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…
I wish someone re-mastered the Donald duck and Goofy driving instructional/documentary videos/movies
Goofy teaching how to play sports was great, too. Basketball game starts, players jump and start slapping one another
Studios don’t like risks nowadays. So they’d rather remake successful past movies.
Ah yes, losing $100,000,000 seems very low-risk.
If they thought they had a good chance of losing that much money, they wouldn’t have made the movie. The news here is more about how their risk calculations were off.
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.
Friend, I am positively obsessed with mermaid movies. I have watched some of the worst movies in existence, just to watch mermaids flop around in water and look pretty. I didn’t even bother with the live action remake of the little mermaid. It looked so fucking shit, I couldn’t even pretend to care. And I also didn’t understand them casting Halle, because she’s such a soft an gentle soul and not at all like Ariel. Her sister, Chloe would have been a better Ariel because she has that similar spark of defiance in her that Ariel needs (I used to watch their youtube channel back in the day because I liked their singing). But eh, I guess. I’m just glad that Halle had an overall good experience with the film and that her career appears to be going well.
It may be worth giving the new Little Mermaid a shot. Visually it was very beautiful, and I appreciated the small storyline differences between them. It was enough of a difference for me to find it entertaining, since it wasn’t just a live shot-for-shot remake.
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.
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
- The Shaggy Dog (1959)
- Pollyanna (1960)
- The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
- The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964)
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
- Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
- The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
- White Fang (1991)
- The Rocketeer (1991)
- Newsies (1992)
- The Mighty Ducks (1992)
- The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
- Cool Runnings (1993)
- Blank Check (1994)
- Heavyweights (1995)
- A Kid in King Arthur’s Court (1995)
- George of the Jungle (1997)
- Air Bud (1997)
- RocketMan (1997)
- Inspector Gadget (1999)
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.
Honestly, I would watch animated adaptations of most of these.
Newsies, please!
I feel like Sony Animation would knock this one outta the park.
The real question is if these still hold copyright value for Disney.
That is why they are remaking the movies. To keep their rights on the more successful versions.
Good
Pray this is the end of this live action shit
They probably needed a tax writeoff or whatever, so don’t keep your hopes up
Yes. They will definitely get the message, this time.
Really proves how simple-minded these people were. They were creating cashgrab nostalgia remakes in a manner that snubs royalties to original crews who worked on the original films, but they couldn’t even tell remaking a modern film with no nostalgia value was a bad idea.
Is Moana even old enough to HAVE Nostalgia? Isn’t Moana like, 5 years old or something?
Ten years. Still not old enough. To maximize nostalgia, they would have to wait until those who enjoyed the original movie have their own children of the right age, so at least 20-25 years. Which, to nobody’s surprise, neatly matches the time span between original and remake for The Lion King (25 years) and The Beauty and the Beast (26 years). For The Little Mermaid, they waited even longer (34 years).
Alice in Wonderland did 59 years
I wouldn’t really count that as a remake though, just a new (and very different) movie based on the same source material.
The newer “live action” / CGI remakes on the other hand are overall closer to the animated versions than to their source material with the same original characters, same songs and so on.
10 actually!
Moana is probably my favourite animated movie. I see absolute zero reason to watch the remake.
Nobody asked for this movie.
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
Lilo and Stitch’s live action remake made the older sister abandon her family to go to a prestigious art school on the mainland, despite Hawaii having a really great program and Ohana meaning family.
It’s pretty obvious:
- too soon for nostalgia
- half the movie and characters is animated anyways
Plus Moana was all about the vibrant colors and visuals.
How the live action looks so lifeless and this was considered acceptable baffles me. Even when the teaser was first shown many had complaints that it looked nothing like the source material in terms of vibrancy and color choices.
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.
I prefer the Italian version of the live action. It came out in the 80s and is much more entertaining
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.
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?
Absolutely. A simple re-release the original would do better I assume. Remaking Moana is one of those decisions that don’t make any sense at any level.
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.
We. Don’t. Need. To. Live. Action. Every. FUCKING. Thing.
