A Disney production for better and worse

Rating: 8/10 (12 December 2016)

No real surprises, Moana is a Disney production. You don't get any real surprises on a Disney production. Even throughout the last decade, that is from Enchanted onward, the age of the twist at the end of the story, even then, no real surprise, once we got the idea of the twist configured into the general scheme of things. But we do get loads of professionally made fun. That's why we keep on going to the cinema again and again.
We get well written characters, performed superbly. We get a character for anyone on screen, even for those getting split seconds of screen time, (that's something that Pixar learned well). We also get national myth twisted into Hollywood pattern. I don't know the Polynezian myths but that's the Disney way, that's the way it worked with the Greek myths, with the Chinese, the Jewish, or the Arabian nights stories. In fact, it also happened with literary masterpieces such as Mary Poppins or Peter Pan. That's the way it'll work in future productions too, it takes no power of prophecy to say so, that's simply evident. And as long as it's fun, I'll always be willing to join the ride.