*MOANA* is PEAK DISNEY!! | First Time Watching | (reaction/commentary/review)

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  @inakomankuntsu1214 · 2 years ago

  There is Theory  that Grandma Tala was being kept alive by Tefiti's heart since it has the power to create  life itself. The moment she gave it away she got sick and died

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  @warriormaiden9829 · 2 years ago

  Bit behind, but... In regards to TeKa being Te Fiti; something that a lot of people seem to forget is that the soil left behind after a volcanic eruption is some of the most rich earth in existence. The entire reason The Islands are so lush is <b>because</b> of the volcanoes that made them. We see the same with forest fires. There are literally tree species out there whose seeds cannot open and sprout without the heat of a forest fire to burn and crack the shell in release. There is no life without destruction; there is no destruction without the material life creates. It&apos;s cyclical. Te Fiti and TeKa being one and the same makes perfect sense.

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  @typicalswine7779 · 2 years ago

  The funniest part about how good the rock does on &quot;You&apos;re welcome&quot; is that when he sang along to it at home, his daughter told him to be quiet because the guy in the movie sounded better xD

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  @ryttyr14 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Interesting fact: the real Maui from Polynesian folklore did do all those things Maui sings about in You Welcome, but he did it not for narcissistic reasons but because out of his many siblings he was the only one not born with godly powers and was thus excluded by his brothers from coming along on their fishing trips. So Maui did all those things to prove himself to his brothers and parents.

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  @tylerbrown7246 · 2 years ago

  The ocean being harsh and unkind is very purposeful in this movie because with Moana’s dad it needed him to stay on the island to have Moana. The first time Moana tried to sail off she didn’t have the heart yet. After she has the heart it sends a storm to push her to Maui because she didn’t know what she was doing or where she was going.

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  @CarolinePhoenixMe · 2 years ago

  Fact: at first Hei Hei was to be strict and lecture Moana all the time, but the creators disliked this version and almost excluded the character from the movie... until he was transformed into provably the dumbest Disney character ever. And they celebrated it with a roast chicken (of course)

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  @blueteller · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob1KCGehJcE&amp;t=2598">43:18</a> &quot;She was really angry, now she needs a good long nap&quot; What a perfect way to summarize this movie 😂

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  @Ohforgodssakethatsme · 2 years ago

  The ocean needed Moana to be the one to take the heart to Te Fiti because it wasn&apos;t about returning the heart to Te Fiti. It was about restoring the heart of Te Fiti. When Moana asks the ocean to let Te Fiti come to her, when she walks to Te Fiti unarmored and unarmed, she is telling Te Fiti that she trusts Te Fiti not 5o hurt her, that she knows Te Fiti is not a monster; that Te Fiti has had something terrible done to her, that she has been dediled and violated but that, beneath the rage and grief and pain, she is still a good being, that she is still Te Fiti.

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  @saiyasha848 · 2 years ago

  One of the coolest details about this movie is that it is inspired by a real (and so far unexplained) event: People from Polynesia had been sailing the ocean and populating Islands for a while and then they just... stopped. For about 2000 years, nothing (aproxm. 1500 Bc to 500 AD) And then they restarted. Voyaging began anew, strong as ever.

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  @JeM130177 · 2 years ago

  Oh god every time the grandma becomes the ray in the water it just slaps me with feels

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  @gpcheng87 · 2 years ago

  Fun (Important Inclusion) Fact: The movie is set in Polynesia and all the main cast voice actors have either Native Hawaiian, Polynesian, or Maori heritage.

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  @jessquinn6106 · 2 years ago

  Moana holding the leaf over the baby turtle is a throwback to Lilo and Stitch. In the and credits, you can see a picture of Stitch doing the exact same thing. Same pose.

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