Local flavour

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2019)

I'm not the target market for these Disney animations so I usually avoid them like the plague, but I happened on MOANA at Christmastime and ended up watching it regardless. It turns out to be one of the studio's better recent productions. As usual, the slick and soulless animation style leaves me cold, and they still haven't fixed those dead eyes, but this one manages to have a half-decent storyline based on Polynesian mythology, which most viewers will know nothing about, that makes it stand out from the crowd. The songs have a nice local flavour too, and the whole thing is painless and enjoyable in a simplistic way.