Film: Moana 2
Cast: Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Tudyk, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison, Nicole Scherzinger, HualÄ lai Chung, David Fane
Director: David G. Derrick Jr., Jason Hand, Dana Ledoux Miller
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 100 min.

This sequel to the 2016 release, an animation musical, is a thinly put-together Disney-fied exercise at cash grab. The sequel merely goes through the motions of telling a half-baked story that fails to achieve any highs. The visuals are gorgeous though. This is an adventure tale with no real adventure to speak of and it also fails as a musical because the songs are easily forgettable.

Disney had plans for an animated television series but scrapped that idea in favor of a cinematic sequel and there’s also talk of a forthcoming live-action remake.