Auli’i Cravalho voices Moana in the sequel to Disney's 2016 hit, but the story fails to match the passion and excitement of the original. Moana embarks on a new quest, but the film falls short as a true successor to the first.
Auli’i Cravalho’s Polynesian princess embarks on a quest to save other islanders oppressed by evil god Nalo – but this frictionless sequel lacks genuine passion2 is the sequel to Disney ’s smash-hit family animation Moana from 2016, and really it’s a vacuum-packed slice of digital IP content, a perky ChatGPT iteration of love, laughter and belonging.
Hawaiian-born actor Auli’i Cravalho returns to voice the role of Moana, the teen heroine on a Polynesian island. In the first film, she was chosen by her wayfinding ancestors and the mysterious forces of the ocean to restore the natural order of things, disrupted by the swaggering but somehow adorable demigod Maui, voiced by Dwayne Johnson.
We find Moana on a mission to find other islands and other people of the ocean who have been scattered and oppressed by the evil god Nalo in order to keep them divided; she returns to her homeland with the sensational news that the island Motufetu has been submerged with all its people by Nalo’s awful curse, and if they can somehow raise it, this will restore all her kindred to their rightfully united state.
So Moana has to go on another of her quests, with the more-or-less-reliable help of Maui, flaunting as before his animated tattoos. Also around are her friend Loto , elderly bad-tempered farmer Kele , whose agricultural skills and resources are supposedly going to come in handy on the voyage, and Moni , a big goofy guy, almost Maui’s mini-me, who may have a cert-PG friend-crush on Moana.
It is all inoffensive enough, but weirdly lacking in anything genuinely passionate or heartfelt, all managed with frictionless smoothness and algorithmic efficiency.
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