Passes the Bechdel test

Moana 2

Name: Moana 2
Released: 2024

2024. Directed by David G. Derrick Jr. and Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller, written by Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller and Bek Smith.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
8 women characters. 11 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 21 scenes out of 57.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.

The film

After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she's ever faced.

Released: 27 Nov 2024
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Rated: PG
IMDb: 6.3 / 10
Metascore: 58 / 100
Awards: 7 wins & 31 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Moana 219 lines, woman
Maui 108 lines, man
Moni 54 lines, man
Loto 52 lines, woman
Matangi 40 lines, woman
Kele 38 lines, man
Simea 26 lines, woman
Chief Tui 16 lines, man
Nalo 8 lines, man
Tautai Vasa 8 lines, man

Full cast, 21 people

Auliʻi Cravalho as Moana (voice)
Dwayne Johnson as Maui (voice)
Hualālai Chung as Moni (voice)
Rose Matafeo as Loto (voice)
David Fane as Kele (voice)
Awhimai Fraser as Matangi (voice)
Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda as Simea (voice)
Temuera Morrison as Chief Tui (voice)
Nicole Scherzinger as Sina (voice)
Rachel House as Gramma Tala (voice)
Gerald Ramsey as Tautai Vasa (voice)
Alan Tudyk as Heihei (voice)
Jemaine Clement as Tamatoa (voice)
Tofiga Fepulea'i as Nalo (voice)
Jasmine Johnson as Moanabe (voice)
Tiana Johnson as Moanabe (voice)
Ata Maivia Johnson as Villager (voice)
Bryson Chun as Additional Voices (voice)
Noemi Josefina Flores as Additional Voices (voice)
Setarosa Tuitasi-Ledoux as Additional Voices (voice)
Bentley Pupuhi-Fernandez as Additional Voices (voice)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 16% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 57

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	0	0
3 to 4	10	0
5 to 6	5	0
7 to 8	4	8
9 to 10	41	4
11 to 12	4	7
13 to 14	5	6
15 to 16	8	9
17 to 18	25	11
19 to 20	11	4
21 to 22	8	4
23 to 24	4	0
25 to 26	2	9
27 to 28	43	30
29 to 30	14	6
31 to 32	5	2
33 to 34	10	3
35 to 36	2	7
37 to 38	4	22
39 to 40	49	5
41 to 42	9	9
43 to 44	20	20
45 to 46	16	24
47 to 48	16	27
49 to 50	24	17
51 to 52	2	4
53 to 54	3	3
55 to 56	10	8
57 to 57	2	3

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

LOTO: New canoe, how’d she hold up? Lay it on me. MOANA: I mean, it takes a bit to rotate the sail, but - LOTO: Got it! MOANA: No no no. Loto, you don’t-

SIMEA: Biiiiig Sissss! MOANA: I am honored to serve our people. May the ancestors continue to guide us.

SINA: Moana! MOANA: Motufetū, the island I have to find is Motufetū.

MOANA: IF I’M NOT HERE TO HOLD HER HAND... WILL SHE GROW TO UNDERSTAND? MOANA: Gramma! GRAMMA TALA: I’LL ALWAYS BE RIGHT BESIDE YOU... BUT PERHAPS YOU’RE MEANT FOR MORE..

GRAMMA TALA: Oh, what are you so worried about? MOANA: It’s not like last time. GRAMMA TALA: Last time you weren’t old enough to understand all you could lose... or learn. But here we are... together still... just a little different.… GRAMMA TALA: I can’t see where your story leads... but we never stop choosing who we are.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 59 are women's.

356 lines from women, 252 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

8 women and 9 men in the cast. 11 women and 13 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 35 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 55% of the words (3,129), men 45% (2,565). Women have 59% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

7 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 41% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: David G. Derrick Jr. (man), Jason Hand (man), Dana Ledoux Miller (woman)
Written by: Dana Ledoux Miller (woman), Jared Bush (man)
Story by: Bek Smith (woman), Jared Bush (man), Dana Ledoux Miller (woman)
Produced by: Christina Chen (woman), Yvett Merino (woman)
Edited by: Jeremy Milton (man), Michael Louis Hill (gender not listed)
Music by: Mark Mancina (man), Opetaia Foaʻi (man)
Production design by: Ian Gooding (man)
Cast by: Grace C. Kim (woman)