2026
Moana
Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure
6.0
User Score
60 Votes
Status
Released
Language
en
Budget
$250.000.000
Production
Walt Disney Pictures, Seven Bucks Productions, Flynn Picture Company, 5000 Broadway Productions
Overview
Teenage Moana answers the Ocean's call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with infamous demigod Maui on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people.
Review
msbreviews
5.0
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Rating: C
MOANA had every chance to expand on its animated predecessor, and it wastes almost all of it. Beat for beat identical to the 2016 original, this remake trades vibrant, sun-drenched color for green screen sterility, turning musical numbers that once felt joyously alive into stiff, mechanical spectacle. The lead performance brings real warmth to the title role, and the central chemistry has its moments, but neither is enough to disguise a film that never once asks why it needed to exist.
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