Moana (My Version)

Moana is a 2016 American computer-animated musical fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Legendary Pictures, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Roth Films, Seven Bucks Productions and Bluegrass Films and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film is the 56th entry in the Disney Animated Canon and marks the computer-animated directorial debut of Rupert Sanders from a screenplay by Evan Daugherty and Jared Bush with a screen story by Daugherty, Pamela Ribon, and Aaron and Jordan Kandell and produced by Joe Roth, Osnat Shurer, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia and Scott Stuber. It stars Johnson, Auli'i Cravalho, Temuera Morrison, Nicole Scherzinger, Jemaine Clement, Alan Tudyk, with Rachel House, and Cate Blanchett.

The film takes place in the island of Motunui where Moana Waialiki (Auli'i Cravalho) lives here ruled by her father Chief Tui (Temuera Morrison) and her mother Sina (Nicole Scherzinger). When Moana dreams of going beyond the reef, her father forbids her from it during her life until one fateful night, her grandmother, Tala (Rachel House), dies from the illness as she gives instructions to her to find Maui (Dwayne Johnson) and bring the heart back to Te Fiti (Cate Blanchett) from the dangers of the sea monsters including the humongous coconut crab Tamatoa (Jemaine Clement) and the lava monster Te Ka with the help of the Ocean.

Moana had its premiere at the AFI Fest on November 14 and was released on November 23 by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States. It received generally positive reviews from critics who praised Sanders's direction, screenplay, songs, animation, musical score, visual effects and voice performances (particularly Johnson, Cravalho, Morrison, Clement, Scherzinger and Blanchett) and became a commercial and box-office success. It grossed $690.8 million against a $150 million budget.