The Little Mermaid is a fantasy musical movie, a live-action remake of the 1989 movie, both of which are based on Hans Christian Anderson's story of the same name. It's produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Lucamar Productions, an Marc Platt Productions and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The Little Mermaid is written by David Magee and directed by Rob Marshall.
The story is Ariel has a curiosity not only the human world, but what it would be like to be a human. Using this curiosity to her advantage, the evil Ursula makes a deal with Ariel to give her just that. What she doesn't know is Ursula's just doing this for revenge. Now Ariel must not only need to complete the deal, but stop the sinister sea witch.
Initial Reaction
Now even though I wasn't agreeing with a lot of the changes, I was still willing to give this a chance.
Cons
One really bad thing about the movie is the songs. The classics aren't safe, those changes (and those aren't the only changes) hurt the songs. So when you hear 'Kiss the Girl', you can't enjoy as much as the original, because of the unnecessary changes. As far the newer songs...there's nothing special. They either fall into forgettable like Prince Eric's song (yeah Eric gets a song), or incredibly awful like 'The Scuttlebutt'. If any of you were the lucky ones who didn't even hear a small snippet of that song, keep it that way. Don't look it up, just don't. It's not worth it. Which brings me to the overall look of the movie. It really felt like this movie had an identity crisis. It's like it wants to be as bright and vibrant as the animated original, but then you have scenes where it's trying to be realistic. I get that the teaser trailer got a lot of backlash because of its coloring, but you know what, I would've much rather preferred if they chose either the initial coloring from the teaser or bright. Because doing both at the same time, like I said before, it give the movie an identity crisis. Then there's the changes, oh boy the changes. And no I'm not just referring the casting of Halle Bailey. I'm talking story changes. One change being Triton and Ursula are now siblings. Guess what, that piece of the story, went nowhere. It's said then never brought up again. So that was pointless. Then you have the whole kiss deal, where Ursula also makes Ariel lose her memory whenever she's getting close to her goal. Why? Ariel's already struggling with not having a voice, adding a memory erasing aspect, just makes it convoluted. But the biggest downside to these changes not only being unnecessary or convoluted, is in an effort to satisfy that annoying politically correct, woke crowd (who were never truly gonna see the movie to begin with) is now, it makes Disney seem like they have no idea what made the original 1989 animated movie so great. Such as that great development with Triton, that's gone. By the end of the movie, he's given no reason as to why he shouldn't hate humans anymore.
Middle Ground
The only mixed feelings I had with the movie was the effects and acting. The effects in some scenes actually look good, other times it really needed some more work put into it. As for the acting, most of the cast does just fine. Nothing spectacular, just fine. The one who did surprise though was Melissa McCarthy as Ursula. I mean it folks, she's truly the best out of all them.
Pros
I've got nothing.
While I don't downright hate the movie, I can't recommend any of you to see it. Even if you're a Little Mermaid fan, it's just not worth it.
My final rating is, Bad.
So, that's all for now. Come back on Monday, May 29th, for we'll return to real cinema! With the one and only, Bayformers! Even if that was clearly a joke, ya just know there's people who think I'm 100% serious. But yes, on that day, I'll be reviewing Transformers: The Last Knight. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.
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