Sloth Monster - Being rather ominous and unpredictable, it has a sloth body with four, long arms with sharp claws. The most notable feature of this creature is its masked face strongly resembles Polynesian tribal masks portraying two different facial structures upside down.
The passageway (a pit) leads to an undersea environment home to a number of exotic, demonic and ferocious creatures — one of which being Tamatoa, a villainous giant crab. Other inhabitants include the Sloth monster and frog monster.
The Sloth monster is a minor villain in Disney's 2016 Moana. It lives in Lalotai. The Sloth Monster is purple with a masked-like face and appears to have multiple arms, ended in clawed hands.
The Kakamora are a diminutive race donning armor made of coconuts. They live on a trash-and-flotsam-covered vessel that floats freely around the ocean.
Lalotai, also known as the Realm of the Monsters, is a location that Moana and Maui visit during the film in order to retrieve Maui's magic fishhook. The sequence is full of all sorts of terrifying creatures, with the film using Lalotai as an excuse to show off some fantastic character designs.
In the 2016 Disney computer-animated musical film Moana, the demigod Maui is voiced by Dwayne Johnson. Abandoned by his human parents as a baby, the gods took pity on him and made him a demigod and gave him a magic fish hook that gives him the ability to shapeshift.
Moana reminding Te Kā of her former identity. Te Kā is the main antagonist of Disney's 56th full-length animated feature film Moana. She was once the benevolent island goddess Te Fiti, but after her heart was stolen by the demigod Maui, she became a destructive lava demon.
In Disney's Moana, Te Kā was a 300-foot lava monster whose challenges led us to develop a library of reusable effects and new pipeline technology to streamline cross-departmental collaboration.
Te Fiti is a major character in Disney's 2016 animated feature film Moana. She is a goddess with the power to create life—an ability that she used to create the islands of Polynesia. After her heart had been stolen by Maui, she became Te Kā, a demon of earth and fire and the main antagonist of the film.
When Moana sets off into the ocean to find Maui, she packs a handful of things in her basket, and if you look close enough, you can spot Olaf's arm and nose among the pile.
One particularly dark theory posits that Moana actually died during the storm at the beginning, and that was why she encountered the demigod Maui when she washed up on the island he had been trapped on for millennia.
Sloth Monster - Being rather ominous and unpredictable, it has a sloth body with four, long arms with sharp claws. The most notable feature of this creature is its masked face strongly resembles Polynesian tribal masks portraying two different facial structures upside down.
Moana's very name means “ocean” in many Polynesian languages, and the name Tala, the name of Moana's grandmother, means “story” in Samoan. The song “We Know the Way” features lyrics in both Samoan and Tokelauan, a Polynesian language that only about 3,000 people in the world speak today.
The animated Disney film, Moana, called Vaiana in the French version, was inspired by The Islands of Tahiti. Disney's creative team visited the islands of Moorea, Tahiti and Huahine, which was the inspiration for the character Te Fiti. Follow our visitor's guide in the footsteps of Moana.
To do this, they journey into Lalotai, the Realm of Monsters ("Warrior Face - Parts 1-3"). Here, they find Tamatoa, the giant, egotistical crab who collects valuable objects - including Maui's hook. In Tamatoa's lair, Moana acts as a distraction while Maui finds his hook ("Shiny - Parts 1 and 2").
In Walt Disney Animation Studios' all-new epic animated musical, Moana 2, three years since her first voyage, Moana is on an expansive journey in search of people beyond the shores of Motunui. Moana 2 opens in theaters on Nov. 27, 2024.
This monster was revealed to be called the Sloth Monster. Presumably this is because it's actually based on the model used for Flash from the film Zootopia (but wearing a traditional Polynesian mask).
Maui appears as a main character in the 2016 Disney 3D computer-animated musical film Moana, in which he is voiced by Dwayne Johnson. Abandoned by his human parents as a baby, the gods took pity on him and made him a demigod and gave him a magic fishhook that gives him the ability to shape-shift.
Te Ka. Te Ka is a mountain of red-hot lava and flame, surrounded by clouds of scalding steam and ash. The molten monster is by far the most dangerous foe Moana and Maui are about to face. But face it they must, if they are to reach the island of Te Fiti!
