Look I can't read facial expressions all that well but I can read that one and it says "I'm the bad guy in a Disney movie"

Aaaaa Disney(/Pixar?) makes the cutest sea turtles, still.

Oooh I saved a stingray like that once! Did I make friends with the ocean too?

OMG that water. O.O So pretty. O.O :ocean:

I'm loving the lyrical density here. That's some very Lin Manuel stuff here. :D

Interesting thing it sets up there in the opening 'I want"-ish song; they're making a compelling point for "this is a good thing" rather than "this is a crappy provincial town" or whatever.

Oh dang some emotional depth to the authoritarian characters, right off.

Oh whoops no THIS is the 'I wish' song.

Tough same thing I said before goes for this song too.

This movie has some NUANCE, y'all.

...This is pretty much how it went whenever I tried to go body-surfing, yup. Yike. O.O

The grandmother is the best character. Also, friend to all rays, like me! ^.^

Okay now that's just Lin singing isn't it. :D Also this coming-to-the-island set-piece is BEAUTIFUL.

I REALLY like how they're making the ocean a character (as in, actually having it interact with Moana, etc) while only barely anthropomorphizing it (no face, etc)

(It also happens to be pretty similar to how nature-spirits appear to me)

Song + manta spirit + pretty glow = Indi gets teary-eyed. :blue_heart:

...birds tho

Elanna (paraphrased): "Okay so that's either just the ocean being capricious, or being friends with the ocean doesn't mean you're friends with the weather"

"Fish pee in you, all day!" Spirit-ally arguments. Yup.

Okay Maui is the worst. XD

I mean, way to fix your gendered terminology but.

The.

Worst.

THE WORST. :D

(The animated tattoo stuff is really cool though, I loved it when Hercules did that kinda thing too)

I have a ton of thoughts here about Maui's tattoos acting as his conscience, and the points where the ocean chooses to intervene and also just the great trickster-comeuppance stuff that's already happening.

...Well, that's one way to keep your magical gemstone safe.

...Sorta.

"Have you ever defeated a lava monster?"

"Have you?" Beat me to it. XD

Oooh yeah, that's how you get a trickster to do things. XD

✋🌊

Does Maui arguing with his tattoos (and losing) count as a self-own?

I know that voice.

...That's Jemaine Clement isn't it.

AAAAA VILLAIN SONG. :D :D :D

I'm pretty sure they're managing to (narrowly) avoid the camp-villian thing here with Tamatoa, which I really appreciate.

He looks REAL GOOD in glow, though. :D

Aww, now I feel a little bad for Maui.

A little.

Well, more than a little.

Nuance. :purple_heart:

Shapeshift training montage! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

I have this feeling that the lava monster is actually Te Fiti.