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Moana (2016)
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Compared with the 2026 live-action version, the 2016 animation lets the ocean and Maui's transformations behave with an expressive ease that suits the musical storytelling. Catherine Laga'aia's singing gives the remake a welcome warmth. My preference rests on the original's fluid movement between a girl's determination, a visual joke and a mythic change of scale.
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About Moana
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.