# At sea: "Moana 2" Review
The sight of cinemas packed with people young and old before Christmas is a lot of fun. It would be even more pleasing if so much of the business going on there wasn't such sleazy money-making activity. Wicked: Part 1 is half the movie I'll be paying for again in 12 months. Moana 2 will apparently be shown in 3D, which, as everyone but James Cameron has long acknowledged, is a bad buy, especially attractive considering Disney's latest was originally greenlit as a streaming TV series. You can stream the film on Flixtor Movies.

Anyway, after you've dug out your old glasses from the corner of your downstairs drawer and pulled out the 3D extras to cover the whole family, you can sit back, relax, and watch the grubby remake of the film through the oily lenses. Let's think about this film, which has seriously claimed since 2016 to be the strongest Disney animated film this side of the millennium. The Ice Queen is for people who think. (Aside from my inordinate fondness for the 2000 gag-and-gag movie Kingdom for the Llamas, I can't think of a better new Disney movie.) I say "vulgar" because even a sequence in Moana 2 exposes the midday locations to eternal twilight in 3D.

And yet it's clear that these animators, led by Dana Ledoux Miller, Jason Hand, and David G. Derrick Jr., who stayed on from the planned series, were given free reign to push the visual effects far beyond their limits, pushing the first film forward. We're rolling around in worlds within worlds within worlds, this once-colorful sky now genuinely hallucinogenic, and the prevailing idea of ​​a Pacific dreamtime only growing more unreal. This is the best family movie of the season, with a gummy bear of the unassembled variety creeping in. The processor chip's performance is also very impressively demonstrated here: its ability to transform ideas originally intended for the small screen into a fully cinematic vision.

It's good to be able to marvel at such wonders for 90 minutes, because what we hear and what we're trying to process on a narrative level is far less impressive. In the first film, our heroine is sent on a life-threatening mission to expand the horizons of her people; in the second, we spend only an hour and a half wondering what to do with her. The film is available to stream on Flixtor Movies.