Disney's live-action "Moana," starring Dwayne Johnson as Maui and Catherine Laga'aia as Moana, is described as a "glazed re-enactment" of the 2016 animated film that feels as if it could have been achieved by typing a prompt into a video generator. The production is "incredibly costly and labour-intensive," yet the result is "the most deadeningly obvious answer" of Johnson "in a curly wig." The film passes the time only because the source material did the hard work, with its storyline and songs by Mark Mancina, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa'i still fizzing. However, the live-action/digital hybrid realm shows conspicuous cracks: actors look like they are on a green-screen stage, backdrops resemble video-game scenery, and characters like the giant crab Tamatoa (voiced by Jemaine Clement) remain CG cartoons. The rooster Heihei is rendered in a "more notionally realistic style," becoming a "scrawny monstrosity." The only sequence that delights is Maui's musical number "You're Welcome," which ditches realism. The article notes these remakes have had a good run, citing the "$1bn global box-office haul of last year's Lilo & Stitch" and that the original "Moana" was "the most-streamed film in the US on any platform for five years running," while last year's