WATCH: First MOANA Film Clip

Walt Disney Animation Studios' newest Princess, Moana, is set to sail the big screen this upcoming November 23rd! With just over a month until the film's debut, Disney has released the first Moana Clip on the newly sanctioned "Moana Mondays," a phrase that the studio is using to segment every Monday of a new week to reveal new information or press materials for the moviegoing public! Check out the first Moana film clip from today's "Moana Mondays" after the break!

First Moana Film Clip:

Watch the brand new, first clip from Disney's #Moana! Catch the film in theatres in 3D this Thanksgiving □□□ #MoanaMondays pic.twitter.com/fjNTHF5gvx

— Moana (@DisneyMoana) October 17, 2016

While I do love the quick banter between Moana and Maui, I do have an issue with the "tweet" joke. One of the many things I love- and we all love- about Disney Animated films is their timeless quality. I feel that the "tweet" joke that Maui uses to describe how he signs things for his fans is perhaps too on the nose and ephemeral. What sets Disney Animation and Pixar apart from the rest of animation competition is the lack of pop-culture references and jokes that we are used to hearing in say Dreamworks' Shrek or Illumination's Despicable Me franchises. I hope that this one joke is not an example of what the bulk of the comedy in Moana will be. Especially for a film that celebrates ancient culture and traditional family values, Moana does not seem to meld with pop-cultural jokes and antics.

Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one knows why.

From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes “Moana,” a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager who sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey, Moana (voice of Auli’i Cravalho) meets the once-mighty demigod Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson), who guides her in her quest to become a master wayfinder. Together, they sail across the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous monsters and impossible odds, and along the way, Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors and discovers the one thing she’s always sought: her own identity. Directed by the renowned filmmaking team of Ron Clements and John Musker (“The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin,” “The Princess & the Frog”) and produced by Osnat Shurer (“Lifted,” “One Man Band”), “Moana” sails into U.S. theaters on Nov. 23, 2016.