Moana (2016) Full Movie
A small pounamu stone that is the mystical heart of the island goddess, Te Fiti, is stolen by the wind and sea demigod, Maui, who plans to give it to humanity as a gift. As Maui makes his escape, he is attacked by Te Kā, a lava demon of Earth and fire, causing his power-granting magical fishhook and the heart of Te Fiti to be lost in the ocean.
A millennium later, Moana, daughter and heir of the chief on the small Polynesian
island of Motunui, is chosen by the ocean to receive the heart, but
drops it when her father Tui comes to get her. He insists the island
provides everything the villagers need. Years later, a blight strikes the island as fish become scarce and the island's vegetation
begins dying. Moana proposes going beyond the reef to find more fish.
Tui rejects her request, claiming that sailing past the reef is
forbidden.
Moana's grandmother, Tala, shows Moana a secret cave behind a waterfall where she finds boats inside and discovers her ancestors were voyagers,
sailing and discovering new islands across the world. Tala explains
that they stopped voyaging because Maui stole the heart of Te Fiti,
causing monsters to appear in the ocean. Tala then says Te Kā's darkness
has been spreading from island to island, slowly killing them. Tala
returns the heart of Te Fiti to Moana, which she had recovered after
Moana dropped it.
Tala falls ill, and with her dying breaths, tells Moana to set sail. Moana and her pet rooster, Heihei, depart in a drua to find Maui. A manta ray, Tala's reincarnation, follows. After a typhoon wave flips her sailboat and knocks her unconscious,
she awakens the next morning on an island inhabited by Maui, who traps
her in a cave and takes her sailboat to search for his fishhook. After
escaping and catching up to Maui, Moana tries to convince him to return
the heart, but Maui refuses, fearing its power will attract dark
creatures.
Sentient coconut pirates
called Kakamora surround the boat and steal the heart, but Moana and
Maui retrieve it. Maui agrees to help return the heart, but only after
he reclaims his hook, which is hidden in Lalotai, the Realm of Monsters.
At Lalotai, they retrieve it by tricking Tamatoa, a giant coconut crab who collects rare sea treasures.
Maui teaches Moana how to properly sail and navigate. They arrive at Te
Fiti, where Te Kā attacks. Maui is overpowered and Te Kā badly cracks
his hook and repels their boat far out to sea. Fearful that returning
to fight Te Kā will destroy his hook, Maui abandons Moana.
Distraught, Moana begs the ocean to take the heart and choose another
person to return it to Te Fiti. The spirit of Tala comes to her and
encourages Moana to find her true calling within herself. Inspired,
Moana retrieves the heart and returns to Te Fiti alone. Maui, having had
a change of heart, returns and distracts the lava demon, but his hook
is destroyed in the battle. Realizing that Te Kā is a corrupted Te Fiti
without her heart, Moana asks the ocean to clear a path for Te Kā to
approach her. Moana then sings a song
to help Te Kā remember who she truly is, and she allows Moana to
restore her heart. Te Fiti returns and gives a new boat to Moana and a
new magical fishhook to Maui before returning to her island form.
Moana bids farewell to Maui and returns to her recovering island with
Heihei. Later, the villagers and Moana (who becomes their new chief)
begin voyaging and set sail in search of new islands, as Maui and Tala
accompany them in their giant hawk and manta ray forms, respectively.
In a post-credits scene,
Tamatoa, who has been stranded on his back during Moana and Maui's
escape, grumbles to the audience that they would help him if he was a Jamaican crab named Sebastian.
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