Talk:Moana/@comment-25164493-20150521004025

Moana sounds like its going to be a real treat!

http://metronews.ca/scene/1373708/disney-unveils-more-talking-animals-singing-princesses-at-cannes/

This picture is set in the South Pacific and stars a young islander princess who belts out songs with tribal beats reminiscent of Disney’s 1994 “The Lion King”, while venturing across an ocean in the company of a despondently defeated god, Maui.

Lasseter insisted on Disney’s on-location research for the movie, and the respect it sought to attach to the myths and culture of populations on Tahiti, Samoa, New Zealand, Fiji and Hawaii.

“It will be a musical in a classic Disney way,” but with music inspired from that region, he said, presenting one of the drum-thumping tunes to appear in the movie, due out in time for Christmas next year.

“Music and Disney go so hand-in-hand,” Lasseter said — a truism that is anchored in many a parent’s head after endlessly repeated viewings of “Frozen” and other Disney hits