>>83946557I think Moana looks pretty good, but it doesn't really seem to be breaking the mold. It reminds me a lot of Lilo and Stitch with the tropical theme and I'm basically getting a road-trip-at-sea vibe from it. I'm sure it will be good but I don't think it will become an obsession for people the way Frozen and Zootopia did.
I really don't understand Finding Dory though. I thought Finding Nemo was okay but I never felt the need to see it more than once, and I'm the kind of person who owns a lot of Disney movies on Blu-Ray. I just don't get how people can be so obsessed with a movie about fish.
I think Finding Dory is having a huge opening by nature of being a sequel, but I don't think it will have Zootopia's legs. Zootopia had a big opening for March, but March isn't a month for big openings. It had legs because people saw it largely based on word of mouth. It's one thing to see a high tomatometer score, but it's something else entirely to hear your friends and family members gushing about the movie after they see it and then beg you to watch it.
The people who loved Finding Nemo were all going to go see it on opening weekend, because they knew they like the franchise and they knew what to expect. I'm sure it's going to do well with repeat viewers, but I think it's going to be a lot more front-loaded than Zootopia was.
