Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors and discovers the one thing she always sought: her own identity. Adventurous and motivating movie.
16 March 1971, El Paso, Texas, USA
20 October 1971, Auckland, New Zealand
26 December 1960, Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
22 November 2000, Kohala, Hawaii, USA
10 January 1974, Masterton, New Zealand
19 April 1981, Garden Grove, California, USA
30 September 1975, Cairo, Illinois, USA
2 May 1972, Hayward, California, USA
29 June 1978, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
May 09, 2017
Amazing film. Not as good as Lilo and Stitch, but then again nothing is. The Rock needs to do way more musical theater.November 29, 2016
An absolute delight, a lush, exuberant quest fable full of big musical numbers and featuring perhaps the most stunning visuals of any Disney film to date.November 25, 2016
Story of Pacific Islander girl on a quest benefits from Dwayne Johnson's comic timing and a Lin-Manuel Miranda soundtrackDecember 01, 2016
This is Disney's way of having its formulaic cake and eating it, too: "We know what we're doing here, and we know that you know it, too. So please stop fretting and enjoy while the pieces fall into place."November 23, 2016
The film achieves what the best Disney animated features do: a sense of place that is refined and specific.March 20, 2017
There is a lot about Moana that is extremely familiar to those who know the Disney formula, but it is tweaked with enough consistency and humor to make the trip worthwhile.March 16, 2017
Where Frozen was a defiantly chilly breath of fresh air, Moana feels somewhat stagnant. Despite a few fantastic deviations (including the lack of a love interest to hinder our hero's development), Moana is still very much a paint-by-numbers narrative.March 23, 2017
By giving us a heroine that acts the way heroes always have, perhaps Disney has finally given us a 'princess' movie that can cross that mythical gender divide.April 09, 2017
Disney's latest princess-y adventure gets off to a slow start, but the story picks up when Johnson's rascally demigod comes on board.March 09, 2017
My nearly five-year-old granddaughter found parts of it too scary, but it's a rousing tale of an ancient island people, their gods and monsters.December 01, 2016
The narrative is a fairly predictable hero's journey -- Maui even calls her "The Chosen One" -- but the movie is refreshing for its lack of a love interest; instead Moana learns how to chart her own course.November 23, 2016
[Moana] is beautiful in more ways than I can tell, thanks to the brilliance of more animators than I could count.