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 ...

Dwayne Johnson and Auli'i Cravalho have explained the surprise tattoo reveal in Moana 2. The Disney sequel takes viewers on another ocean adventure, as Moana (Cravalho) receives an ancestral call ...

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection 12.Moana comes back to life with a tattoo on her hand. In Samoa, it's called a tualima, and it includes the same markings used in ...

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.

Things don’t go as planned, though. Nalo’s lightning hit Maui before he could raise Motufetu, erasing his tattoos. In a desperate move, Moana dives deep, swimming towards Motufetu. Nalo ...