The lava monster strikes to kill Moana, but Maui intervenes and uses his hook to block Te Kā’s blow. The wave created by the powerful impact blasts Moana and Maui away from the shores of Te Fiti. After recovering, Maui confronts Moana about her recklessness, which severely damaged his hook. Believing that the ocean has wrongly chosen Moana as the savior of the world, Maui refuses to return to Te Kā, suggesting instead that they separate because all hope is lost with his hook in such a critical state, leaving Moana depressed and upset. The Kakamora are thirsty for Te Fiti’s power core, but Moana holds her ground and fights against them. Although Maui congratulates her for surviving, he adamantly refuses to help return the heart.
- Maui then takes heart and flies to Te Fiti, but he is immediately attacked by Te Kā and swiftly defeated.
- Maui jumps in after her body, and with a magical chant, summons the spirits of Tautai Vasa and Moana’s ancestors, including her grandmother Tala, who help revive her as a demigoddess, with Moana gaining a wayfinder’s tattoo.
- They confront Te Kā, who Moana manages to outsmart in order to make it past Te Fiti’s barrier islands.
- Having witnessed her compassion towards the baby sea turtle, the ocean becomes passionate about Moana and chooses her as the heroine destined to save the world.
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- Maui is devastated, begging for Moana to wake up, but when she’s unresponsive, he begins uttering a magical chant in the hopes of summoning help to resuscitate her.
- His chant is answered by Tautai Vasa, Grandma Tala, and the rest of Moana’s ancestors.
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Moana and her parents rush to the doctors, where Tala is lying on her deathbed. She encourages Moana to search for Maui and restore the heart in her final moments. Moana reluctantly accepts her grandmother’s dying wish, packs up supplies, and takes one of her ancestor’s boats that unknowingly had her rooster friend, Heihei, on board as well.
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Moana worried Heihei would eat the Heart again, but was surprised and proud that the chicken gave it back to her. After having an argument with Maui when his hook got damaged, causing Moana to give the Heart of Te Fiti back to the Ocean, Moana broke down in tears, feeling completely hopeless until Tala’s spirit appeared before her. Moana embraced and apologized to her grandmother who in return apologized for putting too much expectations on her shoulders. When Moana became hesitant in returning home, Tala began singing a song in which she explained the positive traits she saw in Moana while giving her words of wisdom. This caused Moana to accept the kind of individual she is by embracing both her love for the sea and her people.
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They set sail once more, but a down-on-his-luck Maui feels unable to defeat Te Kā and restore the heart without his hook. Moana, wanting to get to the root of Maui’s self-doubt, tries to uncover the demigod’s backstory. This only angers Maui, which prompts Moana to confess her own feelings of self-doubt by revealing she is unsure why Moana the ocean chose her. She further explains that despite this, she pushes herself in order to save her dying island, though she can only do so with Maui’s help. Moana offers to lend an ear for the demigod, and Maui eventually opens up to her by revealing he was born a human and was abandoned by his parents.
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- Moana bids farewell to Maui and Te Fiti, returning home and reuniting with her parents.
- She learns that Maui has stolen the heart for a village that he has looked after once he was given his powers from the gods.
- He flies away after telling her that the ocean chose the wrong person to save her people which is something she has been trying to find out why.
- Moana first met Heihei when she was a toddler and shared a close relationship with him while growing up on Motunui.
- Moana disregards her father’s words and advances towards the shores of the ocean in bliss.
Determined to protect Moana despite the damaged condition of his hook, Maui distracts Te Kā while the ocean helps Moana reach the fused shores of Te Fiti. Looking into the distance, she notices a glowing spiral on Te Kā’s chest and quickly realizes that the lava demon is Te Fiti, corrupted without her heart into her fiery lava demon form. Moana sings “Know Who You Are” to tame Te Kā, who finds peace in the former’s heartening words and turns into molten rock, calming down long enough for Moana to make physical contact with her without being burned or harmed by Te Kā’s powers.
Moana is a 2016 computer-animated musical-adventure-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Released on November 23, 2016, it is the 56th film in the Disney animated feature canon. Later, when Moana becomes chief, she and her father lead their people in voyaging across the seas, strengthening their relationship as her father finally lets go of his fear of traveling on the ocean.
As they continued their journey after retrieving Maui’s Fish Hook from Tamatoa, Moana and Heihei watched Maui regain control of his shapeshifting abilities. When Heihei ate Maui when turned into a beetle, Moana was horrified until Maui turned back into his true form, with Heihei stuck on his finger. After surviving an encounter with Te Ka, the first thing Moana did was check to see if Heihei was okay before checking on Maui, leading her to get an argument with him over his hook getting damaged. Moana shared a close relationship with her pet pig, Pua whom she has known since she was a preteen.
When discovering Motunui being affected by Te Kā’s curse and that she has been chosen by the Ocean to restore the Heart of Te Fiti, Moana attempts to again persuade her father, along with their people to leave Motuni so they can help restore the heart. However, her father is infuriated to hear Moana has discovered their ancestors’ boats and proceeds to burn them, despite Moana’s objections. Their argument is cut short when they hear that Gramma Tala is suddenly dying, leading Moana and her father to stand by his mother’s deathbed.