Moana 2 is a mess, but it has enough heart where it counts. The titular star of one of Disney’s most successful films of all time, Moana (Auli’i Cravalho), is called by her ancestors to ...

The opening scene of Moana outlines how Maui stole the Heart of Te Fiti but was thwarted by a lava monster and banished to a deserted island (without the heart or his fishhook) for a thousand years.

The only way to heal the island is to persuade Maui to return Te Fiti's heart, so Moana sets off on an epic journey across the Pacific. The film is based on stories from Polynesian mythology.