The best Disney film I have seen in theaters since Frozen!

Rating: 6/10 (29 November 2016)

This is probably the best movie released this year, though not the best Disney has put out in the last few years. I just hope it won't become the next Frozen because even though it wasn't as good as Frozen when it first came out, I'm worried that people might blow this up, saying, "This is awesome!" and giddy kids will be talking about it, wanting to revisit this many times and singing the songs.
The movie starts off as Moana, a brave baby goes out to the ocean, where it makes friends with her. Though, her father is suspicious about her going out there due to him thinking it's too dangerous. Moana annoyingly persists in stubborness to go out to the ocean as she grows up.
Moana hears from her mother that her father doesn't want her going out there because of how wild the waves can get. And she did admit that she went a little too far out in the ocean when she is forced to seek the demigod by her dying grandmother.
The minor characters are pretty mediocre. They don't stand out much from your typical animations and films. They got sensitive small children. They got the typical Disney tropes, like the relationship between Gramma Tala and Moana where Moana encounters Gramma Tala, who cheers up Moana when she thinks that she's not right for the ocean. It's forgettable.
Moana's voice actor may have sounded a bit too mature, it may have been the director's fault, but I don't know.
I don't usually like musicals, and while the songs may have sounded rather forced, they were still lovely songs to hear.
Overall, I came out the theater feeling happy. This was such an energetic, action-packed, fun movie unlike Zootopia, which is more slow in pace and thought-provoking. I thought that it was better than Zootopia and it wasn't as dramatic/emotional as Kubo and the Two Strings (a little-known movie). I do still like the film even though the minor characters weren't particularly lovable.
I thought I wouldn't like this film because from the trailer, I thought it looked a little too weird, but it was actually creative in a good way.