Dwayne Johnson & Auli’i Cravalho Shine at D23 with ‘Moana 2’ Trailer & Hula Dancers

If Dwayne Johnson didn’t have any plans to show up at Disney’s D23, well then, they should have just shut down the whole fan confab. Of course, the voice of Maui in Moana 2 would put in some facetime to excite the 15K in the Honda Center at the Anaheim Convention Center who gave him a standing ovation.

“This is the largest crowd that D23 has ever had in the history of Disney,” exclaimed the wrestler-turned-superstar actor who led the crowd in a Hawaiian chant “Tay-ho!”

Auli’i Cravalho came on stage before Johnson and kicked off D23’s first session with a live performance with Hawaiian dancers of the Moana 2 song “Who We’re Meant to Be.”

Cravalho told D23 host Nicole Yvette Brown that Moana is searching nearby islands in the sequel for more people.

Johnson beamed, “Maui is singing again in keys that don’t exist and my hair looks fantastic.”

What he loves about the sequel, is that it’s about a “young girl who is empowered that there’s more in life than what’s in front of her.”

“Wait till you see the villains we have in this one, it’s the storm of all storms.”

Johnson then threw it to a new trailer, singing “You’re Welcome” to great cheers.

Moana 2 hits theaters on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Nov. 27.

Johnson closed out Disney’s big CinemaCon panel back in April in Las Vegas. At that time, he was preceded onstage by a group of Hawaiian dancers and percussionists.