Magical and Beautiful Film

Rating: 9/10 (4 December 2016)

I found Moana to be absolutely mesmerizing. I said before that I went in expecting it to be just pretty good, but within the first ten minutes of watching this movie, I could tell that I was going to be wrong. The best word to describe this film is magical. The animation itself is beautiful. The colors are rich and vibrant, and you see a lot of new environments that we haven't seen in animated movies before. There are some shots in this film that took my breath away, which doesn't usually happen in an animated movie for me. It was just beautiful. And the music by Lin-Manuel Miranda is brilliant! I'm not the biggest fan of musicals, but the music in Moana worked just so damn well. It's catchy, and it really suites the film. It organically works into the movie, and they even occasionally make a couple jokes about the fact that they're singing throughout.