hello and welcome back to new rock stars I'm Maui and I bet you're wondering why am I dressed as myself and that's because this is a breakdown for Moana too and guess what you're welcome look at this fit look at how I'm doing this I am Maui I'm so proud of myself I'm so happy to be doing this 3 years after her last journey and we're following Moana on yet another fantastic Adventure that requires the help of some new friends though moana's previous Journey was an act to prove herself and save her home this new Quest challenges her future in the entire ocean as we know it so let's set sail on our quest to find all those little details you might have missed we opened the movie with Moana running through the forest and you can tell that she has grown up and matured and so has her Village it's been officially 3 years since we last saw her phoha and heyi HEI but seeing their return is just so nice it's so simple now as you may know this was originally meant to be a Disney plus series that then became a movie so it might feel like we lost a little bit of things maybe the plot maybe in some characters because starting as a series and then shrinking to a film is really challenging and actually really weird thing to do however in an interview with collider director Derek Jr mentioned it was always the same overarching story and emotional Journey that we wanted to tell every time what the series gave us was an opportunity to get to know these characters intimately the way you came with the series but what we were doing in the story just begged for a bigger and bigger screen though I do like understand that as a whole through the movie I did wish we spent some more time with some characters like mattini however I'm not going to completely knock the execution because they're setting up a third movie clearly and maybe they'll balance those characters and those Back stories out by then so going back to the story The visuals they actually changed some of the small features on Moana to show her growth without removing too many of her recognizable features she's a little taller and bit muscular in comparison they changed their parents too they've aged them up a little bit more along with the little boy who dances they actually aged up many characters even poha the pig and that attention to detail even in 3 years is just fascinating to me and I'm so glad they even made that distinction Moana finds this clay pot on the island that shows that others have been there before the design on the pot has eight people on it which as you have already noted is the number of people on this journey with Moana it's almost like the journey was prophesized from the start and before I jump the ore Moana is currently visiting a new island since the last movie She's officially become a wayfinder exploring and thriving on land and sea Moana sails back from another Newfound Island and this Island's Venture only took 3 days so it must be near her home island of mattini then we open with our first song who were meant to be which was written by Abigail Baro and Emily bear who are replacing Linn Manuel Miranda for this film this is also a great song to bring us all back together we enter moana's Village which has grown since we last saw it the Nature has bloomed and everything is just so vibrant as the song continues we see moana's parents and her mom shares the art cultivated to remember her ancestors as we remember gatala came back as the blue manay and this is to remember her in the first film Moana Journeys alone but in this movie she has a little team we start meeting throughout the first song The Creative team wanted to pull more from the people and the culture of the Pacific the community there was very powerful and heavily valued so now she travels with a farmer an engineer and a Storyteller to reflect the people who typically attend those ancient deep sea voyages we first see the farmer KLA voiced by David Fain then Mooney the Storyteller voiced by hoola L Chun you can see the little turtle on his clothes and this is a nod to the baby sea turtle Moana saved in the first movie we then meet the engineer loto voiced by Rose monteo then we meet SAA voiced by kisi Lambert suda and this is moana's little sister she's three and a half years old and she's very cute and fun fact she's got the same color palette as Moana did in the first movie which just shows how much she loves and aspires to be like her big sister the little girls with Pua 2. 0 are dressed similar to Moana in the first movie also and they're played by Dwayne The Rock Johnson's daughters Tiana and Jasmine who are also surprisingly named after Disney Princesses she takes her little sister to the cavern from the first movie which was home to all the ships from The Village's past and went on Ed but since they're using them now they're all gone they're all being used everybody in the village is playing with one all but moas this is Moana shipped from the first movie then her sister shares the line from the first movie I Am Moana of mat tanui you will board my boat sail across the sea and restore the heart of tafiti and I love that Moana has become a legend and just the story for her Village to tell on forever and forever and I just love it she is going to be legend in the cavern she tells her sister how our ancestor tawi Tesa the ancient Chief we saw in the first film wanted to connect their Islands to all the people throughout the entire ocean and now Moana is set to continue his journey then the demigod shows up Maui aka me he appears before a beautiful purple orb the movie leans into Pacific mythology and the Pearl is a portal to the oceans that's cursed by nalo the woman Speaking In This Moment works for the bad guy AKA nalo and we'll see her play out a little later in the film and this is where we first learn of the God nalo and his beef with humans and how Maui is actually making it work first by making the humans wayfinders again back with Moana and the people of Moni this is a new unique house a place they called the wayfinder fail to symbolize the growth of moana's people and the reconnection to the Sea as you can tell it's the only one that sits at the edge of the water and that was done on purpose so the ocean could always be visible from within as a reminder of the reconnection Joyce Lee the art director of the environments mentioned this in the mo 2 art book and I think that's just so sweet and something that could go easily unnoticed so I just wanted to shout it out according to that same art book the ritual is also referred to as an Ava ceremony for many Pacific Islanders the ceremony seals deals and sanctifies relationships and spaces right as the father says let the ancestors continue to guide us a lightning bolt breaks through the roof the shape of a man then she wakes up on a canoe and we see her ancestor this brings her to the storm around Mota fetu in a very interesting visual the purple storm and the cloud Roars and 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