Your typical Disney movie.

Rating: 7/10 (2 April 2017)

Moana is a big budget movie by Disney, with hawaian Auli'i Cravalho as Moana, the protagonist of the movie, and Dwayne Johnson as Maui, a legendary shape-shifting demigod, who plays a good cop bad cop routine. This movie has a lot of singing and the classical Walt Disney's rain of gags that splashes your face every second. Usually, in a Disney's movie , there're more hits than misses. In Moana, there's still more hits than misses, but there are more misses than normal. The singing in the movie is alright, with Cravalho providing a stunning singing performance and with an OK Dwayne Johnson, who sadly you realize since the first song he is not a singer. The idea for the story is actually amazing (Which reminded me of The Village, by Shyamalan, about a girl forbidden of abandoning the little island where her family lived, even when she had the most adventurous soul on the island. This idea provided a lot of possibilities to the screenwriter. But when the idea starts to develop, then the movie cuts down to size in terms of quality. The screenplay is kinda cliché and after watching the first half hour, you know how it's gonna end. The screenplay might be the biggest flaw. Still, the animation is really, really good, and there are a lot of great jokes. It will be a lot of fun if you get your kids to watch it, and anyone in the family would enjoy it, because of its light-hearted premise and the family-friendly but smart sense of humour. It's a good film, but it might be one of the weakest of Disney's catalogue, which is near to perfect anyway. I think you should watch it, you will have a good time.