Best Disney Movie Ever *MOANA* 

The chicken had the best character arc in all of Disney history.

My favorite thing about this movie is that Dwayne Johnson’s daughter refuses to believe that it’s him voicing Maui even though she loves the character and his song😂

I cried so hard watching Moana, the bond she had with her Grandma is like no other. And then when she sang I am Moana, I blubbed like a baby

Fun fact: Alan Tudyk voiced both heihei and the villager recommending he be cooked.

Grandma held the Life of Te Fiti for Moana till she was ready to carry the burden herself, and in return, the stone kept her alive. Shortly after returning it to Moana, Grandma passed away.

A friend of mine once told me she interprets the storyline of returning the heart to Te Fiti as a metaphor for healing from abuse. Te Fiti was violated at her very core, and as a result, became something monstrous and destructive. It was only by returning her heart to her that she is able to heal: "I have crossed the horizon to find you I know your name They have stolen the heart from inside you But this does not define you This is not who you are You know who you are ...who you truly are." There are, of course, a whole host of ways you can interpret it, but I can't watch the end of the movie without seeing that. I cry every single time.

moanas grandma is just like my grandma, she keeps secrets and sneaks me out to places i like to go and not telling my parents about it lmao

Alan Tudyk the man who can go from voicing a crazy over the top villain like king candy in wreck it ralph to a sassy wealthy ceo like alistair krei in big hero 6 stood there in a sound booth....making chicken noises....this man has my respect

I just love how Tafiti literally just came out of a thousand year temper tantrum, then just said, “imma go back to sleep.” Same honestly.

Moana is also loosley based on the history of Polynesia. When the Polynesian voyagers went from island to island. Today their descendants live in Samoa, Tonga, Hawai'i, New Zealand, Tahiti, Easter Island, Cook Islands and more.

“Is he flirting?? I mean I don’t mind age gaps...” Yea Welchy, a 1000 year age gap isn’t a big deal 💀😂

The scene where she sings to Te Ka and gives back the heart is honestly one of the most beautiful scenes I've ever seen in movies, not just Disney or animated ones. The song, music and visuals never fail to give me goosebumps.

I am so glad you enjoyed this movie!! If you liked this you would enjoy Mulan!

Welsh: “we just hit 10k subs!” Also welsh: **has 12.4k subscribers**

Interesting fact about this film - it's set about an interesting historical mystery. The people of the Pacific Islands voyaged regularly, colonising more islands, then they suddenly stopped and we don't actually know why. They stayed on the islands they already had for a few generations, then just as suddenly started voyaging again. Another change we don't know the reason for.

Fun fact: the coconut pirates aren’t coconuts, they’re based on little people in Polynesian myth who wear coconut armor.

My favourite part of this story is that instead of giving the usual 'don't give up, you can do this' speech, Moana's spirit-grandmother says, 'it's okay if this is too hard. You can go home, and no one will be disappointed in you.' She gives Moana the chance to say no, to say that saving the world is too much pressure, and promises not to judge

I’m Polynesian and I can’t tell you how excited I was when this came out! I cried so much.

I hope he’ll react to coco one day. I’m Mexican and I wanna see how he’ll react and stuff. I feel coco is up there with moana and tangled.

I love that Moana is a Disney (not)princess with no love interest at all involved in her story; she's going to be the chief someday.

Fun fact: Tamatoa is a coconut crab aka devil spawn and they can be cannibals. They use those huge claws to crack open coconuts (and have been known to kill dogs) and it's now believed that Amelia Earhart was eaten by coconut crabs on the island she crash landed on

The scene with the grandma dying and her soul being the Manta always makes me 😢

“I feel like I’m on every drug imaginable” That is *exactly* how I felt during that Shiny song while sitting in theaters. I have never felt a high like that before and I was stone cold sober then.

100% agree that this and tangled are two of the best Disney movies EDIT: I do also agree with the comments, while I haven’t watched raya, all the other movies are sort of bundled into the best for Disney.

"The pig is adorable, I just wanna hug it!" Yeah, about that..... apparently the scriptwriters just forgot about it part way in 😅😂😂

All I have to say is that if you liked this movie I would greatly recommend Brother Bear. It's one of my all-time favorite Disney movies and nobody seems to remember it, plus it has an amazing soundtrack.

I really like the parallels in this. Moana means water in most pacific island languages and volcanic soil is the most fertile soil on earth, it just needs to be combined with water. Te Ka needed Moana to become her former self

I’m still fangirling at the fact that Lin Manuel Miranda who wrote and starred as Hamilton did some of the songs for this and also that Christopher Jackson ( George Washington in Hamilton) is the singing voice for the chief in this film!! I once heard someone describe Moana as ‘reverse little mermaid’ 😂

Lin-Manuel Miranda (the creator of Hamilton and possibly the greatest songwriter in history) wrote the music for this movie (he also sang the English verses in We Know the Way). He's also writing the music for a new Disney film, set in Columbia, called Encanto. It will be in a mix of Spanish and English, and it's set to release in the US November 24th of this year!

Grandma's entire character summed up: *GASP* Grandma! This can be taken in any tone of voice. The beginning of the movie: *Infuriated gasp* Grandma! Or if you're more entertained by her: *Amused gasp* Grandma! When she dies: *Panicked gasp* Grandma! When she shows up again: *Excited gasp* Grandma! There is literally nothing she does that can't be reacted to with a *Gasp* Grandma!

Fun fact: Tamatoa is still visibly missing a leg from his last fight with Maui. Centuries later. Crabs can regenerate lost limbs. They do so by molting their shell. Tamatoa is so freakin' vain he would rather simply put up with a FREAKING MISSING LIMB FOR CENTURIES than molt his beautiful shiny shell off, get his leg back, and have to start on over as a drab crab at being beautiful. Also, the Kakamora, the coconut things, are actually WEARING coconut shells as armor. It's practical, fairly durable, functional, and most importantly... coconuts FLOAT. So it's one part armor, one part life vest if they fall overboard. A great idea for a race of critters that make their living through oceanic piracy. Fall overboard? Just float there in your coconut armor until the tribe swings around to get you! Plus, Maui's tatau of Moana appeared right next to Mini-Maui, who is placed right over his heart.. That is... Moana will always be close to his heart, and close to him. And moreover... it's the one tatau that doesn't have his hook in it. As a reminder that the hook doesn't make him Maui. He taught Moana without it, by being himself, and in so doing achieved one of the greatest feats he ever achieved.

Can we all agree that Your Welcome is one of best songs ever?

"LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS : Howls of Ga'hoole " SERIOUSLY, YOU WILL LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!

Moana is probably the only Disney movie that I love and that makes me cry every time I watch it

Welchy: doesn’t like the chicken a first Also welchy: loves the chicken at the end

Also the fact that Moana's dad is voiced by the guy who played Boba Fett

12:47 "The power of makeup" I'm dead XD

I remember how much I fell in love with this movie, and it is still one of my favorite Disney Princess movies. The characters, the music, the story... I love it ALL 😍

It's so beautiful to see you get emotional and get all the parts that I love about this movie. This is my favorite too. It's literally the only of the modern Disney movies I currently own. We watched it in the movies, and trust me, all those visuals and songs on the big screen with surround sound?? B r e a t h t a k i n g.... We fell in love with it, and had to buy it as soon as it was available. I've watched it dozens of times, but every time I still get goosebumps. Also the song "Who you are" it... Kills me. The notion that when you've had "your heart taken away from you" in my mind by abuse or depression or any type of mental illness, you are "not who you are." That your actions as a "lava monster" don't define you. And you can always find your heart again, and bloom into new life, if you trust who you really are deep inside, and that there is always goodness in you, no matter what is done *To* you. You are not damaged because you took on a hard form to defend yourself. And you don't have to live that way forever, after it's done its job.

There's a lot of amazing Disney movies with lots of emotional moments.. but I can only think of a select few that gives me the chills like Moana does. I agree this is the best Disney movie to date.

i basically have this movie memorized and every single time without fail i tear up when moana slowmo walks to what she can only assume is death when she risks the wrath of te'ka to give back the heart.

If my future husband doesn't appreciate animated musicals like Welchy does I don't want him.

this is one i'll never forgive myself for not seeing in the cinema

Moana is based on Polynesian cultures within the pacific. We’re not known much to the world but this movie gave us a bit of exposure and we are grateful to Disney for doing their research. Thank you for your reaction 🙏🏾☺️

I absolutely adore this movie! I live in the Pacific (Aotearoa New Zealand) and it was so amazing to see a Disney movie honour local customs and languages and values. One thing you mentioned early on was that the ocean was trying to kill her, my interpretation of that is that in Māori legend (which this is partially based on) there are separate gods for the ocean (Tangaroa) and wind and storms (Tāwhirimātea). Tāwhirimātea doesn't get along well with the other gods and often causes destruction when angered. So Tangaroa is the one protecting Moana through most of the film, but when the storm hits, that's Tāwhirimātea. That's my interpretation anyway. Her name Moana means 'ocean' in te reo Māori. The chicken's name Heihei means chicken. Maui is a demigod who appears in mythology throughout the Pacific, when he mentions "the islands I pulled from the sea" that refers at least in part to the myth of how Aotearoa New Zealand came to be, Maui fished it up with his hook (made from his grandmother's jawbone). He also mentions lassoing the sun, another popular myth that the sun was crossing the sky too quickly and making the days too short, so Maui caught the sun and slowed its passage down to make the days longer. What else... Taika Waititi wrote a version of the script for this movie, I believe it was shopped around a lot and a lot of people worked on it, so who knows which parts were his. The crab that sings 'Shiny' was voiced by Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and that song was a David Bowie tribute (similar to a song he sang on FotC). A lot of the music is performed in Samoan and Tuvaluan as well as English (obviously). Some more information on that here: thespinoff.co.nz/music/15-02-2017/this-is-our-movie-opetaia-foai-on-keeping-moana-authentic-through-music/

Just want to say that Raya is the latest disney princess. Great reaction btw

As a friend of mine said, "You thought the pig was going to be the cute animal sidekick, didn't you?"

Fun fact : the ancestor theme song, the english parts were never ‘sung’ by the people. Whenever they were singing, it was in their own language. Which is a really cool thing to note

I’m probably the only one who has recommended this but I think you would really enjoy Zootopia.

Fun facts: the chicken is played by Alan Tudyk The rocks daughter is obsessed with Maui and the song your welcome, but doesn't believe it's her dad.

One of the songwriters is Lin-Manuel Miranda so if you like this stuff and haven’t seen Hamilton yet you had better do a reaction to that

13:52 - The thing with calling it a “princess” movie is that the concept of calling someone a “princess” is not something every culture does. It’s mainly rooted in the European fairytales that Disney made its name with in the last 90 years, which they have been trying very hard to expand past lately. But because they’re trying to combine diversity and the “princess” term for the Princess franchise, basically all you have to be is the daughter of someone in charge or just somewhat related to someone in a position of power. Moana is the daughter of the chief and Mulan married a high-ranking military man (and hugged royalty lol.) They both qualify enough to show up on the Disney Princess merch. 👍🏻

I loved this movie i can't stop watching it again and again.

Love your reactions! I straight up bawl my eyes out when her grandma dies and ghost grandma comes back 😭

I saw this 3 times in cinemas and I could not get the songs out of my head. Definitely my favourite recent Disney movie.

I’m the crybaby of my friend group (we’re all in our 20s), so every time we watch Moana they look at me when she goes “I am Moana!” because they know I’ll cry no matter what. I’m a sucker for when people/characters find themselves. Similar reaction to frozen 2, which I think you would love if you haven’t reacted to it already

The most recent DP movie is Ray’s and the Last Dragon. It was released very recently, so it makes sense that you haven’t heard of it yet.

Please watch The Princess and the Frog next. I love your reactions and I honestly have never laughed so hard. Your reactions are really wonderful to watch and I just know you're going to love The Princess and the Frog. There's this one song that I cannot stop singing every time it pops up on my playlist...the graphics and the animation are just amazing.

Since you liked the soundtrack so much, the 3 composers here are Opetaia Foa'i, Mark Mancina und Lin-Manuel Miranda! And in case you don't know, Lin-Manuel Miranda is the guys who also created the Hamilton musical, Mark Mancina also worked on the Tarzan soundtrack and Opetaia Foa'i is a Polynesian singer and songwriter and founder of the band Te Vaka! ^^ OH AND I JUST HAD THE BEST IDEA!! You definitely NEED to watch Brother Bear! It's one of my favourite movies and I think you'll like it!

I reaaallly hope that someday you'll react to Spirit, stallion of the cimmaron! I think you'd absolutely love it, the soundtrack is as amazing as httyd and it's such a beautiful, nostalgic, epic movie. It's no disney, but it might just be the most underrated animated movie ever.

Hey Welchy, congrats on 10k, I wanted to suggest a movie called Rango,also Moana is a great movie

This movie makes me emotional in so many ways

Am I seriously the only one who found it hilarious when in the middle of the super serious intro gramma just deadpan says with the power of his magical ✨fishhook ✨?

Love how excited you were about Moana 2 that you didn’t realize that there is in fact no second movie planned but a tv series ^^ or at least you didn’t react to that little detail

Moana is definitely my favorite!! Tangled is my son's favorite. They are both great!

Moana! Great video btw. Please react to Big Hero 6 if you want more Disney, and Megamind if you want more of DreamWorks.

Saw this in theaters with my kids. Was totally blown away.

This movie has such a close connection with my heart because i had a close relationship with my grandma over my parents, and when she passed, it absalutly crushed me, and seeing a disney character so supported by her grandma, and then losing her, only to still be supported and shown she is still enough by her even after death touches my heart so deeply. Even in a reaction video, but the part where she passed and the part where she is telling moana she can still do this makes me cry everytime!!

I like how this movie teaches that it's ok to be different, make up for past mistakes, and looks can be deceiving. Also not to your ego to get too big. Because when you try to do just for recognition than your helping no one, much less yourself.

I love this movie, I don’t even care Gonna stop what I’m doing and watch this rn

Something I always thought was really funny is when HeiHei, the chicken, goes into the water, his feet go straight up and he floats. It’s an old sailor’s tale that chicken feet float, and people who sail will still tattoo their feet so in case they go overboard they’ll float instead of sinking to the bottom.

Moana is one of my all-time favorites, if not THE favorite. Next, you should watch Princess and the Frog.

Re: water animation They essentially created whole new water rendering and animation technology for this movie. Definitely check out videos of that work, it’s astonishing.

Congrats on 12k! I absolutely love this movie

My favorite recent Diseny animation movie! I listen to the soundtrack aaaaaalll the time it's probably not healthy haha so happy i found your channel, love your videos!

Been here since 2k, can’t wait for you to hit 20k.

If you haven't already I think you should react to the move Zootopia, It's a great movie, it's also a disney animation!

Its great that you loved it! And with every video I am more and more convinced you would absoloutly adore Mulan

You should watch Hamilton. The guy who wrote Hamilton and stars In it wrote some of the songs in Moana and it’s absolutely amazing. If you haven’t seen it

Loved your reaction! The soundtrack of this movie got me through some hard times! Oh, the magic of Disney!

Moana is technically not a Disney "princess" but if they lined up the Disney "princesses" she would be there just like Mulan, because Mulan's not a princess but they would still categorize her with them. Same thing goes for Moana.

12:47 "The power of makeup" I absolutely SCREAMED AHAHA

I've been waiting for this for so long! I'm happy that it's out now!!

So many of the songs in this movie gives me all the good chills. I love it! This is the only Disney movie where most of the songs just give me goosebumps

I knew a girl in college who was Native Hawaiian and grew up with Auli'i Cravalho (the voice of Moana!!! They were practically family, and she was going around trying to get everyone to watch the movie!!! It was really sweet and I think of it whenever the movie comes up!

I LOVE Moana. One of my favourite movies ever. The story, the animation, the songs, the design. I cry every time Moana realises Te Kā is Te Fiti and restores the Heart to her. The music is so heart wrenching in that moment.

Yay! As an Aussie I like this channel immediately. Also I did the shell thing and it’s special. There is a special connection between people and nature but we’ve lost it cause we are stupid

did you notice that Moana's necklace that she got from her grandma has the same shell charm on it that the ancestor in the voyager song had that he gave to his son? I wonder how long it was passed down.

you should watch one of the older movies like Atlantis the Lost Empire, The Road to El Dorado, or Treasure Planet! They’re amazing :)

You know, you're channel is probably one of my favorite reaction channels. Just the right reactions to every movie and I like that you're really enjoying every single one of them. I've got a theory about this movie though that I had only thought of now. Maybe Te fiti drains the life island after island is because she needed the life back and the only thing that's left of her power was from the islands she'd made. It's probably how she survived for a thousand years, and she's probably going to do it again and again until she finds her heart, even when it leads to destruction. Thanks to Moana, that does not have to happen anymore.

I'm super glad I found your channel you're a joy to listen to! congrats on 12k

Congrats man on the milestone! canny wait to see you grow even more lad

Omg finally ❤ I love watching your reactions while cooking ✨

Congrats on 10k you’ve grown so much!!!🎉🎉

I'm proud! Congrats om 10k!

I really love your reactions!! Could you react to Mulan someday?? Also if you ever watch the Hamilton musical with the original cast, the guy that plays Alexander Hamilton is also the main English singing voice in the song "we know the way"

Lin Manuel Miranda's debut working with disney!! needless to say, he brought the music to a whole new level! went from a few songs in this movie to almost all of them in Encanto!!

He‘s celebrating 10.000 subscribers at the beginning of the video, while I‘m now watching it with his channel already having 12.500 I‘m so happy for you, your always make me smile. You deserve it

Commenting for the algorithm, you deserve more subscribers Welchy

Congrats on 10k!!!!!