{"id":13428,"date":"2016-12-27T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=13428"},"modified":"2016-12-27T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T18:57:06","slug":"fatherdaughter-movie-date-moana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=13428","title":{"rendered":"Father\/Daughter Movie Date: MOANA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharing movies with my kids is true joy. I\u2019m broken, in some sense, and movies carry more emotional weight than they should. My childhood\u2019s happiest moments occurred in a darkened theater. Vicarious lives lived thanks to Spielberg, Tarantino and Disney.
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\nFortunately for me my kids consume like proper American youths. The brainwashing is going well. At the ripe ages of 5 and 2, my little girl and baby boy are immersed in pop culture. Khora, the 5-year-old, loves the Disney Princess template and wants all of the toys and apparel that accompanies. Ollie is a superhero fanatic at 2 years of age. When recently asked if he\u2019d like to go to our Local Wild Animal Park he responded \u201cNope. Let\u2019s go to the Wild Avenger Park. Where Captain America and the Hulk lives!! \u201cHe concluded that sentence with a fist bump to the air. He\u2019s convinced that should be a thing.<\/p>\n

They are chewing the Disney propaganda down whole and there is a part of me that wishes they would reject it a little more. I wouldn\u2019t mind some subversive children\u2019s entertainment. Maybe Ollie could get into a German animated series about a morbid troll that lives under a priest\u2019s bed and makes various Mexican dishes out of the stolen socks of orphan children. Perhaps Khora can find a Youtube channel where a creepy old lady opens melted candy bars with her fake teeth and feeds them to a chain smoking monkey. A little left of center.
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\nInstead, we are firmly set as a functioning component of the masses which means we are practically contractually obligated to see the new Disney animated flick Moana.<\/em> The boy stayed home. A 2-year-old in the movie theater is an affront to civilization and people that bring their kids to the movies that have no possible skills allowing them to sit still for more than 90 seconds should be tied to the wall and slapped in the face with Red Vines until skin is broken.<\/p>\n

Khora loved the movie. It has your standard \u201cyoung girl rejects her parental guidance and goes her own way to carve her own path on her own terms\u201d theme that has become familiar in nearly every other Disney princess movie from the last 30 years. The Little Mermaid, Mulan, Tangled, and Brave <\/em>all share this thought. I guess it\u2019s a good idea to reinforce despite that I am the one awaiting rejection if this \u201clesson\u201d sets in.<\/p>\n

The animation is gorgeous and the movie moves at a good clip despite the fact that the film runs long for a kid\u2019s movie: One hour 53 minutes. The music is very catchy. The characters are well rounded and realistically realized. Khora was even more interested in the live-action Beauty and the Beast <\/em>trailer and asked me halfway through Moana <\/em>if she could watch that movie now.<\/p>\n

Jemaine Clement of The Flight of the Concords <\/em>fame pulls off a great musical number and would have been welcome to have more screen time. Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson pulls off his voice work in that you aren\u2019t distracted by the fact that it\u2019s him.<\/p>\n

Khora made it through the entire movie and consumed 4.5 ounces of sour gummy candy, 2.5 cups of popcorn and about 26 ounces of Pink Lemonade that did not contain a single bit of lemon juice.<\/p>\n

Parental advisory: there is a rather frightening monster in the film, a Lava god that moves with a fluidness that resembles the stuff of nightmares. The lil\u2019 littles may have issue with this. At 5, Khora was not phased.
\nBoth of us give Moana<\/em> a solid recommend. Now we wait for the Blu-ray release for multiple viewings that will no doubt lead to the purchase of a variety dolls, pjs and plush animals. The Joy !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sharing movies with my kids is true joy. I\u2019m broken, in some sense, and movies carry more emotional weight than they should. My childhood\u2019s happiest moments occurred in a darkened theater. Vicarious lives lived thanks to Spielberg, Tarantino and Disney. Fortunately for me my kids consume like proper American youths. The brainwashing is going well. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5923,14111,22095],"class_list":["post-13428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-disney-animaition-studios","tag-moana","tag-the-rock"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}