The Little Mermaid

MOVIE #1,252 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 11.24.23 I’ll be honest, I couldn’t stop looking at the underwater CGI hair. There might have been something going on there re hypnosis/testing for some new type of societal control mechanism? But yeah, this has some fun moments, effects-drenched set-pieces, and a few performances of the updated versions of the classic songs still go (the new Eric song was an absolute dud though, and the Awkwafina/Lin Manuel Miranda-penned was so stupid and bad that I kinda liked it). However it ultimately feels soulless like all the rest of these live-action remakes. (And why on earth is it 135 minutes long?!) At least there’s only like a 100 more of them that I’ll still have to take my kids to.

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The Little Mermaid is a 2023 American musical romantic fantasy film directed by Rob Marshall from a screenplay written by David Magee. Co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures, DeLuca Marshall, and Marc Platt Productions, it is a live-action adaptation of Disney's 1989 animated film of the same name, which itself is loosely based on the 1837 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The film stars singer Halle Bailey in the title role, alongside Jonah Hauer-King, Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay, Noma Dumezweni, Art Malik, Javier Bardem and Melissa McCarthy. The plot follows the mermaid princess Ariel, who is fascinated with the human world; after saving Prince Eric from a shipwreck, she makes a deal with the sea witch Ursula to walk on land. It was released on May 26, 2023.