" Moana 2 seems more like a consumer product," says Dana Stevens of Slate, with Flickering Myth's Robert Kojder saying, "There is a disappointing, dispiriting narrative flatness to Moana 2, recycling the original's story (but with more characters, wasting them all) with almost no creative passion."

Moana 2, the eagerly-awaited sequel to Disney’s hit 2016 animated adventure, has been met with lukewarm reviews from critics. The original film was set in ancient Polynesia and introduced audiences to Moana,

The original Moana (2016) introduced Polynesia to the Disney universe and. has become one of Disney’s biggest films, featured heavily in the Disney Parks a

At the end of Moana 2, Moana, Maui and her crew successfully find the island of Motufetu, thus connecting their people once more. But it’s not without a ton of peril and danger. While they are trying to raise the island back up,