One can’t help but wonder: will we ever experience journey-away-from-home-to-find-metaphorical-treasures fatigue in animated films? You find big spoonfuls or tiny traces of it in almost all modern animation classics from Finding Nemo to Up to Inside Out, and Moana makes no efforts to take any detours. It’s a narrative triumph, which is ironic, because the central idea itself is unoriginal to the core. ![]() On paper, Moana is a quintessential Disney story: there’s an aspirational princess a flawed hero, quirky comic reliefs (a senile grandma, a brainless chicken) the promise of a happy ending and most importantly, the golden message of chasing what your heart desires. ![]() Moana (Auli’i Cravalho), the princess of one such affected island, is chosen by the ocean to find Maui and restore the heart of Te Fiti. In the process, he also loses his magical fish hook and is rendered superpower-less. Maui (Dwayne Johnson), a shapeshifting hero, then steals her heart (a piece of glowing rock), bringing a curse upon all the surrounding islands. ![]() Goddess Te Fiti creates all life and takes the form of an island.
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