There must be more beyond the reef than this live-action Moana trailer

Well, we’d like to say they tried. But based on the trailer for the much-needed and long-overdue live-action remake of 2016’s Moana, it doesn’t look like they tried all that hard. Moana is back in a beat-for-beat live-action remake of the sort that Disney has been disappointing audiences with for a decade at this point. Filled with digital creations that lead one to wonder how live-action these movies really are, the Moana trailer is exactly what many expected and nothing more. Buffing back up following his post-Smashing Machine slim-down, Dwayne Johnson dons a Spirit Halloween-worthy wig as he puts his whole body into Maui, the shapeshifting demigod of the wind and sea and hero of men. And women. Johnson, of course, voiced the role in the original. Joining him is newcomer Catherine Laga’aia in her first movie.