Moana 2 ends on a huge turn for the titular character, giving her oar and new tattoos a deeper meaning. The 2024 sequel is ...

Warning: This story contains spoilers about Moana 2. In Polynesian culture, tattoos are incredibly meaningful, generally representing aspects of one's family, history, and cultural legend.

(Get tickets for Disney's Moana 2, now playing in theatres everywhere.) From his signature tattoos, we can learn about the place of the practice across the Pacific Islands, what its images ...

Similar to Maui (Dwayne Johnson), Moana's Demigod status affords her a new spiritual weapon embodied in her oar, as well as tattoos akin to Maui's. Naturally, this could be a decisive moment in ...

Transformation and magical tattoos, as in Maui's famous tattoos, are almost magical, celebrating heroic acts and marking Moana's transformation. These tattoos celebrate her achievements and ...

Little details such as Moana’s conch shell, the pottery ceramics she finds, the tattoos and even the wayfarer’s canoe are touchpoints that the creatives went to great lengths to include.