Disappointing. Very, very disappointing.
A few solid scenes or sequences surrounded by hours of meaningless, annoying shenanigans with unlikable side characters.
Moana 2 also harbors an uncharacteristically weak score.
Let's lift the veil and figure out how this happened.
Disney paid their animators like dogshit to produce this movie. It was originally meant to be a TV series, handled by the small Vancouver production arm of Walt Disney Animation Studios. This tiny studio, which has only completed one mini-series and…