This review was originally Опубликовано months назад but I deleted it because......I was gonna use it for a school assignment and I didn't wanna leave this up so my lecturer could Поиск and accuse me of plagiarism. lmao
Anyway, I ended up not using it and I decided to put it back up.
So right off the bat, I have to say that this movie is very.....average. It honestly feels like a tv episode padded out with songs to make it feature length. Moana is a likable enough character, I can almost pinpoint exact moments where she's like Назад Дисней female protagonists like Ariel, Pocahontas, Мулан and Rapunzel but maybe that's just me being a seasoned Дисней fan.
I do like the fact that the story has no allusion to marriage and romance at all instead of being dismissive или condescending towards those concepts. The songs are okay, I probably just need to listen to them a few еще times to really get the hang of them. One thing I will say is that the transitions into the songs are rather forced and awkward in my opinion.
I understand that some people Любовь the authentic pacific island culture, and if that stuff is important to any of Ты out there, great but honestly, I don't really care and I don't think most people do either, including the average Polynesian person. Striving for authenticity and accuracy is appreciated but when making a movie, unless it's a documentary, telling an interesting или entertaining story should come first in my opinion, and I don't think Moana really did that.
Sidenote: I know the слон in the room is the racial aspect. No one cares when a depiction of European или white culture is inauthentic или inaccurate but we won't get too deep into that today.
Let me compare Moana to other Дисней Фильмы for a second. Take Aladdin, a movie with quite a few twists and turns but still easy to follow, and even though Аладдин is the star, Ты get quite a few different perspectives. Аладдин has the main plot, жасмин has a subplot, Jafar has a subplot, even Genie to an extent has a subplot, and at some point или another, the film is being told from their point of view.
Because Moana doesn't really have a clear cut fully developed antagonist, it already has one less setting, one less subplot and one less perspective than the average Дисней movie. The reason why villains can be important in my opinion is that it can give the writers an opportunity to really explore the world the movie takes place in. Villains and side characters can have a whole different backdrop centered around them.
And even then, this movie doesn't really use the few side characters it does have. For example, in The Little Mermaid (1989) while Ariel's on land trying to win Eric over, we cut to a scene where King Triton is racked with guilt over upsetting his daughter. Maybe we could have had a scene where we cut back to the island, maybe we'd see how much worse the situation had become while Moana was away или see how much this situation is really affecting her father? I feel like that would have fleshed out the movie more.
Moana just feels very “one track”, it's like tunnel vision. It's just two characters (Moana and Maui) on a trip together, and even worse, they're not in the most entertaining setting either, the middle of the ocean. With other Дисней movies, Ты felt like Ты were getting a full scope of the world because we were following a lot of characters and their respective conflicts.
Here are some examples
Snow White (1937)-Snow White, The Queen, Seven dwarfs (especially Grumpy)
Золушка (1950)-Cinderella, Lady Tremaine, The King (Prince's father), the Duke
Sleeping Beauty (1959)-All three fairies, Aurora, Maleficent, Phillip, the Kings
The Little Mermaid (1989)-Ariel, Triton, Ursula, Eric, Sebastian
Beauty and the Beast (1991)-Belle, Beast, Gaston, the Castle's staff (Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts)
Аладдин (1992)-Aladdin, Jasmine, Jafar, Genie
Pocahontas (1995)-Pocahontas, John Smith, Ratcliffe, prominent characters among both the tribe and the settlers
Мулан (1998)-Mulan, Mushu, Shang, Shan Yu
Princess and The Frog (2009)-Tiana, Naveen, Dr. Facilier, Lottie, Lawrence and even some of the sidekicks
Рапунцель - Запутанная история (2010)-Rapunzel, Gothel, Flynn, Maximus
A movie like Храбрая сердцем (2012) is pretty much just about Merida and Elinor, but at least while they had their conflict going on, Ты could cut to King Fergus and the other men in one scene and Merida’s brothers in another. And even if most of the movie is just following around one group of people (like most of Мулан and Tangled) Ты had multiple characters with a bunch of different dynamics. That's a reason why sidekicks are important too, it would get boring with 80% of the movie just following two characters.
Granted, there IS such a thing as too many characters/perspectives (Princess and The Frog kind of crosses into that territory) but still give us something. I thought other members of the tribe were gonna go with Moana on her journey или at least the pig. It's just two characters, Moana and Maui, and a chicken, who can't even communicate non-verbally like most animal sidekicks, on an adventure. And the characters they meet along the way just Показать up или reappear to Переместить the story along, and except for her grandmother's spirit and the crab, even THEY don't really talk.
A lot of elements in this film just felt like the writers were ticking boxes off a Дисней checklist and relying on the scenery/animation and the music, which aren't really all that groundbreaking to begin with in my opinion. The scale of this movie just feels very....small and it doesn't feel as whole as the other Дисней films
Anyway, I ended up not using it and I decided to put it back up.
So right off the bat, I have to say that this movie is very.....average. It honestly feels like a tv episode padded out with songs to make it feature length. Moana is a likable enough character, I can almost pinpoint exact moments where she's like Назад Дисней female protagonists like Ariel, Pocahontas, Мулан and Rapunzel but maybe that's just me being a seasoned Дисней fan.
I do like the fact that the story has no allusion to marriage and romance at all instead of being dismissive или condescending towards those concepts. The songs are okay, I probably just need to listen to them a few еще times to really get the hang of them. One thing I will say is that the transitions into the songs are rather forced and awkward in my opinion.
I understand that some people Любовь the authentic pacific island culture, and if that stuff is important to any of Ты out there, great but honestly, I don't really care and I don't think most people do either, including the average Polynesian person. Striving for authenticity and accuracy is appreciated but when making a movie, unless it's a documentary, telling an interesting или entertaining story should come first in my opinion, and I don't think Moana really did that.
Sidenote: I know the слон in the room is the racial aspect. No one cares when a depiction of European или white culture is inauthentic или inaccurate but we won't get too deep into that today.
Let me compare Moana to other Дисней Фильмы for a second. Take Aladdin, a movie with quite a few twists and turns but still easy to follow, and even though Аладдин is the star, Ты get quite a few different perspectives. Аладдин has the main plot, жасмин has a subplot, Jafar has a subplot, even Genie to an extent has a subplot, and at some point или another, the film is being told from their point of view.
Because Moana doesn't really have a clear cut fully developed antagonist, it already has one less setting, one less subplot and one less perspective than the average Дисней movie. The reason why villains can be important in my opinion is that it can give the writers an opportunity to really explore the world the movie takes place in. Villains and side characters can have a whole different backdrop centered around them.
And even then, this movie doesn't really use the few side characters it does have. For example, in The Little Mermaid (1989) while Ariel's on land trying to win Eric over, we cut to a scene where King Triton is racked with guilt over upsetting his daughter. Maybe we could have had a scene where we cut back to the island, maybe we'd see how much worse the situation had become while Moana was away или see how much this situation is really affecting her father? I feel like that would have fleshed out the movie more.
Moana just feels very “one track”, it's like tunnel vision. It's just two characters (Moana and Maui) on a trip together, and even worse, they're not in the most entertaining setting either, the middle of the ocean. With other Дисней movies, Ты felt like Ты were getting a full scope of the world because we were following a lot of characters and their respective conflicts.
Here are some examples
Snow White (1937)-Snow White, The Queen, Seven dwarfs (especially Grumpy)
Золушка (1950)-Cinderella, Lady Tremaine, The King (Prince's father), the Duke
Sleeping Beauty (1959)-All three fairies, Aurora, Maleficent, Phillip, the Kings
The Little Mermaid (1989)-Ariel, Triton, Ursula, Eric, Sebastian
Beauty and the Beast (1991)-Belle, Beast, Gaston, the Castle's staff (Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts)
Аладдин (1992)-Aladdin, Jasmine, Jafar, Genie
Pocahontas (1995)-Pocahontas, John Smith, Ratcliffe, prominent characters among both the tribe and the settlers
Мулан (1998)-Mulan, Mushu, Shang, Shan Yu
Princess and The Frog (2009)-Tiana, Naveen, Dr. Facilier, Lottie, Lawrence and even some of the sidekicks
Рапунцель - Запутанная история (2010)-Rapunzel, Gothel, Flynn, Maximus
A movie like Храбрая сердцем (2012) is pretty much just about Merida and Elinor, but at least while they had their conflict going on, Ты could cut to King Fergus and the other men in one scene and Merida’s brothers in another. And even if most of the movie is just following around one group of people (like most of Мулан and Tangled) Ты had multiple characters with a bunch of different dynamics. That's a reason why sidekicks are important too, it would get boring with 80% of the movie just following two characters.
Granted, there IS such a thing as too many characters/perspectives (Princess and The Frog kind of crosses into that territory) but still give us something. I thought other members of the tribe were gonna go with Moana on her journey или at least the pig. It's just two characters, Moana and Maui, and a chicken, who can't even communicate non-verbally like most animal sidekicks, on an adventure. And the characters they meet along the way just Показать up или reappear to Переместить the story along, and except for her grandmother's spirit and the crab, even THEY don't really talk.
A lot of elements in this film just felt like the writers were ticking boxes off a Дисней checklist and relying on the scenery/animation and the music, which aren't really all that groundbreaking to begin with in my opinion. The scale of this movie just feels very....small and it doesn't feel as whole as the other Дисней films
The Way
Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora and Pocahontas will fit the song, especially when the respective Любовь ones see them for the first time.
Without You
Taken from his 'A Thousand Different Ways' album, originally sung by Mariah Carey. Eric would sing this when he rescues Ariel and vice versa.
This is the Night
From the Beast's perspective, he reassures himself that this is the night to admit his Любовь for Belle. Including Rapunzel/ Flynn, Aladdin/ жасмин and Anna/ Kristoff.
Here Ты Come Again
Мулан and Shang will sing in the finale of the film, they could not hide feelings to each other.
Clay Aiken Fan, Anyone?
Do Ты like Clay Aiken and do Ты all agree with the choices?
Let Them Have It!
Of course, if Дисней were to make a movie about them together. The fairy godmother will give them a dragon stone that will turn them into Драконы with each special powers! It will make the story interesting.
Don't Take It!
The story will be to dark for a Дисней film, unless if Дисней could tone down the appearance of the Драконы themselves.
Dragon или Not?
Here are my thoughts of this theory, so what do Ты think?
Hebrew (Einat Azulay)
Okay, She sounds relatively fresh and young. However, she sounds a bit heavy and stiff at certain parts, especially the first part of the chorus. (Ratings: 8.5/10
Arabic (Shorouq Salah)
I absolutely Любовь Arabic Музыка and their voices, unlike her Hebrew counterpart. She sounds smooth and it makes the audience relax and get along with Anna easily, especially in For the First Time in Forever! (Ratings:10/10)
For the First Time in Forever!
So, only 2 were feature because I'm not really sure who is the Persian actress for Anna sadly to say. Our final destination is the Americas!