I think a younger generation will find it just as charming as the original. Certainly I enjoyed it and thought the actors made it work. Also there’s more drawn from the cultures of the Pacific and that works nicely with real people. After all the animation has its roots in real life experience.

Carbon capture was always political shorthand for doing nothing effective. Given our actual emission trends this project has worked out exactly as planned. Since it provided cover for continuing business as usual. There are better alternatives but they require rebuilding industries around new materials. Govts could mandate the transitions needed but are too captured by industry to take that risk.