The Little Mermaid - Absolute Bilge
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2023
- Disney's latest live action remake hasn't exactly hit the mark with critics or audiences. So strap on your fake mermaid tails and let's dive deep into this beast.
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The fact the crew had to redo the water scenes because the actress 'couldn't swim' is comedy on itself.
None of "them" like the water.
So that joke really did come true.
@@paulbarclay4114 are you saying there are nice racist things one could say? 😂
@@balthazarasquith she might be good at basketball?
WHAT
There's a reason Disney keeps making its villians sympathetic. Because then young people will learn to always excuse their bad behavior.
Terrifyingly accurate.
Remember when making sympathatic villains was actually cool and made villains better, now we are looking for the classic villains because we are tired of sympathetic villains
It's so they can excuse their own awful behavior. "Oh, you found out that I rape children? Well my parents were mean to me, so I had no choice!"
I see it as grroming them to accept evil, whether that evil is being done to themselves or others
@@wyssmaster don’t give Hollywood ideas
You what I genuinely love about this movie?
The directorial team presumably made Ariel's sisters all different races because they're a _progressive_ team that _values women, no matter the skin color,_ when all they did in reality is imply that King Triton has a multi-racial harem with whom he's fathered many children.
Holy based
Well duh, slavery was rampant in coastal, especially the african triangle zone.
Keyed Triton just abducted mermaids from their homelands or got them gifted as a sort of tribute. Disney being as amazing as always.
Who gives a shit
@Martha Morgan pretty sure this is sarcasm
@@Onsideharbor894 one can hope...
My daughter, who doesn't care about Ariel being black or anything like that, actually saw the movie and said it totally sucked. It was dark and boring. Also, she said that Halle Bailey's eyes were so far apart she looked like one of the fishes.
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I’m not gonna lie. I laughed out loud at this one.
Kids are the most honest critics.
Well if she looked like one of the fishes, it seems to me she was best suited for the role. So what’s your problem Mam, you and your daughter didn’t have to watch! You would of just stayed at home
@@jadasweets3029Shut up Jada. Go back to messing around with Cleopatra.
Ariel killing Ursula herself not only undoes the "she saved him and then he saved her" narrative; it also completely cancels Eric's agenda. By killing King Triton's arch-enemy he proved to him that humans are not actually bad but can be capable, good-hearted people. That's why he relents, allows his daughter to marry him, and in the final scene forms a rainbow with his trident to show that the human world and the sea world are now one. So, Ariel being "a brave woman who does not need a man to rescue her" is completely beside the point. 🙄
that’s why there was no rainbow at the end
Um...In the original film it's NEVER addressed that the king finds out that Eric is the one who killed Ursula. "Eric earned the respect for humans from Triton agenda" in the original NEVER happened.
Triton discovered that his daughter would go to the lengths of even making a deal with the sea witch to fulfill her dreams and desires of living on land. No matter what Triton does to "protect" her she will always be curious of what is out there. Also he comes to terms with his own emotions ("I'm gonna miss her") and realizes his daughter will live her own life, so he relinquishes his control and allows her to become human. Even tough Triton says "She really does love him" to Sebastian, it was never really about Eric that he allows her to become human but more for her to create her own path in life.
@@MROYvids I think he's talking about Triton appearing with a nod of approval for Eric. Which is earned by his actions of saving his daughter. Triton knew Eric killed Ursula to save Ariel. That's why he approved of their love. You are right about the other part though
"So, Ariel being "a brave woman who does not need a man to rescue her" is completely beside the point." - It's okay. Eric will just have to become a passport bro. ;)
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I absolutely hate the "realistic" trend of CGI animals. The old Disney made strange-looking animals like crabs and flounders cute instead of realistic for a reason.
It's not really a trend. It's just Disney trying to make it one and nobody follows.
I mean I'm an animal lover and I sometimes find even some odd looking animals cute but the problem is that many don't translate well in CGI, especially for showing expression. The CGI on Flounder and Sebastian are a testament to that.
I'm still screaming at the fact that Sebastian is now a ghost crab. A crab species that *can't breathe underwater!!* -And seriously why does his mouth look so weird.-
Sebastian looks absolutely horrific in just the trailers. I can't imagine how bad it must be to look at that for an entire movie.
@@GeraltofRivia22 Imagine having to work on that abomination.
@@GeraltofRivia22 and yet id rather kiss that then arial. That's just fucking haunting.
Ariel's actor being unable to swim will never stop being hilarious to me.
She scuba dives. I think she can swim, mate.
Seeing the *ahem* certain demographic having to take remedial swim qual during boot camp was when I know some stereotypes are too damn true
@@rusty7984 What is wrong with you?
@@CharleyGurl
Nothing just pointing out some stereotypes exist for a reason
@@rusty7984 Thanks, Rusty. Enjoy your next NASCAR race.
The way Sam Neill's screaming in fear was used as a reaction to Aquafina's rapping is priceless.
That was exactly what I felt when watching that uncomfortable song. I regret not taking a piss break during it cause damn it dragged on
Waaaa chicka waaaa chicka waaaa waaaa
Scuttle was an absolute unit in the animated film.
He's the one who conducted the espionage mission that led to the discovery that Ursula was going to marry Eric.
He gathered air and sea units to lead a joint operation to stall the wedding, with himself leading multiple bombing runs.
He went toe-to-toe against the sea witch, hitting her with a deafening scream which resulted in him getting choked; even through the asphyxiation, he grabbed the locket and pulled until its string broke, crashing the locket to the ground and returning Ariel's voice where it belonged.
Now he's just Awkwafina.
Talk about a downgrade.
For real!!
Using military terminology makes this 100% better. =D
I'm so tired of her voice I could puke. She's played so many unfunny comic reliefs she's become a burden...
Damn man, the next time I'm told I need to recommend a Marine for an award I'm coming to you to write the narrative!
Eric saving Ariel at the end of the original movie was the WHOLE POINT that earned the King's respect/blessing and trust of humans.
That wasn't even acknowledge in the original movie. I watched the original one right before seeing the new one and thought that shit made no sense.
And as the Drinker pointed out, was him saving her just like she had already saved him before.
that point wasn’t expanded on in the movie enough for me to even notice it.. i much prefer the main character getting to be the hero of the story
Also to return the favor since she saved his life twice in the movie and killed flotsam and jetsam. The feminists seem to conveniently forget that because most of them are GenZ years who have never seen the original movie.
@@TheSourcerer99 You're saying that the movie needs to spell it out for you?
"Hey thanks for saving my daughter Eric i now trust humans because of your selfless deed." lol
They were 6 lovely children, but the youngest was the most beautiful of them all, her skin was as clear and bright as a rose petal, her eyes as blue as the deepest lake, but like all the others she had no feet, her body ended in a fishtail. - H.C Andersen
which the cartoon stayed mostly true to. Because allegedly it was based on H. C. Andersens, work.
and supposedly the remake (its a remake afterall) was based on the cartoon. So why the raceswapped Ariel is beyond me. Let alone all her sisters and ofcourse not to mention the parents to Erik. Who is somehow an adopted child????
also seeing as HC wrote it back in the what 1800's ? he wouldn't have known much about the outside world in general. So its obvious the setting was a renascence era nordic european.
I think disney not staying true to that aspect of the story isn't the biggest problem with the live action remake. Personally I think the story of the cartoon version was perfectly fine but they just had to change it and somehow manage to make prince Eric very uninteresting and useless.
I love Hans Christian Andersen so I'm usually critical whenever one of his stories is adapted (for me Disney screw one of the best fairytales "The Snow Queen" when they decided to make "Frozen"). The original "The Little Mermaid" by disney was legit imo... but this live action version tried to hard and not hard enough at the same time. Like aas if it was enough to quote Andersen in the beginning but not even really pick it up as part of the story but simply show something that was supposed to represent how crucial it was for Ariel so she could shed a tear at the end of the movie. And they didn't have time to include that as aspect of the story?
Damn your logic, Spock!
Ariel is a FICTIONAL character and in case you didn't know, mermaids are NOT tral. Halle Bailey only made her far more atteactive
@@Eazy-ERyder fictional, alright. suppose you dont mind we switch Black panther out with Ryan Gosling then. I mean black panther is fictional after all.
the argument that because its fictional its somehow okay to raceswap is incredibly stupid.
Ariel was written by a Danish author who described her as white.
also Halle is in no way attractive. Have you seen the gap between her eyes?.... damn.
the only thing halle did well was sing, her acting was wooden plank level, almost no emotion or expression. just the same blank expressions most scenes.
The thing that really bothers me with the race swap reboots is that Disney is more than capable of doing a diverse fairy tale movie. Princess in the frog is a good example. The film took a classic fairy tale and altered the setting to accommodate the changes and it worked. However, that takes creativity to pull off and Disney is more interested in using minorities as a shield from criticism.
I think Tarzan is safe.
Also Hollywood hates depicting actually progressive and historically accurate events if they aren’t American or fantasy.
A movie about the Night Witches or any other woman from eastern Europe during the world wars? Nahhh
Another D-Day it is
The Princess and the Frog is my favorite.
@@giuffre714dude you just made me imagine them doing a remake of Tarzan. And we all know Disney would put a black dude in the main role. And that sounds kinda racist to me but you know they don’t care about that. Just gottta get them diversity checkboxes 😂
@@Colonel_RamRod
They wouldn't dare.
"The Ape Man"?
Never!😀
Her fake hair cost $150,000. They blew an upper middle class family’s yearly income on fake hair. But I’m sure that was much easier than just casting a red-head for the role.
Few issues with that wasn't 150k ...and secondly she refused to let them touch her hair
I think she had her natural locs bc she dies her hair and then maybe she added a few extensions that would not be a lot of money maybe £500 or less
150k is more like 3 years income
@@johnpreston230where the hell do you live? Lmfao
Im pretty sure it wasnt the color of her her what made is expensive to animate.
“When Melissa McCarthy is the best thing in your movie, you know you’ve got problems.“ That just about says it all. Thank you Drinker
I came looking for this comment
To be fair, she was great as Dzhewish literary forger Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me? The first thing I ever liked her in
*insert Kronk "no, no. he's got a point." gif*
Best cast as a manatee.
Halle Bailey is just plain unattractive and has no star power. Complete waste of the budget.
My 3 yr old niece can watch the animated one without moving but as soon as this movie started she was bored and playing with her doll 😂
Even splash, a movie from 1984, had better underwater scenes than the messy CGI from this movie
Impressive to say actually
Shhhhhh 🤫 don't mention that film lest they try and remake that one too casually changing all the characters ethnicities in the process like they did with this
A princess saving herself. Who could've seen that coming? 🤯 But honestly, in the animated film, Prince Eric saving Ariel causes Triton to see humans in a different light. It's a character defining moment. Instead, Triton sets her daughter free for what?
"Hey, Ariel. Go leave the ocean for this man who can't protect you. He's not royal blood either. He was adopted. He's actually pretty useless like I assumed humans are. But, be set free! You're in good hands!"
Cant have a man saving a woman these days, can we? Because that would totally be anti-woke? And we cant have that for sure!
wamhen power >>> logic and context behind actions, pls understand.
The whole point of the movie is that Triton as a dad should not control Ariel’s decisions and that’s what he realises later on, so Eric being the saviour does not make sense in the storyline, so your comment is dumb
@@anoushkasood4383 actually the remake is dumb, and so is anyone who enjoys it. Thank you for ruining disneyfor the normal, intelligent people.
@@anoushkasood4383 idk man, there's the reason he's change his mind, if its not him being a savior then what is it?
My biggest gripe is how they changed the story, so Ariel “doesn’t go on land for a boy any more, but for herself” in some female empowerment moment. 1989-Ariel went on land partly because she fell in love but mostly because she wanted to be independent of her father and see the world upstairs. She wanted an adventure. Falling in love was the last push she needed.
And what’s so wrong about sacrificing yourself for love anyway?! Stupid postmodernist bullshit narcissistic ideologies BLERGH!
That's not even mentioning the fact that the original story does not have a happy ending as we understand it. She did not get the guy, who thought it was someone else who saved him. It's a tragedy with that ended with her getting a soul.
Love? Society wants you to know... *checks notes*, "It's more empowering for you to dedicate your life to your career than to find love or meaning in this short life."
Now get back to work!😂
@@chewxieyang4677 She also had the choice to either kill him and live or to die and let him be happy with his wife. Neither the prince nor his wife were bad people and didn't deserve death and she didn't kill him. Her father wasn't cruel either and rather it's the humans that tend to hate mermaids, but every mermaid loves the things they find from the human world. Ursulas equivalent only called the sea witch is also just someone who can do magical potions for a price with no cheap tricks. She even tells the little mermaid that it would probably be best to just not do it as she will feel like getting stabbed when tranforming, every step is like walking on knives and she will most likely get a broken heart since the prince has no knowledge of her. Also her voice was just the most valuable thing she had outside her life which is why it was the price. There is no villain in the story. Only a girl in love who couldn't get the guy.
How do you feel about Drinker admitting to pirating the film and not paying attention while saying the CGI looks bad? Also, do you not think it's weird that the byline of the ScreenRant article he shows to show that the film is being panned really just proves his whole argument wrong?
@@BigBenzilla How about both though? Like the original where her dream was to live among humans and her love was just a tiny bit? Of course today love can't exist. Unless of course it's same sex, but we can't have hetero love on screen. We don't want equality, but rather reverse the roles. White people need to be discriminated against, Men are to be seen as worthless and Heterosexual love is to be seen as disgusting. I'm all for equality, but the people actively saying they fight for it don't know what they want. Do they want to make the privileged equally unprivileged or the unprivileged equally privileged? They tried doing both and fail to notice they are just making the world just as bad, but just reversed roles. Make love not war got lost in translation.
As a theater kid, we're told in auditions over and over that our director will cast a more expressive actor over us, even if they don't sing as well. it doesnt matter to her if we can sing like Christine Dae, as long as we can't perform what we're singing, we don't get the leads.
I think my theater director should start directing Disney's casting lol.
5:36 I...I just died. I haven't laughed that hard in months. I don't know what I was expecting a talking bird to sound like, but it certainly wasn't THAT
The way princes Ariel kicked Eric in the balls and shouted: ''This is for all the mansplaining that I have endured", and when Eric says: ''You are right, you are absolutely right, I am so sorry, I have wronged you, I should have had checked my white privilege before meeting you'', were truly the most inspiring moments I have ever seen from a Disney film. A 10/10.
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Wait is this true?
The sad thing is that since I haven't seen the movie, I'm only 75% sure you're joking.
You know the movie is bad when you're not entirely sure if this is satire or not
Did this actually happen?
There's a reason why all the other characters immediately shut the seagull up whenever he tried to sing in the original movie. In this one, they let him. It's a perfect encapsulation of this movie.
That's a great point.
"Him" hahaha
her
@@liampatrick3110 it
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The Little Mermaid is a tale from Danish indigenous culture, but Disney has cast actors from a different race and culture for the lead role. Will they do that to other indigenous cultures too? For example, will they take an African story about an African hero, but cast a Mongolian as the lead?
Well, it was a fairy tale written by Hans Christian Anderson, rather than a traditional folktale. But it was inspired by traditional folklore and Anderson was Danish himself, so the point still stands.
You forget, "only white people can be racist. It's not racist if we do it to them."
Blacks can replace anyone else, but no one can dare replace a black person's role. That would be considered racist.
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That movie cost as much as the titanic 💀
Much less due to inflation but still ridiculous for CGI crap
Here's 3 unbiased and honest reviews. I have 3 kids (ages 11, 9, 7) who all loved the animated movie. We took them to see this and after an hour my 7 year old was asking to leave and my 9 & 11 year olds (who are obsessed with the animated movie) said the movie was okay but that they'd never watch it again.
They simply wanted to be entertained, and Disney failed at that.
That's how I felt watching A Wrinkle in time
@@wondergirl1586 are you a child?
@@vehzee So much salt.
So this movie is not for kids is what I am getting.
Disney is no longer trying to entertain. Their goal is to indoctrinate, to alphabetize everything. To change the culture irrevocably. Their end goal? Don't want to say what I think it is but I think it is the same end goal for a lot of people on the far left. The last frontier in stripping away all societal mores and taboos. You can guess.
You guys remember „Fox and the Hound“? It‘s a underrated but brillant old Disney movie. It got straight to my heart as a kid, and never left. It‘s just beautiful. At least this one is pretty safe from a remake. There is just no way this could be adapted for today‘s audience: It deals with death, loss, friendship, growing up, sacrifices, choices…Disney thinks that kids nowadays are to dumb and fragile for anything that goes beyond fart-jokes and quick comical relief.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that remembers that movie. It taught me so much and set my standards for art while i was just a kid. Those heartbreaking scenes by the end still roam through my brain rent free
Children are capable of understanding any complex matters if those are layed out through a story. Headquarters in Disney currently just don't care about any children at all.
I had nightmares of the bear as a kid..
That movie is fantastic, for real. One of the best Disney movies, from a storytelling perspective. It's not my favorite enjoyability-wise, but I still respect it.
What I really liked about that movie, in typical Disney fashion, was that Todd and Copper can still hang out as friends but in secret since they live in different situations.
So fuking good.
I actually hadn't seen the animated movie a very long time. My wife and I went to see this and we both thought "yeah, that was alright, nothing special". Then the next day we rewatched the animated movie and just tore this apart realizing how many little things they changed that just didn't make sense when you actually think about it.
Stupidity is what it is.
My favorite Disney remake is “Ever After.” I know it’s not really Disney, but a life action version of a classical fairy tale Disney made popular.
I’d love to see more remakes like this. Such a wonderful movie.
Critical Drinker, check that movie out.
I like how, because Ariel’s sisters are a diverse cast, that directly means King Triton is a major player with many baby-mamas
HAhahaha! Nice
He really did rule them seven seas 😂
Or its the other way around: Triton's a cuck and his wife was sleeping around.
Triton technically Zeus nephew
That’s why he shares Zeus sexual appetite on harems
Always liked king Triton lol
These Disney remakes are not entirely worthless. For me, the best part about it is seeing guys like The Critical Drinker review this tripe.
They also give us examples of how NOT to make a film
Do you want to watch your favorite animated Disney movies to be live action? Why not just watch Broadway or any stage performances in Disneyland? Or if you want to feel nostalgia, just watch the animated movies many times.
Calling this filth tripe is an insult to cow intestine. Some people really think it brings out the flavor and nutrition in their dishes
Mama shes like me 🌚
Hailey really nailed her rendition of WAP in this movie.
Aside all the other issues I'd have with this movie I'll forever be upset about the fact they changed the way Ursula was defeated from Ariel saving Eric and then Eric defeating her for Ariel just doing everything by herself... (thus making Eric's character kind of useless). Why did they take this moment from him?
I guess if they want to teach kids it's never alright to ask for help and do everything yourself I'd say: mission accomplished. idk.
Also speaking about Eric I feel like his character was originally more dimensional. Of course they added more background for his character but at the same time I feel like this made him more one-dimensional. The only detail I really liked was that he collected stuff from the sea but all the rest didn't really add to his character imo.
Literally laughed my ass off when you asked how did it cost 200 million dollars 😂😂
Some of that was the cost to cover Reperations for the black cast.
$250 million sadly lol
@@hgonz14 And not even counting the marketing of course.
I doubt it did. Most of hollywood is just money laundering.
@@spiritsplice Facts. Don't forget the child trafficking.
I hate that they took away Eric ramming Ursula for a reason that I don't think I'v seen addressed yet: he wasn't just saving Ariel, Triton, and the entirety of Atlantica, but he was also avenging himself. She HYPNOTIZED and mentally dominated him. She would've forced him to marry her, and it wasn't even about HIM. It wasn't even about ARIEL. It was barely even about Triton. It was all about power. She made him a pawn, took away his agency and his soul just so that she could still use a totally different pawn against Triton, and he made her regret it with the very ship she stuck him on to prevent his rescue. THAT is what they took away from Eric. It's not about the killsteal -- it about everything it represents.
You are WAYYYYY over thinking it dude, calm down. Eric was such a nothing character in the original.
You're not way over-thinking this, as Taylor said. You made a great point. And this is a trend in a lot of these remakes. The people making the movies only recognize the most superficial aspects of their characters and the stories they're dealing with.
@@eljefeamericano4308 so you’re saying Eric was not a superficial, 2 dimensional character? Nah, bro, you literally have no idea what you’re talking about.
@@taylorlovesbooks94 Whatever, dude.
@@taylorlovesbooks94 LOL please don't make the mistake of thinking you're smart or clever. You're not.
They should have made the remake so that Ariel had a top half fish and bottom half woman, now THATS diversity!
I feel like one of the reasons Disney chose to cast her as Ariel was because they love pulling the "if you don't support this, that means you're racist" card. Disney loves to find ways to *make* people feel like they need to see a movie, and certain ways of doing it aren't bad. Advertising as a "must see" or how phase 1-3 of Marvel was "leading up to" something made people sit down because they WANTED to see it, but now Disney is trying to push it further saying you "have to" or else you're labelled "racist" "sexist" or any other crap they like to say.
This is like the exact reason why Marvel is kinda failing now. Like we know Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars are coming, but they’ll never top the 11 years of buildup and hype for Endgame.
Who even fucking cares now. I've been labeled racist because I asked my Hispanic neighbors to stop honking horns and slamming car doors late at night and in the morning. Fine, I'll call the police next time.
In a word: Guilt. "If you don't like this, there's something wrong with you."
Disney are churning out crap and blaming the audience for not liking it, further turning them away from Disney productions. Not wise.
🙄 Most people criticizing Arial were racist though.
Remember when equality actually meant people being treated equally. I miss that
welcome to the era of victimhood
miss it, too
I have never agreed more in my life :D
Today's definition of equality is more equal than yours, I'm afraid.
Made for a “Modern Audience” equality be damned. 😂
It takes a brave man to watch a new Disney movie in this day and age. I thank you for your courage and fortitude.
LOLLLLLL yes so courageous ! Wow the celebration of mediocrity is wild.
(This is sarcasm. I think it’s pathetic how grown adults are losing their shit over Disney movies. Y’all weird af.)
Alcohol on hand lol
As long as he didn't pay to see it.
@@diaryofafreebitchtf...
1. Disney can't make anything good or meaningful with Disney properties anymore... If you actually comprehend basic morality, to say nothing about the source material, their new "wares" are blatantly egregious and illogical.
Read: incompatible with a well-meaning rational mind.
2. Disney and their malicious/vacant stares literally slander and black ball anybody willing to be honest about them. (He's a writer/director. Fyi.)
3. Any one of us could drop dead at any moment from a stroke or embolism... Is watching a black washed little mermaid, as opposed to telling the unique African myths surrounding them, where you want to be "when Jesus comes back"???
So far I have not seen one of the live remakes of the Disney-crap-train. Glad I don't have to feel sad missing this one. My grandchildren will just have to enjoy the original.
Absolutely nailed it! That review was spot on and couldn't have said it better. Great job! 👌
My 6 y.o daughter disliked it so much, she asked for us to leave...only to come home to watch the original. Yeah, that's how good it is. 😂
Few days ago, i asked my little cousin if she's interested in this movie. She said no because Disney remakes haven't been all that impressive, she literally fell asleep while watching the shitty Mulan remake lol
That’s depressing
Ya right
hope you got a refund... stop giving disney your money
Based daughter.
I'm suprised Disney didn't make "Ursula": a film that goes into the tragic backstory of how Triton unfairly banished his former court magician because she jammed herself into an octopus.
@Shepard’s P1e I'll admit, Maleficent was actually a decent movie but give it a week and soon you will see that Disney is working on an "Ursula" film on how she was forced by men to become an evil, octopus.
That was just the official story that they fed the media. The true story is that she came out as non-binary to Triton and he banished her because he's a transphobe. The octopus thing is just Ursula living her life as her true self. That will be the central theme of her origin story movie.
Oh, they probably will. Give them time.
They will, like Cruella.
Is a trans octopus a calamari trapped in the body of an octo? Just askin 😊
7:19 Can't believe my race was mentioned in this monstrosity
Wow, you've perfectly articulated my thoughts on this movie! It's a shame that what should have been a retelling of a beloved classic turned into a subpar experience. The unnecessary extension of the original story, the questionable CGI, and the awkward casting choices truly make it feel like a pale imitation of the original film. I think you've hit the nail on the head in saying that Disney's trend of live-action remakes needs to be evaluated for its artistic merit rather than its profit potential. Thank you for this thorough and honest review! Keep it up!
It´s sad how they butchered Eric, because he was IMO one of the best Disney princes. He had personality - was fun loving, adventurous and as curious about the see as Ariel is about the land. Their personalities match, which is why they are perfect for eachother. You also don´t see Eric in "princely" attire, unless it is formal occasion. He eagerly talks with the people of his kingdom as equal, and when the statue of him, where he is all noble and heroic, is unveiled, he is like "Who is this guy? That´s not me." It was also his personality that made Ariel like him when she secretly watched the ship.
Also, the fact that it was him who saved Ariel and stabbed Ursula was pretty important story-wise, since it was this action that in the end finaly convinced Triton that not all humans are bad, which is why he allowed Ariel to go with him and made her human.
Everything except for the final Ursula scene is exactly how he is portrayed in the movie. You should watch it for yourself.
So you didn’t watch the movie..
I don't think you watched the movie? Eric was exactly like his animated counterpart apart from the Ursula ending ship part
This is what happens when you don’t actually watch the film and want to dick ride off of others have your own opinion next time
Alright, I agree that this movie is shit, but what in the flying fuck is "fun loving"? As if to suggest there are people out there who hate fun, like somebody's going to create a dating site profile and put the words "fun hating" in their profile. NO FUCKING FUN TO BE FOUND HERE, YOU SHUT YOU'RE FUCKIN' MOUTH. We're going to sit here in silence and watch CNN.
Not only is Sebastian a pants shitting CGI nightmare that no little kid would enjoy looking at, but they made him into a Ghost Crab, a species noted for their inability to survive in deep waters.
That's not the only demographic here that can't survive in deep water...
They're also known for catching and eating baby sea turtles as they desperately try to reach the ocean after hatching.
@@haydn-db8z OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
It's a woke diversity feminist fantasy. Real life facts have no power here.
Bruh 🤣🤣🤣
Hearing Aquafina sing was the worst thing I've ever heard & slaughter animals for a living
If she was black in the original and they turned her white for the new one, how well would THAT go over?
“Muh huwitewashing1!!11!1!!”
dawg its still the same
oh boy there'd be riots
@@Zyjian What's still the same?
@@onlyforcomments8836 How about they do the live-action _The Princess and the Frog_ and swap colors on Tiana and Charlotte!
The "lessons" taught in movies in 2023:
- If you're a teenage girl, you've got nothing to learn and no flaws or personal growth left to have because you're perfect the way you are.
- If you're a villain you're actually a very special nuanced shade of grey that no one understands but we stand with you (oh unless you're a hetero yt man then you're just the devil).
- Romantic love isn't real and any man who pretends to love you is just getting in the way of your independent slayyying gOrl you need ta DUMP his azzz.
What happens when you hire female writers.
- the best a person of color can aspire to be is a second-rate knockoff of much loved white character.
My three year old daughter will never see this abomination, or any of the live action remakes. The morals they teach are evil.
@@bustavonnutz female Gen z writers
Yep, that about sums it up.
God I love when he says “modern audiences” and “the message”. It gets me every time. The echo and deep voice lol
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It's the motto mostly everyone follows now
I read your comment right when he said it 😂😂
Freaking fart noise XD
I had never heard about this aquafina human before this movie, and i was happy with that
I really liked Arya Stark's battle style against Brienne if Tarth. It would work for a small person who used leverage and speed. But they had Brienne suddenly fighting like her untrained squire so Arya could win. It took away from Arya's victory.
These moves from Galadrei look so slow and weak. She blocks with zero force, leaving herself completely open to an attack from behind that only comes after they take a nap and have a coffee. With her slight size and complete lack of strength, speed or skill, she should have a difficult time fending off one attacker: yet they give her four?
the worst part is, Eric is one of the best Disney Princes from the animated films. He isn't one dimensional, has some good comedic timing, is actually the DAMSEL of the story for a short time, giving Ariel a chance to save him from Ursula's spell, and then works WITH Ariel to kill the villain.
The movie does a great job of showing they are made for each other, and not in a cheap hollow way. They're both brave, kind, and selfless.
The Little Mermaid is one of my favorite Disney movies, and I knew they were going to screw it up with this shitty remake.
Luckily, the originals till exists. This one can sink to its reward of being forgotten.
Would you go see a movie if Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in it today that isn't a Terminator film? I am asking because Arnold won't be in The Expendable's 4. If you ask me that is a good thing.
@@jaxsazerac4904 most Arnold movies are good
@@jaxsazerac4904 He should do it, it's not like the franchise was perfect to begin with, they're fun movie's so no harm no foul
I knew it the moment I heard they raceswapped Ariel. Snow White will also be raceswapped and Snow White was my favorite as a child. I’m pissed because I know they are going to fuck it up so badly
Disney changing the bright gorgeous colors of the original, to resemble stock WW2 footage was a bold choice.
Yes looked like a submarine disaster movie. I also expected to see Jaws come by in the murky water.
I can't wait for the day that series/movies start including filters for:
- Does not include a MESSAGE/LESSON about racism.
- Does not include a MESSAGE/LESSON about feminism.
- Does not include a MESSAGE/LESSON about homosexuality.
The funny thing is, everyone already knows not to be any of those things, yet they still keep preaching it, and it's like... yeah we know, stop telling us. And they can't really say it's to "raise awareness" for countries where that sort of thing isn't frowned upon, because even if they're aired in other countries they still get edited and censored, so really it's pointless for them to even bother. 😂
@@PakeezSlayer Yeah, race has no impact on your merits as a human being.
Women are great but some are not.
If you like/love someone with the same genitals, have at it!
Okay cool we done now? Can we move along....
hope you got a few good decades in you. it WILL pass, as the leading idiots die off, but not for a long time to come.
Just check the movies, which were not nominated for Oscar.
Does not include a message against white males specifically, any males in toto.
"More diverse than down town Los Angeles.".....
Beginning.............
And END OF STORY
Disney could have made a ton of money by just re-releasing HD versions of the animated films.
They already have HD versions i.e bluray, streaming etc.
@@rkitchen69 Re-releasing, which they've done before in the past. Alway some new version every few years.
Gonna be lucky if they make their money back on this one again. Production costs was at least 250 million, not counting the extra hundreds of millions in marketing costs. Most news sources estimate it to make 150 million this Memorial weekend.
Remember when they were re-releasing their animated library in 3D for movie theaters?
Disney should have stuck to doing that.
They did. And limited release to milk the blu ray model while they built Disney plus.
They bought all these ideas and content but can't make art.
It's pathetic. At this point I'd just encourage people to go back to sharing content. One person gets it and distributes it to their friends by copying it.
Normally I'd be against that but this company isn't even trying anymore
Ariel was a mermaid who sought adventure and loved the land.
Eric was a human who sought adventure and loved the sea.
They complimented each other beautifully, which is why they were such a good couple. They took away nearly everything that made Eric such a good prince and that bothers me a LOT. How is a brave, kind, and cunning prince who risks everything for his love a BAD thing??
They didn’t make it a bad thing and the movie actually made his love more pronounced both of the sea and of ariel
@@RianaAnaisummm no.
It doesn’t fit “The Message”😂
@@RianaAnais you’re not very bright are you?
Disney doesnt like stories about brave, good men. Because a nation of brave, good men would not sit idly by while a multinational corporation of sexual deviants and pedos indoctrinates their children
I enjoyed your review infinitely more than the actual movie. Thank you for your candor and your humor.
You know what's worse? To show that Ariel is better, Disney tried VERY HARD to discredit Eric by making Ariel kill Ursula as opposed to Eric.
The seagulls in Finding Nemo that just shouts "Mine" all the time has more character than anything in this dull movie.
haha.......who did Aquafina have to blow to get this part ????? besides whoever wrote that freakin song /I mean urban poetry rap-------e
Yes they were hysterical! I kept wanting to see more of them...for me it was the funniest part of the movie and it was also an accurate mockery of seagulls in general...Always hungry and aggressive...
@@whatadollslife mock our society
@@codyrockarano5220 *Mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine!*
@@whatadollslife she apparently loves BBC 😉
I asked my daughters if they were excited for the new Little Mermaid movie. My Freshman, who watched the original many times said.
“Not really. It’s kinda wired. Ariel’s sisters are all different colors. I think Triton must’ve slept around.”
They’re right tho 💀
They're not wrong
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Ah kids you can always trust them to be brutally honest
Yeah, I mean how dare the mermaids in charge of keeping an eye on the different parts of the world be beings that look like beings from those parts of the world.
That actress that played the bird..Awkwafinna or whatever literally was the worst character i think Disney has ever dumped out.
Even the original scuttle was tolerable.
“When Melissa McCarthy is the best part of your film then you know you’ve got fucking problems” 😂
I'm just honestly shocked they didnt pull a Maleficent by having Triton be the true villain all along.
they almost went that route actually, they made Ursula seem a little more apologetic, explaining that she was his sister and both were competing as rightful heirs to the throne. They also made Triton a bit more threatening/menacing in his acting.
@@toastedbabybuns1000 Oh, FFS!
Maleficent was a great live action movie.
The writers will be reading this and think: 'Goddammit! Knew we missed something. No wonder Rotten Tomatoes hates us.'
Honestly I’m very surprised they didn’t make her a sympathetic villain. Melissa wasn’t nearly as menacing or clever as the og. I saw where awkwafina called her performance “terrifying” and I’m like wtf? Did we see the same thing? The actors just praise it all and probably haven’t even watched this piece of shit. There are so many things I’d love to change, but I wish Ursula at least felt threatening.
"It's very simple - if you stop going to bad movies, they'll stop making bad movies. If the movie used to be a TV show, just don't go. After Roman numeral II, give it a rest. If it's a remake of a classic, rent the classic! Tell them you want stories about people, not a hundred million dollars of stunts and explosives. People, it's up to you! If the movie stinks, just don't go!"
- "The Critic", 1994
And then ESG happened.
@@masterlinktm ESG is such a scam.
Doesn't apply to Disney. Their profits are kept afloat by their theme parks, so it doesn't matter if every remake loses money, as they can afford to keep making them. Which they will to keep the copyright "active" for years to come.
I can't imagine how anyone but black women with children would be interested. A theater filled with loud bored kids must be fun.
@@GreyDeathVaccine what's ESG?
Yes! Was waiting for you to cover this! Preferred the fun cartoon animals over the garbage CGI we have now
I'm 53. I have no intention of watching it. But then, neither does my 3 year old granddaughter.
I see all the usual reviewers are called it a box office smash.
Wikipedia said it cost $250 million to make. It has taken $236.6 million.
That's a $13.4 million loss on it's opening weekend.
Some triumph.
The numbers are even less encouraging when you factor in that it had a marketing budget as well ($90M is the figure I've seen mentioned) and the studio gets a share of the box office rather than the full amount - this varies around the world and I think in the US they get a larger share on the opening weekend than the rest of its run, hence the focus on opening weekend takings. That's why they'll usually say that a film needs to make at least double its production and marketing costs (probably around $350M in this case) to break even so we're talking maybe $700M before the film turns a profit.
Fun fact:
The specific species of crab that Disney chose to base this new CGI Sebastian on, cannot actually breath underwater. I hate.
Fun fact: it's a fairytale
@@myklorenzo87 But it's a _realistic_ fairytale now.
Thats like the mosquito in Jurassic park. They say that you can extract dinosaur DNA from mosquito that is trapped in amber. And they show the only type of mosquito, that doesn't suck on blood.
@@myklorenzo87 If this movie is a fairytale, then I’m one of the Easter island statues.
They did the same thing to Scuttle, a bird. If nobody questions the crab breathing underwater, they should question the bird breathing underwater. The only reason I don't hate that, is because I grew up loving Happy Feet and thought penguins could fly
They literally could've cast actual mermaid enthusiasts in the roles of every single mermaid. They wear fins and know how to move under the water.
yea, but that's hella weird, dawg, i mean wtf
They could have genetically engineered actual mermaids for less than they wasted on this.
Well first Disney would need to vet those pros for blackness, then queerness, then grooming availability.
So, to be fair, they may have but the deal fell through...
@@zanitzeuken you should search mermaid fanatics, you'd be surprise how people are obssessed with mermaids
Obviously too white.
I couldn't stop laughing. Flawless explanation of this movie. Nothing more to say. Good job. Thank you for making my day entertaining. 👍
I'm a new subscriber and I've watched you most recent two including this one. I gotta say it's a breath of fresh air 🪟 also great outro "go away now" GOLD 🥇
All these remakes make me consider that when I finally get the last few classic (as in, all of the movies written before the 2000s that I _don't_ have, since I own a LOT of Disney movies that were traditionally animated, and the few more recent ones that I liked I got immediately and still have. By my count just now, I have about 20 to 21 left to get, though one of them is just replacing a DVD of _Hercules_ I have that no longer works) I should, if that day comes that get that overall miniscule number left, I should just pick a week or two where I just binge-watch ALL of them without stop. From _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_ to _The Princess and the Frog_ just go for it. Maybe even listen to the soundtracks if I buy those too. Could be fun...
Excuse me, I need to go make a list of them all, just in case...
In the original film, there's a shot that lasts for a few seconds. Ariel grabs the reigns of the carriage she's riding with Eric and swings them, causing the horses to speed up. Eric stumbles a bit but is clearly happy. Ariel's carelessness appeals to his own desire to not live according to the rules set by others and he's clearly having a fun time. All this is communicated in a few moments.
In the remake, Eric asks if Ariel would like to take the reigns, which she agrees to. This immediately takes away from Ariel's curious-to-a-fault nature, since her riding without experience was Eric's idea. Then the horses speed up but oh no: There's now a cart in front of them sideways, going... Somewhere, I guess. Ariel dodges the cart expertly and Eric looks scared. Then they drive into a little outdoor farmers market and Ariel makes really tight turns to make it out safely, until halting the carriage right on the edge of a cliff. As they ride off, much slower now, Eric turns around and meekly says "sorry about that" to the people at the market.
Curious, fun-loving, brave and lucky --> Rey Skywalker energy. 😂
Never EVER mention that name again
Lmao Rey can only dream of being a Skywalker. It's been a while since any character annoyed me as much as her. But now THIS movie came out so I think we got a new winner.
@Darth vader Not worthy of Palpatine as well.
@@geminisfl I should never say Rey Skywalker's name again?
@~Dataman~
She's not related in any way to Luke, Leia, Anakin, Shmi, or even Padme. She's not even in by marriage, or a cousin. She's Rey Palpatine, who did exactly as the old Clone wanted and killed him, so now she IS Sheev Palpatine. Great story.
I legitimately feel bad that the Drinker had to watch this movie. No one, not even the Drinker, should be asked to endure such things merely for our entertainment.
He watches this shit, so we don't have to.
Sure Jack was with him for support
Hopefully he at least chose a cheap day, cant suck the regular ticket price cash out of him that way
He's not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed.
@@luurchify who is we?
As soon as they showed the black girl, EVERYONE knew that the redheaded movie was going to SUCK
My dad came home with the milk he went to buy 25 years ago just to turn off the Scuttle Butt song.
Lol 😂 Is that the bird that was talking underwater? Gosh, this movie is so lazy.
What are you talking about??? Scuttlebutt is fire on mute
I'm in awe of what a perfect analogy comparing modern Disney remakes to 'Invasion of the Bodysnatchers' is. We're not being given entertainment, we're being given fake pod-people.
To my knowledge, the 2 remakes I've watched and paid money to see worth existing is 101 Dalmatians 1996 and The Jungle Book 2016.
Sure John Hughes writing the screenplay in his slapstick phase meant it's more toned down but Glenn Close is perfectly casted for liveaction Cruella, there is a fair amount of nice humour and the trained animals were splendid.
Now for the Jungle Book 2016, my biggest praise is the new Mowgli since the original 60s mowgli is pretty insufferable at times. In the 2010's remake, he is given more character and a satisfying arc
Close; it's entertainment for clones and npcs
When infant mortality dropped from nearly 50% to under 1% due to the industrial revolution it was only a matter of time before those people became the majority of society.
THIS
Soulless movies for soulless "people".
The earth has literally ran out of souls and these creatures are a cheap imitation of humanity.
I love how Critical praises Melissa and bashes her at the same time 😂
That was some top-notch casting. She knows how to play evil, because she has plenty of real-world experience.
At least Melissa is probably the only one that seems to be having a good time with her role. Everyone else is just under pressure for their roles, Javier Bardem seems like he's just collecting a massive paycheck and I can't blame him
@Fuhgeddaboudit No, the very BEAUTIFULLY voiced Halle Bailey looked obviously hapoy with her role. Even CD praised her voice
@@Eazy-ERyder People keep saying that she sings good. Maybe she does in other things, I don't think she necessarily had a bad voice per se, but when I heard Halle Bailey singing her version of Part of Your World in the one trailer I cringed hard.
@Soul Tpp I LOVED it and so did CD. Rewatch the video here and tell me I'm wrong
The world energy crisis could be solved with mounting Walt Disney, spinning in his grave, to a powerful turbine.
"I've coughed up things more aesthetically pleasing... " - Best line ever. Sums up the whole movie!!😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Eric saving Ariel just genuinely and simply made sense. She was in mermaid form and stuck in a circle of no water she could get to, not much to mess up that with. But I saw the book they released and she's steering the ship in mermaid form?
Yeah. The reason why Eric had to save her. Was the way it was written. If you wanted Ariel to finish off Ursula. You'd have to change the entire ending. So that she fights Ursula. Like Simba did to Skaar. Instead, they were like: "Screw logic. Let's make no sense" The original film did a proper setup and pay off, with logic. Ariel saved Eric from death. He repaid that love in saving her. With his own ship, no less. The thing he liked. Live action movie. HERP DE DERP! WHATEVER!
I saw the picture from that, it looks like she's floating, whoever did it failed in that regard. If she's really standing on her tail like that, it would hurt because it's not made to support weight.
@@lainiwakura1776 which makes her all the more heroic sacrificing her future back pain for her love. Oh and let me just crash homeboys ship real quick, I'm sure it's fine.
Never mind that... How the hell does she know how to steer a ship in the first place?
@@SEELE-ONE That's why the whole ending had to be rewritten. Because they made the movie dumb. When they changed it. Because the writers are idiots.
Imagine Melissa McCarthy being the best part of your movie... I'm at least happy that she respected the role, with Ursala being my favorite Disney villian.
If anything Melissa McCarthy carried that movie, and that's saying a lot for a movie that does very little and does everything wrong.
Tbf it is perfect casting
Melissa McCarthy disrespected the late Queen, so she's the 'best part' of nothing.
Oh wow I didn't even realize that it was Melissa Mccarthy, I've seen the preview so many times in the theatre it's downright nauseating.
My initial thought from the preview was "atleast Ursula seems like she's casted well"
Really? I thought she was the worst of the characters by far
Half way through my 9 yr old daughter asked, "Is it almost over?"
Okay, here is my honest review, as someone from Mexico:
First the bad:
- Being live-action, the animal sidekicks completely lack charisma
- The additional 40 or so minutes of new material was absolutely and utterly forgettable. The new songs in particular, only made me laugh by how bad they were.
- As usual with Disney live-actions, they lack that certain "magic". For example, during Under the Sea, Sebastian is singing about the different fish and the instruments they play... while we only see some slow-marching turtles on screen. Only in the final segments they decided to show some starfish dancing with the sea slugs.
- Erick not killing Ursula makesTriton's change of heart unreasonable. So far as he knows, the humans just caused more pain to his family.
- Speaking of Triton...it honestly almost looked as if the movie was trying to make him a secondary villain. There was no warmth in him, no love, no sympathy, either for Ariel or any of his daughters. There was ZERO family chemistry between any of them. Given the fact that all look different (black, asian, spanish, white), and the lack of warmth in Bardem´s acting, you never buy they are a family... they look like a bunch of random girls meeting with their ruler, instead of a loving father finally reuniting with his beloved daughters.
- Also, there was no sense of identity to Erick's home country. He is white, the mother is black, Grimsby is indian, the servants are different races (but not mixed), and the people in the marketplace looked caribeean.
The good:
- Overall, the movie was decent enough, mainly because it is mostly the same as the animated one.
- The new arrangements for the original songs, while not as great as the originals, were pretty good.
- Halle Baily's... while her acting is completely average, she is gorgeous so I give her a pass :D
- The only part of the movie that actually manages to capture some of the same "magic" as the original, is the whole final part starting from when Erick is presenting Vanessa all the way to the end of the movie... excluding a couple of points: Erick is not truly under Ursula's spell for some reason, and Erick not killing Ursula. But the whole sequence was generally very well done, and it felt as if it had the proper stakes at play.
I give a passing 7 out 10. However, when I have kids and they ask me to put on The Little Mermaid, I won't even remember the live-action version exists. It will be gone from my memory in a couple weeks, and ultimately, that is its greatest flaw.
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Fetal alcohol syndrome
"Awkwafina has the voice of a 7 year old chain smoker" i spat out my drink from laughing so hard. And spot on.
Thankyou for the review. You saved me $20.
I think he said 70 year old chain smoker.
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Drinker is saving us more money than our coupon book!
Last time I checked AquaFina was a barely passable aftershave product.
Maybe I'm too European to understand Hollywood casting her in anything. every character I've seen her in was obnoxious at best, annoying as hell and her voice doesn't help either. and no, she's not fun.
The thing that bugs me the most in this movie, is that they took away the fact that Sebastian is a music conductor. It takes away a lot from the character about why he loves music and why he is the main singing personality in the movie. It even adds more connection between him and Ariel given that he probably trained her in voice.
What were they thinking? Terrible adaptation.
It’s like the original writers understood logic and character motivation…
True. In the 89 movie, while he's with the King at tjr begging of the movie, talking about Ariel's show, he mentionned something about her not attending the rehearsals 😄😄😄😄
This is what happens when Gen Z gets to write the script
Sounds like they had plenty of screen time to show that. Didn't he say there's almost an extra hour of run time? 😂
One of your best breakdowns...I was crying when you were talking about Aquifina's singing
seen alot of comments trying so hard to defend this kind of quality by saying "my kids loves it! I watched it 2 times and im going to watch it again next week!!, whoever said its bad because some those old mens dont want to grow up!! the movie is made for kids!!"
Like cmon.. do you really need to lie that much to defend this crap?
you dont watch them, your kids didnt even ask for it, you drag them with you, probably yall just sit down in the theater playing with your phones...
just ask a kid, give them both classic and live action little mermaid poster.. which one the kid will chose.. go on.
I think it's obvious the kind of people that support these movies will probably end up adopting one too many cats in their future.
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You've gotta give props to Disney's evil genius. They've found the krabby patty formula to keep releasing the lowest-tier content they can, while guaranteeing free advertisement through controversy, and the cherry on top is that they get to silence any criticisms as prejudice. Its honestly genius if you think about it.
Lmao for real bro
Genius in their minds,To us they are sinking their own company,They are only as bright as their movies 😂
It's really not. It's a losing strategy. There is no longevity to it.
@@trequor companies seem to have given up on long term planning in favour of short term gains
Just like Walt would have wanted.
The overwhelming casting goal of every "diverse" movie is to suggest to audiences that everyone community at any point in history, no matter it's size, had the demographics of a 21st century cosmopolitan city.
Its like Disney is making a high school production number in an inner city school rather lthan a multi million dollar production
Liberalism is not rooted in reality. It’s an inherently anti reality ideology. They only want to see postmodern utopia.
Also it is to culturally appropriate all White history and legacy
True, but only when it's a white majority. Wakanda wasn't very diverse, was it? Diversity, as we all know, only has one direction of travel.
Its* size. Sorry, had to. 😛
Wow, the pod people analogy was spot on.
Well done.
I feel like one of the main problems of "women can't be saved by men because they're all badasses now who don't need any help," besides the obvious, is that it's teaching young and impressionable girls that they need to be able to do everything themselves. Don't get me wrong, girls should be taught that they can do things for themselves. But maybe they shouldn't always have to? A very important part of being human is being able to ask for help, and in a roundabout way this is shunning that. You don't have to be able to do EVERYTHING yourself to be strong. You can still be powerful even when receiving help. It just feels like modern media so busy pushing young women to sheros that they're forgetting all the other aspects of what makes a person strong. But that's just my two cents 🤷
When you're more excited for reviews like Critical Drinker, RedLetterMedia, etc. on terrible Disney movies than the actual movie itself 🤣
This. Looking forward to Disparu tearing this apart.
when you're a weird ass person who probably smells like dick cheese
It's because your idiots that can't think for yourselves, I'm 100% you didn't watch it and only hate it because critical drinker told you it's bad and woke😂😂
RLM doesn't have time for this garbage lol
Of course you’re less excited for movies you don’t like than criticism of those movies genius
I was watching another movie, in theater, with my eleven year old daughter and we watched the preview for this. She's a fan of the original. Like play the Little Mermaid songs on the radio when in the car type of fan, she loves disney stuff for the most part. I asked her if she would want to see it and she straight up said, "no" nonchalant. I was proud. I asked her why and she told me none of the people looked the same from the original and it didn't look like The Little Mermaid. If an eleven year can parse out the problems without understanding the bigger picture I think we all know.
My daughter said the same thing. An Little mermaid is her favorite.
Same here from both my daughters. No wonder it's flopping. Even the target audience wants nothing to do with it.
@@Phaserdeath my niece said the same thing. and this is a girl with every stuffed animal you could purchase from TLM, who could sing the whole score front to back and back to front without needing a sound track to remind her. she was utterly unimpressed by the look of this woke disaster and actually asked why everything looked so drab.
The crazy left will label her a racist even though she is not. That's how crazy they are.
My 5 year old BLACK lil sis said the same 😂
Four months later and everyone's already forgotten about this movie. The Drinker was right.
Just remember guys, it’s usually not the actors’ faults. They make do with the shit the directors give them. Just remember…
Well, but, they can leave. They know what they agree to before they sign up. They do have partial responsibility.
But the actors took the job...
Nobody forced them to take the job.
Usually theres a contractual obligation if they take the role. Cant just back out.
Race swapping Ariel and several of her sisters adds nothing to the movie, except for leading us to believe that King Triton is having at least one (if not several) extra-marital affairs. Nothing like inserting serial adultery into a kids' movie. Well played, Disney... well played!
The sister is literally represent the seven seas from all over the world You sound ridiculous.
@@amandaWrushen Did they tell u that in the movie? Then it's official adultery.
@@janjanl1812 in the movie they said they share the same mother... so it was as someone here said...the Milk Merman's fault
@@amandaWrushen , your comment fails to explain why they all have distinctive biological features. How does having black or white skin, or oriental features, or any other distinctive ethnic physical trait "represent a sea?"
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And as others have noted, there is no explanation for this in the movie. The only logical conclusion is Triton has had many wives and/or mistresses.
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P.S. You used the word "literally" incorrectly, as so many people do these days. I believe the world your looking for is metaphorically.
"Race swapping Ariel and several of her sisters adds nothing to the movie" In other words it didn't affect you whatsoever, not a big deal is it? Who cares about race swapping about fictional characters?
"except for leading us to believe that King Triton is having at least one (if not several) extra-marital affairs. Nothing like inserting serial adultery into a kids' movie. Well played, Disney... well played!"
You're being disingenuous here. Your argument is based on being petty. You're just being picky and arguing for no reason. Doesn't surprise me you're trolling. Honestly if you break down every Disney movie or any movie in general, you can twist it as evil. Good lord, you're trying to hard. Who gives af. Its a fictional movie you mole rate.
Haven’t seen the movie but my daughters (8 and 10. You know, the target demo…) just got exposed to the characters via Happy Meal. They have thoughts…
“Flounder looks like he just got out of fish jail.”
“Sebastian looks horrifying!”
“What did they do to Scuttle!?”
So yeah, this one is a hard pass for us. Thanks Drinker!
doubt any of that happened. My kids loved it. Maybe stop indoctrinating them and priming them with you bullshit. Find it hard to believe your kids wouldn't have loved it if dipshit daddy wasn't getting his panties in a bunch every time a preview commercial came on.
An understandable response. They desimated almost every character and have upset the kids because of it. Even the ones who haven't watched the animated one
All decent, rational, and wholesome reactions, clearly you're a good father
hmmmm tough room. Our thresholds / likes / dislikes for certain things is fluid. Willing to tolerate less than ideal in some situations but not in others
Were they exposed via happy meal, or via you, letting them eat at McGarbage? 😂
Critical drinker is the shit! And I also love robot head and space ice and possum reviews for the comedy as well, I could watch all these guys all day!
I watched this movie, and it actually wasnt bad. It had 2 musical scenes i didnt care for, but mostly it was good. The 2 song scenes i didn't like were when prince Eric sings on the boat and when the bird and the crab do a rap-esque song. Halle Bailey actually sings very well.
But her acting is bad. They made changes to the story that made absolutely no sense. Like how Ariel is the one steering the ship into Ursula instead of Eric.
It was atrocious do not attempt to say otherwise.
Eric song was good