Moana - Disney Princess movie release in 2016

Moana the latest Disney Princess set to be released in 2016

 Looking forward to the next Disney movie to be released in late 2016 called "Moana" featuring Dwayne Johnson's voice as Maui and not to forget the global search for the voice of Moana from Samoa and New Zealand etc. (I suspect more for a bit of a public relations exercise) and now Te Vaka will feature on the sound track - Wow! this better to be good :)

I read that many are saying that this is the first Polynesian Disney movie but in actual fact "Lilo and Stitch" released in 2003 was a movie set in Hawaii and I thought a real let down in the storyline of having to have aliens added as if Hawaii doesn't have any stories of its own. It looks like now they're going to try and add a more authentic storyline, Disney style, and it's going to be real interesting to see how they depict 'us' as Pasifika with many going to watch the latest edition when it is released.

Te Vaka's music will feature in the movie "Moana"

It's interested that in reading the blurb about the storyline that it's set some 2-3000 years ago when our ancestors and forefathers/mothers were traversing the superhighway of the Pacific oceans and dispersing populations throughout the Pacific so that we now have certain words that are shared between Maori, Samoan, Tokelau, Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga i.e. numbers, letters, formation of words etc.

Really looking forward to viewing and critiquing the movie as I'm sure it will give a lot of food for thought especially as they will be depicting Moana as the latest edition to the Disney (Pacific) Princess with a major marketing campaign to follow...