Snow White has the highest Princess rating on RT with 98%... so far, Moana has the same, and is recently certified fresh.
Tangled and Frozen both scored 89% each. Seriously, Beauty and the Beast has 93%, and that's...like... the best Disney film ever IMO...
The best Disney princess film should always be whichever you hold most dear. For me that's Tangled, but others will have their own picks. I certainly wouldn't judge anything based on a flawed film site like RottenTomatoes.
"If life is getting you down and needs uplifting, then please come dance with me!"
Look at the score out of 10, not the percentage of critics who liked it.
Anyway, if I were to Rank the Princess Films I would say
1. Beauty and the Beast
2. Sleeping Beauty
3. The Little Mermaid
4. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
5. Aladdin (though I don't consider it a princess film)
6. Frozen
7. Tangled
8. Pocahontas
9. Mulan
10. Moana
11. The Princess and the Frog
12. Cinderella
13. Brave
If I were to rank the princesses as characters:
1. Rapunzel
2. Belle
3. Ariel
4. Moana
5. Jasmine
6. Mulan
7. Elsa
8. Anna
9. Pocahontas
10. Tiana
11. Cinderella
12. Aurora (she's not really the main character of her movie)
13. Snow White
14. Merida
First of all, you can't compare older movies' ratings, so I'm only going by Frozen, Tangled, Brave, ect. My theory on why Moana has a higher percentage of people giving it 'thumbs up' is due to a bunch of misguided white guilt from the critics, especially during all that Standing Rock nonsense. Moana is shockingly mediocre, and it's not just me who thinks that, you can tell by the reception. It is a nice safe little movie that people don't dislike but not too many are over the moon like they are with a lot of kiddy movies such as Zootopia, Inside Out, and even Frozen, the movie with the lower rating. The standards for the kiddy genre are pretty low and here they've decided to lower it even more, being satisfied with a by-the-numbers story, pretty animation and lack of a love interest to make it 'ground-breaking' in the face of other pretty bad Disney movies.
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Moana is shockingly mediocre, and it's not just me who thinks that, you can tell by the reception. It is a nice safe little movie that people don't dislike but not too many are over the moon like they are with a lot of kiddy movies such as Zootopia, Inside Out, and even Frozen, the movie with the lower rating.
So good try, but fail.
First of all, I fully comprehended what the poster said. But it was wrong. Second of all, you are probably right, I shouldn't have been condescending. But it was a knee jerk reaction to the poster saying the only reason the movie has been well received was "misguided white guilt" and labeling all Disney movies as kiddy cartoons. So, I shouldn't have been condescending, but that doesn't void the fact that the poster's remarks about the reaction to Moana proving that it's "shockingly mediocre" are incorrect.
shareYeah, no. That is factually incorrect. The reception proves you wrong. It has the same IMDb score as Inside Out, and higher than Zootopia and Frozen. And it has the same RT AUDIENCE score as Zootopia, and higher than Inside Out and Frozen. So it has gotten the best reception out of all of the movies you mentioned, so no. We cannot tell by the reception that it was "shockingly mediocre", and clearly people are over the moon about it like they are with Zootopia, Inside Out, and Frozen. So good try, but fail.
The narrative is a fairly predictable hero's journey -- Maui even calls her "The Chosen One" -- but the movie is refreshing for its lack of a love interest;
[Moana] is beautiful in more ways than I can tell, thanks to the brilliance of more animators than I could count.
Though not without a few flat spots, this intelligently scripted and accessible fare is blessed with spellbinding marine visuals and esoteric earworms aplenty from composer-of-the-moment Lin-Manuel Miranda.
What works best about Moana are its moments of cultural peculiarity.
A gloriously exuberant and colourful adventure set in Polynesia which is both pleasingly traditional (there are songs and a plucky heroine!) and wittily modern (no handsome prince required).
Mines proto-Polynesian Oceania culture's carefully researched legends, myths and traditions to joyfully bring us a feisty new Hollywood teenage rebel princess.
But it was a knee jerk reaction to the poster saying the only reason the movie has been well received was "misguided white guilt" and labeling all Disney movies as kiddy cartoons.
You must have really liked the movie because you don't want to face reality. First of all, you are ignorant to the fact that IMDB ratings get lower over time, and you cannot compare this new release to movies that have been out for months. You've already shown that your cherry-picked numbers don't mean much. Are you suggesting this film has the same hysteria that FROZEN had? No one agrees with you. Cling to numbers all you like.
By the way, here's a bunch of quotes from the critic's positive reviews RT highlighted that praise either the animation, lack of love interest, or cultural sensitivity:
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In contrast, Zootopia and Inside Out have more people spouting 'classic' and 'masterpiece' (haven't seen these films but I'll probably disagree). I haven't been harassed with people praising this film outside of the Disney-head community. Moana is a film that even doesn't seem to believe in itself, constantly making lame jokes about how silly and formulaic its happenings are.
Disney films are kiddy films, that's why cute animal side kicks are needed. Even Moana agrees. If you like Disney accept them for what they are. Pua was such a pointless character, he was obviously added to sell toys because the chicken isn't cute. Moana's RT score, while animated kiddy films do really well with the critics because they have low standards for them, makes no sense being higher than Tangled and Frozen.
I think what the poster is trying to say, in shockingly uncouth post, is that the reviews belie a movie that I must admit follows the modern Disney Princess formula pretty closely.
However, the setting, animation, characters, and songs more than make up for it for me and it seems that is the case for critics as well.
Yeah, I don't deny that it has a lot of similarities with other WDAS movies. However, they act like critics complimenting the characterization of Moana and the animation ability as not complimenting the quality of the movie. Like, I can't see how "This movie has a great character and beautiful animation" isn't really talking about the quality of the movie...
shareI think what the poster is trying to say, in shockingly uncouth post, is that the reviews belie a movie that I must admit follows the modern Disney Princess formula pretty closely.
I don't think people think the movie is "shockingly mediocre", that's what I think the movie is, and that is the reason for people's tepid reaction. It's just the mediocre movies still have the appearance of being well-received because animated films are almost always overrated. I never said anything about scores that was all you. I said the scores are surprisingly high, but the hype is low comparatively.
First of all, the level of animation is a critical aspect for the quality of an animated movie
Of your personally picked reviews to try and prove your point, only 3 even mentioned it, and only 1 was focused only on it.
You would be forgiven for getting so lost in the world of Moana that the story itself becomes merely a distant hum. Disney's newest animated extravaganza takes as its inspiration the crystal blue waves and lush green island mountains of Polynesia, making the landscape into a 3-D storybook. The computer animation, so much crisper and more vibrant than the all-white X-Y planes of Frozen, turns the film into a celebration of (bio)diversity. And not a moment too soon for a world that keeps needing to be reminded that this is all worth taking some effort to save.
These aren't The Wiggles or Barney or other stuff like that that is made specifically for children.