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    Review: This live-action Moana could have been made by a ChatGPT prompt ★★☆☆☆


    Review: This live-action Moana could have been made by a ChatGPT prompt ★★☆☆☆

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    1. TheTelegraph on

      **Robbie Collin writes for The Telegraph:**

      Hollywood may be anxious about artificial intelligence, but it is hard not to feel that said anxiety is somewhat self-inflicted, considering the industry has spent the past decade restructuring its entire business model around producing the sort of idle wish-fulfilment material the new technology can burp out in its sleep.

      This glazed re-enactment of Disney’s 2016 animated smash Moana is merely the latest case in point.

      This was, by all appearances, an incredibly costly and labour-intensive production, yet 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 video generator’s prompt box.

      How would the muscle-bound demigod Maui look if he were real? The most deadeningly obvious answer is the one we are given: like Dwayne Johnson in a curly wig.

      **Read more:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/07/08/live-action-moana-could-have-been-made-by-chatgpt-prompt/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_been-made-by-chatgpt-prompt/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/07/08/live-action-moana-could-have-been-made-by-chatgpt-prompt/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_been-made-by-chatgpt-prompt/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open)

    3. Batman1154 on

      The hierarchy of live action remakes is about to change. Hopefully for the better

    4. GreyScope on

      Ironically , imo it could be said the same about the Telgraph in general “ChatGPT write met a headline but make it a bit Hitlery”.
      Telegraph “journalists” lol

    5. North_South_Side on

      I saw a couple clips. None of the scenes with The Rock looked like they were shot out in the tropical sun. It all looks soft, like a green screen studio. It looks terrible and fake and rubbery.

      Go to Hawaii or even South Florida. Look at people in the sun. The sun is intense, with extreme shadows and highlights, even at the beginning and end of the day. Sure, there’s cloudy/rainy spells, but the clips I saw all had blue skies with maybe a few puffy clouds.

      It looks horrible.

    7. pleasegivemepatience on

      The rock looks so awful in this, the reviews don’t surprise me at all.

    8. theAmericanX20 on

      I mean, what is expected? Its literally a live action remake of a cartoon movie, of course its going to be the same thing. Thats why all of these remakes are dumb as dirt. If I want to watch Lion King, I out on Lion king, not some CGI animals. If I want to watch Moana it’s already out.
      Seriously, were people expecting a new movie?