, the current distribution window for Hollywood films is theatrical release, followed by VOD (Video on Demand), and then streaming. Both theatrical box office and streaming viewership have relatively public and comparable data, but PVOD (Premium Video on Demand) has consistently lacked this. The only available information consists of occasional announcements from certain studios stating, "Our movie XX made this much money on VOD," or platforms releasing data like their "Annual Top 10." However, these figures:
They certainly have the specific sales volumes and revenue figures, but these are likely withheld from the public as "trade secrets." Therefore, I have been looking for a comparable metric that can reflect VOD sales.
Vudu (Fandango at Home) is a mainstream PVOD platform in the US. It features audience ratings, and users can only rate a movie after watching it. I believe the number of ratings can serve as an indicator reflecting a movie's VOD sales, at least on Vudu, although this metric also has several limitations:
But even so, this is the most comparable indicator for VOD sales that I can currently find.
Anyway, here is the rating data for Disney and Pixar movie from 2010 to 2025:
| Release Date | Title | Number of ratings | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-06-18 | Toy Story 3 | 70,294 | 4.5 |
| 2010-11-24 | Tangled | 89,900 | 4.6 |
| 2011-06-24 | Cars 2 | 37,501 | 4.2 |
| 2011-07-15 | Winnie the Pooh | 5,685 | 4.4 |
| 2012-06-22 | Brave | 74,434 | 4.5 |
| 2012-11-02 | Wreck-It Ralph | 148,207 | 4.5 |
| 2013-06-21 | Monsters University | 62,427 | 4.4 |
| 2013-11-27 | Frozen | 236,526 | 4.5 |
| 2014-11-07 | Big Hero 6 | 220,333 | 4.6 |
| 2015-06-19 | Inside Out | 156,652 | 4.5 |
| 2015-11-25 | The Good Dinosaur | 98,384 | 4.4 |
| 2016-03-04 | Zootopia | 170,417 | 4.6 |
| 2016-06-17 | Finding Dory | 130,104 | 4.5 |
| 2016-11-23 | Moana | 283,858 | 4.7 |
| 2017-06-16 | Cars 3 | 71,366 | 4.5 |
| 2017-11-22 | Coco | 170,375 | 4.7 |
| 2018-06-15 | Incredibles 2 | 156,059 | 4.6 |
| 2018-11-21 | Ralph Breaks the Internet | 130,260 | 4.5 |
| 2019-06-21 | Toy Story 4 | 109,991 | 4.6 |
| 2019-11-22 | Frozen 2 | 168,276 | 4.7 |
| 2020-03-06 | Onward | 105,407 | 4.7 |
| 2020-12-25 | Soul | 10,161 | 4.5 |
| 2021-03-05 | Raya and the Last Dragon | 51,155 | 4.7 |
| 2021-06-18 | Luca | 11,719 | 4.6 |
| 2021-11-24 | Encanto | 30,924 | 4.6 |
| 2022-03-11 | Turning Red | 7,414 | 4.3 |
| 2022-06-17 | Lightyear | 7,448 | 3.8 |
| 2022-11-23 | Strange World | 3,514 | 3.3 |
| 2023-06-16 | Elemental | 29,392 | 4.6 |
| 2023-11-22 | Wish | 13,423 | 4.4 |
| 2024-06-14 | Inside Out 2 | 29,163 | 4.6 |
| 2024-11-27 | Moana 2 | 32,320 | 4.6 |
| 2025-06-20 | Elio | 5,290 | 4.5 |
| 2025-11-26 | Zootopia 2 | 28,340 | 4.7 |
As can be seen, there is a very clear dividing line in 2020 (between Onward and Soul). Before this point, the number of ratings for most movies could easily reach over 100,000, whereas afterward, not a single movie has exceeded 100,000 ratings. This is evidently because Disney+ has absorbed the vast majority of the online viewing demand. I prefer to call the period before this the "VOD (and physical disc) era," and the period after it the "streaming era." I have always been reluctant to directly compare films from the streaming era (such as Encanto or K-Pop: Demon Hunters) with those from the VOD era (such as Moana), as their operational models are not entirely the same.
