Is Moana (2026) OK for a 12 year old?

Likely fine. Little to manage. Moana scores 40 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Mild tier.

Is Moana (2026) OK for a 13 year old?

Likely fine. Little to manage. Moana scores 40 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Mild tier.

Is Moana (2026) OK for a 6 Year Old?

Q: Is Moana (2026) OK for a 4 year old?

Depends on the kid. Most small kids ride the storms and the pirates fine, since nothing there lasts long or resolves badly. Tala's illness and death is the moment to be ready for: it is played straight, with real sadness, not softened for the youngest viewers. Moana scores 40 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Mild tier.

Q: Is Moana (2026) OK for a 5 year old?

Depends on the kid. Most small kids ride the storms and the pirates fine, since nothing there lasts long or resolves badly. Tala's illness and death is the moment to be ready for: it is played straight, with real sadness, not softened for the youngest viewers. Moana scores 40 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Mild tier.

Q: Is Moana (2026) OK for a 6 year old?

Likely fine. The target audience. The voyage structure and the humor carry the story, and Tala's death becomes a gentle lesson about ancestors rather than a scare, especially with a parent nearby for that scene. Moana scores 40 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Mild tier.

Q: Is Moana (2026) OK for a 7 year old?

Likely fine. The target audience. The voyage structure and the humor carry the story, and Tala's death becomes a gentle lesson about ancestors rather than a scare, especially with a parent nearby for that scene. Moana scores 40 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Mild tier.

Q: Is Moana (2026) OK for an 8 year old?

Likely fine. The target audience. The voyage structure and the humor carry the story, and Tala's death becomes a gentle lesson about ancestors rather than a scare, especially with a parent nearby for that scene. Moana scores 40 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Mild tier.

Q: Is Moana (2026) OK for a 9 year old?

Likely fine. Easy, and the Te Ka reveal, that the monster is a hurting version of a goddess, lands as the emotional point of the movie rather than just a fight. Moana scores 40 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Mild tier.

Q: Is Moana (2026) OK for a 10 year old?

Likely fine. Easy, and the Te Ka reveal, that the monster is a hurting version of a goddess, lands as the emotional point of the movie rather than just a fight. Moana scores 40 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Mild tier.

Q: Is Moana (2026) OK for an 11 year old?

Likely fine. Easy, and the Te Ka reveal, that the monster is a hurting version of a goddess, lands as the emotional point of the movie rather than just a fight. Moana scores 40 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Mild tier.

Moana (2026) · the answer, age by age

Written by FilmScout, reviewed by Ben Fedyniak · Updated September 15, 2026

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40 MILD ScoutScore

For most 6 year olds, Moana is a yes with two scenes that need a parent close by. It scores 40 on the ScoutScore, in the Mild tier, and the two moments that decide it are Grandmother Tala's death, shown directly rather than softened, and the finale, where Moana faces down the lava demon Te Ka in a sustained, fiery battle. The rest is adventure-comedy: coconut pirates, a giant crab, a capsized canoe. The typhoons pass quickly. The grief and the fire do not.

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Age by age

Under 6 DEPENDS

Most small kids ride the storms and the pirates fine, since nothing there lasts long or resolves badly. Tala's illness and death is the moment to be ready for: it is played straight, with real sadness, not softened for the youngest viewers.

Ages 6 to 8 LIKELY FINE

The target audience. The voyage structure and the humor carry the story, and Tala's death becomes a gentle lesson about ancestors rather than a scare, especially with a parent nearby for that scene.

Ages 9 to 11 LIKELY FINE

Easy, and the Te Ka reveal, that the monster is a hurting version of a goddess, lands as the emotional point of the movie rather than just a fight.

Ages 12 and up LIKELY FINE

Little to manage.

By the year

The same verdicts, by the exact age you are asking about.

4 year old	DEPENDS	Most small kids ride the storms and the pirates fine, since nothing there lasts long or resolves badly.
5 year old	DEPENDS	Most small kids ride the storms and the pirates fine, since nothing there lasts long or resolves badly.
6 year old	LIKELY FINE	The target audience.
7 year old	LIKELY FINE	The target audience.
8 year old	LIKELY FINE	The target audience.
9 year old	LIKELY FINE	Easy, and the Te Ka reveal, that the monster is a hurting version of a goddess, lands as the emotional point of the movie rather than just a fight.
10 year old	LIKELY FINE	Easy, and the Te Ka reveal, that the monster is a hurting version of a goddess, lands as the emotional point of the movie rather than just a fight.
11 year old	LIKELY FINE	Easy, and the Te Ka reveal, that the monster is a hurting version of a goddess, lands as the emotional point of the movie rather than just a fight.
12 year old	LIKELY FINE	Little to manage.
13 year old	LIKELY FINE	Little to manage.

Where the big moments land

The three scenes below track the movie's one real loss and its two biggest action peaks. Tala's illness is the one to be in the room for.

32:34	Heads up	Grandmother Tala falls gravely ill
1:20:00	Heads up	First encounter with Te Ka - Maui abandons Moana
1:29:53	Caution	Final battle - Moana and Maui vs. Te Ka

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The bottom line

A grandmother's goodbye lands harder than any wave the ocean throws. Most 6 year olds are ready for the typhoons and the crab; stay close for Tala's illness and let the finale's mercy do the rest.

Content map

How the scenes we flagged in this movie divide up by kind. These are shares of what was flagged, not a level, and not a promise about anything we did not flag: a movie with very little flagged content can still be 80% one kind.

Flagged mostly for scary and dark.

Scary and dark	66%
Violence and action	12%
Themes	22%
Sexual content	none flagged
Substances	none flagged
Language	none flagged
All flagged content	100%

Direction is the kind of content flagged. Reach is the ScoutScore, which is how much there is: green at the centre, yellow, orange, then red at the dotted line, which is 100. The scale has no ceiling, so a shape can cross it.

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