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THE LITTLE MERMAID MOVIE REVIEW 2023 | Double Toasted - Today at Double Toasted we have our The Little Mermaid review. In this funny video, we look at The Little Mermaid trailer before going in-depth into our The Little Mermaid movie review. We discuss the songs, the characters, and what we liked / didn't like. What did you think of The Little Mermaid? Let us know in the comment section below.
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The reason why the CGI animals in the Jungle Book worked was because they didn't entirely design their faces to look like actual animals. They designed each of them after their voice actor's face and it helped make their facial expressions more human and convincing. Why Disney didn't continue to follow that format is beyond me.
You're thinking of the movie Mowgli, not Disney's The jungle book.
@@bigbawlzlebowski8886 what are you talking about 😐
@@bigbawlzlebowski8886 that’s not true. He is right if you saw the film. That’s why the Jungle book worked.
@@P.90.603 No it worked because they didnt make the animals look completely real, which is what the lion king and this should have done
That is exactly how the artists at the Disney animation studios drew the characters in the classics! That was Disney’s trademark.
Pixar proved for decades that you can have cartoon proportions with photorealistic textures and lighting. Not sure why Disney can't seem to comprehend that.
But everyone else is also cartoonish
@@bigbawlzlebowski8886 I’m pretty sure it would be fine. It Roger rabbit worked, they can make cgi work.
@Robert Simmons Roger rabbit is a live action cartoon.
@@channelZER01 They mean that if they could pull off the complicated mechanics of Roger Rabbit (live-action or not), then anything is possible.
@@hkr0065 but that's exactly my point. Its ment yo really stretch the realism. Like in a movie like Roger rabbit it's totally ok for a fish to look like the og flounder because of all the other ridiculousness going on, same thing with rocket racoon it really works because of the setting in which it's taking place. Rocket looks like a racoon yes but he doesn't move or behave like one and we accept that because he's standing next to a giant talking tree
this is why detective pikachu and sonic are ahead in character design... they kept the charm of looking like cartoons along with the live actors
Well Sonic got originally absolutely roasted
@@thedeepfriar745still they admitted the design is bad and changed it to the original
Fun fact: the 89 Little Mermaid had a TV series in the 90s that featured a reoccurring character by the name Gabriella; a non-white mute deaf mermaid who communicated via sign language a whole 30 years before people got uptight over Halle Bailey’s casting.
I used to love those spin off cartoons, especially Aladdin. Disney was way more creative with whoring IP back in the day.
@@JeonardShadby505 Aladdin Cartoon was 🔥
The thing is Gabriella is an original character. I would've preferred HER over Halle's character.
@@JeonardShadby505yep!! Even Tangled tv series it’s really great and people are really sleeping on it. I understand S1 being childish but find it cute. In S2/3 that’s where it hit me in my feelings
It also had a character called the Lobster Mobster who talked like Al Capone. 10/10 show
25:58 I thought Prince Naveen from Princess and The Frog was more interesting than most princes in Disney movies. He actually had character development and growth and felt relatable in some aspects.
Prince Naveen is very likeable character with a great arc. So is Flynn Rider is he counts as a prince.
@@aaronsarchive82 i think he does since he is with rapunzel. Aladdin is considered a prince so Flynn should be too. I think the best princes are aladdin, naveen, shang, tarzan and flynn. Yes, i count Tarzan. He's the king of the jungle so.
They spent the whole film as frogs, they could have done a better job
@@angietoonz6605 How about the Beast?
The "dark ages" of Disney animation was also some of their best. The Fox & the Hound is still my favorite of their animated films.
Ironicc really
Dont forget The Black Cauldren
I need to rewatch Fox and the Hound some time. That was one of Disney's best in that era.
Yesss!
The Fox and the Hound is a childhood favorite of mine. It makes me cry my eyes out but I love it.
I’m amazed that Rocket Racoon has more expressions than the characters of the lion king remake or flounder From little mermaid remake.
James Gunn never fails
He and Aslan from the Narnia movies are proof that you can make a realistic CGI animal emote without making it look cartoonish.
More than some people
Omg so true!!!
The cat from Hocus Pocus had more expression as well.
The accidental ocean puns from Korey and Martin had me drowning in tears. 😂
Best part of the review next to commenting on Triton getting around 😅
@VeilStig 👀 lol
Billy Ocean 😅
Splash nailed a Mermaid trying to adjust life outside of an Ocean.
I actually agree with Martin about the film! It felt like the film was following a template of the original at the beginning. It wasnt until Ariel gets on land that I found myself enjoying the film. Especially her scenes with Eric, they were surprisingly adorable together and I thought their chemistry was very solid!
Disney should learn a lesson from Sonic, if they focused on it, looking more to Toonish than realistic, that would go along way
But then, just make it animated...
@@eb-the-gamer6287no. It just improves on it!
@@joseluissanchezjr Indeed. Even Finding Nemo, a 3D animated movie that takes place in the real world, the main characters are sea creatures that look and move like their real life counterparts. But they aren't 100% tethered by the limitations of realism. Martin said it best: animation is dynamic! Even though the characters in Finding Nemo are fish, they're still given human like traits to help them be as expressive as possible. I don't understand why the same principle couldn't be applied here.
@@williehampton3855 because they are dumb. The people that make this films are out of touch with reality.
I loved both Sonic flicks. They’re both good flicks.
1:28 It was actually The Great Mouse Detective that saved Disney Animation, however The Little Mermaid did officially start the golden age
How they managed to not get an Actor that could do a convincing Caribbean accent even after 30 years to reflect is beyond me
And then even admitted he didn't try that hard to be correct
Monique was considered for Ursula and TS Madison. Latifa said no due to the math not matching but she was a favorite due to her performance in Chicago.
TS Madison would have been great
TS wouldve been perfect!!!!!
I think either would’ve been better than McCarthy. She wasn’t bad but didn’t have enough oomph
I don't even think Flounder is even an actual Flounder (unless it's a different species), they have their eyes on one side of their face. Could you imagine THAT in live action.
I always thought he was or looked like a yellow clown fish.
@@NightmareRose86 he kind of looks like a Yellow Tang now that I'm looking into it
I think it's just supposed to be a name like how the dad from Finding Nemo is named marlin but isn't actually a marlin.
@@fungicide9244 maybe so, at least Marlin is a legitimate name though lol
the thing I'm really wondering about, why Disney suddenly has this hard-on of making everything look realistic. Realistic looking animals are mostly boring and from our view expressionless. If they have to make these movies as life action, why not combine realistic scenarios and people with cartoon animals... like they did with a little niche movie called Roger Rabbit?
And you guys have brought up a very good point, they did Live action already back in the day for movies where it made sense... although even some of those (like Mary Poppins) they combined with cartoon characters (for a few scenes) and it worked perfectly.
A mermaid movie…
Like splash (1984)?
I think asking why “Disney” has the hard-on for it isn’t quite correct. The question is why directors Rob Marshall and Jon favreau have such a hard-on for it. They made the creative decisions, “Disney” wrote the check.
Cause it’s easier to just remake a story that has been hashed out and has a built in fan base. It’s a safer bet for corporations to do a remake than an original story.
@@jool7793 dummy he ask about realistic animals vs cartoon animals learn to read before you comment.
Right. They didn’t learn from the Lion King?
Everyone forgets that without the Great Mouse Detective, which came out just before The little Mermaid, we would not have gotten the Disney Renaissance in the 1990s.
I love that film cause of Vincent Price.
I never forget it. It actually encouraged me to visit London later when I was 16. I fell in love with the city and believe it's the best city in the world.
It's one of my favourites along with the Rescuers Down Under from that period.
I love Sherlock Holmes as a character so The Great Mouse Detective was a lot of fun to watch.
@@razorburn645Rescuers Down Under is so underrated.
I totally agree that Halle Bailey needed more energy as Ariel, but she did have the voice for her and her new song was great.
I agree.
I wasn’t gonna watch any of the live adaptations, but this one piques my interest. The actress is adorable, and she has an incredible voice.
I honestly liked it a lot. Sure the side characters aren't as good but I feel like they build up Ariel and Eric's relationship a lot more
Should do a retro review of Cinderella where Brandi was Cinderella.
I love how passionate and emotional Korey gets about Animation History 😂 I felt that
Nyc is betttterrrr🤫🤫🤫
It’s clear that they chose Halle Bailey because of her voice because she does have a great voice. As far as acting, she looks like she is doing a way better job in the new The Color Purple trailer than this fantastical/“cartoonish” movie. As far as what I’ve seen I don’t think she has trained enough for more convincing expressions around CGI. On the other hand, I think she excels in more dramatic stories.
yes! halle has a great singing voice so she works for that , but I do think its hard to be really expressive around cgi like that especially when the performance was designed to be cartoony. I know for the original Glen Keane and the team made Ariel really expressive because she would lose her voice for the second half of the movie so they had to have a way for the audience to tell how Ariel was feeling, which is why they gave her a very expressive face.
@@CB30001 Exactly, not saying it's not easy to be expressive around basically nothing, but knowing how to is essentially an actor's job and just because she has a great singing voice, doesn't mean it's an excuse to overlook an aspect that maybe needed more working or at the very least consider when casting for a role that will be crucial to know.
She got the role at 18 five years ago so I can understand now for the color purple the cast finished I believe lasted year
I think her voice is fine still think Jodie Benson sang the songs better that's not to say she terrible she did a adequate job.
@@awesomebruce6555 She got the role because she was best. Stay mad racist 🤭
All I can say is that bird voiced by Awkwafina is animated with more expressions and emotion in this movie than any of the animals in Lion King.
Yeah, but it's voiced by Awkwafina.
Stfu that movie sucks she ain't better than the og how many awards did they win nothing caused it sucked
@P Thanks. Awkwafina is one of the worst Actors in history and those who are Fans, are absolutely brainless.
I can’t stand Awkwafina but she did fantastic here
The animals in the original Jungle Book cartoon weren't anthropomorphised too much. They looked and moved like their real life counter parts, so when they were CGI-ed to look realistic they worked better than the other adaptations.
thing is though, for jungle book the tone was fairly shifted to be a bit more grounded in reality and not have animals be so cartoony, the only real musical number is presented more realistically than before. This one keeps a similar tone and story as the og yet everything still looks photo realistic, primarily imo just so adults don't have to look at cartoons. at least that's what disney thinks.
I also completely agree about the lin-manuel number.
The issue that I had with it is that it brought ghetto awkwafina who's not even a good singer to begin with.
I also agree with Korey that maybe it is just time to focus on adding these Progressive elements to completely new stories instead of trying to fit them into quasi remakes, so you can fall back on the original if you get too much heat from specific groups
I've been saying that since the start. These remakes feel like shallow corporate pandering at best, and downright exploitation at worst. I want new, original movies with proper representation, not objectively worse rehashes of classic movies.
@@felixdaniels37 here's something that's even more telling, there actually is a movie featuring a black princess called wish that's coming out later this year and there has been zero promotion for it
Who cares about those groups. And clearly you don't understand that the original Mermaid story is a gay allegory (dude literally was in love with a Duke!)
why didn't they hire queen latifa to be ursula. it's the most obvious casting choice in the universe and she can sing too
Probably would of made it too woke
I like Queen Latifah too much for her to be in one of these
Queen Latifah already played Ursula in the live TV version.
Why is that obvious? She wasn’t originally black
@@jasminewilliams1673 Neither was Ariel what's your point?
I have a horrible feeling that this is going to be another trip to uncanny Valley
They want shared cinematic universe of the Disney Princesses
photorealistic lions are one thing. Lions are majestic creatures. Photorealistic crab singing is a bad drug trip
Lions are predators, they will eat you alive, the hell you smoking.
@@theoutlawking9123 Shit can be majestic and predatory at the same time. Just look at yo mama HEYO
@@theoutlawking9123I think what homie is trying to say is ATTEMPTING to make PHOTOREALISTIC SEA CREATURES look ANTHROPOMORPHIC doesn't fu©king works!!
This movie feels so unnecessary.
@@acidrain92 Mama jokes, what are you 10? Hm, you probably are.
@@jrt2792 I wasn't defending this movie but white people always think dangerous creatures would make good pets, til their asses get chewed up like cooked beef on safari!
The freeze frame of Ariel's crazy eyes made me think she was gonna start saying "Dead By Dawn!,Dead By Dawn!" in a Deadite voice 😂
Nodody called the Cinderella movie with Brandy woke which had a black Cinderella and an asian Prince
Thats cause the media wasn't pushing wokeness on us back then
@@OldManYellsAtClouds exactly! This has always been around it's like you said with social media people's thoughts get out more. Back then you actually had to talk to someone to get their opinion
@@diethermanicat it did take itself seriously lol. Also, that was a horrible comparison of Whitney Houston and Terry Crews lol
I hope you guys do a retro movie review for The Little Mermaid. It's an amazing movie, historical as well. Also it's my favorite animated movie of all time
The crab especially when he sings kiss the girls. Still my favorite animated song
It always hold a place in Disney history because it helped launch the Disney Renaissance
I love the historical accuracy of singing sealife and you know, mermaids 😂
All the fiction is historical to yall.
Nj is betttterrrrr🤫🤫🤫🤫
With animation there's no limits. Live action can work with the right resources. After all animation is reality unlimited.
Some things don’t translate well on the big screen
Melissa did better than expected but I didn't think such high praise for Her portrayal
101 Dalmatians with Jeff Daniels and Glen Close is a good remake.
Man Double toasted y’all are on point !!!!! Glad y’all address the issue with Disney ignoring a black male being a lead in a movie .. bravo fellas👏🏾👏🏾
Side note: I’m taking about animation not live action.
@@Introvo67 got a point here, Disney is afraid to cast a black lead
Blade doesn't count
@@KillerKondom True, look what they did to Tchalla
@@KillerKondom not blade thou 😆🤣.
Its true they are scared they played it safe again.
On black male romantic leads, Korey is forgetting Bridgerton which was the biggest streaming show until Wandavision dethroned it
No he didn’t, bc he’s talking about Disney movies specifically
Disney should hire Tony baker to work on these live adaptations.
I’m scared that Disney is going to do Pixar Live-Action remakes next…
Don’t give them ideas!
When it comes to the side characters they should've added more color. Flounders color was too muted. The eyes was really what got me.
When I was a little kid, I used to be scared of the original Little Mermaid movie, specifically the scene where Ursula takes Ariel's voice. I eventually got over that fear and realized how visually beautiful the animation was.
Unlike this new movie, which looks to be another lifeless remake from Disney.
These remakes are lifeless that Pinocchio movie last year was bad. But, after watching 2 live action Fullmetal alchemist films that also came out in 2022 they were worse. Well at least live action Armstrong made me lol.
@Bearer of Bad news 13 Yeah. Out of all of Disney's remakes, the Pinocchio one was one of the absolute worst. It's a good thing Guillermo del Toro made his own version in the same year.
Her death was pretty scary, when Eric rams the ship into her
@@Omar-wq9dz Man, remember when Disney villains died in the most intense ways imaginable?
@Michael Strong - Many fell to their death, but every once in a while you get a gruesome death like the hyenas consuming Scar
This definitely feels more in line with the Aladdin remake in which yes it does follow the plot of the original pretty well bet doesn’t take enough risks to make it different and whatever changes it does make aren’t fully fleshed out enough there was likely one disney exec who came in and said “no it’s too different”
I hated the Jaffar in the remake.
What!!! It was different enough Will Smith played a different genie than Robin Williams, and Jasmine had her own song!!!! The original didn't have that.
@@clittlecrow Will Smith was trying too hard to be like Robin Williams but not understanding what made Williams’ performance work. When Smith is human he’s good because it feels like he actually working off the other actors because he’s actually there with the actors and not in a mocapped cgi body.
However, his screentime in his human formation is overshadowed by his blue form and in turn comes off more like he’s impersonating Robin Williams.
As for the Jasmine song, it simply doesn’t hit the same as the songs brought over from the original. Sure, Alan Menken wrote it and he returns to score the remake, but the songs from the original were much more memorable and stronger thanks to not just Menken, but also the late Howard Ashman who wrote a majority of the songs from the original film.
Just because it had things the original didn’t have doesn’t make it good. It had to be better fleshed out like the material in the original film.
I love how they went to detail and rip this movie apart cuz is it one of the guys in actual animator. Also not talk about politics for once actually helps because I love when the guys are talking about like stuff from entertainment I mean I laughed so hard when they talked about Elmo and Rocco
Politics is not race which they did bring up and it's okay that they did.
I think the film's shitty quality all around and cynical nature was more than enough to tear into this crap. Especially that ear cancer of a rap song too.
@@laurenj6802 that part! It’s not the commenter’s fault for assuming race falls under politics. It’s been a narrative pushed for a long time under the guise that politics has it place which is does but race can and should be talked about until it is no longer a conversation that needs to be had. I think we all agree with them on the points they are making thou. If she was the best for the part great but I think I would have preferred her to be another mermaid with her own story. She could meet all the same characters and maybe an older Ariel at the end that says at the end oh let me tell you what happened to me - cue sequel lol. I’m thinking of the toys and that kids could have with both of them in a play-set as friends.
@@ateam404 I totally agree with having original black characters. My problem is I don't trust for people to show out and support especially if the character is a black woman who doesn't fall in the stereotype of what people expect black women to be. Evidence shows that people don't come out to see black lead films. The only one I can think of is Black Panther and again a black male was the lead. But also if someone is a fictional mythical creature that doesn't have a race anyone should be allowed to play it that is what actors do.
@@laurenj6802 you are right again lol I didn’t think about any of that. While it’s true that the character itself has no race this is one of those instances in which the 1989 version is so huge that it pretty much establishes it. Not to mention being cemented as Disney Princess and walking around Disney theme parks.
I don't get Disney obsession with hyper-realism when it comes to their animated characters. I'm not animator but it feels like well-meaning but ultimately wrong-headed attempt to better integrate them with the live-action actors.
The problem is that these films honestly feel like fanfiction. FANFICTION!! I honestly can't believe that Disney stooped this low in terms of quality, visuals, entertainment, etc. I'm not going to bring up the political stuff since we'll be here forever.
Exactly
It’s live-action. It’s supposed to look real. Some things just don’t do well when being converted to live action. Like a lot of anime.
@@derrickdiggs8612 live action but with like 90% cgi animation. They might as well just deepfake new actors’ faces onto the old cartoon
The reason is because a bunch of parents made a uproar over how the older movies were effecting how their children saw real life situations (examples):Cinderella - you cry for something to change & a old magic fairy helps you instead of figuring it out yourself, snow white & sleeping beauty - the princesses did not give consent to be kissed, little mermaid- her love for the life up above was selfish that it turned her family into a palup thing , brave - turned her mother in to a bear because she did not want to get married. If you are watching a Disney movie without nostalgia & more from a everyday person point of view the remakes aren't horrible there just OK. This live action remakes are for the parents / people who complained and said they would not show or buy the older animated movies because it showed the children about life the wrong way. So it didn't start to be disneys fault until they cared about return on investment because as some else Said these remakes make billions-millions of dollars money wise this gives them the OK to keep going with this .
A live action Robin Hood could really work if they really leaned into the furry bait aspect...
No that is stupid. Disney will screw it up
Why??? We already have dozens of live action Robin Hood films. The novelty of the Disney one is that it’s animated animals.
@@jool7793 exactly another reason to not remake Robin Hood again
@Big Guy617 I don't think so: The fox Honest John was the ONE thing that looked good in Pinocchio and by good I mean pimptastically GREAT. The cat? Not so much, but Disney can do foxes like nobody's business, and as long as they remembered to go the Zootopia route w/r to character design and not make terrifying live action Lion King talking taxidermy abominations it could be great!
@@daniellewillis2767 live action talking animals will look stupid. Not interested
I think Disney was in a tough spot with animating the fish, because I know if a saw a realistic fish with a human face, I'd have nightmares, and I'm a grown man, Haha!!
I wont be seeing this movie, not because of "wokeness" but because Im a grown ass man not concerned with a movie targeted towards little girls.
Haha well said
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For me both though I like the original because of Sebastian
Lol
I won't be seeing it either because I respect the original. But being a full grown adult that still believes you have to limit the media you consume because you don't think it fits your demographic is, ironically, something you're supposed to grow out of as you get older. People don't pretend to dislike animation anymore. They don't pretend there's no merit to films like the original Little Mermaid just because it was made for families in mind and not them specifically. That's something high school kids worry about.
If you don't like something, that's fine, but it should never be on the grounds that it's a "little girls movie".
Melissa McCarthy is the one reason why I was excited to see this. Im just wandering if they're gonna make her into a gigantic octopus like in the animated, which scared the shit out of me when I was a kid
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On the one hand, Hollywood needs to come up with some new ideas. These remakes are getting ridiculous. But I’m not going to make a big deal about a black fish girl, especially one as beautiful as Halle Bailey with her voice. I had a thing for the original Ariel as a kid and if I were the right age, I’d feel the same way about Ms Bailey. I’m white, but why does it feel like if you’re black in America, slavery may be technically over, but you still need a white person’s permission to do anything? We’ve had decades of white Cleopatras, and now that they’re making one with a black actress, suddenly authenticity matters. It’s a bit embarrassing from my perspective. We never cared about accuracy until black people started joining the party. May Halle Bailey be the awakening for many young straight boys and likeminded girls as the cartoon was for me back in the 80s.
Shut up with your dumb excuses to pity yourselves.
Well, not only did the Cleopatra casting piss off the internet, they pissed off the Egyptian government themselves. “Authenticity matters” when you try to pass it off as fact. The Netflix series is a docu-series, meaning it’s supposed to be more historically accurate then other adaptations so it does matter in that regard. Black Ariel is a different subject
Cleopatra wasn't black. You can't racially recast historical figures. It would be like making Mulan black.
At least some people still have enough self-respect to not get upset over the race of children’s movie characters
The issue was that Cleopatra was a documentary. They have race-swapped other historical figures in TV shows and there wasn't so much backlash. For instance Anne Boleyn.
Julian dies inside when he finds out Awkwafina is in this 😄
I talked to a friend about how it's so odd that the animals in these disney remakes look so lifeless, despite it being proven in their own business (with Marvel) that you can achieve authentic looking creatures with humanly emotional faces. [Rocket Raccoon, specifically]
Can't mo cap a fish.
@@channelZER01 you don’t need to mo-cap a fish?? I’m talking about facial expression, not a movement cycle.
@@AnferneeMyers FACIAL MOVEMENTS. They don't mo cap most animals because it's hard to lay actial human movements on top. This is why the best example of motion capture on an animal is planet of the apes because as humans we share the most similarities with chimps. You could technically capture someone's face and layer ontop of a fish but that shit would look weirder than what you see here.
@@channelZER01 they don’t mocap an actual raccoon for rocket so idk what you’re talking about 😭 they do take reference for facial expressions, but whether they did or didn’t, there would still be a process to actually animating the features on the face. Performance capture isn’t just a skin you can plop on to a 3D character and move on from. The type of animal/character doesn’t really matter, in this case.
@@AnferneeMyers they mo cap a HUMAN BEING onto an ANIMATED RACOON and even then it's sean guns body movement not his face... How are you not getting this? Lol
Until Disney actually becomes diverse I’m not watching these half assed remakes. What does Disney have against black men?
Black men and actual middle eastern people
@@jayboogie5403 right?! It’s ridiculous. And it’s like black people in these movies can’t have their own things. The fact they the queen (no mention of a king but if there is one I hope he’s a person of color) adopted a yt person instead of someone of color…it’s like they went out of their way to be shady and honestly kind of racist. It’s too obvious atp
god every clip they show of that crab is so lifeless its scary.
35:16 Welp…I guess it makes since that Disney knows how to make villains 🤷🏾♂️
Interesting thing is they could have done an original peoperty based on the more than 2000 year old mamiwata legend from nigeria area but they didn't. That alone speaks volumes as to the lack of qualifications of studio to be trusted with anything black.
Why would u trust a culture that's not yours to represent u properly especially when they told u from the beginning they can't stand u?
Hey there! I just came back from seeing the movie at the local movie theater! Wow! Everything looked so much better than it does on my smartphone and seeing reviews and reactions on "UA-cam"! It makes me think that people are using distortion filters to prevent copyright blocking problems. She only has a mole, no scars, for example. Melissa looks like she lost weight to play "Ursula"!
Whenever I saw a scene that you guys joked about or commented on, though, I would hear them in my head whenever the pertinent scenes appeared on screen.
Okay, Korey. I didn't have those problems that you had with emotional expressions in animated cartoons versus CGI made to look life-like. But I haven't seen the AC movie since it was new in movie theaters. 😕
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" THE SEA WITCH!!!" 👁👄👁
An original film about a black Disney princess comes out this November, its called Wish, everyone asking for original IP for blk princesses etc. should go support tht film :)
I personally loved Aladdin, and sounds like I'll enjoy this one as well. How Korey felt about this mirrors my feelings on The Lion King. Like, it was fine, but I didn’t need it
I agree with you 💯 These are my exact thoughts. However if I say these things out loud I’m instantly called racist because I’m white. The original 1989 movie holds a very special place in my heart. It would have been great if Disney had come up with a completely different mermaid story and then I think Halle would have been fine for the part. I’m fed up with remakes and race swapping.
There are a lot of people who are just angry because they made the lead a person of color so spare us.
You are racist
Honestly, I’m not seeing the movie, because of the aggression towards people who don’t like like it. I was told I was racist after expressing horror and dislike at seeing the fish in the trailer. Well, I just won’t see the movie, so you can’t say I’m racist if I don’t like it. Wait though, apparently that makes me racist too! 😅Anyone who doesn’t love this film is apparently racist no matter what you do. Damned if you do damned if you don’t, and it’s a shame, because I actually think Halle Bailey was a good casting.
Q: Have you seen THE LITTLE MERMAID?
A:NAH
Who is this kid?
It would've been a whole different conversation if the story revolved around Ariel as a Brunette, and Eric being African-American instead. 😅
Michael B Jordan as Eric could be great but he is too smart to be part of such a mess.
Indeed though it could have been interesting 🤔.
Disney race changed Ariel because of money. Disney realised several remakes with white lead characters that massively underperformed in the box office and the main cause of it was lack of interest in the movies from people of colour. So Disney cast a black Ariel to make more money and that is the paradigm shift that has racists spooked because this is the first time a major studio in the whitest of white industries is casting a black actor in a big budget movie because they believe it will make more money and fear this means Hollywood will stop over representing white people and that is why they are really mad. But like Korey, I can’t stand Disney and Hollywood double standard when it comes to interracial romance, where it is only normalised and in mainstream films if it is a white male character with a woman of colour, but they still treat a white female character with a black male character as taboo and not mainstream, even though statistically in America there are more white women with black men than white men with black women. I have hated this Hollywood double standard ever since I saw the documentary Black Hollywood where a big time white producer, who is still big today and wasn’t cancelled, admitted it was the white male misogyny of white Hollywood executives who found white men with women of colour exotic and wanted to maintain white men as the object of desire and didn’t like seeing white women with black men and didn’t want to promote the attractiveness of black men to white women I.e their white daughters so deliberately would not put white females with black men in big movies. Disney is extremely bad when itv comes to this double standard. When they went out of the in Star Wars to make sure Finn and Rey never developed into relationship on screen, not even giving him a conscious kiss, but had no problem in Solo having a white male character French kiss a black woman in the same franchise. Or Marvel movies where there are so many white male heroes with women of colour, but all the black heroes outside of the black made and written Black Panther are all asexual characters with no love interest. Eternals was the worst example of this a movie written by 3 white American men, where every white male character in the movie had a woman of colour love interest, but black male character gay, a common trope used by Hollywood to remove black characters as potential love interests for white female characters. And made the Asian male characters asexual with no love interest. That is just a few examples like the Black Nutcracker remake, where Disney wrote out the romance of the story because they cast a Black Nutcracker. It is becoming too obvious now and it is clear white American men have an inferiority complex when it comes to black male heterosexual sexuality, so don’t want to promote it in American culture. When white American men control porn industry they used to promote the lie that if female performers did interracial scenes with black men this would make them less marketable and make less money. When the internet porn took the industry out of their hands it turns out interracial porn with black men is the most popular form of porn. It stems from slavery because white American men felt they were inferior to black men sexually so wanted to make it illegal for white women to have black lovers so the USA became one of the few places to make interracial relationships illegal until 1950, even though white men could sleep with whoever they wanted. And this American psyche of protecting white women from superior black lovers exists in Hollywood and the media in the USA .
@@cobrakaier238 Michael B Jordan is too old.
@@lm8499 clearly but it ain't happening anyway. Maybe they could have gotten the Bridgerton dude in another universe.
Man when I saw how those creatures look, I immediately knew it was DOA 😂
They made Sebastian , Flounder and Scuttle look line the stuff of nightmares
It was DOA the moment it was considered to be made
Actually, I did see some hate over the casting of Javier Bardem. It just wasn't as loud as it was for the casting of Halle Bailley.
I know they have been doing these remakes for a while but it's weird to see one of the biggest animation companies now doing remakes it kinda feels like the executives have the mindset of it's not really cinematic if it's not live action, because cartoons are not real cinema
I have a feeling I’m still going to enjoy this because I have a deep love for anything mermaid related stemming from my obsession with The Little Mermaid and Splash when I was little. My first memory is actually going to see The Little Mermaid in theatre when I was three. This new one does stray into the uncanny valley sometimes from what I’ve seen in the previews, but I think Hallie is going to pull the whole thing together. The clip they released of her singing Part of Your World gave me chills
It was a great movie for adults as well. Halle and McCarthy were really great, Xavier Bearden! What a great very diverse cast. I think I'll see it a second time.
At least now they have done all the cartoons I care about lol.
They’ve pretty much ruined them their remakes but at the same time, we can appreciate the originals all the more
Pixar live action
@@gapsule2326 oh God.. toy story will hit very different.
They've still got Moana and Lilo & Stitch to do. Oh boy...
To be fair Mulan was also very different from the original film... and that too wasn't a good thing :P
As someone who knows and hung out with Jamaican people. That accent from the crab is beyond abysmal.
THIS MOvie is more watered down than a Sangria at Senor Frogs in Acapulco
Disney got a lot of their property from fairy tales that were in the public domain. But they've been disneyfied to the point where it's the only accepted version now. So even if you remake it and you're closer to the source material people are still going to complain that is not Disney.
That's exactly what happened to the Tarzan film that Margot Robbie was in. Some people online were calling it a Disney knockoff even though Tarzan is in the public domain.
Martin doing the botox impression had me dying
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish writer. His version of The Little Mermaid had a more tragic ending.
The movie “The Lure” is more faithful of the little mermaid ending.
14:43 The best bit of this review "Ohhh... She's in this too???!!!" xD
I’ll watch this when it airs on TBS in 8 years.
Halle did such a great job ❤
Agreed.
At least Halle can sing. I actually liked her rendition of Part of your world
The problem with these live action remakes is that they are not making a story based on the original source materials like the books, no they are only copying the Disney animated originals, no further research is done to make a fresh new take
Exactly. Plus they're written by a writer's room of 20 something's who spend half their time arguing on Twitter. Incompetent garbage.
On a side note, how come you guys didn't look at the trailer for Mortal Kombat 1, thought y'all would've been all over that.
The Jungle Book is the best remake thus far.
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@@paigew6707 how so? The animals were not exact and still showed emotion. That movie is good! Like look at Kaa, she still had a cartoon affect, and not exactly like a real snake. It was so effective.
The Jungle Book worked for me because it was a gorgeous film. I was pulled into that world and the animals, to me, were beautiful to look at.
I am so distracted by the fact that Julian hasn't seen the original Little Mermaid
There's something fishy about how many puns are in this review.
Julian’s reaction Omg I damn near spit out my coffee 😂
I'm excited for the crazy spectacle that the Teenage Kraken movie thing is probably going to be
That's the real mermaid movie of the summer, excited for that one.
@@PKMNmasterJuice Based on some screenshots from the trailer, it looks like this one is going to have fight scenes between the main character and the mermaid which automatically makes it better, in my opinion
@@thevarietychannelofyoutube4769 100% agree! DreamWorks getting my ticket. I like both sides already Ruby (Kraken) and Chelsea (Mermaid). When the movie comes out, I will come find you on this post.
@@thevarietychannelofyoutube4769 I have returned from watching Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.
@@PKMNmasterJuice I'm seeing it on Thursday. Is it bad?
The only thing irks me is making Sebastian a Ghost Crab. A crab the lives on land. There are so many species of underwater crabs they could’ve used.
Idk if anyone said this, but one thing I think makes Jungle book work better than this and Lion King remake is that the animals are less humanized and wild. Sher khan being fierce and brutal is easier to make look realistic and than an emotionally expressive cgi animal that still looks realistic. Jungle book is more natural animal features and actions. That's just my opinion.
Where are the bubbles
PS: When you compared HB to Ana and said that she looked like a Black version of Ana, it gave me an idea. Instead of that, you could say that she looks like Ana got an even tan all over! That might take away some of the issues people have upon hearing "black"? 🤔
The film that NOBODY asked for.
Like all the Disney remakes
@Is SwampusJust stick to that Arnold Schwarzenegger one he did back in the 70's.
How original. Did you come up with that conclusion on your own.
@@blackguyofthesouth2161 I’ve never understood that kind of logic. They only use it with something that they don’t like.
@@blackguyofthesouth2161Yet still more original than all these Disney live action remakes.
The only live action Disney movie that I really liked based on a Disney cartoon was Cruella. It was almost nothing like 101 Dalmation, so that was probably one of the reason why it was better than the rest.
They took liberties with that one
Honestly for me the only good Disney live action remakes so far have been Cinderella and The Jungle Book. If Cruella counts then that too since I thought it was decent, but everything else I’ve been either meh towards like Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin or absolutely hated like The Lion King, Maleficent, and Mulan. I have heard some decent things about The Little Mermaid, mainly for Halle Bailey, but I just want Disney to stop with these remakes and they’re doing Lilo and Stitch next 🤦♂️. Sometimes certain animated movies just seem better off as animated.
But I do appreciate we got some fish puns out of this review, Martin the Pun Master is back! 😂
This feels like it should’ve been a straight to Disney+ release
Many are complaining about Sebastian and Flounder's design being too realistic, the creators perhaps should've gone back in and redesigned them to look more like the animation like they did Sonic The Hedgehog.
They held off on revealing them tho.
If they showed them a year ago, maybe they'd have time to change it.
Many reviewers said that the Sebastian grew on them and I agree! I actually like his design and the way they show emotion through his claws is so cute lol
Which Sonic are you talking about? There were two designs and personally both of them were better than what Disney did here.
@@queenjohnson5097 same! I didn't mind Flounder either I actually wish he was in it more
I don't get why people get caught up with the animals not having as fluid expressions in these movies. It's not a cartoon, it's a realistic looking live-action movie. If you were somehow able to talk to a fish or crab in real life, it would not make expressive looks at you, lol. This is a different medium for these stories so the look of things being compared to a cartoon is pointless in my opinion.
I love how Korey says several times in this video: "I want to hear what you think about this Martin" and then proceeds to talk his opinion for like 15 minutes LOL Big fan of DT but that happens a lot Lmao
I agree with you about the Jungle Book remake and your thoughts on this live action film of the Little Mermaid. It was also why I loved Cinderella with Brandi in it. The story for that one was different and it had completely different music it in. This allowed Brandi to put her own spin on Cinderella and being respectful by not giving her a copy paste character. I wish Disney would have done something like this with the live action Little Mermaid .
The Brandy version was a remake of Rodger and Hammerstein's Cinderella. All of the music came from Rodger and Hammerstein.
@Leanne Then it was Lesley Ann Warren (2nd tv broadcast) and after that Brandi (3rd tv broadcast)
There are so many retellings of jungle book that it’s ridiculous. In the latest live action jungle book, the only reason why it worked is because literally they wasn’t trying to tell the same story over again meaning it was being original. They did not do what they did with the animation version.
29:25 YES! So many of us have been saying this for so long. Why can’t we just have our own original characters and properties? Why do we have to settle for hand-me-downs of already established white characters? Race-swapping just to race-swap is lazy and insulting to say the least.
The stress of having to kiss a man in three days, no voice, and I'm terrible at walking, I think curiosity and excitement about the human world kinda gets thrown out 😂
Feels like everyone is thankful for left overs from disney .