It’s been too long since Disney has given its viewers a reason to complain. Take Thanksgiving weekend, when it actually pulled off a decent release. Moana 2 made $386 million at the global box office, breaking opening weekend records for an animated movie, and nobody on X seemed to have anything more than canned complaints about it.

After watching the trailer, it looks like everything anyone could want from a Disney princess sequel: It’s as beautiful as the original, there are cute animals and cuter kids, and the storyline is probably a rehash of the first one (don’t fix what’s not broken, right?). As far as Disney princesses go, Moana has successfully made the tribe without ruffling anyone’s feathers — well, except that I can’t say “you’re welcome” without doing so in a sing-songy voice. Thanks, Mauwi. (READ MORE: The Penguin Glides as 2024’s Best Drama)
Box office success and audience acclaim will not be the story of Disney’s live-action Snow White release, currently scheduled for March 2025. The film was already pushed back a year, although purportedly because of the SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023 and not because of the controversy that it stirred up online (thanks Rachel Zegler). Perhaps Disney had hoped that giving it a little more time would cool tempers. If anything, it’s made the problem worse.
Both the Right and the Left Boycott Disney’s Snow White
This past December, Disney dropped the official trailer for Snow White, and it’s going to be a disaster. Putting aside the fact that Rachel Zegler looks nothing like anyone’s imagination of this particular fairy tale princess (which is something of a pedantic criticism, and certainly not worth boycotting a film over), Zegler was cast alongside Gal Gadot, who plays the evil witch. Anyone could have told you that, barring some serious work on the part of the wardrobe department, that wasn’t going to work.
Gadot, famous for her role as Wonder Woman, is an absolutely stunning actress. Disney’s wardrobe department didn’t d...