*MOANA* was an AMAZING story about SELF-DISCOVERY and ADVENTURE!! (Movie First Reaction) 

React to The Haunted Mansion movie next

Tamatoa is a Coconut Crab

Oh wow. I never thought of it like that! Very true. Conflict was within. Deep stuff.

Maybe the villain was trauma. And how it can twist and alter our lives until things are unrecognizable. Te Kā is a great visual representation of that, and I get emotional every time the reveal happens.

yessss

Moana was the villian

@@jakekeeble8920 how ?

Was also the first Disney movie that actually has a translation in Māori that was supported by Disney since they where using are culture for a movie ❤

No, be that person. I ain't even from the region and it was annoying to hear too.

there are even a few kiwi voice actors throughout the movie I notice straight away, like moana’s dad and the fisherman, even tamatoa- and as an australian the new zealand accent is even rly distinct from ours so not noticing it is interesting. may just be that kiwi actors get even less of a chance to use their real accents in mainstream hollywood films than us, so it isn’t recognised as kiwi in the US, etc.?

@@seesawseesaw It can be really hard for Americans to recognize the difference between the Aussie and Kiwi accents. It's probably what you're saying, that we just don't hear it frequently. I like Jermaine Clement, and the only reason I recognized the dad as New Zealander is because he really sounded like Taika Waititi to me.

It has some Melanesian elements in it too, the Kakamora is a legend from Solomon Islands and they’re definitely not made of coconuts, but actually the cultures of the pacific can sometimes overlap, like in my part of Melanesia we also believe we become sea creatures when we die.

Oh I love knowing this, thank you for sharing!

and moana means ocean in maori

@moanapiripi5273 yeah and also in other Polynesian counties as well..means either ocean or the color blue.

Yeah, I lived with Samoans for about fourteen months around the time this was released or at least announced and they were really excited about the songs in Samoan in it.

Facts

Oh! I did not know this! I would totally try to carry all the baby turtles I saw straight into the ocean! 😂😂🐢💕

@@priscillas4722 you can try and lead them there all you want. But no touching.

@@videohistory722 got it!👍…I shall resist! 😂

@@priscillas4722(i think the reason why is because they need to struggle across the sand to quickly build/ kickstart their muscles to be able to swim in the ocean. Pretty sure once they make it into the sea they dont return to land again until its time for breeding season!) i would also want to pick them all up and help them lol, but it just wouldnt help in the longrun

@@priscillas4722 the sad reality is if you do that they would have not survive long, cause it must he imprinted to them to know where to lay eggs its like it must be done to be coded in their minds

Yes! If they like the music in this and Encanto, they definitely need to check out Hamilton sometime!! (Happy belated birthday. Mine was May 13th.) 😊

I especially love the Demo version of Shiny. It's quieter and more acoustic, and the words are a tad different. I also LOVE the unreleased song More which is a Moana song that never made it through the final cut.

@@MeganTheLibrarian3 thanks! and awesome, that's my brother's bday so happy belated to you as well! 😀

I love Shiny! It's my favorite song from the film and added to one of my playlists.

Yeah, I hardly ever came out of a movie with the songs placed in my mind so strongly from the beginning, with Moana that happened. In fact, something inside of me caused an uncontrollable cry when listening to We Know the Way

I agree, it IS a masterpiece. I know people just like what they like but I'm surprised that something like Frozen is as popular as it is when Moana exists.

Also melanesian..

Filipinos are Asian and have nothing to do with Moana

@@avilik13we have a small amount of Polynesian ethnicity within us, but you’re right, our culture and geography is southeast Asian. Filipinos who grow up in pacific islands tend to pick up the culture really quickly though. That might be what the OP is referring to.

Yes. Even more specifically, she said a Polynesian girl with the same features and skin color as Moana should be the one to represent the character in the live-action movie and she herself doesn’t actually fit that representation. It’s a very noble and meaningful choice for her to make ❤️

I think that's fair and a really powerful thing to do. I just hope they do get someone who fits that description!

@@hleebeg Keisha Castle Hughes could play her. She sings as well, and is of Polynesian descent herself.

Moana is supposed to be 16 though and Kiesha is in her 30s.

I like Eliana Su'a for her tbh

That's so cool! Thanks for sharing.

Lin wrote it with Jemaine Clement's David Bowie impression in mind. It's really fun listening to the demo, hearing Lin do Jemaine as Bowie!

NESIAN GANG UNITE 🌺💜🐳

Pele and Maui are common in many Polynesian cultures. In Hawaii we are the Kanaka Maoli, and our language used to sound like the Kanaka Maori until the Missionaries came and changed our letters to represent K for T, L for R, to fit their printing of their bibles which then preached as their GOD that Hawaiians should listen to, and not their own. Our chicken is moa, like your huge flightless birds that became extinct. Our Pua'a is pig, like your poaka, while we use a glottal stop or 'okina to represent a missing consonant. You might still say Tahiti, while Hawaiians say Kahiki, you may say Tapa, but we say Kapa. You may say aroha, we say aloha. I was told of New Zealand Maori elders who came to the Island of Hawai'i to the southern most point of the island, and they chanted a chant of where they came from. The came from a place called Hawaiki, where there were cliffs and mooring holes. If you go there, you will see the cliffs and the boulders along the shoreline that were drilled with holes in which to moor their canoes to. When the Maori elders saw these, they cried, as their chants were real, that they understood where they came from.

@@hankakah4180 oh my gosh isn’t it all so beautiful.. I just love it thank you for teaching me that today… 😁

Nothing wrong with appreciating a great film, regardless of age.

@@Alannameyers exactly !

Yep, “Tangled” is a great movie. Very rewatchable.

That sounds like an amazing birthday.

I agree. I’m so sick of girls being pitted against each other and girl fights. Women supporting women. By the way, I love your username. I’m a big lover of squirrels and I happen to love the Marvel Comics character Squirrel Girl.

Relax

You can educate without being an asshole it’s not hard

@@shania991 sure Jan

Shiny is the BEST song

Little fact : her french voice actress voiced Halle Bailey il " the little mermaid ". And she looks like Moana