Dwayne Johnson taking on possibility his first character in a kids film and certainly his first singing role. So obvious the animated character needs to be a God or something like that because the character needs to be bigger than the normal man. With legs in proportion (roughly) to body animation techniques have clearly now caught up with the rest of the world. So the story goes like this- anyone familiar with the New Zealand legend Mawii? If you are then you'll know the story line of the film fairly well and if you're not (like me) then you'll learn a little and enjoy the film a lot.
It's a light cast including Alan Tudyk, Nicole Scherzinger and Jermaine Clement. I don't know if this is just me but I find voice acting a lot harder to judge than when you can see the actor on the screen as well (unless they are saying everything in a monotone). There are some dark parts in this film and by dark I don't mean the characters or something disturbing in the film i just mean that there are some dark clouds so children under 6 probably shouldn't watch this film (although in the day and age where parents take their 7 year olds to see Assassins Creed and The Dark Knight kids aged about 3 will be taken to see anything that isn't 15 or 18 rated).
Auli'i Cravalho is starting off her career by being a strong woman in a child's film. Some would argue that Disney films are the way to start a career because tons of people, of all ages come and see these films. I wish her the best and hope that her career really kicks off after this film.
The best thing about this film is that the animations actually look like the actors. Sometimes animated characters look nothing like the person playing them but in this instance they really resemble the person voicing them. Make sure that you do go and see the film at some point.
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