yet another in a long line of Disney princess movies

Rating: 5/10 (1 December 2016)

I was... underwhelmed. Moana follows the standard Disney princess theme with less variation than I hoped. Disney is expert at manipulating your emotions. But Pixar is excellent at providing a story to go with it. This time, Disney won and Pixar lost. Not a lot of there there.
What's odd is that Zootopia is just an amazing film. Zootopia crushes Moana on every level. Even the music. But then, Zootopia has a story to tell. All the difference in the world, that is.
As an aside, Disney apparently put in a lot of work to find an ethnically authentic princess in Auli'i Cravalho. Yet, if I read the credits correctly, she shared credit with another lass for the songs. I'm not sure what that means in the world of animation, but it does leave one scratching one's head wondering what one just heard.
Disney, go back and look at Zootopia again. More like that please!