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Moana 2

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Moana 2 is an American computer-animated musical-adventure-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It is the sequel to Moana. It is released on November 27, 2024.

Synopsis[]

Walt Disney Animation Studios’s epic animated musical Moana 2 takes audiences on an expansive new voyage with Moana, Maui and a brand-new crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she’s ever faced.

Cast[]

Production[]

On February 7, 2024, Bob Iger announced that a sequel to Moana was in development, and it is released on November 2, 2024.[1]

Credits[]

Moana 2 Credits


Gallery[]

Concept art[]

United States[]

International[]

Album[]

Stills[]

Trivia[]

  • This movie has a mid-credits scene. This is the usual practice of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it's unusual for the Disney Animated Canon.
    • Furthermore, this mid-credits scene involves the villains and hints at a potential sequel, which is something the MCU tends to do with its mid- and post-credit scenes, making it the second Disney Animated Canon film to end on cliffhanger (first being Fun and Fancy Free, which has Willie the Giant seeking revenge on Mickey).
  • In 2020, a sequel to Moana was announced in the form of an animated series that was set to debut on Disney+.[2] This was eventually retooled into a theatrical feature film.[3]
    • In fact, this marks the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film that was originally intended as a TV series.
      • This is also the second Disney-owned film to be in this case, after The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, though it was still released on Disney+ even after being retooled into a film.
  • Unlike the first Moana film, the sequel has no involvement whatsoever from it's original creators Ron Clements and John Musker.
  • This is the the first Walt Disney Animation Studios sequel since Frozen II in 2019.
    • Coincidentally, both films take place three years after their respective predecessors.
  • This is the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to be produced in 2.00:1 aspect ratio.
    • This aspect ratio is commonly used on contents produced for streaming service, while Moana 2 was originally developed as a Disney+ series.
  • This is the first Disney Princess film that is a sequel to be a part of the Disney Animated Canon.
  • This is the first film by WDAS produced mainly at their Vancouver studio in British Columbia, Canada.
  • This is the first Moana film to be produced in 2.00:1 aspect ratio, unlike the first film that was produced in 2.35:1.
  • Moana is the twenty-eighth Walt Disney Animation Studios film to become a franchise, after Fantasia, Bambi, Saludos Amigos, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Jungle Book, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear, Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, and Frozen.
  • There is an eight-year gap between the release of first movie and the sequel.
  • This is the third Disney film to be released on November 27 after Treasure Planet and Frozen.
Moana appearing in the closing credits of

Moana appearing in the closing credits of Wish

  • Moana 2 is the first film not to follow the recent tradition of Walt Disney Animation Studios using their end credits to reference their next movie.
    • The reason that this tradition does not continue for this film is because the Disney+ series was still in development when Wish released in 2023, and the next WDAS film after Wish was not confirmed at that time.
    • Although Moana appears in the Wish end credits, this is unrelated to this tradition, as the end credits of Wish features all iconic characters in all WDAS films.
    • The tradition returns in this film as Gary from the upcoming Zootopia 2 makes a surprise easter egg as one of the woven tapestries near the end of the end credits.
  • To celebrate the movie's release, Disney Heroes: Battle Mode released a new costume for Moana and special events.
  • This is the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to have the closing Walt Disney Animation Studios logo appear after the Walt Disney Pictures logo, as opposed to having the former logo appear before the latter logo.
  • This is the ninth Walt Disney Animation Studios film to have the voice talents in the end credits, after Bolt, Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Strange World.
  • The film marks the first time Pua meets Maui, due to the former not tagging along in the first film.
  • This is the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to be distributed by Studio Distribution Services on physical media in the United States and Canada after Disney shifted their physical media distribution to Sony Pictures Entertainment before Sony joined this joint-venture distribution unit between Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in August 2024.
  • The events of the film most likely take place in the month of June. The five stars that mark the location of Motufetu make up Cassiopeia (called 'Iwa Keli'i, "frigate bird," in Hawaiian),[4] which is to the east of Polaris at midnight during the month of June. In the film, Cassiopeia is positioned such that it must be to the east of Polaris.
  • The last Walt Disney Animation Studios film to have the 1996-2007 logo of Walt Disney Records.

Rating[]

Moana 2 received a PG rating (for action/peril and some thematic elements) by the MPA. This is the twentieth Disney animated movie to be rated as such in the US after The Black Cauldron, Dinosaur, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Lilo & Stitch, Treasure Planet, Home on the Range, Bolt, Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Frozen II, Raya and the Last Dragon, Encanto, Strange World and Wish.

References[]

  1. ↑ ‘Moana 2’ Is Happening Says Disney’s Bob Iger
  2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Variety 1
  3. ↑ Template:Cite web
  4. ↑ "Hawaiian Star Lines and Names for stars." Hawaiian Voyaging Traditions. Retrieved January 31, 2025.
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