{"id":24341,"date":"2025-03-16T22:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=24341"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:55:18","slug":"moana-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/moana-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Moana 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;You will be destroyed, and your Wayfinder too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moana 2<\/strong>, released in 2024<\/p>\n<p>Moana&#8217;s community is alone on an island and they don&#8217;t know where any other peopole are. Moana becomes a Wayfinder, and it&#8217;s her job to go out and break the curse from the storm god Nalo that hid communities from each other. She might need some help &#8212; a demigod like Maui could be helpful. She runs into the Kakamora, and finds out that they&#8217;ve also been separated from their people.<\/p>\n<p>I like the characters and it&#8217;s funny. I like the way they show the characters know how to sail their boat. The songs are engaging.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that wasn&#8217;t quite up to the greatness of everything else was the plot. But if you liked the first one you could give this one a try.<\/p>\n<p>Stars the voices of Auli&#8217;i Cravalh, Dwayne Johnson, Temuera Morrison, and Alan Tudyk. Directed by David G. Derrick Jr. and Jason Hand (story artists on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/moana\/\"><strong>Moana<\/strong><\/a>), and Dana Ledoux Miller (writer on the TV show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-newsroom-premiere\/\"><strong>The Newsroom<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The adventurous score is by Mark Mancina. The delightful songs are by Opetaia Foa\u2019i, Abigail Barlow, and Emily Bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;You will be destroyed, and your Wayfinder too.&#8221; Moana 2, released in 2024 Moana&#8217;s community is alone on an island and they don&#8217;t know where any other peopole are. Moana becomes a Wayfinder, and it&#8217;s her job to go out and break the curse from the storm god Nalo that hid communities from each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,9,6,5],"class_list":["post-24341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24346,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341\/revisions\/24346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}