Quite weak despite an excellent animation

Rating: 5/10 (8 November 2017)

Quite weak despite an excellent animation.
This movie would have been an opportunity to set a monument for the remarkable polynesian expansion over vast areas of the Pacific. Pre-columbian and pre-Portuguese, no sextants etc. and indeed a stellar achievement of sailing and navigation. This context somehow is almost completely lost in this lame story, reduced to a fairy tale set in the South Seas without much local atmosphere in terms of narration. Just using an outrigger canoe as major focus in this animation is not enough. Also the soliciting topic of the search of the unknown remains mostly unused in this movie in fact. A wasted opportunity.