So when the time comes to save the island’s failing ecosystem, it is Moana who ventures into the wide blue yonder, drowning out her father’s instructions to remain Where You Are with her own song celebrating How Far I’ll Go.
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As a child, the waves parted for Moana (whose name means “deep water”), marking her as the ocean’s chosen one. But Moana has fallen in love – not with some handsome suitor, but with the sea. Her father, Chief Tui (Temuera Morrison), insists that his people stay within the bounds of the reef surrounding their island home of Motunui. But Disney now has another frontrunner in the shape of Moana, a joyous tale of a Polynesian teenager’s quest to save her homeland, which boasts eye-watering visuals, earworm songs and heart-swelling messages about respect for the past and hopes for the future.Īs demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) jeers: “If you wear a dress and have an animal sidekick, you’re a princess.” Yet 16-year-old Moana (beautifully voiced by Hawaiian newcomer Auli’i Cravalho) is something else – an explorer with a fire in her soul, passed down through generations. All of these have been tipped as contenders for the best animated feature Oscar, alongside Studio Ghibli’s The Red Turtle, which, like Illumination’s eagerly awaited Sing, opens in the UK early next year.
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Alongside the superb stop-motion of Laika’s Kubo and the Two Strings, we’ve had the provocatively sociopolitical joys of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Zootropolis (aka Zootopia), the gentle waves of Pixar’s Finding Dory and the extraordinary body swaps of Makoto Shinkai’s runaway Japanese hit Your Name. 2016 has been another strong year for animation.