Moana (I) (2016)
Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly
Moana has a lot of the hallmarks of your classic Disney adventure - the goofy animal sidekicks, the feel-good messages - but its heroine is something new, a smart and fiery deviation from your standard European lovestruck princesses.
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Variety Peter Debruge
As princess movies go, this one broadens the studio's horizons, and as Moana herself sings in the film, “no one knows, how far it goes.”
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The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Appealing equally to the eyes, ears, heart and funny bone, Moana represents contemporary Disney at its finest - a vibrantly rendered adventure that combines state-of-the-art CG animation with traditional storytelling and colorful characters, all enlivened by a terrific voice cast.
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USA Today Brian Truitt
The "Hamilton" creator and the island personalities of Moana make beautiful music together in this charming seafaring epic.
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Empire Nick de Semlyen
A crowd-pleasing oceanic musical with big tunes and beguiling characters, Moana is likely to thwack a big smile on your face. And did we mention the idiotic chicken?
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75
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TheWrap Alonso Duralde
Moana does what it does so well that you wish its makers had imbued it with some X factor that separates the classics from the merely beloved.
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75
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Indiewire Eric Kohn
Visually dazzling and loaded with charm, the movie is also blatant in its quest for cultural sensitivity.
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Screen International Tim Grierson
The perfectly pleasurable Moana boasts vivid animation, a handful of catchy songs and a sweetly sunny disposition - all suitable compensation for a story which is not particularly inspired or original.
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The Film Stage Daniel Schindel
This is one of the better-directed CG films in the Disney canon. But next to all the solid noisy bits, Disney still demonstrates trouble in slowing down properly.
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The Guardian
Its cultural setting is fresh; its storytelling, less so. It navigates the reefs but it doesn't discover a whole new world.
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