The latest adaptation of a Disney animated classic highlights the studio's ugly cynicism — but the songs are still great

Say what you will about them, but the Disney live-action remakes have at least given us a choice. Which would you rather see?

A decade since the animation, nothing of value is added in this lifeless, half-hearted picture

Thomas Kail directs this reimagining of the hit 2016 animated feature about a plucky Polynesian teenager’s coming of age, with songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Dwayne Johnson is back as Maui, and yet...

"Moana," in theaters Friday, trades the beautiful animation for lackluster backgrounds, rendering the epic adventure as a static exercise.

Moana features a breakout performance by Catherine Laga’aia as the titular Moana – but the remake loses some of the magic of the original.

Dwayne Johnson’s terrible wig is just one low point of a film that has all the visual allure of a Febreeze advert

Johnson reprises his role from the original animation and has fine rapport with his young co-star Catherine Laga’aia, but the whole enterprise feels cynical and pointless

It helps that half the film IS animated, that Dwayne Johnson goes full Maui, and that newcomer Catherine Laga’aia plays Moana with beaming rapture.

Dwayne Johnson and Catherine Laga'aia star in the live-action remake of the 2016 original.

DUBAI: When Disney first announced a live-action remake of its 2016 animated movie “Moana,” it raised a familiar question: Why revisit a movie that had already become one of the…

Few genres of film have been as much of a gamble for Disney as its live-action remakes. Criticism of the latest is so harsh that it raises questions of whether it would have been…

The latest adaptation of a Disney animated classic highlights the studio's ugly cynicism — but the songs are still great

AP:Say what you will about them, but the Disney live-action remakes have at least given us a choice. Which would you rather see? A spirited, soaring, animated Moana, or a…

Disney continues to live-action remake their animated classics. 'Moana' is the latest - and youngest - to fall foul to a cynical strategy which needs to end. #Cinema

Disney continua a trasformare in live action i suoi classici animati. “Oceania” è l’ultimo – e il più giovane – a cadere vittima di una strategia cinica che deve finire. #Cinema

ALBAWABA - Disney's new Moana remake faces harsh early reviews.Disney has once again turned one of its most successful animated films of recent years in

‘Moana’ 2026 review : The shot-for-shot Disney live-action remake of the 2016 classic offers nothing by way of fresh insight or visual imagination

Disney is committed to remaking its animated classics as live-action films, even though they're almost always mediocre, including its latest, "Moana."

La reversión del filme no ofrece nada nuevo ni mejora lo anteriormente visto