Moana an animated adventure film about a teenager who sails out of a daring mission to prove herself a master wayfinder and fulfill her ancestors’ unfinished quest. During her journey, Moana meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui, and together, they travel the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous blazing creatures and impossible odds.
The film was directed by John Musker and Ron Clements and starred/voiced by Dwayne Johnson as Maui Auli’I Cravalho as Moana, Nicole Scherzinger as Sina, Jemaine Clement as Tamatoa and Alan Tudik as Heihei the Rooster.
It’s an elemental tale. Moana is called to her quest by the sea itself, represented by a gesticulate, often playful water column reminiscent of a similar element in James Cameron’s “The Abyss.” She teaches herself how to sail. She learns how to navigate by the stars. And going forth alone in defiance of the demand of her overly protective chieftain father (Temuera Morrison) that she not travel away from her home island, she learns who she was meant to be: a woman of great bravery and unlimited curiosity about the world beyond the sheltering reef that surrounds her home.
She does not venture by herself. Not long after setting sail, she fetches up on an island homed by a massively muscled demigod named Maui. At which point, humor kicks in. Voiced by Dwayne Johnson, whose satirical line readings suggest he was having the time of his life in the recording studio, Maui has an ego as outsized as his body. He expects Moana to be awed by his awesomeness. Not a chance, big guy. He condescends. She pushes back. Their quarrels are very funny.
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