“ A MOVIE IS AN ART FORM; USAGE OF EXAGGERATIONS, COMEDY, ETC., TO DEVELOP CHARACTERS ARE ACCEPTABLE TRADES OF THE PROFESSION.
Black people did not complain when "Fat Albert" was cast as a big, overweight, black kid in the TV series of the same name.
Fellow Polynesians should get over it; Maui was a "trickster." He could be whatever he wanted to be.
Congratulations to Taika Waititi, and Samoan composer Opetaia Foa'i for this project. Other Polynesians now have the opportunity to spinoff some of their own Maui projects to include horror shows. ”