***Moana NON-SPOILER Discussion Thread****

Rotten Tomatoes will show how critics reviewed a movie on the desktop site if they put it in. Most just ignore it

Week out bump. In case people haven't seen this yet as well.

Think it will be good. Probably won't see it in theaters though

First rotten review drops the RT score a percentage and metascore drops two points to 80.

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Moana looks lovely, and it gives us a princess we really haven't seen before. Those elements are surrounded, though, by too much that's all-too-familiar.

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-Mark Disjuk: Mark Reviews Movies

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Man you must really be pumped for this movie since your posting to yourself

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I'm a huge animation fan. I used to want to work for Pixar. And I figured I'd continue my plan to bump this each day until the release since it still provides good updated info on the critic ratings for people on the forum that may be watching it but don't reply.

Speaking of, this is probably my final update as the movie has been widely released today. It will still probably get 100 more reviews, but the purpose of a CriticWatch thread like this, in my opinion, is in the lead-up to the release.

I may end up doing it throughout the opening weekend though, but I'm not even sure if anyone is actually paying it any attention, like the man said

If anybody wants to talk spoilers discussion in this thread, let me know as I'll be watching the film tonight. If a few people want to, I'll switch the purpose of the thread into a discussion thread.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone

I took the kids tonight and thought it was fantastic. Im now listening to the soundtrack on Spotify.

Just got out and I think this is Disney's best animated feature since Wreck-it-Ralph.

Although the concept isn't nearly as inventive as Wreck-it-Ralph, the movie reflects the simple kind of adventure story one might expect to be folklore.

The animation is stunning. I'd say its definitively Disney animations best CG animation yet, and is only rivaled really by Pixar's background environment in Good Dinosaur. The difference with this movie is that the characters actually fit into the world.

Speaking of characters, these were really great characters. Moana stands alongside just about any Disney princess in characterization. Up there with Belle, Mulan, Rapunzel and Tiana. The Rock is great as Maui, especially when he's toned down. And they even used the stupid chicken well enough for me to like it.

I absolutely loved the soundtrack. Maybe its just different tastes for different people, but I thought the music really worked well with the movie and it was great to hear the native songs alongside the English. While it may not have a "Let it Go"I liked the way the songs worked together better than in Frozen.

I didn't love Tamatoa, but that seems to be a matter of preference as well. I'll save my other criticisms for when I make this a spoiler discussion in a few days.

Took the kids for Thanksgiving. Wife and kids loved it.

I thought it was pretty good. Zootopia and Kubo were better in my opinion.

I actually preferred Trolls to this as well since we seen that one the week before. Maybe cuz it was livelier/music

A lot of the Rock's lines were pretty hokey but it had a great score. Much better than Frozen's soundtrack. It reminded me of the early 90s Disney music.

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My only gripe was they introduced the pig and you thought the pig would have had a bigger role in the movie.

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i agree. they went with the stupid chicken.

i enjoyed it. below wreck it ralph and big hero 6 but above frozen and zootopia.