Tag Archives: Alan Tudyk

Adventure, Animation, Comedy

MOANA 2 (2024): New Trailer Starring Dwayne Johnson, Auli’i Cravalho, Alan Tudyk, Nicole Scherzinger, Temuera Morrison…

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Directed by David G. Derrick Jr., Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller; Moana 2 offers a new adventure that goes to the far seas of Oceania, into dangerous, long-lost waters.

Returning key cast includes Dwayne Johnson, Auli’i Cravalho, Nicole Scherzinger, Alan Tudyk and Temura Morrison.

My favourite thing about the first Moana movie was the cuteness of baby Moana. Having re-watched it in anticipation of this sequel, I found plenty more to love than I could see at first viewing.

In fact, Moana is now my favourite Disney movie about the adventures of a courageous young lady. Said title used to belong to Brave (2012). That is until I rewatched Brave and Moana last week. I now realise that what I loved about Brave was Merida’s courage and independent spirit. Her super cute and mischievous triplet brothers were also a highlight.

As for Moana, I love everything, including the music, story, and animation. I guess Merida’s courage really resonated with me back in 2012. So much so that it’s near enough all I retained while forgetting about the mother/bear story element, which has proven to be quite forgettable.

Are you looking forward to a brand new Moana adventure?

Rachel House, David Fane, Awhimai Fraser, Hualalai Chung, Rose Matafeo also star.

Moana 2 Release Dates: November 27th 2024 (US); November 29th, 2024 (UK)…

Happy Film Loving,

G

Adventure, Animation, Family

WONDLA (2024): New Trailer Starring Alan Tudyk, D. C. Douglas, Jeanine Mason, Teri Hatcher…

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Based on a kid’s science fiction book by Tony DiTerlizzi called The Search for WondLa, the latest film from Teri Hatcher, Jeanine Mason, Alan Tudyk and D. C. Douglas is the story of a young woman looking for her place in the world. She does so while running from her robot mother, a tall blue creature and an oversized water beast.

The animation may not be my favourite style visually speaking, but I’m interested in the fantasy of what Earth might be like without humans. Thriving, rejuvenating, peaceful, and green, are just four words that come to mind.

I’m looking forward to seeing what else, while fully aware that this is based on a children’s book, so I should probably temper my expectations.

Chiké Okonkwo, Sarah Hollis, Brad Garrett and Gary Anthony Williams also star.

WondLa Release Dates: June 28th, (US & UK)…

Happy Film Loving,

G

Adventure, Animation, Comedy

MOANA (2016): The Thing I Liked…

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Moana (2016) Cute Baby Moana
Moana (2016) Cute Baby Moana

What I like most about Moana is that it’s a well-told story about a young girl who’s brave, strong and courageous enough to follow her heart.

Set in Ancient Polynesia and starring Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Jermaine Clement and  Nicole Scherzinger; I also like Moana because it scores quite highly on the ‘animated cuteness‘ factor, particularly baby Moana.

Cinderella (2015) remains my favourite Disney movie, in large part because of how much I enjoyed the recent live-action remake.

If I had to choose between Brave (2012) and Moana for the preferred Disney story about the adventures of a courageous young girl, Brave definitely wins. I just found the characters more entertaining, and the story personally more relatable and engaging. Nevertheless, I say watch Moana because it’s good. Who knows, it may actually end up being your favourite.

Happy Film Loving,

G

Adventure, Animation, Comedy

MOANA (2016): New Trailer Starring Dwayne Johnson, Auli’i Cravalho, Alan Tudyk…

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Moana (2016), Auli'i Cravalho
Moana (2016), Auli’i Cravalho

Read my spoiler-free movie review of Moana (2016)

Moana is the new Disney princess movie starring Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, Alan Tudyk and Auli’i Cravalho.

Teaser Trailer

International Teaser Trailer

Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the original teaser had me intrigued, but after seeing this international teaser, I’m definitely excited. Also, I basically already feel like I’m Moana.

Hooray to another very capable princess!

Moana Release Dates: November 23rd, 2016 (US); December 2nd, 2016 (UK); December 8th, 2016 (GER)…

Happy Film Loving,

G

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

ROGUE ONE – A STAR WARS STORY (2016): New From Felicity Jones, Forrest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed…

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 Rogue One – A Star Wars Story. That’s right. Starring Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Forrest Whitaker and Genevieve O’reilly, we have another new Star Wars movie.

Teaser Trailer

Trailer 1

I’ll admit that I’m not very excited about this one. But then again, I still have yet to watch a single Star Wars film because fantasy isn’t my favourite genre. Nevertheless, I couldn’t help but notice that the teaser trailer makes this film look more ‘low budget’ than Star Wars – Episode 7- The Force Awakens. It may appear low budget because, well, it is.

Those who really love the franchise likely won’t agree, but I’m just thinking, isn’t this overkill? It still feels like The Force Awakens was released just yesterday.

Instead of J.J. Abrams, Gareth Edwards is directing. Riz Ahmed, Jonathan Aris and Donnie Yen also star.

Rogue One – A Star Wars Story Release Dates: December 16th, 2016 (US, UK, GER)…

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G