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2 days ago · From Disney classics like The Little Mermaid to modern hits like Over the Moon, these films are sure to leave an impact if you love Disney's Moana.
May 29, 2024 · As a film, Brave explores themes of legacy and tradition, much like Moana, through its main protagonist, who is a future leader. While the 2012 film is outside Pixar's usual wheelhouse as a Disney princess movie , it was undoubtedly a brave endeavor, infusing the emotional and offbeat storytelling the studio is known for into a more traditional narrative.
- The Little Mermaid
- The Wizard of Oz
- Kubo and The Two Strings
- Mysterious Island
- Duck Soup
- Moana
- Kon-Tiki
- Whale Rider
- True Grit
- The Abyss
Moana has elements of seemingly every Disney animated classic that came before, but The Little Mermaid is certainly the most apparent. The post-credits stinger has an actual reference to the crab character Sebastian, and the new movie’s primary co-directors, Ron Clements and John Musker, also helmed the 1989 Hans Christian Andersen adaptation. Both...
In another list of movies to watch, I recommend the unpopular 1925 adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s “Oz” books. Now here’s the classic we all know and love. Does it need more attention here? Not necessarily, but it has been mentioned by the filmmakers as a major influence, and surely a lot of little Moana fans won’t have seen it beforehand. The Wizard...
While Moana understandably reminds us of other Disney movies, the animated feature it most resembles is, coincidentally, another 2016 release from another studio. Laika’s latest stop-motion effort is an original story about a young protagonist who takes to the sea with help from a maternal figure reincarnated as an animal and a supposed legendary h...
Not to be confused with Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which stars Moana’s Dwayne Johnson, this earlier (but not first) live-action take on the same Jules Verne novel should continue to cultivate an appreciation for stop-motion animation via Ray Harryhausen’s special effects work. And this 1961 film features a land of monsters including a giant ...
Always looking for a good excuse to recommend the Marx Brothers, especially to young viewers, I’m following a recent pick of Animal Crackers with this their greatest feature, from 1933. And again, it’s mostly for something Harpo does that it’s being recognized. Like Maui, the silent Marx sibling shows off some tattoos that help to provide backgroun...
Long before Disney’s movie of the same name —90 years earlier, in fact – the title belonged primarily to this feature, which has the distinction of being the first film ever referred to as a “documentary” (in a review by John Grierson). Directed by Robert J. Flaherty and his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, the mostly scripted and dramatized nonfict...
Another relevant documentary was released in 1950 and is admittedly even more of a Western-filtered take on Polynesian tradition and history but is still great for what it is. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl directed this feature, which captures his own rafting adventure from a few years earlier, his mission being to sail from South America to th...
Keisha Castle-Hughes was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress at the age of 13 for her performance in this empowering 2002 film about a Maori girl who wishes to be the next chief of her tribe. Unlike the title character in Moana, she isn’t initially permitted to take over as ruler, let alone expected to. Chiefs are supposed to be male descendan...
Hailee Steinfeld also received an Oscar nomination at a young age, hers for supporting performance, in the 2011 remake of this 1969 Western, which the filmmakers have also noted as an intentional reference. Like Moana and Maui, the road-less road movie pairs up a teen girl and an old, slightly washed up male hero, and of course they’re a mismatched...
Want another movie where water appears to be sentient and takes a shape that denies the laws of physics? James Cameron’s 1989 follow-up to Aliens arrived in theaters just a few months before The Little Mermaid and involves both extraterrestrial beings and the depths of the ocean. There are no high-fives from the water, as there are in Moana, though...
Jan 2, 2023 · The ancestors emerge, and Moana finds the confidence in her to continue on her journey, with or without Maui. The song itself is wonderful, even without the scene, because it’s all about self ...
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16 hours ago · Moana 2's directors teased the direction, shape, and stylish flourishes of the upcoming Disney sequel. Building off the massive global success of 2016's Moana, Moana 2 brings back the titular wayfinder and sets her out on a new journey across the seas. Traveling alongside old friends like Maui as well as some new faces from her home village ...
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Nov 24, 2016 · Read our full Moana review after the jump.. Newcomer Auli'i Cravalho expertly plays our title character, the daughter of Chief Tui, leader a small village on the island of Motunui. But the movie ...
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