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.

YOU TELL HIM MOANA.

Aaaaa yes, the best character is back.

Manta Grandma :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Now THAT was a song. :blue_heart::blue_heart::blue_heart::blue_heart::blue_heart:

I love watching stuff with furry family; we all cuddled up and got all emotional and mmmmh.

Cool that no matter what form Maui's in, he kinda keeps his build. Yay for normalization of different body shapes?

CALLED IT.

Mmmmh, happy shivers at that restoring-the-heart scene. That sort of thing always gets me.

Glad that Maui had to apologized; I first expected/hoped it would be required to restore Te Fiti, but on second thought I'm actually really glad Moana was able to do that on her own.

The ocean is SO DONE with that chicken.