Talking about bringing it back home, we cannot gloss over a thing that really connects you back to your culture and grandfather and singing, and that is Moana, the first installment of which came out in 2016 and the second in 2024, with a live-action version coming next year.
Playing Maui has been the gift of a lifetime. Growing up as a Samoan — half Samoan and half black — in Samoan culture, Polynesian culture? We’re proud people. Proud of our culture. And what Moana has represented is a really awesome global embrace of Polynesian culture, our values and our qualities and our pride and our mana. Today’s Tuesday. Just this past Friday, around 8:00 pm, we officially wrapped the live-action version of Moana, so we can’t wait. This upcoming summer, you guys will see live-action Moana , and it’s going to be pretty cool. I spent an entire week shooting “You’re Welcome,” and the singing and the choreography is crazy. [Students whoop with excitement, urging him to sing it.] No, no, no, you’re not ready for that. No, you’re not ready. [Johnson sings “You’re Welcome” and the students go wild.]
Jesus Christ, Disney has lost its mojo. I was never really a fan of Disney growing up, I was more of a Ghibli kid, but damn. All they do now is recycle their old IP into half baked watered down souless versions of something that barely had soul to begin with. It’s getting embarrassing now. I know they’ve always been a soulless platitudes generator, but still. They had better hope that millennial nostalgia is enough to keep them running for the foreseeable future because all I see is pointless trash coming from Disney.
They released an original film last year, Elio, and it tanked.
So you were not entertained by the Arielle live-action remake with underwater scenes that had such barebones lighting you barely could see anything on the screen? Or the Wish movie that just took out elements from a lot of their existing movies and slapped them together in a half-assed way?
…yeah, that’s understandable.