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How Far Will Moana 2 Go?

We’re making it out of Motunui with this one.

Then, some exec was like “Hmmm, what if we actually made a bajillion dollars instead.” “It doesn’t feel like a true sequel so much as it feels like a souped-up version of one of the direct-to-video affairs that Disney used to pump out for all of its big releases,” Vulture critic Alison Willmore writes. The movie hitting expectations at all will put it far out ahead of the first film’s opening weekend, which saw it make $81.1 million, per NBC. Given that the original Frozen made $1.2 billion in the box office in comparison to Moana ’s $687 million, it would mark a rare triumph of sea princess over ice queen.

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