Thanksgiving was especially bountiful at this year’s box office, thanks in no small part to the record-breaking performance of Disney’s Moana 2. The sequel to the 2016 original animated film starring Auli'i Cravalho as the voice of the titular Polynesian wayfinder (don’t call her a princess!

Moana 2 looks as though it will end up one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, but how do it and its predecessor's opening grosses stack up against similar animated films and their sequels?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Moana 2," a sequel to the 2016 animated film that reunites the wayfinding title character with demigod Maui, sailed to a Thanksgiving weekend record of $221 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales,

Movie theaters finally have something for which to be thankful. Disney’s “Moana 2” cemented Thanksgiving box office records with $221 million over the five-day holiday frame, obliterating the previous high-water marks set by 2019's "Frozen II" ($125 million) and 2013's “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” ($109 million).

Walt Disney's animated musical "Moana 2" debuted with an estimated $368 million in global ticket sales through Sunday and combined with "Wicked" and "Gladiator II" to deliver the biggest Thanksgiving weekend in U.

Moana 2 just smashed a Thanksgiving box office record, answering an eight-year-old question of how far the Disney favourite will go. The sequel to 2016's Moana picked up a whopping $221 million domestic over the five days of the holiday (Wednesday to Sunday),

The film has broken numerous box office records, including the biggest five-day opening of all time, plus the biggest Thanksgiving weekend (three-day and five-day) release, as well as the biggest Thanksgiving release and the biggest Black Friday release.