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Moana 2
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Jared Bush
  • Dana Ledoux Miller
  • Bek Smith
Produced by
Starring
Edited byMichael Louis Hill
Jeremy Milton
Music by
Production
company
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures [a]
Release dates
  • November 21, 2024 (2024-11-21)(Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute)
  • November 27, 2024 (2024-11-27)(United States)
Running time
100 minutes [3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150 million [b]
Box office$882.5 million [7] [8]

Moana 2 [c] is a 2024 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It is the sequel to Moana (2016) and the second installment in the Moana franchise. The film was directed by David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand, and Dana Ledoux Miller (in their feature directorial debuts) and produced by Christina Chen and Yvett Merino, from a screenplay by Jared Bush and Miller. [1] [2] Auliʻi Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Temuera Morrison, Nicole Scherzinger, Rachel House, and Alan Tudyk all reprise their roles from the first film, with Hualālai Chung, Rose Matafeo, David Fane, Awhimai Fraser, Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda, and Gerald Ramsey joining the cast. Set three years after the first Moana, it follows the titular character reuniting with the demigod Maui and assembling a wayfinding crew in order to find the lost island of Motufetu, break its curse, and reconnect the people of the ocean.

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Development on a follow-up to Moana originally began as a long-form limited streaming series for Disney+, [11] before it was reworked into a theatrical sequel by February 2024, with Derrick confirmed as both writer and director. The involvement of Hand, Miller, Chen, and Merino was confirmed in May; a month later, Bush was confirmed to be returning as a writer. Miller later replaced Derrick as a co-writer in August. Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foa'i, the composers and co-songwriters of the first film, returned to score and write the songs, while Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear replace Lin-Manuel Miranda as additional songwriters.

Moana 2 premiered at the Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute in Kapolei, Hawaii, on November 21, 2024, and was released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in the United States on November 27. It received mixed reviews from critics but grossed $882 million worldwide, outgrossing its predecessor and becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2024. [12] It has been nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards.

Plot

Three years after her adventure with the demigod Maui and the island goddess Te Fiti, [d] Moana spends her days exploring other islands near her home island of Motunui in the hope of finding people connected to the ocean.

In a vision, her ancestor, Tautai Vasa, reveals why none of those people are connected anymore: the malicious storm god Nalo wanted power over the mortals, so he sunk a legendary island called Motufetu—which connected all islands—down to the depths of the ocean. Tautai further warns that the people of Motunui will go extinct in the future if Moana cannot find a way to raise Motufetu. She assembles a crew of people from Motunui—clever craftswoman Loto, historian and Maui fanboy Moni, and grumpy elderly farmer Keke, alongside her pet pig and rooster, Pua and Heihei—to follow the path of a comet across the ocean towards Motufetu.

Meanwhile, Maui is seeking Motufetu himself since he had a previous quarrel with Nalo, but he is captured by Nalo's enforcer, Matangi. Maui is reluctant to contact Moana, as he fears she may not survive if she comes to help. Moana and her crew are captured by the Kakamora, a tribe of savage coconut-like pirates previously encountered by Moana, who reveal that Nalo's actions against Motufetu had caused them to be disconnected from their home island. One member of the Kakamora, Kotu, helps the crew paralyze a gargantuan monster clam inside of which is Matangi's lair. While the crew finds Maui, Moana meets Matangi and learns that she is not happy serving Nalo. She helps Moana escape and reunite with Maui and her friends, before sending them to where Nalo is.

Maui warns that Nalo's realm is deadlier compared to the mortal realm and that fighting him will spell certain death for mere mortals. Nalo's monsters ambush the group, damaging their raft and washing them ashore on an isolated island. Moana begins to despair, but Maui encourages her to keep on going. With Moana revitalized, the group plans to have Maui raise the island so that Moana can touch it, as that is the only way to restore Motufetu and stop Nalo. Her crew repairs her raft, but when the group ventures forth to confront Nalo, they encounter a gigantic storm.

Moana, realizing that Nalo is trying to stop the humans from breaking the curse, asks Maui to lift the island enough for her to touch it. As Maui begins to pull up the island with his giant hook, Nalo strips Maui of his demigod powers with a lightning bolt. Moana, in a moment of desperation, dives into the ocean to touch the island underwater. Just as Moana succeeds, Nalo's lightning bolt kills her. Maui jumps in after her body, and with a magical chant, summons the spirits of Tautai Vasa and Moana's ancestors (including her grandmother Tala) who help revive her as a demigoddess, with Moana gaining a wayfinder's tattoo. Maui, having also regained his powers as a demigod, finally raises Motufetu and helps Moana reconnect the people with the ocean.

The crew returns home to Motunui, leading a flotilla of the peoples of the ocean, and a celebration is held in Moana's honor. In a mid-credits scene, Nalo plans his revenge and is about to punish Matangi for helping Moana, when the giant crab Tamatoa arrives to join his cause. [13]

Cast

Additionally, Johnson's daughters Jasmine and Tiana provide voices for members of Moana's fan club "MOANA-BE's". [21] Tofiga Fepulea'i voices the storm god and main antagonist Nalo in the mid-credits scene, which also features the giant coconut crab Tamatoa from the first film, reprised by Jemaine Clement.

Production

Development

In December 2020, during a Disney Investor Day meeting, Walt Disney Animation Studios chief creative officer Jennifer Lee announced that a long-form musical comedy series titled Moana: The Series, based on the 2016 film of the same name, was in development at the studio and set for release on Disney+ in 2023. [11] [22] The series was to consist of five episodes. [23] By August 2021, it was reported that Osnat Shurer would once again serve as producer. [24] In January 2022, it was announced that David Derrick Jr. would serve as the writer and director, after filling the role of storyboard artist of the first film. [25] [26] [27] The series entered development simultaneously with the live-action remake of Moana according to Jared Bush, a writer of the film and screenplay writer of the 2016 animated film. [28]

Dana Ledoux Miller came onto the series in early 2023 as a consulting writer, having finished writing the live-action remake with Bush, and turned in several revisions for the series. [29]

According to Bush, the director and the writers repeatedly received feedback during development to the effect of: "We love this story. Why is it not going on the biggest screen you can possibly imagine?" [23] In January 2024, Walt Disney Studios president Alan Bergman "informed the team that they needed to shift rapidly from making a five-episode streaming series to a second Moana feature film". [23] This last-minute "story pivot" was possible because nearly all the actual animation work for Disney animated films is not performed until the final year before the release date—everything before that is development. [23]

In February 2024, Disney CEO Bob Iger officially announced that the series had been reworked into a theatrical sequel titled Moana 2, with Derrick and Shurer remaining attached to the project. [30] Iger explained that this occurred after Disney executives saw early footage: "We were impressed with what we saw and knew it deserved a theatrical release". [31] By the release of the first trailer in May, Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller were confirmed as co-directors alongside Derrick, while Christina Chen and Yvett Merino were revealed to replace Shurer as the film's producers. [1]

Casting

Shortly after the announcement that the series was being repurposed into a theatrical feature film, Auliʻi Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson were confirmed to reprise their respective roles as Moana and Maui. [14] [15] [17] [18] Johnson later confirmed that he had been involved with the project since its conception, including its development, stating: "I can't wait for fans to see the film, the technology, the effects, cutting edge. We all really went for it. We thought if we're gonna make a sequel to something so beloved, let's really go for it." [17] Several more cast members were unveiled at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, including Temuera Morrison and Nicole Scherzinger reprising their roles as Moana's parents from the first film. New additions include Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda as Moana's new sister, and Rose Matafeo, David Fane, and Hualālai Chung as members of Moana's wayfinding crew. [13]

According to Cravalho, this film was the first time "that a Disney princess has been allowed to age." [32] When Cravalho returned to the recording studio after the first film to record lines for Disney fireworks shows, Disney on Ice, and Disney Lego Princess, she was repeatedly asked to raise her vocal pitch to sound like herself as a teenager at age 16. [32] She was delighted when the film's directors allowed her to record Moana's lines at age 19 with her natural voice as a woman in her early twenties. [32]

Animation

Animation was handled at Walt Disney Animation Studios' Vancouver studio when it was being developed as a series, while pre-production and storyboarding took place at the Burbank studio. [24] It is the first feature film to be made at the Vancouver studio, [24] [33] At the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, it was revealed that veterans Mark Henn and Eric Goldberg would supervise a team of apprentices of hand-drawn animators for Maui's tattoos. Goldberg was a supervising animator for "Mini Maui" for the first film. [13]

Music

Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foaʻi returned to compose the film score, while Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear contributed songs, replacing Lin-Manuel Miranda from the first film. [34] [35] Barlow and Bear are the youngest and the first all-female songwriting duo to write the songs for a Disney film. [36] Walt Disney Music president Tom MacDougall recruited Barlow and Bear in the fall of 2021, after hearing the quality of their work on The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical , and about a year later, in 2022, they began to work with the production team on writing songs. [36] Miranda assisted by providing Barlow with "a stack of books" on how to write lyrics for musical films. [36] Bear focused on studying the existing Moana score, with its Polynesian instrumentation, and learning how to write songs with that musical vocabulary. [36] Cravalho stated that having Barlow and Bear, two young women, help voice Moana's "story, which is a young woman finding her way, I couldn't think of a better duo than Barlow and Bear. ... This is a new part of my voice. ... This film digs into these low notes in these times of indecision when we don't know what we are supposed to do next. There's a lot of deeper layers to these songs." [34]

Miranda later explained that the reason he was not asked to return for the sequel came down to a matter of timing. [37] He was a longtime fan of The Lion King (1994) and desperately wanted to work on Mufasa: The Lion King (2024), but director Barry Jenkins had to first wait six months for him. [38] Miranda was simply too busy in the second half of 2021 with finishing the songs for Encanto (2021), finishing up the editing of his first feature film as a director, and having to do press interviews to promote Encanto and two other films. [38] By the time Miranda was done with Encanto interviews, he had to get started on Mufasa right away in early 2022. [37] Meanwhile, Disney Animation moved forward with Barlow and Bear, and they were "already cooking" by the time the decision was made to turn the streaming series into a feature-length sequel. [37]

On November 7, 2024, Disney revealed a full tracklist, along with the first single "Beyond" by Cravalho which was billed as a spiritual sequel to the original Moana anthem, "How Far I'll Go". [39] On November 11, Johnson revealed his song "Can I Get a Chee Hoo?" as a female empowerment song for Moana's character, which follows the tune of Maui's original "You're Welcome". [40] The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on November 22. [39] "Beyond" and "Can I Get a Chee Hoo?" were nominated for the 2024 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in an Animated Film, [41] and "Beyond" has been nominated for a 2025 Society of Composers & Lyricists Award for Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy or Musical Visual Media Production. [42]

Release

Dana Ledoux Miller at D23 2024.jpg
Dana Ledoux Miller, co-director and co-screenwriter
Auli'i Cravalho at D23 2024.jpg
Auliʻi Cravalho, the voice of Moana
Miller and Cravalho discussed their work on the film at D23 2024 in Anaheim, California.

Moana 2 had its world premiere at the Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute in Kapolei, Hawaii on November 21, 2024, [43] and was released in theaters in the United States on November 27, 2024. [30] [44]

Marketing

The first trailer for the film was released on May 29, 2024, after debuting at CinemaCon the month before. [1] [45] The trailer earned over 178 million views in its first 24 hours across all platforms, breaking a new record as the most watched trailer of all time for a Disney animated film, a record previously held by Frozen II and Pixar's Inside Out 2 (the latter of which the trailer was attached to in the theaters). [46] A sneak peek of the film was screened at the 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 14, 2024. [47]

On August 9, 2024, Cravalho and Johnson appeared at the Disney Entertainment Showcase at the 2024 D23 Expo in Anaheim, California to promote the film and release a new trailer, which was released online shortly thereafter. [48] During the D23 presentation, Cravalho performed a new song from the film, "We're Back," accompanied by Polynesian dancers. [48] Johnson also used the presentation to announce a new live-action Monster Jam film that he would be producing with Disney. [49]

Localization

Like the first movie, Moana 2 was released in European countries [50] [51] [52] with the title and protagonist's name changed to Vaiana due to a trademark conflict. [53]

Four special dubbings in Polynesian languages were released for the sequel, in Hawaiian, [16] Māori, [54] Tahitian, and Samoan. [55] The first three languages had previously received a dubbing of the first movie too, [56] [57] [58] while a Samoan dubbing of the sequel was released without the original movie having been dubbed. Cravalho reprised the lead role in the Hawaiian dubbing of the sequel, [16] like she did in the first movie, [58] while several other members of the cast reprised their roles in the Māori dubbing. [59]

Of the six movies dubbed into Māori so far, [60] [61] Moana 2 is the first one to have premiered in New Zealand simultaneously in English and Māori. [62] This marks the third time in Disney's history a dubbing in an indigenous language is released at the same time as regular dubbings. The first such instance happened with the Tahitian dubbing of Moana, released in 2016 in French Polynesia. [56] The second was the Sámi dubbing of Frozen 2 , released in 2019 in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. [63] [64]

Reception

Box office

As of December 29,2024, Moana 2 has grossed $394.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $487.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $882.5 million. [7] [8]

In the United States and Canada, Moana 2 was originally projected to gross $105–115 million over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. [65] After making $57.8 million on its first day (including $13.8 million from Tuesday night previews, both the highest-ever for a Walt Disney Animation film and Thanksgiving week release), five-day estimates were raised to $175–200 million. [66] It then made a record $28 million on Thanksgiving, nearly doubling the 2019 film Frozen 2 's previous high of $14.9 million. [67] It went on to debut to $139.8 million (and a total of $225 million over the five days), breaking Frozen 2's $130.3 million record for the best opening weekend for a Walt Disney Animation film and a Thanksgiving weekend release, as well as nearly matching the entire domestic run of the first film ($248.7 million). [68] The worldwide five day gross of $389 million surpassed the 2023 film The Super Mario Bros. Movie as the highest such opening for an animated film. [69] In its second weekend the film made $52 million (a drop of 62.8%), remaining in first. [70] [71] In its third weekend, the film retained the top spot again, grossing $26.6 million (dropping 48% from its second weekend). [72] The film was finally dethroned in its fourth weekend, grossing $13.1 million and finishing in fourth place. [73] [74]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 61% of 218 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.9/10.The website's consensus reads: "Riding high on a wave of stunning animation even when its story runs adrift, Moana 2 isn't as inspired as the original but still delights as a colorful adventure." [75] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 58 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [76] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale (down from the first's A), while those surveyed by PostTrak gave it an 89% overall positive score, with 64% saying they would "definitely recommend" it. [68]

Notes

  1. ↑ Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through the Walt Disney Pictures banner.
  2. ↑ Attributed to multiple sources. [4] [5] [6]
  3. ↑ also known as Vaiana 2 [9] or Oceania 2 [10] in some markets
  4. ↑ As depicted in Moana (2016)

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