The live-action "Moana" remake debuted at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics calling Dwayne Johnson's wig laughable and the film purposeless.

It didn’t take Disney long to cast Catherine Laga’aia as the live-action Moana. The 19-year-old Samoan-Australian actor will play the titular lead in the upcoming remake. How 1 audition convinced the

The 19-year-old actress is making her feature film debut as one of Disney's most beloved characters in the live-action 'Moana.' Even with the support of her mom and actor dad, landing the lead role still seemed surreal to Laga'aia.

Disney's live-action "Moana" remake landed a 39% Rotten Tomatoes score as critics question why the studio remade a film less than a decade old.

Live-action remakes have been box office gold, but audiences and critics say most fail to recapture the magic of the animated classics that inspired them.

Few genres of film have been as much of a gamble for Disney as its live-action remakes. Criticism of the latest is so harsh that it raises questions of whether it would have been better made with AI.

See the characters in Disney's live-action remake of 'Moana' and the actors who play them, vs. the original animated versions.