MOANA 2 Gets Disney+ Streaming Date
By Movieguide® Contributor
MOANA 2 is coming to Disney+!
According to Variety, the movie will hit the streamer on March 12.
MOANA 2 reunites “Moana (voice of Auli’i Cravalho) and Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson) three years later for an expansive new voyage alongside a crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she’s ever faced.”
It released in theaters on Nov. 27, 2024, and absolutely shattered the box office, earning $225 million in just the first five days and becoming the No. 4 movie of 2024.
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“MOANA 2 has far surpassed our high expectations this weekend and is a testament to the phenomenon that Moana has become,” said Alan Bergman, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment. “We’re fortunate to have an incredibly talented and hard-working creative team at Disney Animation who brought this new adventure to life, alongside our wonderful stars Auli‘i and Dwayne and great new music. This is a moment to celebrate, and we’re thankful to all the moviegoers and fans who’ve helped make this a record-breaking debut.”
Jared Bush, chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, added, “Seeing the popularity of MOANA grow since it was released eight years ago is incredible. We spend so long making these movies, and everyone puts their heart into them. That people still find themselves in her story and want to be with Moana on the canoe, it’s a dream come true.”
Movieguide® celebrated MOANA 2’s “strong morally uplifting” but advised cautioned about it themes of polytheism.
MOANA 2 opens with Moana returning home with an artifact, a cracked pot with the image of an island under a constellation of stars with people surrounding it. During a ceremony celebrating Moana, she gets a vision where she’s visited by one of her community’s ancestral heroes, the first wayfarer. He says the island was a meeting place for all the people of the ocean. Nalo, the god of storms, got jealous of the people. He cursed the island and destroyed the ocean currents directing the people there. Moana must find the island. She hopes her friend, the demigod Maui, can remove the curse and help restore the connection among the Polynesian people.
MOANA 2 is an animated comical fantasy with funny, thrilling and touching moments. There are some scary looking creatures and situations, but they aren’t super intense. MOANA 2 has a strong morally uplifting, conservative premise of bringing disparate people together into one kingdom, a version of E Pluribus Unum, Out of Many One. However, this is mixed with some polytheistic content and scenes where the heroine interacts with her people’s ancestors.
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