{"id":684181,"date":"2026-07-10T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684181\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:22:09","slug":"moana-disneys-dismal-live-action-remake-panned-by-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684181\/","title":{"rendered":"Moana: Disney’s ‘dismal’ live-action remake panned by critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin, external<\/a> was also not a fan – writing that it “could have been made by a ChatGPT prompt”.<\/p>\n

Giving the film two stars, he said there “is barely a moment in it which feels as if it couldn’t have been achieved by typing: ‘What if this scene from Moana was remade in live action?’ into a prompt box”.<\/p>\n

Positive reviews were relatively rare, but there was one from the Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney, external<\/a>, who described it as “captivating family entertainment that deserves to find an audience – brimming with visual interest, vibrant color, gorgeous design elements and alluring tropical settings”.<\/p>\n

The script has been adapted by the original screenwriter Jared Bush, with the music from Lin-Manuel Miranda remaining too while Hamilton stage director Thomas Kail makes his film debut.<\/p>\n

In the past 15 years there have been more than 20 live-action remakes of Disney classics – with varying levels of success.<\/p>\n

In 2023, The Little Mermaid was not a box office hit, but the corporation bounced back in 2024 with Mufasa: The Lion King.<\/p>\n

Then last year Disney lost $170m with its Snow White<\/a> live-action remake, but quickly recouped costs a couple of months later when live-action Lilo & Stitch became one of the biggest films of the year, making $1bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin, external was also not a fan – writing that it “could have been made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}