Finding ʻOhana 2021

Home is where ʻohana is

6.287 / 10   395 vote(s)
PG
Adventure Action Comedy Family

Two Brooklyn siblings' summer in a rural Oahu town takes an exciting turn when a journal pointing to long-lost treasure sets them on an adventure, leading them to reconnect with their Hawaiian heritage.

Homepage https://www.netflix.com/title/81023618
Release Date 2021-01-29
Runtime 2h 3m
Directors Jude Weng, Cort Fey
Producers Ian Bryce, Irene Yeung, Jonathan Hook
Writer Christina Strain

Good watch, could watch again, and can recommend.

This is the closest movie I think I've ever seen to "Goonies", but definitely at a lower level of interest / quality.

It is good to see more Hawaiian / Polynesian culture in movies, even if this feels like it is more of a setting than a real immersive delve, but maybe that will be more palatable exposure for audicenes.

The "super natural" aspects of movie are probably the only real "problem", but clearly its part of the point of the movie. It weirdly makes the movie into a paranormal type of a movie, which (to me, at least), makes it feels almost as a slight to the Hawaiian culture that it embodies.

I imagine its about the same as the movie having angels, but it feels more like Egyptian mummies. But maybe we should be taking mummies more seriously, who knows.

Great little family watch. There might be more exciting things, but if you've got an urge to watch movies like "Goonies", give this a shot.

Kamurai