Review by Bob Ignizio
The latest film off the Disney assembly line is MOANA. It tells the story of the
titular teenage Polynesian princess (voice of Auli'i Cravalho) who, against her
family's wishes, leaves her island on a quest to return a magic stone called
the Heart of Te Fiti to the goddess who is its rightful owner. Fist, however,
she needs to enlist the aid of the demigod who stole the rock in the first
place, the fun loving but arrogant Maui (Dwayne Johnson).
All Maui cares about is getting his magic fish hook back,
which will return his powers of shape-shifting. Thanks to a little bit of
nudging from the Ocean itself, however, he eventually agrees to help the young
girl, and they embark on a series of adventures on their way to confront an angry lava demon and, hopefully, complete their quest.
