Moana was so wholesome I could rewatch 1000x! First time watching reaction & review
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The grandma was played by the actress who played the right hand of Grandmaster in Thor Ragnarok
Paddington.
The rock did a good job with Maui. You're welcome is a good song.
You should listen to the lava song.
Auli'i Cravalho was just 15 went she was cast and recorded the voice and vocals for Moana. She was just a local Hawaiian girl who cast for the role. Wonderful young talent.
amazing that supposedly, she was the last person to audition...
im 15 and im doing absolutely nothing with my life :’)
And Alan Tudyk was only 45 when he recorded the vocals for Heihei.
@@abcd-mo5mo Your life is only just begun. Stick with it because the possibilities are endless.
@@gawainethefirst facts 💯
This movie instills the thought, "No means ask Grandma" into the minds of kids. I love it! Let Grandma and Grandpa shell out the big bucks.😂
There was this house in my hometown when I was growing up with lots of little decorations in the front yard and a sign that said, "Grandchildren Spoiled Here." Wonderful.
Grandparents who love their grandchildren to no end always warms my heart.
Te Fiti and Te Ka's reveal is among my favorite moments in a movie. Cause when I made the connection, I was just so impressed and surprised. Volcanoes are a big part of islands, ocean life, and Polynesian life. They bring death and destruction when they erupt, but at the same time volcanic soil is amazing for farming and creates many of the islands and the life on them. Its the perfect example of a God/Goddess of Life who can also become a God/Goddess of death. It even makes sense when Te Fiti goes to sleep...as in a volcano sleeping. And it makes so much sense when you realize that is what Te Ka was. Te Ka was Te Fiti, but the destructive side of her. One of the greatest moments in writing, honestly, and I'm still impressed by that bit of this movie to this day.
Also, note Maui lingering around Moana's boat as an eagle at the end. I think he'll always have a friend in her, and that's really what he always needed. A person that cared for him, and not just what he could do for them.
The touching of noses, as you pointed out (it's a Disney movie, so she can do that to a demon), actually is the greeting used in Hawaiian/Polynesian traditions. "Aloha" means "breath of life". When you greet someone, you touch noses to "share" the breath of life.... so Moana respectfully greeted Te Ka with the traditional greeting and Te Ka responded in such. As Moana and Te Fiti did the same as the parted. (Aloha being both a hello and a goodbye. ;))
in māori culture we called it a hongi, but i’m not too sure about the other polynesian cultures
also known as an eskimo kiss
@@kristianturner6391 i think the inuit people perfer for it to be referred to as a kunik. no disrespect intended
For us Maori in New Zealand, also. Breath is life, by touching noses and breathing together we are of shared spirit, shared life.
@@nikoramuriwai-ihimaera2518 Samoans call it Sogi (Songi)
Fun fact: Temuera Morrison, who also plays Boba Fett, voiced and sang the part of Moana’s father.
Not sang. The singing double for the Chief was Chris Jackson (Washington from Hamilton).
He's also Jake the Muss. 1000x scarier than Boba Fett (excluding when Fett was played by Jeremy Bulloch. Eh, maybe even then).
@@mattp6089 yayyy, Jake Da Fuckin Muss. Movie is a classic, the sequel was ok though.
His tattoos were the rock's
“They don’t seek more, they don’t want more.” Many Asian and Polynesian cultures in the old days had the mentality of “Only take what you need.” In this way, they gave their environment a chance to heal and replenish their resources-it was also practiced because it was a way of survival. While that mentality is still practiced, it is not nearly as widespread today.
Exactly right ! We as Indians even worship the elements of nature further reinforcing the idea that the need to hoard is unnecessary and if you take only what you need you make it easier to co exist. Unfortunately many western cultures teach otherwise.
The ocean chose Moana because of her HUMANITY.
Maui couldn’t do it, he's shoot first ask questions later.
The ocean couldn’t do it because water hurts Te Ka.
you do know muai is only a demigod. he is still HUMAN
@@houseofaction that is not what I mean when I say humanity. By this point, Maui is so jilted by humanity he couldn't care less what happens to them, and only changed his mind for the glory.
I also think it was necessary for a human to go and confront the basic fact that greed can lead to destruction so that the teachings could reach everyone and wouldn’t be repeated . But that’s just how I think…open to corrections and additions
@@houseofactionreply guys in a nutshell:
This movie is my absolute favorite movie in the Disney Revival Era. The music by Lin-Manual Miranda, the water animation, the characters and the story plot is SOOOO AWESOME.
In case you were curious: traditional wayfinding is still used even today.
YEs it is a Kiwi accent, Moana's father is Tem morrison, the grandmother is a Kiwi actress too (she was in Thor Ragnarock), also Germain Clemmins is the Crab, and Taka wrote some early versions of the script. Disney had Polynesians all over this
Who was she in Thor? :O
@@artsysabs Her name is Rachel House and she was Topaz in Thor: Ragnarok. Two incredible movies she was in are Whale Rider and The Hunt for the Wilderpeople. House is Maori and has done a lot of Aussie and New Zealand TV and theater.
@@artsysabs Topaz
my dumb-a** thinking it's a Polynesian accent
@@ErinaBee.sMoney Well it is, Maori are polynesians.
Interestingly, the real world Polynesians stopped exploring the Pacific Ocean for no known reason and then, a thousand or so years later, they started sailing out again.
do you know the time frame of that? could be some small ice age or something...
@@zbynekurbanek3345 OK, so, there's no real concrete dates I could find for this, but roughly, the Long Pause seems to have been between ~800 BCE (the settlement of Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga) and ~1000 CE (the settlement of Hawaii and Tahiti).
One of the more common theories is technological advancement - you have to develop a new type of boats - you can reach the western isles with an outrigger canoe, but need a double-hulled canoe for the longer voyages across the Pacific. Or it could have been wind patterns shifting.
@ I bet on the natural causes... wind patterns is possible... other thing that came to mind is accidental deforestation... if you cut down all the trees on the island you need to wait couple hundred years before the forests return and you can build bigger boats regularly again... this is possible for smaller islands
The grandma died after giving Moana the heart because it was keeping her alive. She knew this would happen, but she knew giving it to Moana was more important.
Don't know if that's true. She was getting weak when she still had it "you've been told all our peoples secrets but one *Coughs*"
Then after she's shown the boats does grandma give it to her
good theory but I'm not sold
@@Thebeezzkneezz. yep, Grandma knew her time was coming, so she Needed to send Moana out before it was to late. Most dont notice this and claim the heart was keeping her alive. But in truth she never uses the heart. No one does but Tafiti. She simply keeps the heart safe till moana is old enough to make the journey. She knew Moana was the chosen one and was simply waiting, after all before then she is telling all the kids about Mowii. Once Moana is chosen she cares for the heart while looking after her granddaughter, taking up the part of village crazy lady instead of story teller.
@@Yugioh420 by mowii did u mean maui?
The Ocean gave Moana the heart not Grandma you need to re-watch the movie
Uhm I don’t think that’s how it is, the ocean gave her the heart first but did the grandma die then?😂 Dude the grandma died of natural causes, she was just old and it was her time
Imo Moana has one of the best soundtrack. I also loved how Moana saved the world without needing a love interest, giving up on her identity, or thinking she could do it herself. It's also subverts the trope of needing a strong man to do everything for a strong girl. They both needed each other, and in the end, she became a master in her own right.
"Is That A Kiwi Accent That I Detect?"
It most certainly is a Kiwi Accent, Because the actor voicing Moana's Father is none other than Temura Morrison (Jango Fett in Star Wars: Episode II)
Moana isn't based in Hawaii, it's actually Polynesian, in fact, the name of the movie in Italian is Oceania, which is the continent where Polynesia is located
Yeah, she adresses that at the end.
Ya they couldn't use Moana in Europe because that's the stage name of a popular Italian (I think) porn actress and it would be immediately associated with her so Disney changed it for the European market.
also in māori it means oceans, but not too sure about our other poly brothers and sisters.
Polynesia is not reunited in a continent but all linked by the polynesian triangle and the pacific ocean ( bc it’s composed of multiple islands ) and moana in tahitian and other polynesians dialect means « ocean »
The most realistic CG water to date. They really mastered fluid modelling.
I see Te Ka as the rage of a traumatized woman. Stealing the heart of Tafiti was such a violation that she was poisoned by it. Only acceptance of who she is could allow her to return to who she was.
As someone who has had trauma, the restoration scene just makes me cry every single time.
“They have stolen the heart from inside you, but this does not define you. This is not who you are. I know who you are.”
Those lines always make me sob. I have been lost in that raging darkness, that endless void. It’s such a wonderful reminder that we can be restored ❤️
I just wanted to point out that Te is, among other things, a volcano: Not something you want to be anywhere near when enraged, but leaves behind some *very* fertile land that you can utilise when it's dormant (she literally goes to sleep at the end). Also, many of the polynesian islands are volcanic islands.
Biggest takeaway from this movie: Dwayne Johnson is actually a pretty decent singer.
He always was. He sang a few times in wwe. And it wasn't terrible.
@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 Oh, I didn't know that.
And we know now he can rap too
@@jinthao00 Word.
@@andre1999o oh yea. Played guitar sang wrestled, talked, he did it all in WWE
15:55
His face when he said “For a thousand years.” Always makes me laugh 😆
As a Navy trainee, I can confirm, the wayfinding technique they use in this film is 100% accurate.
The person who sang the song "We Know The Way" is Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the music for this film. He also wrote the music for Encanto and more famously the Broadway musicals Hamilton and In The Heights (which recently had a film adaptation).
If you're a fan of the music, I highly recommend watching Hamilton (it's a stage play, not a film). I think it's still available on Disney+ and is regarded as the most popular musicals of the past 20 years.
Not exactly. Lin-Manuel Miranda co-wrote the song, but Opetaia Foa'i sang it. And they designed the character's appearance on him as well.
I actually enjoyed this movie. So did my parents.Whenever "How Far I'll Go" comes on, I start singing along
Taika Waititi was involved in the early development stages but wanted a more grounded story about a girl growing up with a lot of brothers. He left the project when it took on a more magical/mystical direction.
RUclipsr Lindsay Ellis has a good video about why Moana is a better version of Pocahontas.
Moana's grandmother Tala is voiced by Rachel House. She was the Grandmaster's right hand Topaz in Thor: Ragnarok.
Also, Moana will get her own series on Disney Plus coming soon.
She's fun, too, in Taika Waititi's "Hunt for the Wilder People."
Moana deserves her own series glad shes getting one
Dawne Johnson actually sang the "you are welcome"
This is one of my favorite Disney movies! The music, the story, the characters are all so amazing! It makes me smile, laugh, and cry every single time I watch it ♥
Alan Tudyk was Sonny in "I, Robot", K-2SO in "Rogue One", Harry Vanderspiegle in "Resident Alien", Toucan in the aforementioned "Encanto", Mr. Nobody in "Doom Patrol", Duke Weaselton in "Zootopia" ... basically, he's non-human as often as he is Homo sapiens.
This is one of the very few contemporary Disney films that I actually really enjoyed, mostly because of its dedication to authenticity. They cast mostly Samoan or Hawaiian actors and the artists were faithful to the facial and physical characteristics of that culture.
You should catch Alan Tudyk in the TV series “Resident Alien”. It’s very funny and he’s outstanding in it. He also performed the voice of K-2SO in “Rogue One”.
Yeah. Personally Encanto has been a return to form since Moana was the last Disney film I truly enjoyed. I’m so glad for Encanto.
For more Alan Tudyk you should watch A Knights Tale with Heath Ledger in the lead. Alan is hilarious in that one.
I second this!
I third it.
I fourth this!
"...your entrails will become your extrails I will w-rip... all the p... ung. Pain, lots of pain!"
Not only did Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Play Maui, he also was Maui's singing voice, not just his speaking voice
My favorite fact is that to avoid the sidekick tropes, the Hei-hei and Pua were only allowed in the movie if they weren't helpful.
But Hei-Hei was helpful when he caught the heart.
Ppl say Pua is useless, cuz he’s actually just a red herring. You think he’d be the animal sidekick on the adventure, but it’s just the braindead chicken lol
Alan Tudyk has recently starred in quite a few Disney movies and movies based on properties owned by Disney. He plays the antagonistic Duke of Weselton in Frozen, the criminal Duke Weaselton in Zootopia (yes, it's a joke about his Frozen character), and he plays the droid K2-SO in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Plus Heihei & Toucan & Tuktuk
Fun fact: Alan tudyk has been in every Disney animated movie since frozen, in Moana he plays hei hei the chicken
I suggest SHORT CIRCUIT from 1986
I can relate to Hei Hei on a deep level. Sigh.
That chicken went to Juliard dammit! BTS of Alan recording is funny as hell.
There's a really good fan theory that suggests Moana is actually dead for most of the movie. When her boat capsizes from the storm, she is making her journey into the underworld. From then on, she only comes into contact with gods and mythical figures. She is then revived once she restores the heart to Te Fiti.
You should watch matpats teory on moana it is really good and has good research behind it
One of my absolute favorite animated films!
The scene where Moana walks towards Te Ka through the "Valley" still brings goosebumps. She is beyond brave.
I'm not gonna lie, I welled up.
My favorite Disney movie! Love it so much. Soundtrack is on another level.
I love how Moana has no idea what she's doing for half the movie. It really adds to how much she's been thrown into the world.
I love this film! from the beautiful story and the scenery and of course the characters and the cast who plays them. The songs in this movie just make you want to sing along and rewind and turn the TV up and listen to them again but louder. It is definitely a favourite of mine. And for those who have not seen this movie, highly recommend it, for it's great for all the family, and it just brings the kid out in all of us. Your welcome!
Alan Tudyk plays a lot of minor characters in Disney movies, particularly animals. Some of his other voice roles are King Candy (Wreck-It Ralph), the Duke of Weselton (Frozen), Duke Weaselton (Zootopia), Knowsmore (Ralph Breaks the Internet), Iago (live-action Aladdin remake), Tuk Tuk (Raya and the Last Dragon), and the toucan from Encanto.
He was King Candy? I never knew that.
I think my favorite thing about this movie is that Hei-Hei (the chicken) is voiced by Alan Tudyk (Wash from Firefly).
Your Welcome is my favorite Disney song. It has a nice melody, it's funny, catchy and captures The Rocks signature cocky charisma.
I wish there was some way to bring Walt Disney back for a day or two to see what his studio is putting out. I think he would be delighted.
This is such a perfect film. So beautiful and the music is wonderful. I still get tears in my eyes when I watch it.
I love this movie. Whenever I’m feeling a little too down watching this always cheers me up. ❤️
I'm an old cynic and usually loathe musicals, but I adored the spirit, message, and luminosity of this gorgeous film!
Trivia: Alan Tudyk, who was also in Frozen I & II and a couple of Star Wars films, also voiced Villager #3, the one who asked 'Shouldn't we just...cook him?' about Hei-Hei.
I can tell you from personal experience that being conked on the head by a raft and trapped underwater is not a happy time.
Moana's incredibly lucky that she maintained consciousness, and that the water was clear enough to see through.
There’s a fan theory that Moana died on that first night, was dead for the whole middle part of the movie with the gods and monsters and the spirit of her grandmother, and Te Fiti brought her back when she returned to her home Island.
@@gerstelb she experiences pain during this time though, as an already dead spirit, shouldn’t she be immune to conventional harm and all that?
I've watched this movie twice in Māori but have yet to watch it in English, Lol.
kia ora ma cuz
I watched it for the first time in tahitian ( I’m tahitian) and multiple times in french and english lmao😂
The Heart of Te'Fiti was keeping grandma alive
Much of the soundtrack was written & composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda of "Hamilton" fame
When I saw this movie, in the scene of Moana baby on the beach, the song made me feel very sad... when I investigated about the song "Loimata E Maligi" I found the reason.
I think the grandma lived that long because the heart of tifiti and when she gave it to her her time was done
I love how she was a Disney princess that broke the mold. Them, Frozen and Brave
The ocean couldn't give the heart to the island because the island was made of lava and would avoid the ocean, Maui was afraid of the heart so he wouldn't do it so the ocean needed to get a sailor but the islanders didn't want to leave so the ocean chose Moana instead
I just noticed the reason why did the ocean didnt try saving her and helping her is because she doesn't have te fiti heart yet when she was first trying to go out to the ocean. And when she was trying to follow maui hook the ocean tried to drown the boat or something cause she need someone to be with her and maui fit in it
“I’ve probably heard this before”
I can’t imagine the universe in which you haven’t. I can play a lot of things on guitar; but the first song I learned through on the piano was how far I’ll go.
Alan Tudyk is in all these Disney movies he’s also in Encanto as the Toucan and pretty much every movie that Disney has made in the last 10 years or so
I realize I'm fully incapable of doing this, but the first time I saw this film, it made me want to drop everything and live like the ancient polynesians did, surfing from island to island in a raft I built
I love this movie. It's my second favorite "princess" movie, right behind tangled. And I think princess and the frog might be my number 3
8:20 "It does look pretty dangerous but I mean she's doing it during the day" because you can't drown during day.
A chicken and a boar AKA hairy pig usually with tusk were apparently sailing tattoos back in the day for some reason
That Monster Crab was hysterical and his song was catchy and soooo good.
The "You're so amazing" line was improvised by the voice actress.
I wish my mother could have seen this movie. She lived in Hawai’i briefly, as a girl in the 1930s, and also traveled a little around the South Pacific generally (Fiji, Samoa, etc.) with her family. They left Hawai’i and returned to the mainland because they knew war with Japan was coming. But it really got under her skin; she loved it more than any place she ever lived, and always wanted to go back but was never able to. I can’t see this movie without thinking of her and missing her.
24:51 - Tamatoa’s song is sung in the style of the late great David Bowie.
38:29 - Maui is a trickster-hero who is part of Polynesian mythology throughout the South Pacific, from the Maori to the Hawai’ians. The island of Maui within the Hawai’ian archipelago is named after the mythological Maui (or, more precisely, is named after someone who was named after the mythological Maui).
42:09 - Disney has announced plans for a Moana spinoff tv series, but it’s a couple of years off.
I absolutely love this movie. I was close to my grandmother so Moana and her grandmother's relationship reminded me of ours. ❤
There were so many catchy songs in this, but "Shiny" will always be my favorite from this movie. I loved that whole scene.
A great villain song from an absolutely crabulous singer.
One of my favourite soundtracks. Lin Manuel Miranda is a genius.
I lived on mangoes and coconuts (76-79) on Maui. Imagine 300 years of lessons and beauty and sheer terror in three short years.
Maui is a combination of Loki and Hercules if you’re trying to match his personality.
That's actually a pretty good description of Maui.
I’m honestly patiently waiting for you to watch the newest Korean zombie show on Netflix called All Of Us Are Dead
Oh I’m so excited! Moana is my favorite princess!!! 🥺❤️❤️❤️
Good ear, yes a Kiwi, Tem Morrison. The folklore of Maui & Moana stretches all the way through P:olynesia cultures as far down to New Zealand Maori. It's a shared lore, a shared oral history of our ancestors that connects us all. I absolutely love this movie! I was teaching in China when it released and Chinese kids loving all things Disney, it enabled me a way to share some of the Maori folklore I grew up with, in New Zealand.
I was constantly singing along with the songs in the headset, it got to the point the the entire teachers office would be lit up with us all singing the sound track toegther, it spilled over to our students and their parents who would download the movie for their children to learn so they could sing with us. It got to the point that if anyone said "thank you" for anything, there would be a chorus of "you're welcome", in response. This movie vibed life & energy into our school. One of my most treasured memories of my years teaching there.
Fun fact: Alan Tudyk is the voice of Hei Hei
Until Encanto, I personally considered Moana to have possible one of the Best Soundtracks of Any Disney movie. Competing even with Beauty and the Beast. Proof that Disney still makes good music. And Lin Manuel Miranda being involved makes it make all the more sense.
Moana has better songs lowkey
@@insentricjv7500 It's not lowkey at all. Moana's songs are far superior to Encanto. Encanto is nice, but it is one of the weaker Disney movies lately.
This is the kind of Disney i could watch every day
moana actually comes from the maori heritage (new zealanders). this also explains all the tattoos. in maori moana actually means ocean, which is why the movie is about a girl called moana and a ocean.
Its about all of POLYNESIA not just NewZealand so idk who lied to you but you better get you're story right....
His is probably one of my fav Disney movies of the past decade or so. And definitely one of the funniest
"Why didn't he just shape shift?"
He lost his magic fish hook, remember? LOL
My kids loved this movie so much I’ve watched it easily 100+ times and it’s great every time.
I love this movie so much, it might be my favorite Disney animation.
Love that movie💞
My favourite character is Hei Hei, yup the chicken🤣
I love that scene where the ocean have had enough of bringing it back on the boat🤣🤣
And also love the scene where Moana meet the sea for the first time, it is the sweetest scene ever, and that song, it just melted my heart❤️
I just wanted to say I’m Subscribed and I have on Notifications 😌 *For a long time*
For a laugh, look up Alan Tudyk’s Heihei recording session on RUclips. His voice talent is under appreciated.
I have a cousin that loves Moana! He watches that movie all the time!
If it’s not been mentioned, one of the coconut characters has baymax’s face, when he got his hook off the crab and was changing he changed into sven from frozen, aladdin’s lamp is on the crabs back
Please watch "Harry and the Hendersons" (1987). You will love Harry, I promise!
oh i miss that movie so much
OMG, I love that movie. My favorite part is where George telling Harry to sit.
Now there’s a movie I have not seen in a looong time.
😂😂😂😂😂
In history there was a moment in time called The Long Pause where they stopped exploration for a long time, 1000 years...
Nicole Scherzinger plays Moana's mom. Also, I love The Rock on this.
it is about time a disney princess saves the world by herself girl power. go moana
Fun Fact.
in Italy the title and name was changed in Vaiana because Moana was a famous adult film actress of the 80s. This is to prevent children's web searches from giving the wrong result 😅
The story behind the movie is a sort of explanation for an actual historical event in Polynesian history known as “The Long Pause.” Seafaring people first colonized the islands of Western Polynesia…the ones closest to New Guinea, New Zealand, and Australia…approximately 3,500 years ago. These include the islands of Tonga, Fiji, and Samoa, where Moana is set. There is evidence that the Polynesian people were expert wayfarers and they constructed large boats that were capable of crossing vast distances on the ocean. But once the spread of colonization reached Samoa and Fiji, it seems that all ocean exploration suddenly ceased for about 2,000 years. Anthropologists call this period “The Long Pause.” Between 1,500 and 500 years ago, the Polynesians took up their oars again and re-started their colonization of the Central and Eastern Polynesian islands, including Hawaii and Tahiti. In fact, in a relatively short time, they colonized nearly every island in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean.
While there is clear evidence that The Long Pause occurred, no one really knows why and there is no written record of it. This has been a mystery to archaeologists and anthropologists since the ancient Polynesians had a proven track record of ocean-faring excellence. They were able to construct impressive boats and navigate the ocean using only stars and ocean currents to guide them. Yet they suddenly stopped sailing.
Some of the theories put forth by researchers to explain the cause of The Long Pause include sustained El Nino winds and ocean disasters, such as tidal waves. Researchers studying The Long Pause ran computer weather simulations, factoring in a sustained El Nino set up. They determined that the El Nino pattern would have created very strong winds around Tonga and Samoa that would have been extremely difficult to maneuver around in the ancient sail vessels used by the Polynesians because prior to that the voyagers would have enjoyed a helpful wind that pushed them toward Tonga, Vanuatu and Samoa. Their sailing techniques and equipment was set up for voyaging with the wind. However, these techniques were no longer effective at sailing against the strong El Nino winds. Unable to go any further, the Polynesians stopped voyaging.
No one is certain why the Polynesians ended The Long Pause and resumed their wayfaring ways either, but there are a few plausible theories. One theory notes that the strong sustained El Nino winds had begun to shift and weaken, removing the obstacle to sailing. Another theory is that an algae bloom caused a decline in the fish population near the islands and the Polynesians were forced to find food further away from their islands.
These are all ideas that Disney wove into the story of Moana, giving a cause for why it had become to dangerous to sail, as well as giving a series of natural disasters to the islands that forced the people to look beyond their reef for more food, shelter, and other resources.
Lived inHawaii a long time. I don't know if others have mentioned this, but most reviewers misssed it. Grandma had to die when she did because Moana's dad was to burn the boats, so grandma distracted him. Hey hey means a troublesome kid. Moana saying 'you're so amazing wasn't in the script, Auli'i said it and they kept it. I saw it 88 times, but then again, I had unlimited free IMAX passes.
I really, really love this one of the classic Disney movies
The crab, Tomatoa is voiced by Jermaine Clements, lead singer of Flight of the Concords. Now considering this song is the only one that stands out from the rest because of its different sound, it would stand to reason that he wrote this song, right?
Well, that's where it gets interesting. He didn't write it. He just performed it. Lin Manuel Miranda literally wrote a Flight of the Concords style song for this guy to perform.
3:00 pretty sure its not just a kiwi its boba
16:15 who woulda thought the rock could sing
I hope Tamatoa becomes a recurring villain when they the series. I'd love to see more of him.