About origins of The Little Mermaid story.

It was screated by late talented H.C. Andersen & is completely his creation, though influenced by De la Motte Fouqué‘s “Undine” ^^ ‘The Little Mermaid‘ tells the story of a teenage mermaid princess named Ariel, who dreams of becoming human & falls in love with a humie prince named Eric. That leads her to make a magical deal with the octopus witch, Ursula, to become human & be with him. 🔮 Ariel is 16- year of age & is dissatisfied with her underwater life, but is fascinated by the humies world. With her best friend Flounder, Ariel visits Scuttle, a seagull who gives Ariel inaccurate information about humans & collects human artifacts in her grotto. She ignores the warnings of her father King Triton, the ruler of Atlantica. He set a rule that contact between merpeople & humies is forbidden ❌

On one night Ariel, Flounder & Sebastian, a crab who serves as Triton’s adviser & court composer, travel to the ocean surface to watch a birthday celebration for Prince Eric. While watching, Ariel falls in love with Eric at first sight. Here’s the original ‘The Little Mermaid‘ movie that i watched at fourth grade when teacher gave a movie day 📽🍿 Week after the Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure movie chosen by boys. The second we watched in two parts cause of length. After reading this, go & have a read of my Kenobi review 🛋

Thoughts about ‘The Little Mermaid’ (6023)

First before those have to say that shame on big suits at Mickey’s Corporation. Image at top is fan made art. It wasn’t included in this live act remake & those two characters got worse looks 😢 I went to good ol 2d screening at six pm with friend & her child. We got two tickets from raffle & bought one. It receives some praise from three of us, but more dislike cause of solid reasons that are at bottom of this section 👇 We’re not only ones who noticed some bad casting choices & people included are critics & ‘normie’ viewers 🕵 King Triton played by Javier Bardem feels like sedated character, which is surprising when know Javier’s acting past. This live act remake (or “live act” as 90% is cgi) is 50mins longer than the original, one that followed proper length for kids movie ⌛ Mickey Corporation’s decision to increase it so much was a bad call for many reasons ☹ It has several stray steps with one of them being the decision to make the once animated animals horridly photorealistic 🤦‍♂️

That way pushing the movie to an uncomfy uncanny valley where the dreepy eyes of Ariel’s aquatic friends attempt to drift the story along. The songs are almost fine on their own except ear wrecking Scuttlebutt 😬 This song is a torture to audience ears & all that is holy in the music history. It’s confusing to think of how big suits allowed that to go into finished product 🤯 Person who sounds like past age of fifty chain smoker is “rapping” it. Lyrics are also pretty dumb. Live-action element styms a song like “Under the Sea” – not only have the instruments been taken from the fish & other animals, a certain smiley touch is missing as well 🥴 Makes you think if this remake was made for kids or for women who were kids at that time when one with Jodie Benson came out 🤔

Feels like changes made from that to this year’s live act remake turned the plot into somewhat messy pile of clothes. It brings out bad writing like dissing out father’s parenting & other things 😒 Lets not forget that there’s also other stories to be told on mermaids, Africa even has it’s own folklore set around them. All were left out because as we know, on these days legitimacy is only seen in white characters. Race swapping another beloved character wasn’t needed & it doesn’t benefit anyone 🤷‍♂️ Oh yes even Karen Gillan would’ve been better choice as Ariel for this movie 👧
GOOD & BAD:
+Songs that got through sound good. Not a surprise because Halle has singer background.
+Melissa McCarthy is the best thing in this mostly bland ‘remake‘. Not good when best part of movie.
– Les Poissons not on this so that’s a semi insult to late talented René Auberjonois. Chef’s nasty work could’ve got improvised look for live act movie to fit better. Big ‘shame on‘ to Mickey Corporation.
– Scuttlebutt song. It can get terrorist to share info when forced to listen via headphones 😬
– Some lyrics were changed for couple songs & same for events close to end of movie.
– Mostly shallow acting by Halle &Javier. Jonah’s Eric character was made to be nothing, but a pretty face. Man wasn’t allowed to save the sea like back in the days 🤷‍♂️ Taking rescue at end away from him was dumb change because King Triton still thinks that every human has evil intentions 🤦‍♂️
– “Realistic” trend of cgi animals 🥴 Disney before today’s crap times made strange-looking animals like Sebastian & Flounder to look as they did in -89 movie. Good calls back then 👌
– Movie managed to miss some key parts from original even is almost 1hr longer. No rewatch value.
– Runtime is thirty five to forty mins too long for being a kids movie 👩‍👦
– Late talented H.C. Andersen’s work not respected via content he wrote 🤖

With heavy’ish heart we give high school rating 6/10 so is far from being a gem. Definitely not one to be praised into stratosphere 👨🏽‍🏫 Sincerely recommend that this live act remake not shown to kids so they’re saved from mental scars & suffering 🤗 Write below if wanna share same or even different opinion or more about this wreck of a remake movie ✍ Good June to everyone, stay well & remember to replace plastic bags with fabric 🛍💚