r/moana

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Keep in mind, I am optimistic about the live action too, my sister who loves Moana though wants to see it and I will give it a try since I do personally believe Disney has been trying to put effort on their live actions since Snow White flopped, but I am tired of the toxic hatred when it comes to Disneys live action remakes.

Personsally I am hit or miss on them, I love some like The Jungle Book (2016), Lilo & Stitch (2025), Cinderella (2015), and Aladdin (2019), The Lion King and Dumbo were kinda mid but I did like Mufusa, I hate some like Mulan, Pinocchio and Alice Through the Looking Glass. But I am tired of people whining about “who asked for this?”, “why can’t Disney make originals?”, “they ruined my childhoods!”. “they are soulless and slop” (I hate those two buzzword because they are just disrespectful to the hard work of the filmmakers and actors.) it’s getting annoying.

Listen, the original animated films are never gonna be replaced. they are still on Disney plus, let alone a lot of people DO ask for these films especially the general public and not the internet minority. Why did Aladdin, Lion King and Lilo and Stitch make billions? Because kids and families actually enjoy and love those movies, kids wanted to see a funny blue alien or talking animals like lions. These are just the new age version of the classics, and Disney still makes tons of originals too like Hoppers, Elio and Elemental and Hexed and Gatto are coming out alongside untitled ones, Disney is not gonna abandon originals for remakes and sequels.

While most criticism is valid, some of these haters go as far to spread misinformation about the film or taking changes and scenes out of context, like in Lilo and Stitch they’ll claim “Nani abandoned Lilo to the state” but, that is like far from true. For more information, I’ll answer that if someone asks me about it. It’s okay to criticize remakes and I’m not getting mad, I’m just tired of people being toxic, abusing the words “soulless” and ”slop”, as well as sending racist threats to Hallie Bailey and sending death threats to Rachel Zelgler, Dean Fleischor Camp, and others over changes made from the originals.

I know the trailer received divisive opinions, I am worried it would be shot for shot like HTTYD but as someone who saw the trailer I will give my thoughts: it doesn’t really look bad. We need to remember it’s a trailer, so the cgi likely isn’t finished and the colors might be bland but will be better in the final film. I think the actress for Moana is perfect herself, Dwayne Johnson is still great as Maui, I will agree Tomatoa looks cursed, the chicken looks faithful to the design but I kinda wish it wasn’t too faithful and I loved the pig’s new design as it was cute, let alone as someone who is interested in mythology I think live action Maui is accurate than the original film (this will shock people as it is a controversial opinion of mine but feel free to disagree.)

For the last time, why is Disney making a remake to a film that is 10 years old? That is easy. Maui’s actor is the one who wanted this project to happen and show his real life kids he is actually Maui for real, so Disney didn’t really greenlight it because of laziness or running out of ideas. It’s a father wanting to show his kids he is Maui. And also to show appercation for diverse actors which I also apperciated.

Now with the real question, will it succeed? If the story stays the same with some changes but still is faithful and it gets marketed well, possibly. I could see this crossing the billion dollar movement If it does what Stitch and HTTYD (not Disney but still) did and not what Snow White did.

In conclusion, it’s okay not like the Disney remakes, I do too for some of them, but our toxicity and keep crying over it just makes us look like children. Just please be mature about it and calm the hell down, it’s not the end of the world.