What went wrong?

What went wrong?

is that a giant feather or is she just really tiny?

She's brown. The only successful brown princess wasn't a strong lead and is often associated with a blue genie.

It's a paddle.

3d "artist" still cant model anything out of the comfort zone.

They made her a lesbian

It should have been hand-drawn.

Not thicc enough.

Released movie about pacific islanders in thanksgiving and did it in a climate when people are getting riled up about PC stuff instead of just being indifferent.
Should have aimed for the summer when people are thinking about beaches and featured more of a lolsorandom animal companion that had a bigger role than the chicken.

Alternatively, drop all the humans and make it a movie about pacific islander animals.

Kids would have eaten that shit up. As it stands now, it's a 7-8/10 kids movie with some amazing parts, that's more loved by older audiences that can better appreciate the work that went into it.

As far as I know, quite a bit of it ended up being cut.
For example, her pet pig? He was meant to stick around for the whole movie but was quietly dropped for some reason. That's why he's around for so much at the beginning then just... vanishes from the movie.

So just because she didn't bone a far-older demigod she's a lesbian? Alright.

Too many attempts at going "look at how self-aware we are". Characters were strong, movie would have been excellent if more sincere.

When the fuck is it supposed to be set, anyway?
The dialogue is completely contemporary, but there's zero technology anywhere and the idea of unexplored islands in this day and age is ludicrous.

Also why did they suddenly have to leave the island when Moana managed to fix everything? Why uproot everything and leave your island behind because your ancestors did?

It's not like settling down had made them fat or stupid or anything, it was pointless.

ugly feet

>90% of the screen time is blue-greenish water and blue sky and occasional sand.

What indeed.

In ancient Polynesia. The dialogue is the same as literally every Disney move set in the past.

They didn't have to leave, and they weren't abandoning it completely. They were choosing to explore and expand, since now they could without worrying about Te Ka fucking them up.

This

>The dialogue is the same as literally every Disney move set in the past.
And that's a major drawback since in all the other recent Disney films, the era is immediately recognizable and you don't need to question it. In Moana, it could easily meant to be be present-day. You can't tell from the houses, the clothing or anything else what time period it's meant to be until you begin to notice the lack of modern things. And even then, it could just be set in the 18th century.

Bitch is barefoot the whole movie
Ugly feet
Shoulda got the tangled guy to work on those

Nothing, people just had insanely huge expectations after Frozen.

The pacing was really bad imo. The heart of life was a macguffin of the worst kind (why not show her being tempted to use it to maybe revive her grandmother). Also, everything in the ocean wants it but they only get attacked by one group of pirates. Oh, and what the ocean can do to help her on the quest is extremely inconsistent.
Also this. Could have given the shapeshifting demigod more than 5 forms.

The roadtrip nature of the movie made all the stuff feel episodic.

Villain with most characterization and ability to serve as foils to the protagonist was a David Bowie Crab that appeared for a total of 7 minutes or so and the actual 'bad guy' of the movie was a characterless evil lava blob until she wasn't.

There wasn't ever much real danger. the coconut guys were dispatched in minutes, never seen again. The giant crab was barely a threat, and then the final boss was a bit of a cop-out.

They focused on the wrong aspects of the film.

this, she has the same feet as Wreck-It Ralph, why the fuck doesn't disney make new CG models, why are they so fucking cheap

The movie was inspired by something called "the Long Pause". Early humans who were sailing the Pacific and settling onto new islands stopped their exploration for a millennium or two. So the movie seems to be placed around when Polynesians started voyaging again, something like a thousand years ago.

I hate seeing stuff with ugly people in it. I still haven't see it because of that fat fuck.

He really was out of the ordinary ugly.
Also no romance in a disney princess film (obviously not with that piglike motherfucker but still)

What the fuck went wrong.

Choosing chickens over men doesn't make you a lesbian.

wait
did something go wrong?
I had hopes for this movie, and been off Sup Forums for long

did it turn out shit?

also, i want to fuck that colour pallette

It was a good movie, the "what went wrong" is referring to it underperforming in the box office

No, nothing went wrong. The movie is easily Disney's best modern musical. This board is cancer

She still chose cock

>abloo bloo
It was boring.
The worst sin a movie can commit.

>huge expectations after Frozen.

Why? Frozen was just a glorified music video. Literally anything would have been better than Frozen, and in fact, Moana was.

Of course, unless you only rate success in terms of economical profits

He's supposed to be unattractive according to the mythology
>Actually wanting some shitty forced romance

Oh fuck off

>shitty forced romance

No, I wanted a well-written, heart-warming romance from an animation company that built their success on that exact product.

...you realize most animated disney movies are musicals, right?

t. ADHD

but she's a strong poc women that don't need no man

More like Disney focus-tested the shit out of the art style

Every good story needs a romance, no matter how small.
And I'm saying that as a strong independent woman.

>Every good story needs a romance
>I'm saying that as a strong independant woman
Kek

You're free to disagree.
But you're still wrong.

>people not cluing in that maui's ugliness is a plot point

>underperforming

only if you were expecting a global phenomenon hit, which disney was not because "polynesian-based musical" is not a universal seller. it made its money and got its acclaim.

correct

the story is about her and how strong she is and how she didn't even need maui and how she's just this super inspiring brown gril to other brown grils
And I'm saying that as a person that definitely spends too much time on tumblr

The open ocean is possibly one of the most boring settings imaginable

But very cheap to animate.

I'm gunna take a shot in the dark and say that you spend a lot of time on tumblr and you're overweight, if not obese.

Well there you go.

>Ocean is possibly one of the most boring settings imaginable

You don't go outside very often do you?

>You don't go outside very often do you?
>wherearewe.mp3.jpg

You mean do I go into the open ocean just to sit and stare at the horizon?
No. Never.

You should, it's quite uplifting

No thanks, it's fucking terrifying.

gee that sure is a nice color palette, golly. I mean isn't it so great the artist decided to show and describe each individual hue? How would I have known there was color in the image otherwise!

>nothing but water in all directions
They're not even on a big ship full.of characters. Its just two of them on a raft surrounded by nothing for 70% of the film. Its fucking coma inducing

Just what could be under the surface is kind of unsettling, but above is a different story

Then you my friend are incredibly basic.

I think capeshit is more your kind of movie man

But the movie isn't about braving the ocean depths, its about sailing the boring-ass surface.

>can't counter facts
>time for ad homs!
At least now everybody is allowed to call you a piece of cocksucking trash.

>I know, I'll accuse him of liking something I don't like. Then I don't have to argue!

Made up Polynesian setting.

Is not Hawaiian, is not Tahitian, is not Samoan, is not Fijian, is just.........polynesian derp

they are all dah same durp!

>But the movie isn't about braving the ocean depths
That is LITERALLY what Moana does to get the hook back.

And that's the best scene in the film.

Coincidence?

Look at those fuckin tree trunk limbs.

Zero sex appeal.

Top kek
>Can't counter facts
What facts? That the ocean is boring? Fuck the people on this board are a different level of stupid

They already did a Hawaii movie with Lilo and Stitch.

I actually really liked moana, the only bits I didn't like where a couple seconds like where she does the power walk during a song that's totally supposed to be her frozen moment. Where the squares her shoulders and does that else stride. It was cringe as fuck considering the rest of the movie was hers it really sucked they wedged that frozen pandering in.

I get it, frozen made mad bank for disney, but they should let their movies stand on their own legs. It showed weakness and lack of faith in their characterisation.

That being said it was like 5 seconds in an otherwise brilliant movie. I liked it a lot more than most recent disney shit zoo notwithstanding. (zootopia's only problem being they hyped the shit out of the waifu-able rabbit and she is adorable but then that voice, eeeh. Not what I was expecting after seeing all the silent webms of judy.)

No, they go into a horror realm in a mountain. They're not underwater

And it was called "Vaiana" outside of the US because Moana is the name of one of the most famous hardcore porn actresses of all time.

>They're not underwater

It's not actually under the ocean, its in a goddamn mountain. I don't know why they made it look that way.

The ocean is above them, so they are literally under the ocean.

But the mountain rises up out of the ocean
You see them rise up from the ocean after being blasted up by the geyser
You see fish come down from the ocean into tamatoa's lair
It's some kind of weird monster populated underworld beneath the ocean
I don't know if it's a Polynesian mythology thing or not but that's the only conclusion I can draw.

I heard it was more because someone else had already registered the trademark for the name "Moana" in Europe. I think it's only European countries that had her renamed as Vaiana.

I refuse to believe you're this fucking stupid

Not him, but the surface of the ocean is pretty boring, especially when you have 1 (one) group chasing you, that you fight off in 7 minutes. It forced focus on the characters who weren't that interesting.

Nice feet btw

I feel like this would have made a much better summer beach movie than a Thanksgiving holiday movie.

*Blocks your path*

>I heard it was more because someone else had already registered the trademark
Yeah, you heard that because that's what Disney representatives told reporters. You think they're going to actually tell mainstream media that they changed the name because google turns up Moana Pozzi when you search for "Moana" in Europe?

No companies has registered "moana" as a trademark.

Black.

That's an oar, you dipstick.

Why does that say Dryad when it's obviously a Mandragora?

>Zero sex appeal

Mandrakes are subterranean, you fucking layman.

>in a landlocked state with the rockies blocking off the nearest ocean
>somehow going outside will possitively affect how I feel about the ocean
Fucking coastalfags

That incredibly relevant Michael Jackson reference.

I didn't say Mandrake, now did I?

Yes you did.
Oh no, you're mentally retarded and think it's two different things,don't you?
>Mandragora the Latin equivalent of the English "mandrake"

Can you name one (1) scene in a 3D Disney movie that looks better than this?

I'll wait.

What a shame it was 1½ minute long.

Not gonna lie, those 20 seconds did more for me than Dreamworks' entire filmography, save maybe KFP.

>flyover trash thinking his opinion matters

...

IT'S JUST CARDBOARD CUTOUTS, FRANK

Nothing wrong, it's just rather conventional. Moana might be for the current Disney 3D Rennaisance what Pocahontas was for the previous Disney Renaissance: the point people started to notice they were paying for the same movie.

Maybe if expectations for this movie and Zootopia had been reversed, and Disney took more of a risk with Taika Waititi's original screenplay, we might be remembering Moana more fondly as an offbeat hit like Emperor's New Groove, rather than a not-as-good-as-Frozen underperformer.

Because Seiken Densetsu

Lanterns.