A bunch of TV episodes strung together to make a movie makes me think of Master Ninja I and II, as seen on MST3K back in the day. I assume none of the songs in Moana 2 slap as much as "Master Ninja Theme Song".
When I heard it was a television series turned into a feature, my first thought was "Creatively bankrupt much?" A few reviews were moderately positive, but everybody said it felt like episodes of a TV series made into a "feature film", kind of like those two-parters television shows used to do that would get released as "movies" overseas....
I loved the first movie, but this sounds like a quick cash-in.
I remember all the critics going "I'm so OVER Lin-Manuel Miranda now!" I wonder if they feel the same with the quality of *these* songs, which the most positive thing I've heard is "I don't...hate them...?"
Johnson is one of those actors that doesn't really play characters. No matter who he is supposed to be, his character is always just The Rock. He had been doing this to great success for around a quarter century. Aside from the fact he is overexposed, bottomless arrogance can only remain charming for so long. Honestly, I think a big driver for all the Moana content in development is he has had a string of movies underperformed, and so he is doubling down on greatest hits rather than accepthe is no longer quite the star he was.
The secondary characters barely exist. The apparent villain is a fake out who's onscreen for about 5 minutes. The real villain barely exists. It felt like half a story and a story that was no good in the first place.
A bunch of TV episodes strung together to make a movie makes me think of Master Ninja I and II, as seen on MST3K back in the day. I assume none of the songs in Moana 2 slap as much as "Master Ninja Theme Song".
When I heard it was a television series turned into a feature, my first thought was "Creatively bankrupt much?" A few reviews were moderately positive, but everybody said it felt like episodes of a TV series made into a "feature film", kind of like those two-parters television shows used to do that would get released as "movies" overseas....
I loved the first movie, but this sounds like a quick cash-in.
I remember all the critics going "I'm so OVER Lin-Manuel Miranda now!" I wonder if they feel the same with the quality of *these* songs, which the most positive thing I've heard is "I don't...hate them...?"
Johnson is one of those actors that doesn't really play characters. No matter who he is supposed to be, his character is always just The Rock. He had been doing this to great success for around a quarter century. Aside from the fact he is overexposed, bottomless arrogance can only remain charming for so long. Honestly, I think a big driver for all the Moana content in development is he has had a string of movies underperformed, and so he is doubling down on greatest hits rather than accepthe is no longer quite the star he was.
Two stars sounds *far* too generous based on this review!
The secondary characters barely exist. The apparent villain is a fake out who's onscreen for about 5 minutes. The real villain barely exists. It felt like half a story and a story that was no good in the first place.