A little over 10 years ago, Lin-Manuel Miranda was still performing on Broadway in "Hamilton" while writing the music for Disney's "Moana." Since then, Moana has grossed more than $643 million at the global box office,

Lin-Manuel Miranda had two very personal test listeners for his new Moana song, his sons. People reported that Miranda wrote “Along the Way” for Disney’s ... Read More

The song features vocals from Dwayne Johnson, Catherine Laga‘aia (the live-action Moana) and Auli‘i Cravalho (the voice of the original Moana)

This live-action version is cute, and Laga’aia is an exciting new star, but it doesn’t quite pull off a convincing argument to go out when we already have “Moana” at home.

Disney's ongoing fascination with remaking its animated classics in live action reaches the Pacific with Moana, a lavish reimagining of one of the studio's most

And you believe those things because the movie is animated and has a certain look and feel, which creates an unspoken whimsy. The world itself feels real, even when it’s obviously not. Funny then that the “real” version of Moana feels so incredibly fake.