I will keep saying this as a POC, I'm so extremely tired of them not giving us original characters. We could have had another official black princess, instead what we get is a lazy attempt at diversity that keeps pushing the narrative that we as POC are okay with not having original characters. It's such a toxic narrative to push too because it makes films that could be more impactful for youth stay in limbo because Disney just doesn't want to take risks and give us original characters. The only way to diversify these princess movies is to start taking those risks and giving us original characters. Halle Bailey is lovely and she's perfect for a princess role but why couldn't she just have had her own character? Why couldn't we have had our second black princess? It's honestly so infuriating at this point. They claim to support us but swapping races in a movie and calling it a day just ain't it.
I have a book out featuring a black princess, it's actually a Sleeping Beauty retelling, but she does become a mermaid for a few chapters because she's living out twisted versions of fairy tales from our world in the nightmares induced by a fungus, which is what is keeping her from being in slumber until she dies.
Thank you! There’s so many cultures with folk lore and fairytales that aren’t European that Disney could be taking inspiration from. We need a new renaissance where Disney put in the effort to study other cultures and stories to create unique stories about POC characters. Japan literally has lots of princess stories from their culture. It would be a dream to learn about different types of African lore and Middle Eastern lore or even Caribbean lore. Simply taking German and French fairytales and slapping a poc character on it isn’t real representation. And it’s more fun to learn about different parts of the world. The only reason Tiana worked despite Princess and the Frog being originally a European story because they took into account the time period, setting, and the character’s personal experience, making the story archetype of Princess and the Frog a background to the message of the story.
Yes. Countries around the world despite some not having royal families anymore were all once kingdoms. They sure have lore and fairytales and novels with princes and princesses if Disney would just look.
@Lala Emm Yes I don't know why parents and teachers of black kids still teach them to hold a grudge and be bitter about it. White colonists actually did horrible things around the world not just to Africans but nobody is holding a grudge anymore. I've been in the US for over 2 decades and I think in general white people are nice and civil. Sure I've met some white Americans that look down on me as an Asian but some black Americans looked down on me as well. There are good and bad people everywhere but in general I don't think the US is as bad as some blacks and Asians make it seem like in the news.
Him being a visiting prince would have been so much better I think. It would show Eric has an adventurous side while also showing he's still taking his responsibilities as prince seriously and establishing diplomatic ties
There was a huge missed opportunity with Ursula's garden. The eyeball plants grabbing at Ariel could have been the debtors to the sea witch who couldn't pay. Then they'd be trying to stop her from making their mistake.
It seemed pointless to have them there if that wasn't the case. I'm guessing they didn't want to animate the scene of 100s of merfolk being freed so they had them stay dead
@@QueenMariposa5 yeah. That was a pretty dumb decision on their part. It would have been better to just insert the '89 scenes in those places if they didn't have any of that $250,000,000.00 left to do it properly themselves. That dumbass decision lead to Triton being disintegrated rather than turning into a sea plant. Which means he couldn't see Eric risking his life for his True Love. Overcoming the sort of anger and fear Triton had about Ariel's interactions with humans would be really hard to overcome. Being able to see some of that selflessness on Eric's part would go a long way to healing that. Being told, "I had help." Does not have the same impact. And now the 🔱 can bring people back to life?!? How many worm holes does that concept open up? Must not have cared about the Momma too much or she'd be alive I guess. That was definitely a better plan than having the magic spells that were holding the victims hostage be released once the holder of that magic dies. 🙄
Ariel's iconic village dress with the bright blue skirt was one of my favorite Disney princess costumes. (As a kid, I had an Ariel doll with that costume.) I hate what they replaced it with.
I saw someone wearing it at an anime convention back in 2017 and thought she was cosplaying Anna in her final dress, because the blue of both is similar, and also I hadn't seen Little Mermaid in a long time at that point.
If it's not broken DON'T FIX IT. Thats the lesson that one way or another Disney will learn. Whether or not they learn this before they completely lose their audience is up to them.
I don't know, the original got a LOT of criticism over its protagonist and how she came off as bratty. Because such discourse has been a thing for YEARS, Disney definitely HAD to make some slight changes to address those people. Some parents BANNED the animated version from viewing in their homes!
@@DrawciaGleam02 And because of the original film gaining so much criticism over the years, I was worried that the remake will surpass and beat the original. The remake will be loved and adored for generations while the original would end up forgotten and fade away into obscurity. But, I was wrong. So......am I missing something?
@@Disneyfan82 I think I was able to figure it out. The narrative is more traditional unlike modern Disney films like Beauty and the Beast and Princess and the Frog. The narrative in the Little Mermaid is trying to be like Snow White where the focus is on the emotion and less on the logic. But, at the same time, the Little Mermaid is also trying to evolve with its protagonist, who is portrayed as a more realistic character, unlike Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty (who are passive in their own stories). So, Ariel is a character who belongs in a more modern narrative like Frozen where the logic of the narrative plays an essential role. So, if people see Ariel (A realistic character) do a bunch of things in a story where the logic takes the back seat like Snow White (like falling in love at first sight, not being aware of her actions, striking a deal with Ursula, not learning a valuable lesson in the end (like Snow White), then people are going to conclude with misguided comments like "Ariel is a badly written and boy crazy", "Ariel selling her voice for a man is sexist", "Ariel doesn't get punished for her actions", "Ariel is a spoiled brat and a jerk", "Ariel doesn't learn anything", "Ariel puts everyone in danger", "Ariel is a weak and helpless damsel", and so on. I've learned that from Doug Walker (aka The Nostalgia Critic) who recently reviewed The Little Mermaid and brought along one of the animators who worked on the film who stated that Ariel has some elements from the past Disney films like Snow White and Cinderella because the people who made the original wanted to make a movie stand the test of time like those classic Disney films from the past. But, at the same time, they're also evolving with its protagonist who is and feels more realistic. So, The Little Mermaid is a transitional Disney film that has both a classic and modern narrative while later Disney films will have a more modern narrative like Beauty and the Beast and Frozen where the logic takes more center stage. I know Doug Walker nowadays has become a joke and less than a superstar because of all the scummy things he did to his coproducers and how mismanaged he is and how much of a sellout he has become. But, at the same time, he did manage to include someone who indeed worked on the film and what good way to get to the bottom of this critisim is to go to the source (and I mean a proper source because Disney has a tendency to treat its cast members like puppets and force them to agree with everything Disney says and say what Disney forces them to say just to cover their tracks and dark past and avoid bad publicity). It's complicated but it's true. So, the cast and crew have decided to give their Little Mermaid remake a modern feminist spin so it won't be seen as problematic when audiences go see the remake. Plus, the cast and crew, including Halie Bailey herself, claim that the remake is better than the original. Let's see, a modern character in a modern narrative that's going to update and fix the problems the original had by "fixing the romance", "improving" the story by making not be about "Ariel leaving the ocean for a boy", defining Ariel as "a modern woman who isn't defined by needing a man's love", and "fixing the ending" by having Ariel defeat Ursula instead of Prince Eric. Sounds like a winner right? He-he.....WRONG! Despite these updates and "improvements", the remake failed to beat the original and it's being review bombed and rejected commercial-wise internationally from France, China, Korea, and many more. So......the remake is missing something. Am I missing something?
Looking forward to your deep dive on the movie. Your analysis is always so interesting. For me the most disappointing thing about all of this is that these filmmakers were actually onto something with the Caribbean aesthetic and Halle Bailey as a mermaid princess. If those two elements had been used to make a brand new movie with an original story, I would've gladly forked over the $30 for a theater ticket. I'm just not interested in seeing a re-textured version of the 1989 animated classic, especially since the writers for this remake keep pretending that the original was somehow dangerous and problematic (hot take: no it wasn't).
THAT WAS WHAT MY BROTHER KEPT SAYING! They could've made something so cool, but no they just ruined the original instead of taking the concept and making something new with it. I wanted to watch it just to make my own opinion about it but it looks so boring.
So much yes. Let's them feel very important to look down on the original that was so great they needed to make it again but fix all the problems that are imaginary instead of something new.
The breathey thing doesn't work because she's also belting out the song. You watch Jodi recording the original and she's being given directions for less volume and more intensity. To be more reserved in her singing, but more animated in breathing and inflection. From what I heard of the new one, which is only half of Part of Your World - before I turned it off* - they basically treated volume as intensity. * I actually only listened to like 15 seconds the first time, but I got into an argument about it being shit, and said I hadn't heard the whole thing - I'm a sound engineer, 15 seconds is plenty - and they demanded I listen to the whole thing before I judge it, and I tried, I really tried, but it's actually horrific. I found a video of Halle singing it live at Disneyland and that was better than the one in the movie. I don't know what their sound engineer was thinking. It's also mixed terribly, the backing is way too loud, even with her singing so much louder than the original, it adds even more... Bravado?... To what should be a sombre song. The song basically comes off as excited depression, and it's hard to vibe with that oxymoronic emotion.
I'm honestly surprised this movie isn't straight-up banned. That Scuttle song is military-grade psychological weaponry. This abomination is just a desecration of the source material.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 I'm still shocked that they paid money for that song. Even if I agreed with you that the rest was alright I would consider that a significant downgrade over the original.
I never understood the appeal of these live action remakes. Honestly what does it say about us when we go to pay to see these movies for nostalgia when we could just watch the original only for them to be made worse.
Its not really for us, its more for parents to drop off their kids at theaters to have a few hours of peace and don't really care about what movie is playing
@@АлексейМомот-щ7о Sadly there are many people who don't pay attention to everything Disney does or think Disney is in the right for controlling Reedy Creek
1. Eric was a legit prince in the original, his parents never show up but we can assume from his title that the king is probably still alive or the king and queen died, and we can assume that Eric's parents look like Eric, but Eric wouldn't take the throne as king until he's 21 years old, which means that he still has 3 more years before he would take the throne as king in the animated version. Having Eric being adopted in this version would realistically cause people to question if he's the legit prince and son of the queen. 2. Royalty cares about keeping the royal blood "pure" which means that the person taking the throne must have royal blood, if the king or queen have no children of their own, the throne would be passed to the next person that has the royal blood after the king or queen dies or give up the throne, this person could be the brother or sister of the king/queen, which means that an adopted child won't have the title of "prince" or "princess" and isn't considered as one of the people in the line of succession 3. How does Ariel know how to steer a ship in the middle of a storm all of a sudden without prior experience with steering ships? 4.It was established in the animated version that mermaids can't stand with fins and keep that position, since steering a ship would need the lower body to be stable, how the hell is she able to keep the upright position and steer the ship? 5.Why is there no wedding before traveling together in a story set in the early 19th century? 6.Triton has a prejudice against humans, why would he let Ariel go without Eric proving himself to be good like in the animated version? 7.The setting was colonized by the British people, why is there a queen on British colony? Isn't the queen of British colony British queen? Why do they have their own queen? 8.We can assume that Ariel's voice does have a siren like quality, but she didn't really intend to use it to get Eric in the animated version. In the animated version, the effect of her singing is really unintentional, she's just singing her wish to Eric at that point. 9.How do they explain the differences among the sisters physically? They don't even look like family compared to the original animation. Triton's wife was killed by humans, which traumatized Triton to a point that he wouldn't even allow music in his kingdom as it reminded him of his deceased wife, and now they're implying after the first wife died he just has that much energy to hit on other mermaids all around the world? 10.In the original, Eric found Ariel, that's why when he helps her, he takes her back to the castle. Why would the fishermen take Ariel to the castle when they found her? Considering the time frame and the racial tension, wouldn't it be more likely that they thought of her as a slave? 11.If Ariel is that obsessed with the human world and the surface, wouldn't it be more reasonable that she constantly goes up there like in the animated version? Why this remake had to change that? 12.If the queen is also controlling, wouldn't that take away some of the incentive of being human? Because Ariel did thought of her father as controlling and she wanted to be free from that in the animated version. 13.If Ursula has that much power to warp Ariel's memory and forget that she needs the kiss, why not just kidnap Ariel, warp her memory and tell Triton to come and save her and tell Triton to give her his trident in exchange for Ariel's memory? 14.Even if Ariel forgets that she needs the kiss, why would she pull away from kissing a guy she's attracted to? 15.Didn't Ariel already consented for Eric to kiss her when she signed that contract that says a true love's kiss from Eric would get her legs forever? 16.If we have to have verbal consent in fairytales, should other princesses that are physically unable to do verbal consent when their true love's kiss broke their curses keep being cursed forever because they're unable to give verbal consent at the moment of the kiss? 17.Why does she know how to swim with legs the second she got them as apposed to the original where she's not used to it, having got legs for the first time and Sebastian and Flounder had to help her swim? 18.Why do we have to feel sorry for a villain? No matter what led the villains to the way they're portrayed, they're still the villains and should be completely evil, right? 19.If Eric's parent/parental figure is controlling, wouldn't that be cutting the incentive of being with him and being free from Triton's controlling behavior, and ultimately, being human? 20.Why would Triton, a king traumatized by the death of his wife in the hands of human pirates so much so that he banned music from the kingdom, willing to send his daughter away to be with a human without the human proving himself to be a good human like in the animated version worthy of Triton's respect and blessings on his marriage to his daughter? Thank you for reading my questions, but there are so many plot holes in this live action remake compared to the animated version that I just can't help but want to ask questions🥺
I love all of the questions you asked! I think the little mermaid as a whole has a lot of different ways to be made into a new film. Just like the brother grimms version of it. They could've kept the little mermaid theme while also changing it up. If they wanted to change so much of the live action, why not just add better twists to it?
@@gracethepeacock7532 Or they can write a new story. Also, the original scene where Ursula died was epic, but the live action seem to be taking out a lot of that over the top dying scene from what I've heard.
This whole stuff with verbal consent in fairytales is really getting ridiculous. Yes, we all get that it's WRONG to take advantage of someone who's either unconscious or mute but here, according to these amateur activists, lifesaving gestures like mouth-to-mouth and heart massage should be illegal. It's even more ludicrous in the Little Mermaid case when she CAN'T verbally express her consent and (at least in the animated version) was begging to get a kiss. I mean... Non-verbal communication is a thing too, right ? Also, you've made a pertinent remark with Eric's controlling mother. That does a complete desservice to the entire point of Ariel wanting to live on the surface to be away from her father's bossy attitude ("Bet'cha on land they understand and don't reprimand their daughters"). For here, she gets away from a controlling and domineering parental figure's attitude to another in the person of her future mother-in-law. All that to add more "empowered" female characters to the story or force a parallel between Ariel and Eric, I guess...
@@BEB156 Yes, it's like, fairytales have simple structures, that's why there's usually no verbal consent in them. In the original it's really simple. The opposites attract, and they worked together to get their happy ending. Ariel was already empowered, the live action version is overbearing, and if they really want Ariel to kill Ursula, couldn't they think of something that a mermaid can actually do instead of what Eric did? Like, fictional worlds also have rules that they follow, it's not like because it's fictional you can just suddenly change the rules of which it operates. Somehow two people who are attracted to each other can't both lean in for a kiss just because now the women have to be girl boss who don't want love or need love. I've seen a lot of balanced couples and balanced characters in animation, it's a shame that Disney can't do that now because they had lost sight of Walt's vision for the studio.
@@unigenius That's strange...considering that they all looked like they were from the same family on the original but here they couldn't be less alike if they tried.
Honestly, I can sum up my thoughts on tlm with your words from one of your previous videos: they don't understand their own works. I saw tidbits of an article where the director explains why he changed some plot points and they were so dumb... Like, he complained about how the king was too obsessed with his daughters' voices and he said that her going to the surface for the first time would "raise the stakes". I didn't like anybody in the live action, tbh. triton was underwhelming, even though i should be scared of him. ursula was meh. the sisters felt sort of disposable. eric was average. the chemistry was non-existent... not as bad as the mulan remake, but it still sucked. what disappoints me is that they're going to use halle bailey as a shield from any sort of criticism, even though their poor handling of the movie is a fact.
I read Ariel and Curse of The Sea Witches. It actually pretty good book. Ariel and Eric was In character, it actually acknowledge the different relationship of Human and Merfolks in the Arctic and gave a good message about the environment and way to co-exist in peace. Good book.
Spoilers/// - - It was okey, what I loved was how they really went all in with the concept of ariel being a nerd and studious (also she likes to draw! Cute) and how she still cares for her roots, thats what her character always was about but people keep saying she is just a woman who gave her voice for a guy and nothing else. I also liked the desings of the mermaids, at first I thought it was odd they were pale and not flesh colored like the merfolk of atlantica but then I thought that they might be based in the inuit folcklore of the Qallupilluit creature (although these mermaids are not evil and not near as scary) since we see inuit people in the book (also eric's cousin is inuit, so thats nice to know) Other than that, I thought it was a little dissapointing, I didnt expect eric to be as prominent as ariel since its her story but they had him being kidnapped/away sick in bed for most of the book, thats not very entertaining. I also didnt see the point in the queen being in love with a human plot and then not making it important, they could have just leave it at making her a genderbend triton + the enviromentalist aspect. The conflict resolution was also a bummer since it was entirely offpages Overall, ariel was great, intelligent, sweet, determined, diplomatic, kind, perfect! Everything else was sort of lacking tho
I’m pretty sure that Scuttlebutt song is a violation of the Geneva Convention. If the military ever wants to interrogate terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, they should use that song. The terrorist would crack within 25 seconds.
Animation Ariel had drive. This Ariel had nothing! Amnesia spell or not, this Ariel was a clueless airhead. Original Ariel was clueless, but in a charming way.
Fatigue implies people are tired due to overexposure. In reality people are sick. These live action remakes and the constant attacks on old fans are toxic, and people have started to realize it.
I'm looking forward to when you look at the Little Mermaid remake's changes (or as Disney likes to call them "upgrades" and "improvements" that "fix the original"). The cast and crew making this Little Mermaid remake claim to have updates that "improve" the original's "problems." Because of what the cast and crew said about this remake, it sounds like the remake is going to end up as the superior film, just like what Halie Bailey said, by "fixing the romance", "defining" Ariel "not being defined by needing a man's love", "fixing" the plot by not making the plot be about "Ariel leaving the ocean for a boy", and "fixing" the ending by having Ariel defeat Ursula instead of Prince Eric. But...........somehow the remake failed to beat the original. So, something is missing. Am I missing something?
I don't buy the excuse that each of King's daughters is supposed to represent different seas and people that live near those seas. I can guarantee that it's not true, Disney is too lazy and incompetent at this point. There is only one wife mentioned. Even if we accept that they're a mixed couple how the heck does that make pure Asian, Ebony Black, and apparently naturally pink hair? The excuse that fish are colorful doesn't hold any water (wink wink). Fish can only be the color of their species. Great White Shark won't have pink offspring. Clown Fish won't have blue and yellow stripes. Also, they need to explain that Eric is adopted because he's white but the queen is black. You can't have it both ways! Either explain or don't address it at all!
I believe that in this universe that merfolk are a polyamorous culture and Triton likely had a harem of mermaids that he impregnated. I loved the sisters though they all looked beautiful, but we all truthfully know they each had their own mother lol.
I thought the idea was these mermaids live withtheir mothers maybe in the sea where they are associated with, and have the culture there and in the movie we would see some of that, and they never met Ariel before and come at Triton's call for some reason, maybe an anniversary since Athena died, and they're all jealous that Ariel got to live witht heir Pops and they didn't', all those years.
I dont think is that important, blind race cast is nothing new, specially in these fantasy settings, I recommed watching some of the little mermaid musicals lol, is not the first time ariel has multiracial sisters, I do kinda wish they didnt explain eric's mum, seemed unnecesary
@@Burns_REDYeah, just about a year and one month since M started her sabbatical. Sure, she shows up every now and then for reactions, but it would be nice to see the two sisters making all their videos together again. Hope M is well.
I haven't seen the movie, but the fact that they had a phantasy underwater world and they turned it into the most boring thing ever (in terms if design) just makes me sad, little girls LOVE mermaids and fairies, make those worlds wonderful and colorful my God 😅
I was going to say they could do more with that in a sequel, but then I recalled that Ariel and Eric go off on an adventure abovewater, which kind of defeats the purpose of having a fantasy sea land in the first place.
gonna go out on a limb and say Ursula's tentacles having a mind of their own was a fun biology choice, since octopi have a form of distributed intelligence across their entire body. I think a lot of people find real life sea creatures inherently creepy and foreign lol, because they evolved for such a wildly different environment than land creatures, so I can kinda see why someone might be unnerved by some of the sealife choices I was also super upset that we didn't get our opening concert with the atlantica princesses 😭They really took out what shreds of culture the mermaids had in the '89 version for a gathering of paper thin value to the plot
The Coral Lunar meeting was confusing. We never see the event at all and there wasn't an audience to impress. So Ariel not being there held no consequence. Honestly I think didn't want to animate a bunch of mermaids, especially since they had Ursula kill her clients.
When I first heard the audio release of Part of Your World, i full on decided I wasn't going to watch this film. The music was what made the little mermaid as it is, and it's SUPPOSED to be what makes the film special. Especially Ariel's song. Don't get me wrong, I think Halle Bailey has a beautiful voice. I just don't think the direction on how it was supposed to be sung was done justice. I saw someone from the comments say the breathey aspect made it seem like a 4th wall break that they do in musical theatres, and I couldn't agree more. It lacked technique, and naturalness of character. In the first version done by Jodi Benson, Ariel started the song sounding fascinated about her collection as she shows it off to Flounder. She was talking to FLOUNDER. It gradually evolves to wonder, then excitement, expressing how she wants to explore and know more about the human world. There wasn't anything melancholic at first, just purely romanticizing about her dream to Flounder. As the song goes on, she sounds more passionate, still telling Flounder about the many things she wants to know. By the time she reached the line "When's it my turn?", that's when she finally starts to sound desperate. So desperate, until she eventually realizes that her dream was impossible when she sang the final line. This part of the song is what makes the original impactful, because it did a major shift on the character's emotions, and how Arie'ls dream truly mattered to her. In Halle's version, she already started the song sounding melancholic and a little more desperate than being excited about showing her collection to Flounder. I couldn't hear an aspect of wonder from her voice, as it was too focused on Ariel's longing and melancholy, when that should've been highlighted later on in the song. So when it reached the climax, it couldn't get the same emotional impact as it did from the original. Part of Your World is a ballad. It's a song that describes Ariel's love to be on land. It's not just about her feeling sad she can't go there. If you take away that large aspect of wonder from her song, then she's no longer solely singing about her longing to explore the world. It more so sounds like her wanting to run from her current life.
Did anyone else find it weird that only flounder Sebastian and scuttlebutt or the only ones that talk animal-wise throughout the entire movie? When there was an assortment of hundreds of creatures under the sea that could talk?
In the "kiss the girl" scene, Ursula adds a memory erase spell so whenever Eric tries to kiss Ariel, she rejects him to prevent metoo implications. But, if she's underva memory spell, then she doesn't have agency. They tried to fix a perceived problem but she's still under another character's control via the memory spell. So im not sure how much progress theyvthink they made in changing the song🤔
I also felt they were stripping ariel of her agency by making her forget the kiss, in the original she knew what she had to do to keep being human and she tried to achieve it but here she is not the one driving her own story anymore but sebastian, she is sort of aimless the whole time😓
Thank you for commenting on ariel’s breathy parts in part of your world. I do agree that she sounds good whenever she’s not doing that 😅 it distracted me during the song
Can someone explain why the freak they changed the gender of the seagull. And anyway people are overrating this movie in America so I’m glad Europa audience is giving bad reviews. This shit ain’t it. And PS Bailey can’t just act just like any actor in this film. Even the actor of Triton was so lame
They were too lazy to give Ariel a female friend like they did Jasmine in live action Aladdin. And also, Kaa's gender was swapped in Jungle Book although I guess without Winnie the Pooh's voice coming out Kaa, wouldn't have worked for a male.
The original actress for Ariel that was acting for the animators back in the 80s to rotoscope her expressions was so much better, that actress actually had a background in improv and she's so much more expressive. But I guess that's the difference between the original animation and the remake, people who were doing the original animations were really making the animation with love and they were really having fun coming up with ideas for the scenes. They got the top tier people for the original but the people they got for the remake just isn't up there.
BRUHH I WISH they didn't cut out daughters of triton. One of Lin's most iconic techniques is overlapping a group of character's theme songs. In "We Don't Talk About Bruno" 7 family members are given a unique melody, and once they are all sung together beautifully at the climax. I wish Lin had done that for the 7 Daughters of Triton. Ariel already has her iconic riff, why not give her sister's one too?
@@kbraven7007 in my opinion it does add to the story. The live action made Ariel miss a family meeting which significantly lowers down the stakes. Ariel is supposed to feel guilty and Triton is supposed to be reasonably angry at her for embarrassing the royal family. When live action Triton destroys her collection he just comes off as a jerk.
@1:48 Well I guess it might make sense given she's got the body of an octopus who's real life counterpart's sucker-covered arms can act as if they contain partly independent mini brains. Each arm gathers sensory information to drive its own movements-and even those of other arms-without consulting major brain regions even to the point that if severed from the main body they will still seek out and try to bring food to a non existent mouth/body before eventually dying after about an hour. The more you know!
While the film attempts to capture the magic of the 1989 original, it falls short in several areas, leaving me questioning the creative choices made throughout the adaptation. One of the disappointing aspects of the film is Triton's palace, which, in this live-action version, resembles an anthill more than a majestic underwater dwelling. The grandeur and sparkle of the palace in the 1989 animated film were a visual delight, immersing viewers in a vibrant and enchanting underwater world. Unfortunately, the live-action adaptation fails to capture that same sense of awe and wonder, leaving Triton's palace feeling dull and lacking the magical allure of its predecessor. Moreover, the omission of certain iconic scenes is a missed opportunity to recreate the magic of the original. The opening scene, where the ship emerges from the fog, crashing through the waves, set the tone for the adventure that awaited us. Vanessa's haunting walk along the misty shore and the climactic ending with Ariel rising out of the water after Triton's transformation were moments etched into the memories of fans. The absence of these scenes in the live-action adaptation feels like a disservice to the rich tapestry of the story, depriving audiences of the visual spectacles they were eagerly anticipating. One aspect that felt out of place was the new additions to the musical repertoire. While the film includes new songs, they struggle to capture the essence and brilliance of Howard Ashman's iconic compositions. Instead, they adopt an unmistakable Lin-Manuel Miranda sound, particularly evident in the song "Scuttlebutt." While Miranda's talent is undeniable, the stylistic shift feels jarring and out of sync with the established tone of the film. A more delicate and seamless integration of new songs in the style of Ashman could have preserved the musical magic of the original while infusing the adaptation with fresh melodies. There is a reason why the 1989 animated classic worked so well-it struck a perfect balance between storytelling, music, and visuals. It touched the hearts of millions and became a cherished part of our childhoods. The live-action adaptation suffers from the misguided notion that change for the sake of change alone is necessary. Instead of complementing the existing story, these alterations leave more questions than answers, and the soul of the original tale seems lost in translation. Unfortunately, the era of live-action remakes may one day be remembered in the same breath as Disney's direct-to-video sequels of the '90s-unimaginative cash grabs that failed to capture the essence and magic of their predecessors. While the intention may have been to introduce beloved stories to new audiences, it feels like a missed opportunity to reimagine and enhance the timeless tales that captured our hearts. In conclusion, the live-action adaptation of "The Little Mermaid" struggles to capture the same enchantment and awe-inspiring moments that made the 1989 original a classic. The lackluster portrayal of Triton's palace, the omission of iconic scenes, and the mismatched musical additions all contribute to a, mostly, disappointing experience. As fans, we hold a special place in our hearts for the original film, and the live-action adaptation fails to recreate that same magic. Change should be approached with care and respect for what made the original work so well. If we continue down the path of uninspired remakes, we risk diluting the legacy of these beloved stories.
Just like the case of Pinocchio Remakes , in the Remakes he portrayed as a OP wood puppet that can save himself while he being imprisoned by a puppeteer without the help of the fairy So what’s the purpose of the fairy for being involved of the story ? Ariel can swim to the surface while she transformed into human for the first time so what’s the purpose of her friends ? Disney is making some mistake at writing a character here Its not to be wise for Heroes character to portrayed as Miss Perfect or Mr Perfect Because it will erase an element of struggle and development of the heroes which is an important element of the Hero character If a Hero just simply portrayed as Mr or Ms Perfect in a story all the time , of course audience can get bored easily
@@SagittariusAyy Don’t be. She hopped onto the racism train immediately when the first teaser trailer came out. Mexico is the most recent of her prima donna shenanigans. 🙄
Glad someone else has noticed the lack of good princess dresses as of late. It's one of the MANY things I disliked about the Frozen movies. The funny thing is that I used to not really be a dress person, certainly not growing up. But I still missed them, and that touch of classic femininity. I don't think it's necessary for _all_ female characters to have a princess dress, but if the character actually _is_ a princess, then she should at least have one iconic dress. Cinderella 2015 is still the gold standard for me. Not just the dress, but the movie as a whole can basically stand as its own thing-I actually don't really even see it as a remake, but more like the other live-action Cinderella films that have been made throughout the years. EDIT: Fixed typo.
@@SagittariusAyy Honestly, I think it's worth checking out simply on the merit of it being a decent fairy tale adaptation. It's more enjoyable when viewed through that lens instead of as a one-for-one copy of another work. And the ball gown is freaking gorgeous! It's probably one of the first times I started looking at dresses as more than something overrated and uncomfortable-I saw that dress and thought, "This is art."
Um,Anna's dresses are awesome. In the first one anyhow, the second movie is atroicous in all shapes and forms. But Anan's coronation dress is a yes, her Red Riding Hood outsfit is really cool, with all the purpole, and her blue summery dress at the end of the film is a win-win, not to mention her green one in Frozen Fever.
I have to disagree with her singing, she CAN sign but she cannot sign musicals You need to ...I don't know how to say it but you need to be acting and singing at the same time...someone please explain this better than me
Looking forward to your deep dive. It seems that the energy being sapped out is a common occurrence in the live action remakes. I felt it most with Beauty and The Beast and The Lion King. Aladdin admittedly did a better job, but still wasn't a energetic as the original.
Three years ago Disney purchased the film right to “Once On This Island” a Trinidadian musical inspired by The Little Mermaid. Why didn’t they spend those three years making that film. That’s rhetorical I know the answer.
Tbh in my opinion, “He Lives In You” is just as great as “Circle of Life”. I have even heard people say that it’s better than the latter song. I feel like most of the Lion King franchise has amazing music. Speaking of music in Broadway adaptations, there were some great songs that were written for the Broadway version of “The Little Mermaid”. Two of these songs that should have been in the remake are “Her Voice” (sung by Prince Eric as a ballad to the girl who saved him) and “If Only” (a quartet between Ariel, Eric, Triton and Sebastian). Both of these songs are sweeping ballads that complement the story perfectly, but they sadly didn’t include these in the remake. The original movie was perfect as is and didn’t really need a remake. A re-release would have been fine.
I've read many positive things about this movie on social media... I haven't watched it yet. But even if I liked it just slightly (although the changes I already know of somehow bother me, with Halle being the best part of them maybe) I doubt I'll like it more than the original (like many of these comments claim). Like I can't and won't say it's bad before I watched it but seeing how disney and their actors attacked their original movie it sits badly with me.
yep, but wrong Fatigue - like there is no superhero movie fatigue similar with Disney's Live Action flicks and I'd say with Star Wars too - the ONLY thing we have is BAD WRITING & DIRECTING Fatigue. We are sick and tired of not having great stories, suspense, and thrills along with these movies and/or Disney+ shows. Instead we are treated to feminist & woke messaging / ideology and/or new original songs and story plots that really don't help things along. Then to top it off it's sometimes coexists with horrible green screen effects like AntMan Quantumania and horrible choices for CGI like here with The Little Mermaid. Otherwise, there would be no fatigue what-so-ever. We want quality and people are showing that now by NOT going to these movies and telling others to do the same.
Ant-Man Quantomania wasn't the worst Marvel movie, but you could definitely tell there was green screen... Which I just don't get? This is Disney and this is the shit we're getting? Okay...
Your videos about Little Mermaid 2023 is really enlightening to me. And I agree with the things you pointed out about Little Mermaid 2023. Can't wait to see you dissect to the changes to the characters.
"He lives in you" is from The Lion King 2. Or was the play you mentioned from before that was released too? It was released pretty fast after the original...
So far my theory is working out disney has no original ideas simply because they don't want to take any chances. As well as any original idea they do have if it doesn't fit their list of politics that's being pushed by HR as well as head of entertainment then considered trash. And the number one thing they feel the past history of Disney animated cartoons or problematic. So they need to remake them to live action to make them correct in their vision.
It’s hilarious to me that Disney didn’t think of the implications of making Ariel’s sisters all different nationalities Meaning King Trident is laying some serious aquatic *pipe* down in these oceans 💀 *Maybe he’s why it’s so salty-*
My problem with the music is the fact that they started with full dynamics ( fortissimo). If you are starting there then you can’t build on anything. Anyone who listens to musical theater or any of the original Disney songs can hear how it builds up to an exciting tempo. A good example of this is poor unfortunate souls in the original Ursula is singing in a soft Pianissimo tone that eventually builds a faster tempo given a natural progression and it sounds great.
As someone who grew up in Germany I think Disney is drastically overvaluing it’s market. There is a live action fairly tale movie every Sunday on German TV if you want. Also Disney is not a monolith of culture and nostalgia as it is in the USA. You have a lot of different media that is far more nostalgic to people than Disney. For example Jim Knopf (Jim Button) has gotten two live action movies in the last five years and several adults who were either fans of the original book, the puppet show or TV series went to watch it.
I mean as someone of color I can't get over the feeling that Disney doesn't think a story from my culture would make money. I'm all for diversity in movies and media but it has to feel natural. Ariel is a Caucasian woman. There's nothing wrong with that. In fact she's been a Caucasian woman for years now. Changing that just makes the movie feel strange from the very beginning. To me it would be better if they just look in diverse cultures and choose a story from there. I mean look at how much money they made off of Coco. If anything, how much money do you think they would make if they made a movie about Anansi the spider God
little mermaid didn't actually did decently, even if 117M sounds like a lot, it felt short of the 120M expected revenue, and as a cherry on top that estimate was a REVISED estimate done by Disney last minute, because the original estimate was way more, also people are comparing it to aladdin's weekend which had similar numbers, but the problem is, tickets right now have an inflation of 25% compared to the year when Aladdin came out, meaning there was LESS ticket sales this time around, and finally the production cost was actually 200M a movie is considered a moderate success if it makes their production cost back on their first weekend a resounding one if it makes double that, the fact it made 185M on a 4 DAY WEEKEND means it's actually doing very poorly.
honestly, I consider Disney a lost cause at this point, they keep adding nonsensical nonsense for "diversity" sake jeopardizing themselves, then play the race card, so even if they do some great, it'll just be dismissed outright at this point, the best thing they can do is just fade away because I doubt they'll admit their wrong and apologize to everyone for everything they done for the last decade
Deep dive. Ha! I see what you did there... Also, there's a whole world of fairy tales they could draw from; and Disney's over here singing "I wanna be, where the people are... I wanna see, wanna see 'em dancing. We only want to cover, part of your world!" - that we technically already made bank from 3 decades and counting ago. Or maybe they're stuck on the song from Oliver & Company: "Why should I worry; Why should I care.. air air air." Your guess is as good as mine. I do know the only reason The Rock is still doing Moana is because while he may not be a particularly great or even all that factually bankable actor, he IS a noteable name. Moreso than the actors they're bothering to replace. I don't know that banking on him to be the draw is going to work as well as they think... but then again, read above.
I really wish they'd do what they did with Alice in Wonderland where they took the source material and reworked it into a different take on it rather than being a carbon copy of the movie they already made just extended and expressive
Though I am really interested on what is going to happen when they run out of animated movies to turn to live actions, what’ the game plan? Will they go towards the Pixar movies? How about animated shows that may work (like Sofia the First and Phineas and Ferb?) will they just do the opposite route with Marvel, Star Wars and live action original movies but make them animated? Though I have to admit a animated equivancy to the MCU would be pretty cool and could work if done right. Though they may have to make it more family friendly and rework some stuff, but still if they keep the characterization, add more moments with characters with least screen time and reworked Infinity War and Endgame then maybe it could work. But still I want to see what’s going to happen when they do run out of animated movies and what their next step going to be.
I can only presume normal people just like mainstream spectacles, unchallenging righteous politics, and fulfilling an age-appropriate nostalgia. Like I can just imagine adults praise this because it’s not too deep. I know I’d probably enjoy it but I’d never think about it or want to watch it again.
These changes made no sense whatsoever. I’m just not a fan of Melissa McCarthy, and poof Havier was just phoning it in. Changing Ariel to be black is one thing. But then why are her sisters brown completely different nationality’s? Why is Eric adopted? It makes no sense in the time period. And his “adopted mother,” makes no sense ether. Why are they still giving Ariel a singing number when she doesn’t even have her voice? And while we’re at it, who the hell decide to give Aquafina a singing number?! Why did Ursula put a spell on Ariel to forget why she needed Eric to kiss her in the first place? It makes no sense. And why make Ariel be the one to run the ship though Ursula instead of Erik? Guy can’t save the women he loves after all the times she’s saved him? They don’t even get married at the end, so we don’t get the heartfelt happy ending, and peace between the humans and mermaids. And considering the two are actively trying to kill each other you’d think that be a big deal. They try to make all these changes but they don’t makes sense.
i am not surprised this movie is failing in international markets. it's only doing well in north america rn. i expect it to lose more ground once spiderverse comes out TLM and spiderverse have some audience overlap despite being different genres/stories
The new little mermaid fandom has been trashing the 89s version so much in this week, I dont think thats gonna attract a lot of new watchers either, it feels really disrespectful towards animation as a medium and while I was more than happy to enjoy the good things of this remake (I really like the map scene) I find myself kind of dodging the movie now, a fandom truly can ruin something, I understand a lot of it comes from a defensive response since a lot of people were being very racist but it doesnt change the outcome.
Remember when Disney wanted to remake Yellow Submarine? But it got cancelled due to Mars needs Moms bombing both critically and financially hard. That tells me that at one point they knew that live action remakes were bad yet the still refuse to stop making them. I would call that total hypocrisy.
1:20 Sea turtles walking on the ocean floor ?... Let me guess, it was to stick to the lyrics of Under the Sea ? To the letter ? 🤦 Also, they don't know that sea turtles SWIM underwater ? Instead of crawling on the floor like they would do an land ? 🤦🤦
It was an interesting decision to make Ariel the princess whose domain is the Caribbean. But why make Eric adopted? Why couldnt he have just BEEN her son? Also, i think giant Ursula didnt work for this version. It would have been much better to have a completely different final fight. Lastly, the sisters and Triton should have been swimming alongside the boat and cheering and celebrating Ariel and Eric's marriage at the end, rather than all of the merfolk just deciding to post up and pose on the beach.
2:08 OMG poor Atlantica! 😱 Why is this the first time I’ve seen anything mentioned about this?! I’ve never seen something SO depressing compared to how the✨original Atlantica✨was depicted!🥺 Like, THAT THING 🪨 is supposed to be her underwater royal castle that they live in?! Just imagine if they made Cinderella’s castle a big rock?! 🤣
Even more insulting is the fact that there's this big crescendo in the music when the "reveal" happens. I was genuinely left wondering what I was looking at and why it was being treated as some glorious reveal.
@@vwing that’s just so disrespectful to the original!! I can imagine it might be hard to recreate the gold kingdom with the cgi/vfx effects, but C’MON now. It’s literally a ROCK. 🙅🏻♀️😭🙃 I think Disney had enough money to do AT LEAST something a little better than that. All of the changes made just irks me to my core.👿
Unfortunately, Disney will never learn nor will they listen. They’re blaming us for rightfully hating the movie.
What the hell is wrong with them? Are they still in preschool or what?
I don’t hate it
Fans are also the blame for wasting money on these stupid remakes. They are just encouraging Disney to continue to exploit their nostalgia for profit.
I will keep saying this as a POC, I'm so extremely tired of them not giving us original characters. We could have had another official black princess, instead what we get is a lazy attempt at diversity that keeps pushing the narrative that we as POC are okay with not having original characters. It's such a toxic narrative to push too because it makes films that could be more impactful for youth stay in limbo because Disney just doesn't want to take risks and give us original characters. The only way to diversify these princess movies is to start taking those risks and giving us original characters. Halle Bailey is lovely and she's perfect for a princess role but why couldn't she just have had her own character? Why couldn't we have had our second black princess? It's honestly so infuriating at this point. They claim to support us but swapping races in a movie and calling it a day just ain't it.
I have a book out featuring a black princess, it's actually a Sleeping Beauty retelling, but she does become a mermaid for a few chapters because she's living out twisted versions of fairy tales from our world in the nightmares induced by a fungus, which is what is keeping her from being in slumber until she dies.
Indeed! Sloppy seconds should not be regarded as an aspirational yearning.
Thank you! There’s so many cultures with folk lore and fairytales that aren’t European that Disney could be taking inspiration from. We need a new renaissance where Disney put in the effort to study other cultures and stories to create unique stories about POC characters. Japan literally has lots of princess stories from their culture. It would be a dream to learn about different types of African lore and Middle Eastern lore or even Caribbean lore. Simply taking German and French fairytales and slapping a poc character on it isn’t real representation. And it’s more fun to learn about different parts of the world. The only reason Tiana worked despite Princess and the Frog being originally a European story because they took into account the time period, setting, and the character’s personal experience, making the story archetype of Princess and the Frog a background to the message of the story.
Yes. Countries around the world despite some not having royal families anymore were all once kingdoms. They sure have lore and fairytales and novels with princes and princesses if Disney would just look.
@Lala Emm Yes I don't know why parents and teachers of black kids still teach them to hold a grudge and be bitter about it. White colonists actually did horrible things around the world not just to Africans but nobody is holding a grudge anymore. I've been in the US for over 2 decades and I think in general white people are nice and civil. Sure I've met some white Americans that look down on me as an Asian but some black Americans looked down on me as well. There are good and bad people everywhere but in general I don't think the US is as bad as some blacks and Asians make it seem like in the news.
I'm stuck on Eric being adopted? Like why? Couldn't he just have been a visiting prince?
Him being a visiting prince would have been so much better I think. It would show Eric has an adventurous side while also showing he's still taking his responsibilities as prince seriously and establishing diplomatic ties
Yeah, he could. But I personally don't mind that. We need movies that show adoption as a positive thing!
@@DrawciaGleam02 y not make a new movie for that 😭😭u guys are insane accepting every nonsense.
Or how about keep it like the original film with his parents nowhere to be seen? And thus, removing any reason to have to explain his origins.
@@DrawciaGleam02 And you really think a MONARCHY is the best place for that.
You know, the whole bloodlines thing? 😂
There was a huge missed opportunity with Ursula's garden. The eyeball plants grabbing at Ariel could have been the debtors to the sea witch who couldn't pay. Then they'd be trying to stop her from making their mistake.
That’s who they were in the original.
It seemed pointless to have them there if that wasn't the case. I'm guessing they didn't want to animate the scene of 100s of merfolk being freed so they had them stay dead
@@QueenMariposa5 yeah. That was a pretty dumb decision on their part. It would have been better to just insert the '89 scenes in those places if they didn't have any of that $250,000,000.00 left to do it properly themselves.
That dumbass decision lead to Triton being disintegrated rather than turning into a sea plant.
Which means he couldn't see Eric risking his life for his True Love. Overcoming the sort of anger and fear Triton had about Ariel's interactions with humans would be really hard to overcome.
Being able to see some of that selflessness on Eric's part would go a long way to healing that.
Being told, "I had help." Does not have the same impact.
And now the 🔱 can bring people back to life?!? How many worm holes does that concept open up? Must not have cared about the Momma too much or she'd be alive I guess.
That was definitely a better plan than having the magic spells that were holding the victims hostage be released once the holder of that magic dies. 🙄
@@BrcRosa The merpeople Skeletons were in the garden instead possibly the reason for the PG rating
Ariel's iconic village dress with the bright blue skirt was one of my favorite Disney princess costumes. (As a kid, I had an Ariel doll with that costume.) I hate what they replaced it with.
I saw someone wearing it at an anime convention back in 2017 and thought she was cosplaying Anna in her final dress, because the blue of both is similar, and also I hadn't seen Little Mermaid in a long time at that point.
That dress = Land Aeriel to me.
How about the light purple sparkling dress? That's also a beautiful dress that they took out for this live action remake and it's gorgeous.
@@clairelin0216 That's right! The sparkling dress she wears as she walks out of the sea was magical.
Embrace your masculinity and become a lesbian.
- Disney
If it's not broken DON'T FIX IT. Thats the lesson that one way or another Disney will learn. Whether or not they learn this before they completely lose their audience is up to them.
I don't know, the original got a LOT of criticism over its protagonist and how she came off as bratty.
Because such discourse has been a thing for YEARS, Disney definitely HAD to make some slight changes to address those people.
Some parents BANNED the animated version from viewing in their homes!
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@@DrawciaGleam02 And because of the original film gaining so much criticism over the years, I was worried that the remake will surpass and beat the original. The remake will be loved and adored for generations while the original would end up forgotten and fade away into obscurity. But, I was wrong. So......am I missing something?
@@jonnyboy4289 I don't know why idiots and snowflakes got that critical with the original in the first place. Something is wrong with them
@@Disneyfan82 I think I was able to figure it out. The narrative is more traditional unlike modern Disney films like Beauty and the Beast and Princess and the Frog. The narrative in the Little Mermaid is trying to be like Snow White where the focus is on the emotion and less on the logic. But, at the same time, the Little Mermaid is also trying to evolve with its protagonist, who is portrayed as a more realistic character, unlike Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty (who are passive in their own stories). So, Ariel is a character who belongs in a more modern narrative like Frozen where the logic of the narrative plays an essential role. So, if people see Ariel (A realistic character) do a bunch of things in a story where the logic takes the back seat like Snow White (like falling in love at first sight, not being aware of her actions, striking a deal with Ursula, not learning a valuable lesson in the end (like Snow White), then people are going to conclude with misguided comments like "Ariel is a badly written and boy crazy", "Ariel selling her voice for a man is sexist", "Ariel doesn't get punished for her actions", "Ariel is a spoiled brat and a jerk", "Ariel doesn't learn anything", "Ariel puts everyone in danger", "Ariel is a weak and helpless damsel", and so on. I've learned that from Doug Walker (aka The Nostalgia Critic) who recently reviewed The Little Mermaid and brought along one of the animators who worked on the film who stated that Ariel has some elements from the past Disney films like Snow White and Cinderella because the people who made the original wanted to make a movie stand the test of time like those classic Disney films from the past. But, at the same time, they're also evolving with its protagonist who is and feels more realistic. So, The Little Mermaid is a transitional Disney film that has both a classic and modern narrative while later Disney films will have a more modern narrative like Beauty and the Beast and Frozen where the logic takes more center stage. I know Doug Walker nowadays has become a joke and less than a superstar because of all the scummy things he did to his coproducers and how mismanaged he is and how much of a sellout he has become. But, at the same time, he did manage to include someone who indeed worked on the film and what good way to get to the bottom of this critisim is to go to the source (and I mean a proper source because Disney has a tendency to treat its cast members like puppets and force them to agree with everything Disney says and say what Disney forces them to say just to cover their tracks and dark past and avoid bad publicity).
It's complicated but it's true.
So, the cast and crew have decided to give their Little Mermaid remake a modern feminist spin so it won't be seen as problematic when audiences go see the remake. Plus, the cast and crew, including Halie Bailey herself, claim that the remake is better than the original. Let's see, a modern character in a modern narrative that's going to update and fix the problems the original had by "fixing the romance", "improving" the story by making not be about "Ariel leaving the ocean for a boy", defining Ariel as "a modern woman who isn't defined by needing a man's love", and "fixing the ending" by having Ariel defeat Ursula instead of Prince Eric. Sounds like a winner right? He-he.....WRONG! Despite these updates and "improvements", the remake failed to beat the original and it's being review bombed and rejected commercial-wise internationally from France, China, Korea, and many more. So......the remake is missing something.
Am I missing something?
I’m not even mad at this point, Disney…Just disappointed and a little impressed that you managed to fuck up THIS badly.
Ikr she has the balls to say all of this
She is amazing
Looking forward to your deep dive on the movie. Your analysis is always so interesting.
For me the most disappointing thing about all of this is that these filmmakers were actually onto something with the Caribbean aesthetic and Halle Bailey as a mermaid princess. If those two elements had been used to make a brand new movie with an original story, I would've gladly forked over the $30 for a theater ticket. I'm just not interested in seeing a re-textured version of the 1989 animated classic, especially since the writers for this remake keep pretending that the original was somehow dangerous and problematic (hot take: no it wasn't).
THAT WAS WHAT MY BROTHER KEPT SAYING! They could've made something so cool, but no they just ruined the original instead of taking the concept and making something new with it. I wanted to watch it just to make my own opinion about it but it looks so boring.
So much yes.
Let's them feel very important to look down on the original that was so great they needed to make it again but fix all the problems that are imaginary instead of something new.
Blame the PC thugs for that The problems go back to oh 1991
The breathey thing doesn't work because she's also belting out the song. You watch Jodi recording the original and she's being given directions for less volume and more intensity. To be more reserved in her singing, but more animated in breathing and inflection. From what I heard of the new one, which is only half of Part of Your World - before I turned it off* - they basically treated volume as intensity.
* I actually only listened to like 15 seconds the first time, but I got into an argument about it being shit, and said I hadn't heard the whole thing - I'm a sound engineer, 15 seconds is plenty - and they demanded I listen to the whole thing before I judge it, and I tried, I really tried, but it's actually horrific. I found a video of Halle singing it live at Disneyland and that was better than the one in the movie. I don't know what their sound engineer was thinking. It's also mixed terribly, the backing is way too loud, even with her singing so much louder than the original, it adds even more... Bravado?... To what should be a sombre song. The song basically comes off as excited depression, and it's hard to vibe with that oxymoronic emotion.
Did they also call you deaf?
@@SweetOrangeGirl What??????
@@OhmaSleeps You know, because he doesn’t like the way the song sounds. I don’t like it, either.
@@SweetOrangeGirl Ohhh I get it, they would call him deaf because they think it's good so they're like 'why wouldn't you like it?!' Yeah...
@@OhmaSleeps Yes, that’s what I meant. I’m glad I could clear up the misunderstanding ^^.
I'm honestly surprised this movie isn't straight-up banned. That Scuttle song is military-grade psychological weaponry. This abomination is just a desecration of the source material.
That was the worst part of the movie for me lol. The rest of it was alright :)
@@RedRoseSeptember22 I'm still shocked that they paid money for that song. Even if I agreed with you that the rest was alright I would consider that a significant downgrade over the original.
Yep that song is awful
That song made my eyes roll so hard. And then I think I screamed "is there a musical where they DON'T have Lin-Manuel add his same 2 cents?"
I never understood the appeal of these live action remakes. Honestly what does it say about us when we go to pay to see these movies for nostalgia when we could just watch the original only for them to be made worse.
Its not really for us, its more for parents to drop off their kids at theaters to have a few hours of peace and don't really care about what movie is playing
@@Tony_409 parents should care what movie is playing after every Disney controversy we had
@@АлексейМомот-щ7о Sadly there are many people who don't pay attention to everything Disney does or think Disney is in the right for controlling Reedy Creek
1. Eric was a legit prince in the original, his parents never show up but we can assume from his title that the king is probably still alive or the king and queen died, and we can assume that Eric's parents look like Eric, but Eric wouldn't take the throne as king until he's 21 years old, which means that he still has 3 more years before he would take the throne as king in the animated version. Having Eric being adopted in this version would realistically cause people to question if he's the legit prince and son of the queen.
2. Royalty cares about keeping the royal blood "pure" which means that the person taking the throne must have royal blood, if the king or queen have no children of their own, the throne would be passed to the next person that has the royal blood after the king or queen dies or give up the throne, this person could be the brother or sister of the king/queen, which means that an adopted child won't have the title of "prince" or "princess" and isn't considered as one of the people in the line of succession
3. How does Ariel know how to steer a ship in the middle of a storm all of a sudden without prior experience with steering ships?
4.It was established in the animated version that mermaids can't stand with fins and keep that position, since steering a ship would need the lower body to be stable, how the hell is she able to keep the upright position and steer the ship?
5.Why is there no wedding before traveling together in a story set in the early 19th century?
6.Triton has a prejudice against humans, why would he let Ariel go without Eric proving himself to be good like in the animated version?
7.The setting was colonized by the British people, why is there a queen on British colony? Isn't the queen of British colony British queen? Why do they have their own queen?
8.We can assume that Ariel's voice does have a siren like quality, but she didn't really intend to use it to get Eric in the animated version. In the animated version, the effect of her singing is really unintentional, she's just singing her wish to Eric at that point.
9.How do they explain the differences among the sisters physically? They don't even look like family compared to the original animation. Triton's wife was killed by humans, which traumatized Triton to a point that he wouldn't even allow music in his kingdom as it reminded him of his deceased wife, and now they're implying after the first wife died he just has that much energy to hit on other mermaids all around the world?
10.In the original, Eric found Ariel, that's why when he helps her, he takes her back to the castle. Why would the fishermen take Ariel to the castle when they found her? Considering the time frame and the racial tension, wouldn't it be more likely that they thought of her as a slave?
11.If Ariel is that obsessed with the human world and the surface, wouldn't it be more reasonable that she constantly goes up there like in the animated version? Why this remake had to change that?
12.If the queen is also controlling, wouldn't that take away some of the incentive of being human? Because Ariel did thought of her father as controlling and she wanted to be free from that in the animated version.
13.If Ursula has that much power to warp Ariel's memory and forget that she needs the kiss, why not just kidnap Ariel, warp her memory and tell Triton to come and save her and tell Triton to give her his trident in exchange for Ariel's memory?
14.Even if Ariel forgets that she needs the kiss, why would she pull away from kissing a guy she's attracted to?
15.Didn't Ariel already consented for Eric to kiss her when she signed that contract that says a true love's kiss from Eric would get her legs forever?
16.If we have to have verbal consent in fairytales, should other princesses that are physically unable to do verbal consent when their true love's kiss broke their curses keep being cursed forever because they're unable to give verbal consent at the moment of the kiss?
17.Why does she know how to swim with legs the second she got them as apposed to the original where she's not used to it, having got legs for the first time and Sebastian and Flounder had to help her swim?
18.Why do we have to feel sorry for a villain? No matter what led the villains to the way they're portrayed, they're still the villains and should be completely evil, right?
19.If Eric's parent/parental figure is controlling, wouldn't that be cutting the incentive of being with him and being free from Triton's controlling behavior, and ultimately, being human?
20.Why would Triton, a king traumatized by the death of his wife in the hands of human pirates so much so that he banned music from the kingdom, willing to send his daughter away to be with a human without the human proving himself to be a good human like in the animated version worthy of Triton's respect and blessings on his marriage to his daughter?
Thank you for reading my questions, but there are so many plot holes in this live action remake compared to the animated version that I just can't help but want to ask questions🥺
I love all of the questions you asked! I think the little mermaid as a whole has a lot of different ways to be made into a new film. Just like the brother grimms version of it. They could've kept the little mermaid theme while also changing it up. If they wanted to change so much of the live action, why not just add better twists to it?
@@gracethepeacock7532 Or they can write a new story.
Also, the original scene where Ursula died was epic, but the live action seem to be taking out a lot of that over the top dying scene from what I've heard.
This whole stuff with verbal consent in fairytales is really getting ridiculous. Yes, we all get that it's WRONG to take advantage of someone who's either unconscious or mute but here, according to these amateur activists, lifesaving gestures like mouth-to-mouth and heart massage should be illegal.
It's even more ludicrous in the Little Mermaid case when she CAN'T verbally express her consent and (at least in the animated version) was begging to get a kiss. I mean... Non-verbal communication is a thing too, right ?
Also, you've made a pertinent remark with Eric's controlling mother. That does a complete desservice to the entire point of Ariel wanting to live on the surface to be away from her father's bossy attitude ("Bet'cha on land they understand and don't reprimand their daughters"). For here, she gets away from a controlling and domineering parental figure's attitude to another in the person of her future mother-in-law. All that to add more "empowered" female characters to the story or force a parallel between Ariel and Eric, I guess...
@@BEB156 Yes, it's like, fairytales have simple structures, that's why there's usually no verbal consent in them.
In the original it's really simple. The opposites attract, and they worked together to get their happy ending.
Ariel was already empowered, the live action version is overbearing, and if they really want Ariel to kill Ursula, couldn't they think of something that a mermaid can actually do instead of what Eric did? Like, fictional worlds also have rules that they follow, it's not like because it's fictional you can just suddenly change the rules of which it operates.
Somehow two people who are attracted to each other can't both lean in for a kiss just because now the women have to be girl boss who don't want love or need love.
I've seen a lot of balanced couples and balanced characters in animation, it's a shame that Disney can't do that now because they had lost sight of Walt's vision for the studio.
Looking at Triton's daughters, it makes it very clear that either Triton thinks he's zeus or that his wife is cheating on him.
It's really not weird for him to be a Zeus
They all have the same mother and father. But each Sister has dominion over a different sea/region.
@@unigenius Was that supposed to explain how they look nothing alike?
@@staufackar2135 yup. They took physical traits of the peoples of the seas over which they have dominion. Because magical.
@@unigenius That's strange...considering that they all looked like they were from the same family on the original but here they couldn't be less alike if they tried.
Honestly, I can sum up my thoughts on tlm with your words from one of your previous videos: they don't understand their own works. I saw tidbits of an article where the director explains why he changed some plot points and they were so dumb... Like, he complained about how the king was too obsessed with his daughters' voices and he said that her going to the surface for the first time would "raise the stakes".
I didn't like anybody in the live action, tbh. triton was underwhelming, even though i should be scared of him. ursula was meh. the sisters felt sort of disposable. eric was average. the chemistry was non-existent... not as bad as the mulan remake, but it still sucked. what disappoints me is that they're going to use halle bailey as a shield from any sort of criticism, even though their poor handling of the movie is a fact.
They have used her as a shield since the first trailer
@@Tony_409 they shouldn't replace her from that moment
Yes. Thank you.
Listening to the Scuttlebutt song should be treated as a form of torture.
Chica-WaWA!
Song? It's closer to 'verbal diarrhea' than anything else
I NEVER thought a rap song would be added yo "The Little Mermaid", but "woke" people at Disney are weird!
I read Ariel and Curse of The Sea Witches. It actually pretty good book. Ariel and Eric was In character, it actually acknowledge the different relationship of Human and Merfolks in the Arctic and gave a good message about the environment and way to co-exist in peace. Good book.
I saw some pictures of this book and... (imitates Spongebob) I NEEEEEEED IIIIIIIIIIIT !!!!!!!
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It was okey, what I loved was how they really went all in with the concept of ariel being a nerd and studious (also she likes to draw! Cute) and how she still cares for her roots, thats what her character always was about but people keep saying she is just a woman who gave her voice for a guy and nothing else.
I also liked the desings of the mermaids, at first I thought it was odd they were pale and not flesh colored like the merfolk of atlantica but then I thought that they might be based in the inuit folcklore of the Qallupilluit creature (although these mermaids are not evil and not near as scary) since we see inuit people in the book (also eric's cousin is inuit, so thats nice to know)
Other than that, I thought it was a little dissapointing, I didnt expect eric to be as prominent as ariel since its her story but they had him being kidnapped/away sick in bed for most of the book, thats not very entertaining.
I also didnt see the point in the queen being in love with a human plot and then not making it important, they could have just leave it at making her a genderbend triton + the enviromentalist aspect. The conflict resolution was also a bummer since it was entirely offpages
Overall, ariel was great, intelligent, sweet, determined, diplomatic, kind, perfect! Everything else was sort of lacking tho
I’m pretty sure that Scuttlebutt song is a violation of the Geneva Convention. If the military ever wants to interrogate terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, they should use that song. The terrorist would crack within 25 seconds.
Animation Ariel had drive. This Ariel had nothing! Amnesia spell or not, this Ariel was a clueless airhead. Original Ariel was clueless, but in a charming way.
Fatigue implies people are tired due to overexposure. In reality people are sick. These live action remakes and the constant attacks on old fans are toxic, and people have started to realize it.
The original film is still a fun watch!!
I KNOW!!!!! It still has a lot of “Holly Shit” moments…. Like when Triton discovers Ariel’s collection….
@@alejandromolinac The scene of Triton destroying the grotto is still horrifying to watch!
I really hope the box office goes as badly as people are predicting. I want Disney to wake up and realise they need to start creating again.
A mere 189 million in one weekend, since Spiderverse 2 opens next week ...
@@Invidente7
That’s right, Across the Spider-Verse is gonna make this film look like a joke
I'm just bored with Disney already, not even the new movie Wish catches my attention.
@@SagittariusAyythe first spider verse only made 390 million which made no sense because the emoji movie made more
It's the highest grossing movie of the month, your just mad
I'm looking forward to when you look at the Little Mermaid remake's changes (or as Disney likes to call them "upgrades" and "improvements" that "fix the original").
The cast and crew making this Little Mermaid remake claim to have updates that "improve" the original's "problems." Because of what the cast and crew said about this remake, it sounds like the remake is going to end up as the superior film, just like what Halie Bailey said, by "fixing the romance", "defining" Ariel "not being defined by needing a man's love", "fixing" the plot by not making the plot be about "Ariel leaving the ocean for a boy", and "fixing" the ending by having Ariel defeat Ursula instead of Prince Eric. But...........somehow the remake failed to beat the original. So, something is missing.
Am I missing something?
they made ugly
I don't buy the excuse that each of King's daughters is supposed to represent different seas and people that live near those seas. I can guarantee that it's not true, Disney is too lazy and incompetent at this point. There is only one wife mentioned. Even if we accept that they're a mixed couple how the heck does that make pure Asian, Ebony Black, and apparently naturally pink hair? The excuse that fish are colorful doesn't hold any water (wink wink). Fish can only be the color of their species. Great White Shark won't have pink offspring. Clown Fish won't have blue and yellow stripes. Also, they need to explain that Eric is adopted because he's white but the queen is black. You can't have it both ways! Either explain or don't address it at all!
"Your mother was killed by the humans!"
"Why does that matter? You have like 7 wives."
Yeah, that just doesn’t hold water(Pun not intended)
I believe that in this universe that merfolk are a polyamorous culture and Triton likely had a harem of mermaids that he impregnated. I loved the sisters though they all looked beautiful, but we all truthfully know they each had their own mother lol.
I thought the idea was these mermaids live withtheir mothers maybe in the sea where they are associated with, and have the culture there and in the movie we would see some of that, and they never met Ariel before and come at Triton's call for some reason, maybe an anniversary since Athena died, and they're all jealous that Ariel got to live witht heir Pops and they didn't', all those years.
I dont think is that important, blind race cast is nothing new, specially in these fantasy settings, I recommed watching some of the little mermaid musicals lol, is not the first time ariel has multiracial sisters, I do kinda wish they didnt explain eric's mum, seemed unnecesary
THANK YOU! Ariel joining Sebastian in singing “under the sea” made no sense whatsoever 💀
Is M doing okay? It's always sad that she doesn't get to chime in with you anymore.
She's taking a break, and with all this current crap I can't blame her.
@@Invidente7 For sure, but it's been at least a year or more, right?
It's worth checking up.
@@Burns_RED She's back in the miraculous ladybug trailer video if you want to see her
@@Burns_REDYeah, just about a year and one month since M started her sabbatical. Sure, she shows up every now and then for reactions, but it would be nice to see the two sisters making all their videos together again. Hope M is well.
I haven't seen the movie, but the fact that they had a phantasy underwater world and they turned it into the most boring thing ever (in terms if design) just makes me sad, little girls LOVE mermaids and fairies, make those worlds wonderful and colorful my God 😅
I was going to say they could do more with that in a sequel, but then I recalled that Ariel and Eric go off on an adventure abovewater, which kind of defeats the purpose of having a fantasy sea land in the first place.
@@kipolem53 I guess if they do the sequel with Melody? But, even if they do the sequel, I doubt they do anything with the underwater world...
gonna go out on a limb and say Ursula's tentacles having a mind of their own was a fun biology choice, since octopi have a form of distributed intelligence across their entire body. I think a lot of people find real life sea creatures inherently creepy and foreign lol, because they evolved for such a wildly different environment than land creatures, so I can kinda see why someone might be unnerved by some of the sealife choices
I was also super upset that we didn't get our opening concert with the atlantica princesses 😭They really took out what shreds of culture the mermaids had in the '89 version for a gathering of paper thin value to the plot
The Coral Lunar meeting was confusing. We never see the event at all and there wasn't an audience to impress. So Ariel not being there held no consequence. Honestly I think didn't want to animate a bunch of mermaids, especially since they had Ursula kill her clients.
No joke, I’ve seen people say this remake is better then the original.
Those people must be on some form of narcotics or something, because how the hell can you unironically call this better than the original
Those people are either lying or they’re still coping at the abomination this remake is.
They're trying to rationalize having spent their money to watch it by convincing themselves that it was a good movie. 😂
They're lying
I cannot believe it's anything else but trying to show "they're a good ally" for all their fake online friends.
Sad...
When I first heard the audio release of Part of Your World, i full on decided I wasn't going to watch this film. The music was what made the little mermaid as it is, and it's SUPPOSED to be what makes the film special. Especially Ariel's song. Don't get me wrong, I think Halle Bailey has a beautiful voice. I just don't think the direction on how it was supposed to be sung was done justice. I saw someone from the comments say the breathey aspect made it seem like a 4th wall break that they do in musical theatres, and I couldn't agree more. It lacked technique, and naturalness of character.
In the first version done by Jodi Benson, Ariel started the song sounding fascinated about her collection as she shows it off to Flounder. She was talking to FLOUNDER. It gradually evolves to wonder, then excitement, expressing how she wants to explore and know more about the human world. There wasn't anything melancholic at first, just purely romanticizing about her dream to Flounder. As the song goes on, she sounds more passionate, still telling Flounder about the many things she wants to know. By the time she reached the line "When's it my turn?", that's when she finally starts to sound desperate. So desperate, until she eventually realizes that her dream was impossible when she sang the final line. This part of the song is what makes the original impactful, because it did a major shift on the character's emotions, and how Arie'ls dream truly mattered to her.
In Halle's version, she already started the song sounding melancholic and a little more desperate than being excited about showing her collection to Flounder. I couldn't hear an aspect of wonder from her voice, as it was too focused on Ariel's longing and melancholy, when that should've been highlighted later on in the song. So when it reached the climax, it couldn't get the same emotional impact as it did from the original.
Part of Your World is a ballad. It's a song that describes Ariel's love to be on land. It's not just about her feeling sad she can't go there. If you take away that large aspect of wonder from her song, then she's no longer solely singing about her longing to explore the world. It more so sounds like her wanting to run from her current life.
I just loved the part in Lil' Mermaid when Ariel got on Twitter and tried to get Eric canceled for manspreading
Oh that was fun, a legendary knee-slap humor moment.
Did anyone else find it weird that only flounder Sebastian and scuttlebutt or the only ones that talk animal-wise throughout the entire movie? When there was an assortment of hundreds of creatures under the sea that could talk?
I'm still angry they cute Chef Louis from the film and his "le poissons" song!!! One of the funniest parts.
They didn't want to have to pay other VA's.
In the "kiss the girl" scene, Ursula adds a memory erase spell so whenever Eric tries to kiss Ariel, she rejects him to prevent metoo implications. But, if she's underva memory spell, then she doesn't have agency. They tried to fix a perceived problem but she's still under another character's control via the memory spell. So im not sure how much progress theyvthink they made in changing the song🤔
MeToo should burn and die 🤬🔥
I also felt they were stripping ariel of her agency by making her forget the kiss, in the original she knew what she had to do to keep being human and she tried to achieve it but here she is not the one driving her own story anymore but sebastian, she is sort of aimless the whole time😓
I thought I was the only one who found Ariel sitting on the turtles unsettling lol
Do you blame Javier Bardem for it though? I'd phone it in if this were the thing I was contracted in.
Thank you for commenting on ariel’s breathy parts in part of your world. I do agree that she sounds good whenever she’s not doing that 😅 it distracted me during the song
Finding out Moana was getting a remake was disappointing.
I wanted The Rock to be Moana!
Can someone explain why the freak they changed the gender of the seagull.
And anyway people are overrating this movie in America so I’m glad Europa audience is giving bad reviews. This shit ain’t it.
And PS Bailey can’t just act just like any actor in this film. Even the actor of Triton was so lame
They were too lazy to give Ariel a female friend like they did Jasmine in live action Aladdin. And also, Kaa's gender was swapped in Jungle Book although I guess without Winnie the Pooh's voice coming out Kaa, wouldn't have worked for a male.
The original actress for Ariel that was acting for the animators back in the 80s to rotoscope her expressions was so much better, that actress actually had a background in improv and she's so much more expressive.
But I guess that's the difference between the original animation and the remake, people who were doing the original animations were really making the animation with love and they were really having fun coming up with ideas for the scenes.
They got the top tier people for the original but the people they got for the remake just isn't up there.
No surprises here 😞😒
BRUHH I WISH they didn't cut out daughters of triton. One of Lin's most iconic techniques is overlapping a group of character's theme songs. In "We Don't Talk About Bruno" 7 family members are given a unique melody, and once they are all sung together beautifully at the climax. I wish Lin had done that for the 7 Daughters of Triton. Ariel already has her iconic riff, why not give her sister's one too?
We know why, those sisters can't sing lol
@@aeoligarlic4024 frrr 😭😭😭
@@aeoligarlic4024 That or it doesn’t add more to the story
@@kbraven7007 in my opinion it does add to the story. The live action made Ariel miss a family meeting which significantly lowers down the stakes. Ariel is supposed to feel guilty and Triton is supposed to be reasonably angry at her for embarrassing the royal family. When live action Triton destroys her collection he just comes off as a jerk.
@1:48 Well I guess it might make sense given she's got the body of an octopus who's real life counterpart's sucker-covered arms can act as if they contain partly independent mini brains. Each arm gathers sensory information to drive its own movements-and even those of other arms-without consulting major brain regions even to the point that if severed from the main body they will still seek out and try to bring food to a non existent mouth/body before eventually dying after about an hour. The more you know!
I'm confused as to why on Rotten Tomatoes, this has an audience score of like 95% and 68% with critics. It's odd.
Its cause the 95% is fake. If you click on it and change "shills" to "all audiences" it takes a rocketdive...
They are altering scores to protect the movie.
While the film attempts to capture the magic of the 1989 original, it falls short in several areas, leaving me questioning the creative choices made throughout the adaptation.
One of the disappointing aspects of the film is Triton's palace, which, in this live-action version, resembles an anthill more than a majestic underwater dwelling. The grandeur and sparkle of the palace in the 1989 animated film were a visual delight, immersing viewers in a vibrant and enchanting underwater world. Unfortunately, the live-action adaptation fails to capture that same sense of awe and wonder, leaving Triton's palace feeling dull and lacking the magical allure of its predecessor.
Moreover, the omission of certain iconic scenes is a missed opportunity to recreate the magic of the original. The opening scene, where the ship emerges from the fog, crashing through the waves, set the tone for the adventure that awaited us. Vanessa's haunting walk along the misty shore and the climactic ending with Ariel rising out of the water after Triton's transformation were moments etched into the memories of fans. The absence of these scenes in the live-action adaptation feels like a disservice to the rich tapestry of the story, depriving audiences of the visual spectacles they were eagerly anticipating.
One aspect that felt out of place was the new additions to the musical repertoire. While the film includes new songs, they struggle to capture the essence and brilliance of Howard Ashman's iconic compositions. Instead, they adopt an unmistakable Lin-Manuel Miranda sound, particularly evident in the song "Scuttlebutt." While Miranda's talent is undeniable, the stylistic shift feels jarring and out of sync with the established tone of the film. A more delicate and seamless integration of new songs in the style of Ashman could have preserved the musical magic of the original while infusing the adaptation with fresh melodies.
There is a reason why the 1989 animated classic worked so well-it struck a perfect balance between storytelling, music, and visuals. It touched the hearts of millions and became a cherished part of our childhoods. The live-action adaptation suffers from the misguided notion that change for the sake of change alone is necessary. Instead of complementing the existing story, these alterations leave more questions than answers, and the soul of the original tale seems lost in translation.
Unfortunately, the era of live-action remakes may one day be remembered in the same breath as Disney's direct-to-video sequels of the '90s-unimaginative cash grabs that failed to capture the essence and magic of their predecessors. While the intention may have been to introduce beloved stories to new audiences, it feels like a missed opportunity to reimagine and enhance the timeless tales that captured our hearts.
In conclusion, the live-action adaptation of "The Little Mermaid" struggles to capture the same enchantment and awe-inspiring moments that made the 1989 original a classic. The lackluster portrayal of Triton's palace, the omission of iconic scenes, and the mismatched musical additions all contribute to a, mostly, disappointing experience. As fans, we hold a special place in our hearts for the original film, and the live-action adaptation fails to recreate that same magic. Change should be approached with care and respect for what made the original work so well. If we continue down the path of uninspired remakes, we risk diluting the legacy of these beloved stories.
The Barbieverse from the
Barbie movie looks more like a utopia rather than the Gloomy Mermaid-verse in Little Mermaid and Dystopian Neverland
Worst part is i heard there were fights happening in the theaters
Just like the case of Pinocchio Remakes , in the Remakes he portrayed as a OP wood puppet that can save himself while he being imprisoned by a puppeteer without the help of the fairy
So what’s the purpose of the fairy for being involved of the story ?
Ariel can swim to the surface while she transformed into human for the first time so what’s the purpose of her friends ?
Disney is making some mistake at writing a character here
Its not to be wise for Heroes character to portrayed as Miss Perfect or Mr Perfect
Because it will erase an element of struggle and development of the heroes which is an important element of the Hero character
If a Hero just simply portrayed as Mr or Ms Perfect in a story all the time , of course audience can get bored easily
A souless remake from a souless corporation. And I think Halley will be the scapegoat for it's inminent failure.
I think it’s already happening to poor Halle, even
@@SagittariusAyy Don’t be. She hopped onto the racism train immediately when the first teaser trailer came out.
Mexico is the most recent of her prima donna shenanigans. 🙄
It wasn't souless, I saw it yesterday and there was emotion and magic in it still.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 Sure! We believe you
@@RedRoseSeptember22 Yeah! It was much better than Cats. You're going to see it again and again.....
Glad someone else has noticed the lack of good princess dresses as of late. It's one of the MANY things I disliked about the Frozen movies. The funny thing is that I used to not really be a dress person, certainly not growing up. But I still missed them, and that touch of classic femininity. I don't think it's necessary for _all_ female characters to have a princess dress, but if the character actually _is_ a princess, then she should at least have one iconic dress.
Cinderella 2015 is still the gold standard for me. Not just the dress, but the movie as a whole can basically stand as its own thing-I actually don't really even see it as a remake, but more like the other live-action Cinderella films that have been made throughout the years.
EDIT: Fixed typo.
Ah, I might actually have to give Cinderella 2015 a shot with that mindset
ikr. it's like they're going for the "not like other girls" mood.
@@SagittariusAyy Honestly, I think it's worth checking out simply on the merit of it being a decent fairy tale adaptation. It's more enjoyable when viewed through that lens instead of as a one-for-one copy of another work. And the ball gown is freaking gorgeous! It's probably one of the first times I started looking at dresses as more than something overrated and uncomfortable-I saw that dress and thought, "This is art."
Elsa's dresses are literally gorgeous though?
Um,Anna's dresses are awesome. In the first one anyhow, the second movie is atroicous in all shapes and forms. But Anan's coronation dress is a yes, her Red Riding Hood outsfit is really cool, with all the purpole, and her blue summery dress at the end of the film is a win-win, not to mention her green one in Frozen Fever.
3:22 I just realized, all the sisters names are different. In the original all the sisters names started with an A
The Scuttlebutt was just a way for Lin-Manuel Miranda to be Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Hip-Hop is to Miranda as women's bear feet are to Tarantino. 🤦
I have to disagree with her singing, she CAN sign but she cannot sign musicals
You need to ...I don't know how to say it but you need to be acting and singing at the same time...someone please explain this better than me
wish it was bryce dallas howard or taylor swift who was ariel instead
@@leongay3190Taylor Swift doesn't have the vocal range. Be serious
'Scuttlebutt' is a crime against humanity.
It deserves a Razzie Award for Worst Song of 2023
Hey
Looking forward to your deep dive. It seems that the energy being sapped out is a common occurrence in the live action remakes. I felt it most with Beauty and The Beast and The Lion King.
Aladdin admittedly did a better job, but still wasn't a energetic as the original.
Three years ago Disney purchased the film right to “Once On This Island” a Trinidadian musical inspired by The Little Mermaid. Why didn’t they spend those three years making that film. That’s rhetorical I know the answer.
Tbh in my opinion, “He Lives In You” is just as great as “Circle of Life”. I have even heard people say that it’s better than the latter song. I feel like most of the Lion King franchise has amazing music.
Speaking of music in Broadway adaptations, there were some great songs that were written for the Broadway version of “The Little Mermaid”. Two of these songs that should have been in the remake are “Her Voice” (sung by Prince Eric as a ballad to the girl who saved him) and “If Only” (a quartet between Ariel, Eric, Triton and Sebastian). Both of these songs are sweeping ballads that complement the story perfectly, but they sadly didn’t include these in the remake.
The original movie was perfect as is and didn’t really need a remake. A re-release would have been fine.
I've read many positive things about this movie on social media... I haven't watched it yet. But even if I liked it just slightly (although the changes I already know of somehow bother me, with Halle being the best part of them maybe) I doubt I'll like it more than the original (like many of these comments claim). Like I can't and won't say it's bad before I watched it but seeing how disney and their actors attacked their original movie it sits badly with me.
Why I'm I not surprise.😒
Fatigue? I had fatigue after the first live action remake. What's happening now is the last of the maggots leaving my corpse.
yep, but wrong Fatigue - like there is no superhero movie fatigue similar with Disney's Live Action flicks and I'd say with Star Wars too - the ONLY thing we have is BAD WRITING & DIRECTING Fatigue. We are sick and tired of not having great stories, suspense, and thrills along with these movies and/or Disney+ shows. Instead we are treated to feminist & woke messaging / ideology and/or new original songs and story plots that really don't help things along. Then to top it off it's sometimes coexists with horrible green screen effects like AntMan Quantumania and horrible choices for CGI like here with The Little Mermaid. Otherwise, there would be no fatigue what-so-ever. We want quality and people are showing that now by NOT going to these movies and telling others to do the same.
Ant-Man Quantomania wasn't the worst Marvel movie, but you could definitely tell there was green screen... Which I just don't get? This is Disney and this is the shit we're getting? Okay...
Your videos about Little Mermaid 2023 is really enlightening to me. And I agree with the things you pointed out about Little Mermaid 2023.
Can't wait to see you dissect to the changes to the characters.
Why would they write THAT for Skuttle?! He has two solid songs they could have ripped from the stage show!
"He lives in you" is from The Lion King 2.
Or was the play you mentioned from before that was released too? It was released pretty fast after the original...
So far my theory is working out disney has no original ideas simply because they don't want to take any chances. As well as any original idea they do have if it doesn't fit their list of politics that's being pushed by HR as well as head of entertainment then considered trash. And the number one thing they feel the past history of Disney animated cartoons or problematic. So they need to remake them to live action to make them correct in their vision.
It’s hilarious to me that Disney didn’t think of the implications of making Ariel’s sisters all different nationalities
Meaning King Trident is laying some serious aquatic *pipe* down in these oceans 💀
*Maybe he’s why it’s so salty-*
My problem with the music is the fact that they started with full dynamics ( fortissimo). If you are starting there then you can’t build on anything. Anyone who listens to musical theater or any of the original Disney songs can hear how it builds up to an exciting tempo. A good example of this is poor unfortunate souls in the original Ursula is singing in a soft Pianissimo tone that eventually builds a faster tempo given a natural progression and it sounds great.
Dang, people were spot on about the changes including the part where ariel driving the ship and demolished ursula
As someone who grew up in Germany I think Disney is drastically overvaluing it’s market. There is a live action fairly tale movie every Sunday on German TV if you want. Also Disney is not a monolith of culture and nostalgia as it is in the USA. You have a lot of different media that is far more nostalgic to people than Disney. For example Jim Knopf (Jim Button) has gotten two live action movies in the last five years and several adults who were either fans of the original book, the puppet show or TV series went to watch it.
that blue and green screen video is creepy. riding people like animals.
Jason Mamoa would make a far better Maui than Johnson.
wrong live action remake
I mean as someone of color I can't get over the feeling that Disney doesn't think a story from my culture would make money. I'm all for diversity in movies and media but it has to feel natural.
Ariel is a Caucasian woman. There's nothing wrong with that. In fact she's been a Caucasian woman for years now. Changing that just makes the movie feel strange from the very beginning. To me it would be better if they just look in diverse cultures and choose a story from there. I mean look at how much money they made off of Coco. If anything, how much money do you think they would make if they made a movie about Anansi the spider God
little mermaid didn't actually did decently, even if 117M sounds like a lot, it felt short of the 120M expected revenue, and as a cherry on top that estimate was a REVISED estimate done by Disney last minute, because the original estimate was way more, also people are comparing it to aladdin's weekend which had similar numbers, but the problem is, tickets right now have an inflation of 25% compared to the year when Aladdin came out, meaning there was LESS ticket sales this time around, and finally the production cost was actually 200M a movie is considered a moderate success if it makes their production cost back on their first weekend a resounding one if it makes double that, the fact it made 185M on a 4 DAY WEEKEND means it's actually doing very poorly.
honestly, I consider Disney a lost cause at this point, they keep adding nonsensical nonsense for "diversity" sake jeopardizing themselves, then play the race card, so even if they do some great, it'll just be dismissed outright at this point, the best thing they can do is just fade away because I doubt they'll admit their wrong and apologize to everyone for everything they done for the last decade
Yeah, they keep trying to play the race card when, if you would excuse my YGO analogy, it’s already been negated and sent to the banish pile face-down
@@SagittariusAyy exactly, totally get the analogy, their negating their entire deck now before the game even started
Does the race card help them earn the money they need to buy the third of Hulu Comcast currently owns? No, it does not.
@@kipolem53 but it does speed up the decline
Deep dive. Ha! I see what you did there...
Also, there's a whole world of fairy tales they could draw from; and Disney's over here singing "I wanna be, where the people are... I wanna see, wanna see 'em dancing. We only want to cover, part of your world!" - that we technically already made bank from 3 decades and counting ago. Or maybe they're stuck on the song from Oliver & Company: "Why should I worry; Why should I care.. air air air." Your guess is as good as mine.
I do know the only reason The Rock is still doing Moana is because while he may not be a particularly great or even all that factually bankable actor, he IS a noteable name. Moreso than the actors they're bothering to replace. I don't know that banking on him to be the draw is going to work as well as they think... but then again, read above.
I really wish they'd do what they did with Alice in Wonderland where they took the source material and reworked it into a different take on it rather than being a carbon copy of the movie they already made just extended and expressive
So Triton is the Nick Cannon of the Sea
As he hooking up with 7 merwifes
This title is confusing. People aren't merely tired of live-action remakes -- the movie sucks entirely on it's own merit.
I am not sure if you can get fatigue over somthing you never liked
Though I am really interested on what is going to happen when they run out of animated movies to turn to live actions, what’ the game plan?
Will they go towards the Pixar movies? How about animated shows that may work (like Sofia the First and Phineas and Ferb?) will they just do the opposite route with Marvel, Star Wars and live action original movies but make them animated? Though I have to admit a animated equivancy to the MCU would be pretty cool and could work if done right. Though they may have to make it more family friendly and rework some stuff, but still if they keep the characterization, add more moments with characters with least screen time and reworked Infinity War and Endgame then maybe it could work.
But still I want to see what’s going to happen when they do run out of animated movies and what their next step going to be.
The CGIs are bad
Without the castle, Triton doesn't even looks like a king who rules the seven seas.
Not live adaptation fatigue.
Its bad movie adaptation fatigue.
A beat for beat movie will crush.
I would rather have a Moana sequel than a Moana Live action
My mom and my brother with his daughter went to see it and she said it’s the best thing ever. I just don’t understand.
I don't get it neither and I ain't wasting 2 hours of my life to try to get it.
I guess some people just have no standards for quality. 🤷
And they actually watched the original to compare?
I can only presume normal people just like mainstream spectacles, unchallenging righteous politics, and fulfilling an age-appropriate nostalgia. Like I can just imagine adults praise this because it’s not too deep. I know I’d probably enjoy it but I’d never think about it or want to watch it again.
So they’re normies and/or shallow, then
If I was Sherri Stoner, then I'd say, "Eeeeenough with the singin' already!"
How come they gave Ariel 2 basic dresses while Vanessa, an Ursula disguise got A BETTER GORGEOUS DRESS???!!
These changes made no sense whatsoever.
I’m just not a fan of Melissa McCarthy, and poof Havier was just phoning it in.
Changing Ariel to be black is one thing. But then why are her sisters brown completely different nationality’s?
Why is Eric adopted? It makes no sense in the time period. And his “adopted mother,” makes no sense ether.
Why are they still giving Ariel a singing number when she doesn’t even have her voice?
And while we’re at it, who the hell decide to give Aquafina a singing number?!
Why did Ursula put a spell on Ariel to forget why she needed Eric to kiss her in the first place? It makes no sense.
And why make Ariel be the one to run the ship though Ursula instead of Erik? Guy can’t save the women he loves after all the times she’s saved him? They don’t even get married at the end, so we don’t get the heartfelt happy ending, and peace between the humans and mermaids. And considering the two are actively trying to kill each other you’d think that be a big deal.
They try to make all these changes but they don’t makes sense.
I mean this in the nicest way possible. I want to see this movie fail.
They did fail, RUclips reactors who think this film was great are blind as fuck.
They only add new songs for the oscars. Let's be honets.
When has an original song from a live action Disney remake ever even been nominated?
Jodi Benson was a singer and an actress.
Halle basically carried the whole film and I was a sad they removed Louis like I just realized after rewatching the original
i am not surprised this movie is failing in international markets. it's only doing well in north america rn. i expect it to lose more ground once spiderverse comes out
TLM and spiderverse have some audience overlap despite being different genres/stories
Disney needs new management
The new little mermaid fandom has been trashing the 89s version so much in this week, I dont think thats gonna attract a lot of new watchers either, it feels really disrespectful towards animation as a medium and while I was more than happy to enjoy the good things of this remake (I really like the map scene) I find myself kind of dodging the movie now, a fandom truly can ruin something, I understand a lot of it comes from a defensive response since a lot of people were being very racist but it doesnt change the outcome.
they evil
@@leongay3190 The people that made this remake really are evil.
Remember when Disney wanted to remake Yellow Submarine? But it got cancelled due to Mars needs Moms bombing both critically and financially hard. That tells me that at one point they knew that live action remakes were bad yet the still refuse to stop making them. I would call that total hypocrisy.
Maybe it'll be better when they remake it again 5 years from now
Sherry stoner is great and one of the Animaniacs voice actors.
1:20 Sea turtles walking on the ocean floor ?... Let me guess, it was to stick to the lyrics of Under the Sea ? To the letter ? 🤦
Also, they don't know that sea turtles SWIM underwater ? Instead of crawling on the floor like they would do an land ? 🤦🤦
not gonna lie, i didnt even know there was a peter pan and wendy live action until you talked about it. that is how non existent that movie is.
It wasn't released in theaters, it was direct-to-disneyplus I think. I believe the same will be done with lilo and stitch.
It was an interesting decision to make Ariel the princess whose domain is the Caribbean. But why make Eric adopted? Why couldnt he have just BEEN her son? Also, i think giant Ursula didnt work for this version. It would have been much better to have a completely different final fight. Lastly, the sisters and Triton should have been swimming alongside the boat and cheering and celebrating Ariel and Eric's marriage at the end, rather than all of the merfolk just deciding to post up and pose on the beach.
That’s because they didn’t even get married at the end!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I'm entirely convinced disney hates money. Like they wake up in cold sweats at the thought of any form of cash flow.
Just one L after the other
2:08 OMG poor Atlantica! 😱 Why is this the first time I’ve seen anything mentioned about this?! I’ve never seen something SO depressing compared to how the✨original Atlantica✨was depicted!🥺
Like, THAT THING 🪨 is supposed to be her underwater royal castle that they live in?! Just imagine if they made Cinderella’s castle a big rock?! 🤣
I don't even think Atlantica was name dropped in the movie. On top of that it's severely underpopulated.
@@QueenMariposa5 which is probably for the best
Even more insulting is the fact that there's this big crescendo in the music when the "reveal" happens. I was genuinely left wondering what I was looking at and why it was being treated as some glorious reveal.
@@vwing that’s just so disrespectful to the original!! I can imagine it might be hard to recreate the gold kingdom with the cgi/vfx effects, but C’MON now. It’s literally a ROCK. 🙅🏻♀️😭🙃 I think Disney had enough money to do AT LEAST something a little better than that. All of the changes made just irks me to my core.👿
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