MOANA REVIEW - The Hottest
Walt Disney Animation Studios continues to deliver with Moana, a beautiful and touching new film.
The title character, 16-year-old Moana (voiced by Auli'i Cravalho) lives on the island of Motunui, the daughter of the local Chief (Temuera Morrison). Moana has a happy and loving life, but is filled with a wanderlust and upset by her father’s orders that no one ever travel beyond their island’s reef. A crisis begins when, without warning, Motunui’s fruit is spoiled and inedible, and the local fish seem to have vanished from the water, putting everyone’s life in danger. Encouraged by her grandmother (Rachel House), Moana defies her father’s orders and leaves her home, in order to save her people.
That quest includes finding the demigod, Maui (Dwayne Johnson), who is inadvertently responsible for what is happening to Motunui. 1000 years before, Maui -- whose massive, magical fishhook gives him the ability to shapeshift into any animal -- stole a powerful object from the lava monster Te Kā. Now, Te Kā’s vengeance is causing the plight facing Moana’s people. Moana must enlist Maui’s assistance in returning the “heart” of Te Kā to its rightful place – but that is, of course, easier said than done.
Moana quickly establishes itself as an entertaining, gorgeously animated film, but the opening scenes also feel a bit overly familiar when it comes to Disney animation storylines. A teenage girl who longs to see and do more than her daily life allows – possibly with a loving but stern/overly-protective father as an obstacle – is obviously not a new concept. Indeed, Moana directors Ron Clements and John Musker famously told a story with a similar set-up with the classic The Little Mermaid nearly three decades ago.
However, once Moana’s journey begins, those similarities aren’t overwhelming. It helps that Chief Tui Waialiki’s decree isn’t just for Moana, but for all of his people (so he’s overprotective about everybody!). Plus, Moana’s mission has high enough stakes that her wish to see more than she ever has, while important for her, isn’t the only thing on her mind by a long shot.
Walt Disney Animation Studios has been on quite a roll this decade, releasing Tangled, Winnie the Pooh, Wreck-it Ralph, Frozen, Big Hero 6, and Zootopia since 2010. Despite Winnie the Pooh being a rare box office bust (though reviews were strong), this is an incredibly impressive run of films, with all ranging from very good to excellent. Whatever alchemy is at work these days continues to thrive with Moana, which feels effortlessly funny and engaging, powered by very likable characters and great music.
Coming off the uber-success of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, working alongside Opetaia Foa'I and Mark Mancina, has delivered a wonderful array of songs. Appropriately, the main influence here is the music of the Pacific Islands, where Moana takes place, on display in numbers like the rousing “We Know the Way,” but the songs also venture into other terrain as well. There’s the high-tempo and very funny “You’re Welcome” (which would arguably be an instant classic simply by virtue of giving us The Rock singing a song in a Disney animated movie) and the wonderfully bizarre “Shiny,” sung by Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement – an awesome, Bowie-inspired track. The film’s requisite Disney heroine track about wanting more from life (See “Part of Your World,” “Belle,” etc.) is “How Far I’ll Go,” which I felt was a bit pedestrian at first – but then grew on me via some well-done reprises....
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Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/11/15/moana-review
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