Disneys Moana - Epic?

[Lyfer]

Call me Polynesian biased (married in Hawaii) but I loved this movie. Was dragged by the wifey and didn't even see the trailer nor did I knew it existed. The music gave me epic lion king'ish chills. My favorite song is "we know the way" which is "circle of life'esque".

 

[Paratus]

Call me Polynesian biased (married in Hawaii) but I loved this movie. Was dragged by the wifey and didn't even see the trailer nor did I knew it existed. The music gave me epic lion king'ish chills. My favorite song is "we know the way" which is "circle of life'esque".

Th music was written by the same guy who did the musical Hamilton, Lin Manuel Miranda.

Will have to take the kids to see it.

 

[Stopsignhank]

My son gave it a 9 out of 10, which is pretty rare for him to rate a movie so high.

 

[Imp]

It got a good review by a local-ish reviewer. The Rock is the only draw for me.

 

[Dulanic]

My wife saw it with my son and they both absolutely loved it.

 

[Ichinisan]

It was OK. Seems like Frozen with a Hawaiian theme.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

IMO its the best Disney movie in many years. My kids loved it, and I think I liked it more than them (which is rare). If nothing else the animation is a marvel to behold.

 

[Eug]

Excellent reviews. I want an excuse to go see it, but my kids don't seem to want to see it. My 4 year-old is more interested in going to see Trolls.

BTW, the lead actress debuted her career with this movie. Disney decided to take a chance on this kid, and it has paid back handsomely. It's expected to open this weekend with $81 million. If it achieves that, it will be the second biggest Thanksgiving opening of all time, only second to Frozen, and ahead of Toy Story 2.

Currently at Rotten Tomatoes it is 98% positive after 120 reviews. At Metacritic it has a score of 81, which BTW, is the same as one of my new favourite movies, Arrival.

 

[SKORPI0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moana_(2016_film)

 

[smackababy]

My GF saw this with her friends and didn't run home to tell me I had to go see it, so my hopes aren't that high for it. But, I also think Disney's last good animated movie was Mulan. The rest were just okay.

 

[kathykit]

Call me Polynesian biased (married in Hawaii) but I loved this movie. Was dragged by the wifey and didn't even see the trailer nor did I knew it existed. The music gave me epic lion king'ish pop up stands chills. My favorite song is "we know the way" which is "circle of life'esque".

I love this movie also.
Just saw with my husband, he thinks just ok, but I really love this.

 

[shortylickens]

"Epic" gets used way too much these days.

 

[Jeeebus]

took the family to see it on Sunday. loved it. the songs were great, the animation (especially the ocean) blew me away, and it held my interest the whole movie. liked it much more than frozen.

 

[BoomerD]

"Epic" gets used way too much these days.

yeah, I agree...come on, people...it's a fucking cartoon movie...

 

[lxskllr]

yeah, I agree...come on, people...it's a fucking cartoon movie...

Someone's never seen Fantasia on acid...

:^P

 

[mikeymikec]

"Epic" gets used way too much these days.

Yup. If you're going to use a now-near-meaningless word like "epic", you have to pay it up with another nearly-meaningless word like "awesome". E.g.: It was epicly awesome.

 

[ra1nman]

Took my son who's 9 who enjoyed it...I was surprised that he caught on to the warm water joke. For me the most catchy song was the crab's "Shiny" song.

 

[Murloc]

in Italian they translated the title as Oceania (in Europe this name is used for the continent even if australians like to think they're asians in order to win at football (the football where they kick balls, not handegg)).

I think they did it because the Moana name in Italian is not associated with the polynesians because it sounds Italian (I didn't think of it as a foreign name either), and it's associated with porn because a famous pornstar-turned-politician-died-young-in-a-mysterious-way had this name, and it rhymes with puttana too.

 

[Ichinisan]

yeah, I agree...come on, people...it's a fucking cartoon movie...

Those things are not mutually exclusive. Animated stories are free to be more grand and epic than others.

Watch "The Prince of Egypt" in HD for an amazing cinematic experience.

That said, Moana is good...but not great. Better than Frozen, in my opinion. That was ridiculously over-rated.

 

[Ichinisan]

For me the most catchy song was the crab's "Shiny" song.

How? That David Bowie homage really felt out of place in this movie and it was my biggest criticism.

Some other song (sung repeatedly by the main character) was clearly supposed to be this movie's "Let It Go," but it pales in comparison to "We Know The Way." That was grand/epic/catchy.

For light-hearted stuff, Dwayne's "You're Welcome" was decent. Still not as good as Ashman/Menken class material.

 

[BoomerD]

Someone's never seen Fantasia on acid...

:^P

True dat...I've seen it several times with my kids...but never on drugs.