In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.
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Like most movies in recent years, this one has a plot mandated friendship failure driving the third act breakup. Also like most movies, it gets resolved in the climax.
I would say Maui is 100% abusive. He is constantly putting Moana down and even pees on her. He steals Tefiti’s heart and causes destruction in doing so. Yet, all is forgiven by the end of the movie.
Sort of. Moana’s dad is the chief and he kinda gaslights Moana and all the other villagers about the bad things happening on the island as well as the tribe’s history. His reasons are understandable though, it’s not malicious.
It is brief but Maui tells Moana that his parents didn't want him after he was born and threw him into the sea to die. His tattoo of a woman throwing a baby into the water is featured here.
One character is left immobile (but still conscious) by a tranquilizer dart. The character is more annoyed than scared, and they recover not too long after.
There's a scene fairly early in the movie where Moana ends up having to hold her breath for an extended period of time due to her boat being tipped over. She is mostly unharmed, but the scene is rather intense.
Not on-screen, but the film’s antagonist (in a sense); Tamatoa, is missing a leg, which was said to have been cut off by one of the protagonists, Maui.
Sort of; Tamatoa seemingly tortures the protagonists, Maui and Moana throughout his song. Maui and Moana both express displeasure, and it can definitely be seen as though he is torturing them.
A kid mentions needing to throw up, but doesn't actually do so. The chicken, Heihei, also spits up items he swallows on occasion, but it's not necessarily vomiting.
Not farting or spitting specifically, but there is a similar body fluid moment when Maui pees in the water while Moana's hand is in it and she feels it get warmer.
Not exactly a hospital, but the main character is suddenly called to her dying grandmother's bedside and a healer/physician figure is there talking to her parents about options, it is evocative of dying in a modern hospital.
When Moana's mom tells her the story of her dad going out on a boat once as a boy there is lightning during the brief flashback scenes.
When Moana asks the ocean for help to right her boat there is also lightning for a little bit.
Tamatoa talks to the camera twice - first during the "Shiny" musical number, when he quickly glances at the camera and advises the viewer to look up what a decapod is, and finally during the post-credits sequence, when he suggests the viewer would have more sympathy for him if he had a cute Jamaican accent (a reference to Sebastian from The Little Mermaid).