Moana 2 disappoints critics after rave reviews for first film
The film started life as a spin-off television series, and several critics have criticized it for retaining a lacklustre episodic structure and failing to convince as a stand-alone movie.
“It’s more accurate to describe Moana 2 like an episode of a mediocre Moana television series (which is what the sequel was originally supposed to be), where the characters remain relatively static and merely respond to whatever crisis emerges each week,” wrote William Bibbiani of The Wrap.