" Moana 2 seems more like a consumer product," says Dana Stevens of Slate, with Flickering Myth's Robert Kojder saying, "There is a disappointing, dispiriting narrative flatness to Moana 2, recycling the original's story (but with more characters, wasting them all) with almost no creative passion."

Moana 2, the eagerly-awaited sequel to Disney’s hit 2016 animated adventure, has been met with lukewarm reviews from critics. The original film was set in ancient Polynesia and introduced audiences to Moana,