Moana 2 Movie Review : There are times I go to a movie dazzled by its visuals, only to leave underwhelmed by the end, and I ask myself - have I grown cynical with my age, or is it just the cinema these days going greedy? That’s exactly how I felt about Moana 2 . I wanted to love it, I marvelled at its stunning animation, and yet, by the end, I was left cold. The original Moana (2016) was one of Disney's best-animated films in the last decade, but this sequel lands among the weakest.
What’s going on, House of Mouse? Is raking in billions turning you into corporate Heiheis when it comes to crafting quality scripts for your beloved franchises? ‘Moana 2’ Trailer: Auliʻi Cravalho’s Courageous Protagonist Sets Out To Seek Another Island With Help of Dwayne Johnson’s Demi-God Maui . Directed by David Derrick Jr, Jason Hand, and Dana Ledoux Miller ( you needed three of them? ), Moana 2 takes place three years after the first film. Our titular heroine (Auliʻi Cravalho) is still admired by her tribe, her parents (Temuera Morrison and Nicole Scherzinger) adore her, and she dotes on her baby sister Simea (Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda), whose sole purpose in the movie is to elicit collecting 'awwws' from the audience with her cutesy kiddie babble.
Having secured her village's safety, Moana asks the inevitable question to herself: what’s next? She dreams of finding other tribes like hers - a dream inspired by an ancestor who once set out on a similar journey and never returned. W.