“Moana 2” has drawn 27.3 million views inside the first 5 days of launch on Disney+. It’s now the third most profitable Disney animated movie to hit the platform.

The movie, which options Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson stepping again into their roles as Moana and Maui, respectively, had the biggest premiere on the platform lately since 2021’s “Encanto.”

The primary “Moana,” which has amassed 1.4 billion hours streamed, retains the best streaming numbers of any movie on Disney+.

“Moana 2,” which was initially meant to be a Disney+ tv present, was launched in theaters on Nov. 28 and went on to earn greater than $1 billion on the worldwide field workplace.

The sequel was directed by Dana Ledoux Miller, David G. Derrick Jr. and Jason Hand. Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear dealt with the music for the movie, changing Lin-Manuel Miranda who wrote the primary movie’s songs. Nicole Scherzinger, Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda, Rose Matafeo, Temuera Morrison, David Fane and Hualālai Chung are additionally a part of the forged.

Co-director Miller just lately stated that the primary movie was an emotional viewing expertise for her: “I had by no means walked right into a Regal Cinema and heard the voices of my folks earlier than. And to have one in every of them be a Disney princess adjustments all the pieces. It says, ‘It’s OK to be Polynesian and be robust and adventurous and humorous.’ You see your self mirrored on display screen and that’s highly effective.”

Selection critic Owen Gleiberman wrote that the “Moana 2” administrators “stage the movie with a normal spectacular technical aptitude, a movement of motion that retains your eyeballs dancing” however that the music lands like Miranda “knockoffs.”