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First one had a lot of magic for the kids.  This one is a lot closer to Frozen 2 than Toy Story 2.

 

Evidently it was supposed to be TV series that they re-rigged into a movie because Disney needed something in the box office given the losing streak they were on.  You could tell.  There are some giant electric eels that just appear, are there for a scene, are fought with, then are gone.  What the hell was that all about? Then you understand it was probably some bad guy in one episode of a series.

 

Kids left the first one singing all the songs.  This one felt like Elf Singing GIFs | Tenor level of quality of songs.

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First one had a lot of magic for the kids.  This one is a lot closer to Frozen 2 than Toy Story 2.

 

Evidently it was supposed to be TV series that they re-rigged into a movie because Disney needed something in the box office given the losing streak they were on.  You could tell.  There are some giant electric eels that just appear, are there for a scene, are fought with, then are gone.  What the hell was that all about? Then you understand it was probably some bad guy in one episode of a series.

 

Kids left the first one singing all the songs.  This one felt like Elf Singing GIFs | Tenor level of quality of songs.

I've heard a lot of similar takes about this one, which sucks cause the first one was a bright spot for recent Disney movies.

The Bolded, however is baffling a bit. They literally have had the biggest Box office of the year with Inside Out 2 and Deadpool/Wolverine being the top 2 grossing movies this year. Like by a LOT(the only movies this year to crack 1 billion)

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Re:Disney’s tough time.  Who knows if that motivation is real or not but I think they were referring to 2023 Disney bombs.
 

They (publicly) said Moana 2 would be big screen Feb 2024.  So the guess was it was a reaction to earlier bombs and 2023 was a rough year for Disney.
 

https://m.imdb.com/news/ni64568982/

 

 

  

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9 hours ago, OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys said:

First one had a lot of magic for the kids.  This one is a lot closer to Frozen 2 than Toy Story 2.

 

Evidently it was supposed to be TV series that they re-rigged into a movie because Disney needed something in the box office given the losing streak they were on.  You could tell.  There are some giant electric eels that just appear, are there for a scene, are fought with, then are gone.  What the hell was that all about? Then you understand it was probably some bad guy in one episode of a series.

 

Kids left the first one singing all the songs.  This one felt like Elf Singing GIFs | Tenor level of quality of songs.

Lin-Manuel Miranda composed the songs for the first film. Didn’t work on Moana II. I think we discovered the problem. 

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Just saw it, was kind of surprised how ADHD it was. It felt like a Frankenstein script with a bunch of different scripts cut up and slapped together without any thoughts of how it flows as a story. There were a lot of quick cuts to completely different locations without any transition. They would switch locations and conversation topic without any transition or establishing shots, felt really weird and disjointed.

There were a lot of songs, and I honestly can't remember any of them. I will check YouTube later to figure out which one has our kids excited and dancing and report back. There was 1 they really really liked when the other lady that lives in the big clam was singing. 

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18 hours ago, Drew said:

I've heard a lot of similar takes about this one, which sucks cause the first one was a bright spot for recent Disney movies.

The Bolded, however is baffling a bit. They literally have had the biggest Box office of the year with Inside Out 2 and Deadpool/Wolverine being the top 2 grossing movies this year. Like by a LOT(the only movies this year to crack 1 billion)

The business group under which movies sit have been losing money for the last 3 years. This year that group is taking in less overall money, but are profit positive.

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14 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

Just saw it, was kind of surprised how ADHD it was. It felt like a Frankenstein script with a bunch of different scripts cut up and slapped together without any thoughts of how it flows as a story. There were a lot of quick cuts to completely different locations without any transition. They would switch locations and conversation topic without any transition or establishing shots, felt really weird and disjointed.

There were a lot of songs, and I honestly can't remember any of them. I will check YouTube later to figure out which one has our kids excited and dancing and report back. There was 1 they really really liked when the other lady that lives in the big clam was singing. 

I don't really understand why people do this with sequels. The main characters were already deeply developed in the first one, this one is just about action and progressing the story. I do think there was a missed opportunity to go into a bit more depth on the god who sunk the island and why he trapped the other demigod there in the clam, but that wasn't really the point of what was going on like the first movie where the god was a main part of the story restoring the world as it was etc. Tafiti was only in the movie for like 1m45s but the lore was the entire movie. 

The other boat characters were just extras, they aren't main characters that contributed much except for the plot that moana has become a leader of people and they are willing to follow her to the end and that she was willing to sacrifice everything in order to fulfill her role as THE wayfinder. 

My 5 year old just told me his favorite part of the movie was "The songs and Maui was his favorite" 

Also if you don't think this is a banger idk what to tell you. 

Absolute banger. 

The point of this movie isn't to be a standalone classic. What standalone sequel is there that's better than the original story? 

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I don't really understand why people do this with sequels. The main characters were already deeply developed in the first one, this one is just about action and progressing the story. I do think there was a missed opportunity to go into a bit more depth on the god who sunk the island and why he trapped the other demigod there in the clam, but that wasn't really the point of what was going on like the first movie where the god was a main part of the story restoring the world as it was etc. Tafiti was only in the movie for like 1m45s but the lore was the entire movie. 

The other boat characters were just extras, they aren't main characters that contributed much except for the plot that moana has become a leader of people and they are willing to follow her to the end and that she was willing to sacrifice everything in order to fulfill her role as THE wayfinder. 

My 5 year old just told me his favorite part of the movie was "The songs and Maui was his favorite" 

Also if you don't think this is a banger idk what to tell you. 

Absolute banger. 

The point of this movie isn't to be a standalone classic. What standalone sequel is there that's better than the original story? 

That’s a good song. The songs in the first were great. And she has a great voice. 

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Well it made a fuck ton of money so smart move by Disney

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Big step down from the 1st in quality, there was no "You're Welcome" , "Shiny" or "How Far I'll Go" this time around as most of the songs were meh. The side characters weren't any good and there was no conflict. Also nothing at all seems to happen in this movie, they fight a cloud and then it ends in a cliffhanger for season 2.

 

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