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It was because they used a Western concept of what qi is, which is basically just treated as mana for casting spells but with a vaguely Asian aesthetic; rather than than the Chinese concept of qi, which is basically just the energy that causes a person to be alive. Many Chinese viewers and critics criticised it for that misconception, noting that having a lot of qi would, at most, just make you very good at avoiding being sick and give you a very long life.
The irony is the original animated version was a lot more accurate to the Mulan legend, Chinese history, and Chinese culture, than the live action remake was.
@@dragonslayermasterornstein83 I got the vibe that it was more like the Force, it had the same amount of narrative consistency. Considering Star Wars has three trilogies of feature lengths movies and Lord knows how many hours of shows under it's belt the fact that a single movie manages to have a magical system *so broken* to rival that is truly impressive writing... it's just not the kind of impressive I think they wanted. It was so baffling I had to dig more into this and interestingly enough the Mulan remake had not one, not two, not even three but FOUR writers, you'd think with that many people SOMEBODY would have caught the plot holes in that magic system or tried to rotate the research time on chinese culture between themselves or just called any person with more knowledge to be a consultant! But no, must have been a case of too many cooks in the kitchen.
"I'm making a live action version of Moana!" 'Why?! It's not even that old!' "Money." 'Oh, of course.' Literally this situation summed up. Good job, JAR. :)
You know, it feels kind of hypocritical too, considering that Dwayne Johnson literally went out of his way at the Oscars to defend animation not being a genre, when just a few weeks later, he decides, “I’m gonna be in a live action remake of an animated movie I was in.”.
The animated version of The Little Mermaid does have some logic as to why Ariel gets a free invite to live in the castle. Eric only takes her there just to be nice and get her cleaned up, but the other people in the castle are trying to get Eric hitched to literally any girl. Grimsby even mentions towards the beginning how the whole kingdom is worried that Eric hasn't settled down. Thus far, the only interest Eric has shown in marriage is to this imaginary girl who he claims rescued him from the shipwreck. So when he walks in with a nice young woman who can actually make him smile, it's a "beggars can't be choosers" moment. That's why Grimsby suggests Eric take Ariel out for the day, and why he tells Eric that a real girl standing in front of him is better than an imaginary one. Ariel gets to live in the castle because Grimsby and the others are trying to manipulate Eric into falling in love with her (which absolutely works).
Back then, hospitality was also incredibly important. A naked mute girl no one recognizes just on the kingdom lands? If they don't take her in and get her back on her feet, they'll lose face with the other kingdoms. That's how seriously they took it back then.
And Erik is nice. He's down to earth, he talks to his people, he resents a statue being made of him--of course he would help some poor woman he stumbled across. Her being a hottie probably didn't hurt matters either; he may not have been interested in marriage, but his penis didn't know that.
exactly. i havent watched a single live action remake (except lion king which, even at 11 i knew was AWFUL and swore to not watch any more live action disney products) but if they rereleased ANY disney movie pre-2000 to theatres i would be there in an instant. i think the same can be said for the majority of people too
*Cinderella was the only good live-action adaptation.* *Change my mind.* Like seriously, the way they expand Ella and Kit/the prince’s relationship was so well done as well as them not treating her as weak simply because she's trapped in a situation that she couldn't control. That thing’s a legit masterpiece
I love that Cinderella film and Cinderella three, it's a good film. And it gave Charming and Cinderella are cute and Charming has a personally as they gave Kit.
No need, Cinderella till this day is my favourite Disney live action remake. Hell whenever Disney released a terrible remake, I came back to Cinderella remake to just fresh my eyes that there's actually a good remake before. I admire that they didn't rely heavily on nostalgia and try to be it's own thing with perfect casting all around. Felt like if Jane Austen and Shakespeare had a baby, Cinderella remake is literally that. And her entire arc instead of being an annoying Mary Sue brat like Mulan remake, she simply followed her mother's advice, "have courage and be kind" (credit to Hayley Atwell's amazing acting for just a few minutes as Cinderella's mother) and it totally works to make me care for her I honestly think Cinderella is the only Disney franchise that hasn't been harmed yet which is great although I could be wrong tho
26:02 Giving her a superpower feels like they're saying women can't do significant things without having some kind of special edge given to them. The point of Mulan is that she was just a girl, a very brave girl, who through wit and determination saved both her father and all of China. The story demonstrates that anyone is capable of doing important and significant things, regardless of what you were born with.
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And as Nostalgia Critic put it, her lack of combat experience added significance to joining the army; willing to fight for her people without knowing how to fight.
plus when they become super heroes you never think something bad is ever going to happen to them. In this when they were like "death if you break the rules" i thought to myself, if she gets found out she will probably just ninja herself out of it.
@@PurpleIsGreatI disagree that "Mulan's story was never about love". It 100% WAS about love. It just wasn't about romantic love. Mulan's story comes about out of a love for her _father_. She believes he's too old and frail to survive a war (which she's probably right about), and because she has no brothers, he'll be forced to be conscripted. So she pretends to be a man to take her father's place to save his life. Its about familial love rather than romantic but it is about love. By the end there is a tease between her and Li Shang but he's obviously not the reason why she went, and he only falls for her after her success at the end of the film.
In the original animated movie, Ariel didn't just give up her voice for a guy, she was already infatuated with the human world before seeing Eric, (Part of Your World first part was sung before seeing Eric). In fact after seeing Eric Ariel planned on just going straight up to him as a mermaid to talk to him, but then Sebastian stops her with Under the Sea. After her father DESTORYS her whole collection, something she has worked on probably for years and it shatters her. Ariel is now in a venerable place and Ursula takes advantage of that. When she is speaking with Ursula She doesn't sign right away, she thinks on it and questions on weather she should go through it. Was it a mistake, yes, but she's a teenager and that happens. In my eyes Eric was a bonus, what Ariel really wanted was to be part of the human world.
i mean, she did sign a contract where she had to kiss the man without voice to stay human, while i don't feel it is correct to misjudge a movie, i can understand the mistake everyone makes, you don't remember her singing before eric or her exploring the world without him, we only remember the time limit to make a guy fall for her
@@PMbarbieri Well to be fair its both in the original, she wanted to be part of the human world really badly..then after she saw the humans up close the got a massive crush on Erik and it was when Triton destroyed the statue after she let slip she was in love with him that she went to Ursula. She didnt plan to become human in either case though, she only found that out after she meets Ursula and the fact she can become human and that the requirements are to kiss the guy she has a crush on makes her take the deal.
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 Of course, it’s not a bad thing for her to be in love with Eric. It’s the assumption that he’s the only reason Ariel wants to be “part of their world” that’s factually incorrect.
I’m going to say this, because a lot of people are saying it: Ariel did not want to go to the human world for a boy. She already was interested in the human world, and went to Ursula (with her eels who first tempt her to) to find out if she could go to the human world when she was mad/sad at her dad for destroying her stuff. Ursula is the one who makes it about making a boy fall in love with Ariel, taking away her voice because she thinks it would be impossible to make someone fall in love with you without a voice, forcing Ariel to sign the contract as a segway to put her in danger so King Triton would give away his trident. Yeah Ariel thought Eric was cute, but wasn’t going to try and smash him right away. And by spending more time with him, she really started to like him, and Eric in turn with Ariel. This is one of the most balanced Disney couples out there and there’s so much misinformation regarding them it infuriates me. Edit: because I made it sound like Ariel went to find Ursula on her own but she didn’t.
Very true During the whole little mermaid section of this video It felt like something was wrong, but I didn't care enough to think about it. That really makes me think about how many peoples opinions have been shaped by critics on the internet.
@@kirbyinahateah pretty much. Eric and Ariel are up there with Rapunzel and Flynn Rider in terms of well written Disney couples, but I guess because the Little Mermaid is an older movie it’s easier to plant the idea in the minds of the public that the movie is different than it actually is. The live action actually makes the kissing part even more problematic than two people wanting to kiss each other but the guy being too awkward to and uncertain because he thinks Ariel is not his dream girl, as Ariel has amnesia of the condition of the contract in this verison and Eric is coming into Ariel despite her being disinterested! It’s so fricking weird it feels like I’m in the Twilight Zone with the media saying this is the progressive version!
Well hold on i think its a mixture of love for the human world and a slight crush on Eric after she saved him Hell there was a whole convo between her dad and Sebastian where the king notices Ariel being more upbeat and Sebastian accidentally reveals her secret collection And Ariel never went out of her way to find Ursula, it was Ursula's eels who found her when she was vulnerable after her father destroyed her collection, preyed on her emtional state and guided her straight to Ursula
@@jessamynroguski9649 nah. Ariel already had an immense desire to see the human world. Heck she nearly gets killed by a shark for very simple everyday items from the human world. She sings Part of Your World before ever meeting him. Indeed I did have in my comment that Ariel thought Eric was cute, has a crush on him and all that, but he was the incident that pushed her over, not initially apart of her reasoning to go at all before meeting him. If Ursula hadn’t made getting Eric to kiss Ariel as apart of the contract, the two would never have happened. Which is the irony of the Little Mermaid, the villain being defeated by her own ego thinking that she was always in control. 😅
@@riotkitty Have you forgotten the cringe lines about Ariel being in love before she even met Ursula? I.E. "But daddy I love him!" Not just that though, the fact that the eels knock over the face of the Eric statue towards her before she told the eels to wait?
You know, in terms of Snow White. If they reaaally wanted to do a diversity hire why didn't they at least try to hire an East Asian actor? If they hired a Japanese actor and wanted to re-write the story to be ethnically different they could've made it take place in Japan and the Dwarves could've been a variety of Yokai.
"Maleficent was actually a fairy." I guess the twist is that people forgot she was always a fairiy. Just an evil fairy and the kind of bitch the Fair Folk were usually depicted as. Like the enchantress.
In all fairness to the Jungle Book remake, the whole idea of mowgli staying in the jungle is meant to represent the moral "Live where you feel like you belong" and in the original book, he doesn't stay in the man village for very long anyways, he returns to the jungle after getting fed up with man and his ways.
Yeah, also, in the original he only goes to the village because he saw a pretty girl, not because he had any interest in living among humans :/ I like the idea that he stayed in the jungle, it makes more sense to me.
@@spicynoodles2742 No he didn't. Throughout the movie we saw Mowgli struggle with his identity. He knew he was human, but he didn't know what a human was. We see him constantly imitate other animals in hopes of finding a place to belong but nothing worked because he's not built for the life of a wild animal. He can bond with animals, but he can never be like them. But in the final scene, Mowgli is made aware of his human nature. Shanti is Mowgli's first exposure to true humanity; curiosity, community, innovation along with the rest conveyed in the song. Mowgli doesn't follow Shanti just because she's beautiful (notice how he isn't smitten until he looks into her eyes by the entrance), but because humans are naturally attracted to familiarity. It makes us feel safe and accepted to be with each other. And in that moment Mowgli realizes that what he feels for a fellow human being is something he can never feel for anyone in the jungle. Baloo offers Mowgli friendship and love, but he can't nurture his human potential and Mowgli can't stay in the jungle forever because he'll never grow up. The jungle is important to Mowgli because he grew up there, but in the end he also realized that every boy has to leave their childhood and become a man.
Sean, why are you spreading lies? Mowgli DOES leave the jungle forever in the book. He became infatuated with a girl and realized that the jungle can never accommodate his human needs and as a result he reunited with Messua in a different village.
Ngl as someone who is part Native American (not sure by how much but more than 12%) I thought it was pretty offensive that Tiger Lily constantly speaks in her native language to people who clearly don’t understand her native language, it just makes us look dumb, I think it would’ve worked better if she only spoke in her native languages when she didn’t want the other characters to understand her, maybe as a way to speak in secret with Peter
Yeah, kind of like how Legolas spoke in elvish with Aragorn some scenes in LOTR, like when they're in Fangorn Forest, and at Helm's Deep when they didn't want the other Rohan soldiers to overhear them.
I agree with you, though I do know some cases where one character only speaking in a different language can work without making the character seem dumb, and without having to have any other characters that understands what they're saying. For example, in this play me and my friend made when we were little: there's a kid in the main protagonists school _(who's one of my favourite side characters :>)_ nicknamed by his peers as 'Kiwi' _(his real name is Kareem.)_ He's a class clown/class disruptor, who happens to be of west asian descent _(he was born in Sweden, where the stroy takes place, but his parents are originally from Kuwait - which allowed him to learn Arabic as his modersmål "mother language" in school)._ Anyways, he will jeer people _(the main caracters, as well as the school bully, for the most part)_ in arabic because he _knows_ he can get away with it! What he says is relatively harmless, not like something suuper mean, cause he's like 13, but the teacher and the other students don't know what he's saying so he can't get in trouble for saying it _(and IF he did - I imagine that he'd be fully prepared to use the "race card" against the school, JUST CAUSE HE CAN. - ie - he's smart lol and willing to argue to get his way)_ Plus he's also a top student, and is acknowledged as such by the teacher, so that's another reason why he will not get in trouble. He fully understands everyone else around him though and he can speak Swedish if he wants to, but he thinks it's funny that nobody understands him so he just doesn't - _he also gives himself bonus points for not being able to get in trouble for it ofcourse ;>._ *TLDR/* I think that can work ^ where you kinda know that a character is mostly speaking a different language to mock/joke around with people who don't understand said language, just cause the character think it's funny and know that they can get away with it. Where it's played off for comedic or annoying effect depending on how the audience sees it. So less of a "Good" aligned character and more of a Chaotic neutral character. Where they aren't necessarily seen as nice, but aren't necessarily seen as mean either. Another example could be this animated series I just binged called "Murder drones" _(I highly recommend ittttt)_ there's this worker drone called 'Doll' who has thus far - only ever spoken in russian. It works, cause it makes sense for a robot to be able to fluently speak a seemingly non-native language like that, and her speaking in russian just makes her incredibly intimidating - which is good, cause so far she's been a chaotic evil - you know that she is supposed to be feared. Plus it's unclear wether the other characters understands what she's saying or not BUT it would make sense for other robots to be able to translate her on the go. *TLDR/* I think that speaking a different language can benefit a character that is supposed to be seen as an intimidating, mysterious, force of chaotic evil. I don't think it would work for a Good aligned character though. Cause really, the "good" thing to do - would be to allow everybody that you are talking with - to understand you, especially IF you can speak their language. Like why _would_ a "good" person purposefully talk in a language that they _know_ people around them can't understand?
A small, teeny tiny detail why I think Aladin is worse than u think it is: In the animated original, where Jafar bring Aladin to the cave of wonders, he actually disguised as an old man, keeping his identity a secret. Aladin later went to the palace not knowing who Jafar is and Jafar vice versa not knowing Aladin is still alive. Jafar only realized it's Aladin when he came back alive after he planned to drown him. Aladin not knowing Jafar was behind all of it till after the lamp is taken. In the live action, Jafar didn't use the disguise, making Aladin fully aware of Jafar when he arrived at the palace, knowing it's the guy who wanna kill him to take the lamp. Jafar also recognized Aladin soon later without any tests. So it's kinda ruin the surprise and make Aladin look dumb for not taking any precautions knowing the danger.
Wait, the old man was Jafar!? I haven’t watched Aladdin* in probably 15 years, but that Cave was my favorite place. Not even because of the gold and treasure. The. Enterence. Is. A. Tiger. A FUCKING. TIGER. How badass of an idea is that!?
As a big Peter Pan fan, it filled my heart with great joy watching Peter Pan and Wendy get torn to pieces by people who actually understood the story of Peter Pan.
Ariel saved Eric twice in the original movie, dude. Once where she saved him from drowning, and twice when she saved him from being blasted by Ursula, and killing off Flotsom and Jetsom instead. Hell, that's why Ursula turned giant and tried to kill her, as revenge for the death of her "babies". And Eric killing Ursula prived to Triton that not all humans are bad and that is why he turns Ariel into a human to be with him.
Fun fact: In the German dub of beauty and the beast someone else sang the songs from the normal actors, which makes me wonder, why didn’t they do that in the original English version too? It could have made it a lot better or at least more tolerable than what we ended up with.
I understand what you’re saying. In Hollywood though most actors/ actress are required to sing their own songs if they are cast as a lead. Otherwise, it was a bad casting decision & they shouldn’t have been chosen. I agree with you though that they should’ve cast better singers. Broadway is full of “triple threat” talent (meaning actor/ actress that can sing/ act/ dance)
In the original, Ariel was already in love with the idea of being part of the human world before seeing Eric. She sang Part of Your World before she saw him!!
Walt Disney said, "If you can dream it, you can do it, and don't let anybody say you can't." This is my biggest dream goal of bringing the 2-D animated style from Disney once again, and I'll save Hollywood for stopping all this ridiculous madness.
Correction, Ariel she didn’t go to the surface for Eric in the original, she goes to him immediately because the contract says she has to. She has an entire ship full of books, studies and attempts to learn about human objects, and even says in her I Want song she wants to meet smart studious woman and not be reprimanded. She doesn’t even mention Eric the whole song. Ariel isn’t a hopeless romantic, she’s a nerd Edit:Had to fix so many typos
Honestly, OG Ariel is more relatable. She only goes to the surface because she wants to be with the people, a problem that I had growing up. She never wanted Eric’s love, he only grew on her. Honestly, Disney is hypocritical. There is a whole page about their controversies.
One thing I'd argue. Ariel in the original doesn't want to go to the human world just for love. She's obsessed with humans and has been for awhile, the prince was just the latest in a long line of temptations and her father destroying her collection was the inciting event to cause her to go to Ursula. Ursula was always intended to be Tritons sister. They incorporated this into the stage production which this film should have been more inspired by. I'd have loved to have seen "I want the good times back" where Ursula sings about her banishment because she liked eating the castle subjects and inherited the magic shell from her father while Triton got his trident. Now, I haven't seen the live action version and don't plan to, but how the hell does Eric not realize that Ariel is the one that saved him and not Vanessa (Ursula)? In the animated, the sun is behind Ariel, so her features aren't as easy to make out and her hair could be black from his perspective. Wouldn't he immediately go "Waaaaaait...I was saved by a black woman. You don't resemble that description." It's literally the issue people claim is wrong with Cinderella (despite the fact in that one the king is the one that makes the demand about the slipper and says it's the prince's problem if it's not the right girl because he wants his son to get married so bad and the prince probably WOULD recognize her if he saw her, she just gave him no information of how to find her in the first place).
I agree too much with this comment. I thought this while watching the movie, she’s a completely different race from the woman that saved her, doesn’t even look slightly like her, how the hell could he mistake her for Ariel?
Ursula/Vanessa enchanted Eric using Ariel's voice to make him believe that she was the woman who saved him in the original. Eric snapped out of it when Scuttle and Ariel broke Vanessa's necklace, which broke the spell....not sure if they added that in the live action.
That is another reason why I think the raceswap makes no sense, especially since Vanessa wasn’t raceswapped as well. How you can mistake a black woman with rust colored dreadlock hair for a white woman with dark hair is beyond me.
they could have raceswapped Vanessa as well to make Eric believe it was Ariel. Because if you look in the original, Vanessa oddly looks similar to Ariel.
The people who also said that Ariel’s skin color didn’t matter because she’s a mermaid in defense of Haile playing Ariel just attacked an artist on Twitter for drawing the original Ariel in a scene from the live action movie because, apparently what they did was Racist I’m not kidding. 💀 (I’m black btw) Editing to address these in particular 1. Yes, I am black. Please stop assuming my race over a screen. I have no reason to cap about my ethnicity online . 2. I don’t speak for black people when I say it’s still messed up how people did all of that preaching about how Ariel’s skin color didn’t matter because she’s a “fictional creature/mermaid “ yet attacked an artist online and sent them threats for not only being Russian but for drawing a character from the ORIGINAL in a scene from the live action movie.
I'm black too and omg that's so hypocritical smh. And yeah her skin color does matter to them because what if they made Ariel some rainbow colored abomination. They would be upset over it
@@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375 She is an amazing singer and absolutely should have gotten her own character instead of playing a reboot of an already established one.
@@shannonceleste5557 in the netflix cleopatra trailer there's this old woman telling that "i don't care what they told you in school, cleopatra was black" when cleopatra was greek so she wasn't lol
I legitimately started laughing at the last shot in the little mermaid remake because the sudden cut to Ariel’s dad just staring at at them looked so awkward, then the mermaids started to show up and that almost had me crying laughing because how horribly executed these shots were
Respectfully, your analysis of the original animated little mermaid was pretty off. Ariel didn't leave the sea "just for a man" and I can't believe people actually think that
@@cheshirerose2001It’s honestly because he admits to taking most of his information from an old Lindsay Ellis video. Lindsay made a video recently basically saying how she had wronged Ariel so it’s strange that he didn’t watch that too?
@@Theravingranter TBH, I don’t watch Lindsay. I saw a few of her videos, but couldn’t get into it. Then, I heard that she goes kinda wacky on Twitter, and that gave me even more of a reason, lol.
Yeah she left because she wanted to “explore that shore up above”. Not for some guy. Eric was just someone she fell in love with after she expressed her want for a new life. It’s literally in the song
@@TheLucylola I suppose people just skip the pivotal song she sings in the grotto and only recall the “on the rock” scene where she changes it from being I wanna be part of THAT world to I want to be part of YOUR world. She wasn’t even going to become human until she was pressured to, she was going to try talking to him as a mermaid but she still would want to be human. Eric is just the sweetener. I don’t know why it’s such a sin now to have a romance be a part of your wants. Heaven forbid you fall in love!! The horror!
"Well, the people at Disney have a different thought process than Walt Disney when he started. He just wanted to have fun and tell stories for children... great imagination. People today want to rearrange everything and have nothing new to build on, and since they are not happy people, they can't make happy movies. I'm glad you recognize the differences being made. " Mentioned by my Grandma Georgia.
The review YMS made on the Lion King 2019 is a masterpiece on UA-cam. Adum goes over the movie scene by scene where he shows how the 2019 version omits important information we would know about these characters and the way they interact. I’m dying for him to release part 2.
The live action 101 dalmations was so iconic for me as a child. Also I loved Maleficent and the Cinderella remakes. I felt they had so much more depth and character growth. I was sad that they didn't make the prince important at all though for Aurora's story :/
51:25 One thing I'll say is I think there was a misinterpretation with Ariel's motivation in the original. She doesn't sign herself away to be with Eric, she signs herself away because she has that deep fascination with human culture and Eric was a sort of "final push" for her, since that was her first interaction with these creatures (humans) that she has been fascinated with since she was a kid. I mean hell, "Part of Your World" doesn't mention love or romance at all and Eric is completely ignored. Her "I Want" song just talks about up where THEY walk, up where THEY run. I'll also say that Triton is the real focal character in the movie in his arc, POV characters don't have to be the defaulted story character, a lot of films do this and Little Mermaid is one of them. I will say Ariel is a bit static, I just think there's more to her than people like to make it seem and there's more purpose behind it than the writers being lazy. I find it funny that you got that opinion from Lindsay Ellis tho considering her video "Reevaluating The Little Mermaid before Disney horks up another live action remake" (which is the video that you screengrabbed by the way, I thought I was crazy but it's definitely that video that is only a year old) flies against most of those points and is more up to date but whatevah
Also as others have pointed out, ''Part of your world'' is sung before she meets Eric. The reprise of the song is sung when she actually saves Eric, and again the lyrics show Ariel continues wanting to live and experience the lives of humans, just this time she wants to do these things with her crush. ( Lyrics change to ''Where would WE walk, where would WE run, where would WE stay all day in the sun.... etc)
My biggest issue with these remakes is the visuals. The lack of light and color makes it come off as cold and sterile , in comparison with the originals which are bright and vibrant with colors.
As I’ve been saying lately, Disney, where is the Japanese Snow White remake with dwarf Yokai and Snow becoming the embodiment of Snow(Yukionna) to defeat the witch or the anime-inspired Princess Oichi movie where she saves her almost Christlike brother Nobunaga from becoming a monstrous demon(kinda like Rourke from Atlantis) giving us our first Japanese princess.
fun fact: in the original Little Mermaid Ursula was supposed to be King Tritans sister. but the seen for the Evidence for them to be siblings was deleted because I don't know why it was deleted most likely for run time
In defense of Disney's original Cinderella, the Stepmother does start to recognize Cinderella but the King's advisor pulls a curtain down to give Cinderella and the Prince privacy and prevented her from snooping more. Much of the time Cinderella was also in an area darker than the rest of the castle and dancing. She had also had a huge makeover with a new dress she couldn't possibly afford. To top it all off the last time they saw her she was in a dress that had been ripped to shreds. Under those circumstances, it isn't surprising she wasn't recognized right away. Edit. I wrote the prior before finishing the video, my bad. You really didn't notice that Ariel was in love with the human world in the original animated movie long before Eric? Eric was a bonus and not her main motivation. The entire Part of That World song is all about how much Ariel loves the human world and wants to visit it and learn about it. Ariel only went to Ursula at all because Triton destroyed everything she had from the human world. She was already planning on trying to meet up with Eric without Ursula's involvement and had a decent plan set up too. She was at the castle because she was found by Eric and clearly didn't have the ability to live on her own. They gave her clothes because she didn't have any. Eric might be a bit dense in not realizing who she is but he's not heartless. Triton is indeed the character with the most character development and that is the point of the movie. It is a warning to parents about how being prejudiced and overly strict can drive their children to take drastic measures and get taken advantage of. Ariel also does learn how bad what she did was. You can hear the regret, anger, and despair in her voice when Triton takes her place. She does still get what she wants because she and Eric proved to Triton that humans aren't the monsters he thought they were and that she really loved him.
@@princessresilia6439 Cinderella was too nice/submissive due to a coping mechanism called fawning. It's actually a bad and even dangerous thing to be too nice. It's not commonly realized to be a flaw but that doesn't mean it isn't one. A lot of Disney Princesses aren't particularly good with social skills. Ariel and Belle were also obsessed with stuff that made them effectively shunned by the people they lived near. I found many of them very relatable. My social skills are not great either in large part due to my autism, so it's not too surprising I felt that way about them.
@@princessresilia6439 She was the better person in the scenario going with "the best revenge is a life well-lived". She was definitely sarcastic but never to her stepmother or stepsisters directly that I can recall. At best, she did so under her breath. I didn't watch Snow white very much because we didn't have it but she was very optimistic and a better role model* than many will admit. Belle is just a great character all around. Ariel, Belle, and Mulan are my top three Disney Princesses, and in that order. *The attacks on so many Disney Princesses show a fundamental misunderstanding of the characters. They also tend to be rooted in rather toxic ideas of what a woman should be. Being traditionally feminine isn't bad even if some traditional ideas weren't great.
See, here's the problem with Disney's strong women in the remakes. They're incredibly WEAK. Mulan isn't a strong woman because she's intelligent, or unique, or determined to be just as strong as any man. She's a strong woman because she's MAGICAL. Yeah, that's a real good message to send to little girls. "You too can be just as strong as Mulan - if you have magical powers. But not just any magical powers - in order for a woman to be strong, she needs her magical powers to be the best of the best. Intelligence, individuality, determination? That's nothing, because MAGIC." Thanks to the Panderstone, people can publicly say that Activism is a bad thing.
it's especially atrocious compared to the message of the animated mulan. it showed her putting in hard work, her best effort, and succeeding as well as earning respect. replacing that with magic is honestly just lame.
So. As a person who really did not know how ingrained my life was with The Little Mermaid. I am a 90s kid. I dunno when i saw it but i remember my mom sewing me a hand made Sebastian costume when i was very little. I saw the movie inn i believe 1997 when Disney re-released it in theaters at the largest screen in syracuse. I was in highschool and we played the Fantasmic show with the little Mermaid in the mid point in the ,arch and halftime show at football games. My favorite character is Sebastian and Chef Loius (rest in peace René Auberjonois. You will always be Odo and Hugo Miller) The new TLM is such inane garbage and filled woth crap liek that scuttle song just... it messes with me when you learn in your later years such a short movie meant a lot to you growing up. ALso animated Sebastian was such a wingman.
he literally said it on the video as well (haven't seen fate, but he said that there was a reason tho) (and even if there wasn't it's made with a base of a gacha game, so waifus sell)
I think the point of Mowgli not going to the human village is part of the message that “Family isn’t just people who look like you but people you love being around”. I think it’s a good message, especially for kids who were adopted.
Except it doesn't work. Why? Because the jungle can never accommodate his human needs nor can it nurture his potential. It literally has nothing to offer him but misery and loneliness. By having him stay in the jungle, you are basically saying that he never has to grow up. It's like if Wendy stayed in Neverland.
@@vetarlittorf1807 Yet Tarzan turned out fine and it had the same message. I still think it’s a good message and it speaks to people who have been adopted and have identity issues or don’t know which family is their true family. Also Mowgli will get stronger and have better instincts in the jungle, just like Tarzan. Also Wendy’s story and Mowgli’s story is completely different cause Wendy knows who her parents are. So your example doesn’t make sense. A better example is whether the lost boys should leave neverland or not?
@@GunthersLoyalSoldier1307 No. The Wendy comparison makes perfect sense because Neverland and the Jungle represent childhood. Mowgli staying in the jungle is basically saying that he'll never grow up. And the Tarzan comparison doesn't make sense. Because in the books, he did end up in civilization and in the Disney version he only stayed because he had to honor Kerchak's dying wish. And what makes you think Mowgli will get stronger and more instinctual? And how does him staying in the jungle speak to people who were adopted? Because being a feral child is not a case of normal adoption. Mowgli doesn't belong in the jungle because the jungle cannot accommodate his human needs. In the jungle, he will never be able to mate, he will never be able to develop emotionally, no one will be able to relate to him, he will never be able to experience socialization, he will be miserable because he'll outlive all his friends and family by many many decades, he'll be denied basic natural human traits like civility, introspection, transcendence and productivity and he'll grow up emotionally stagnant, confused and lonely. He has no future in the jungle. He's not built for it. It's not in his nature to be cut off from humanity. So why should he stay in the jungle just because he was raised in it? Why should he be denied prosperity for the sake of his short-term comfort zone? Heck, he doesn't even get to meet the love of his life.
@@vetarlittorf1807 Idiot, Wendy still has her parents while Mowgli doesn’t. Wendy staying at neverland would make no sense cause she has no connection to neverland like Mowgli does with the jungle. Also you can’t use the books cause the books and movies are different, Tarzan is an amazing movie and he grew up strong. The same message was in both movies and they’re good messages. I’m not saying everyone should live in the jungle, I’m saying family is where the heart is. Also what love of his life? He left his friends behind because of his hormones XD yeah, fuck friendship and get some ass! Great message! Or “it’s better to stay with people who look like you and you have no connection to them” perfect! The message of the live action Jungle book is that family and home is where the heart is. That speaks to people who have been adopted, I’m not saying they should be a feral child, I’m saying kids who have been adopted will see that family is who you love and not people who look like you or have the same blood as you. If we’re gonna go down the rabbit hole of “Well, this is what’s gonna happen after the ending” then you might as well believe all classic Disney movies suck.
@@vetarlittorf1807 To be fair, in the original story I'm pretty sure he wasn't even accepted in the man village either. It was meant to be an insight to the author's feelings that he doesn't belong anywhere.
I almost burst out laughing when you repeatedly called Triton Trident. I actually like that they returned Ursula being Triton's sister (I think it was that way in the original story pre Disney?). And them being not of the same species per se is not that strange. Triton is the son of Poseidon, and guess who is also the son of Poseidon; Pegasus! Triton is siblings with a flying horse. An octopus is not that big of a stretch then. Anyway, great video!
If there’s any movie I would DESPISE being remade into live action would be Treasure Planet. THAT MOVIE IS TO REMAIN **UNTOUCHED**!!! Disney doesn’t even deserve to remake it in ANY way… Damn. The very thought of that happening makes me unreasonably angry…
Ariel always wanted to be in the human world because she didn’t feel like she fit in her own which is the whole point of the song Part of your world. Prince Erik is what made it even more enticing, heck she even thought about going to Eric as a mermaid but Sebastian stopped her and we get the Under The Sea song. what set her off was when Triton destroyed all of her collection that she most likely took years to gather all of it and risked her life for, only for it to be gone way quicker than it took to get them. then once she was at her most vulnerable Ursula and her eels took advantage of her at her most lowest point. Eric was down to earth person as shown him wearing peasant clothes, him not liking the statue, and he spent time in the village but he’s also a hopeless romantic and a good person an Ariel blowing the cigar dust in the old guys face which caused Eric to chuckle, one of the servants mentioned that it was the first time Eric gave a genuine smile in weeks when Ariel was taken by Ursula Eric dove in to save her even giving Ursula a cut by throwing a dagger at her and when he went up to get air the eels grabbed him and Ursula was about to blast him if Ariel didn’t yank on Ursula’s hair causing her to miss Eric She saved Erik twice which the second one killed the eels and that caused Ursula to go in a blind rage and target her but due to this it left Ursula vulnerable and Erik took advantage of it which also showed Triton that not all humans are bad when he witnessed Eric saving Ariel
Pinocchio reviving Gepetto with his tears was also in Pokémon: The First Movie It's one thing to rip-off your own animated movies that made you household name, but now Disney is ripping movies that arguably weren't even movies.
@ In the eyes of the parents that were forced by their kids to see it and the people from Japan that made it, it was just another commerical for the games disgused as a feature film. Not that it doesn't have any value in terms of story, characters, and themes, but still.
They actually did plan to make a Live Action Version of The Sword and the Stone but it got never made. Personally I don´t think it would work because The Sword and the Stone is one of the cartoonier Disney Movies (and you just know that if they remade it nowadays all of the Animals would look uncanny). The Black Cauldron on the other Hand could work really well as a Remake if it had a good Script
Thats just nonsense. We have had decades of cartooney looking cgi or realistic looking cgi working just fine with real characters. This uncanny weird realistic nonsense literally just comes from this company and their live remakes.
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 I am not saying that it´s impossible to make CGI look cartoony. What I meant to say is that if they were to remake The Sword and the Stone they would make all the Animals hyperrealistic like they have done before
Two minor things about The Little Mermaid: (1) Ursula was the King’s sister in Disney’s animation but the lines referencing the relationship were cut, and (2) The Little Mermaid was taken in via the palace in the original story.
Mulan doesn't need actual powers, the point of the story is she is powerless but because of her hardship and determination she could save all china, giving her actual super powers just decreasing her actual empowerment since she doesn't have anything to worry about
"Yeah, I don't like the remake of the lion king. It isn't even live action and they nerfed scars song." 'Well, fuck you. You're the problem.' "..?" 'Racist.' "HOW?!"
Hot take: I loved the live action 101 Dalmatians. This was before Disney's quality became a big hit or miss and before they became that kind of company with their live action remakes. I also admit that I wasn't aware it was a remake until the House of Mouse made me aware of it. Anyone remember that show?
2D animation will never die off. In fact, in recent years, it has only gotten more popular than CGI animation. There is a way to save Disney, but it requires patience and determination to take back the magic of the company. I hope I can succeed in the end.
Re: Beauty and the Beast origin story. Not only is the "enchantress" horrible, but the prince was an 11 year old kid - who had apparently been left home alone. What prince opens his own door? I mean, he skips that whole awkward teenage phase of his life, but he's set to die on his 21st birthday if he can't break the spell. What a gal!
In Madame de Villeneuve’s version of Beauty and the Beast, his mother was a warrior, and he was raised by a fairy (whom, even the warrior queen was afraid of) , and, he was cursed because he didn’t want to marry someone who practically raised him; he was basically the victim.
To give ONE TINY POINT to the live action Mermaid, sailors of the past were absolute trigger hungry jerks. I mean there's accounts of a HUGE sea serpet swimming by a large ship around 1818, and did nothing but swim past the boat. The boat immediately opened fire on the poor thing, and it was never seen again.
As much as I liked the movie personally, It also bothered me back that a really gentle and kind fairy would be called ‘Maleficent’ I would have thought it was the Kingdom that dubbed her as ‘Maleficent’ because they saw her as a literal Demon or something 😅
It would have been amazing if they called her “Beneficent” and then as she became darker, more twisted more evil in their eyes she had a Sweeney Todd moment and was like “No that part of me is dead. If they want me to be the villain…a villain I shall be.”
1:34 YES! I've always hated how company choose the worst possible thing to adapt to live action like there are tons of animated things that could work better in live action but instead they go for things which are popular/nostalgic, but they they don't take in consideration what they lose when they transition from animation to live action especially if what they are adapting is highly stylized which most animated movies are. Removing the animation from an animed movie strip it of vibe and aesthetic and doing this could work if the live action adaptation replaces what was lost with new and unique things which could work in live action and help the adaptation stand on its own, but sadly most adaptions of animation is usal just a retaling of the story minus the animation. This basically leaves you with a blend and soulless cash grab and you would've had a better time just rewatching the orinal movie,but that's mainly because they were attempting things which heavily rely on animation like the loin King or the little mermaid a lot of the non human characters worked in the originals because they were animated and created for that with that in mind Hansen why they look so soul less in live action but somthing that would adult benefit from.being in live action would be somthing like Atlantis the Lost Treasure or Treasure Planet because even tho they are animed movie they aculy don't relie on animation all that much and plus treasure planet is basically pirate star wars lol
I personally really like the live action 101 Dalmations. Sure, it's nothing groundbreaking or particularly different from the original, but I like how they fleshed out Roger and Anita, making them as involved in the plot as their dogs, the addition of the Skinner was pretty dark for a kids' movie, and Jasper and Horace balanced it out by being hilarious. Also, Glenn Close absolutely kills it as Cruella. The main reason why I like it, however, is because it was made with a completely different mindset from the post-Cinderella remakes: it wasn't a soulless cash-grab made to mine on nostalgia, because... who WAS nostalgic for the original at the time? They were just experimenting with the idea of remaking one of their movies in another medium, and didn't try it with any other movie.
Hi, sorry to parrot what alot of people have said in the comments, and I understand the movie was only "good" to you, but this part of the video definitely rubbed me the wrong way: Ariel did not want to go to the human world for a boy. She already had a deep love and interest in the human world that was established at the beginning of the movie where Ariel is shown to explore sunken ships to find human "treasure" to collect and take back to her secret grotto that is just FULL of stuff from the world above. Ariel is shown to be reckless and impulsive doing this cause she almost got eaten by a shark alongside Flounder just to collect trash to her collection, yet that trash is important to her. She has a deep desire and dream to be part of their world, hence the song "Part of your World", its Ariel singing about how much she wants and desires to be part of the human world, how she's sad and miserable cause no one understands her and at worse there's her father. Triton angrily telling Ariel how humans are dangerous and so on, which is why Ariel keeps her grotto a secret cause literally NO ONE will understand her love for the human world. Eric is just a bonus to the human world for her, also Ariel still didn't want to become human just for a boy. Before the Under the Sea section Ariel was talking about how she was going to meet with Eric again as a mermaid, saying she'll swim up to her castle and Flounder will splash around to get his attention. It was Ursula that planted the idea of Ariel becoming human to meet Eric, she sweet talked and manipulated her when she was very vulnerable after Triton destroyed her secret grotto in rage after learning Ariel was in love with a human. Ariel actually didn't go initially as she already knew who Ursula was, telling the eels to leave her alone, the temptation and desire to see Eric after what you can say was a very traumatic experience put Ariel in situation that Ursula could exploit for her own selfish gain. Let's not forget, Ariel is 16 years old. She's not dumb, just a naive, reckless, and impulsive teenager who has a very overprotective father that would not support her interests and passion about her collection, which makes her life miserable as she feels all alone. It was even brought up again by Sebastian after Ariel became human when he talked about her backing out of the plan. Sorry this went on too long, but I am so tired and annoyed of the whole "She became human just for a guy" thing when that WASN'T the sole reason why.
"Admit it, you forgot they made a live action version of this." (Dumbo) Sorry to say JAR, but no I didn't, because I never knew they made one until you just now told me about it.
Okay Maleficent dispute it's flaws is still one of the better Disney remakes because it actually did something different. It didn't just copy the same story unlike the others and was pretty cool. All the other remake just rehash the same story making them pointless. The live action lion King is so dul and soulless
The funny thing about actual animals? They CAN emote and express their emotions quite well... but the CGI lion king staff just completely forgot about that. 101 Dalmatians was deliberately the same, but in live action. Disney has fallen so far it's not funny... then it loops back to being funny again, then it just becomes sad. Hook (the movie) was also good. Can confirm... if something bad happens, previously happy memories can become bittersweet or painful at best. Hook was probably miserable and lost all hope >.> Adaptation! A-dap-ta-tion! Otherwise, much fun and insight. Bashing the Rat is almost a spectator sport now. EDIT: Fun fact, live action Sebastian is a LAND DWELLING CRAB.
Well, 101 Dalmatians used actual dogs back in 1996/2000. Which can emote quite well as you pointed out. It's sad that Stuart Little from 1999 has better CGI that Any of the newer Disney "live action" soulless cash grabs.
You mentioned Hook!!! My millennial heart is so happy! I still think that movie has the best depiction of the lost boys and how wild and rowdy they are and I love them so much.
"Why would Ariel sing along?!" Well, in Kingdom Hearts 2, Ariel actually sang along with Sora and Sebastian in it. It started as Sora and Sebastian with it still playing the same, but then somewhere along Ariel joins in. And as for Ursula, yeah they've brought it up in the original story that she and tritan were related or something like that. I know that in the Little Mermaid Broadway they brought it up so...
Here, it’s contradictory. Kingdom Hearts II takes after the one-to-one retread of the first movie, and by then Ariel should’ve gotten a child already, but never did.
They’re making remakes we the audience haven’t asked for. We are perfectly satisfied with the animated versions. There is no demand for live action remakes. We just want new, original content.
I looked at the rotten tomatoes reviews for little mermaid and some of them look fake as the flat earth theory (Verbatim what they said (This one’s my favorite) 1: I love it and Ariel get her voice back 2: I enjoyed the movie 3: Great movie! Beautiful to watch! 4: this was amazing. Loved it.
I’m not saying Disney live action remakes are bad (on paper) but the problem is Disney could have added more time and effort when it comes to their live action remakes, Hell, there’s rumors going around that they’re remaking hunchback of Notre Dom. They could have an opportunity to make it look like the Broadway musical(yes, Disney did make a Broadway musical of hunchback of Notre Dame, which is dark as hell BTW) but Disney being Disney are probably not gonna put any time and effort to it.
"why is there so little color in this peter pan movie?" this is basically my problem with all the live action adaptations I saw. Which... are not that many, honestly, but still. it is like the time videogames tried to make their locations look realistic by making everything in tones of brown or grey, even the grass being a muted green to fit, and with a lot of bloom just they make everything dark and without many colors instead. I mean, look at scenes from Hook, that you yourself mentioned (which is still valid by the way, since in Peter Pan 2 they kidnap Wendy's daughter, leaving the brother behind, and in Hook he ends up marrying her GRANDdaughter so no retcon needed) Yes, most of it was not very colorful, but it was not just because it is real people. It has a purpose there - a purpose that becomes very clear during the food fight scene. Things are so colorless because most people lack imagination and happiness. Or rather Peter, from whose eyes we see everything, sees most things in bland colors save for, for example, the Lost Boys' clothes. But as soon as he starts the food fight he is able to see it all, and WE see that the food is as colorful as a rainbow, and the food fight covers everyone there in those colors. Now take the message that passes forward, and consider how lifeless the Lion King is despite the "realistic graphics" - look at how they massacred I Can't Wait to Be King and Be Prepared.
50:13 In the original Hans Christian Andersen story, the Mermaid did not get what she wanted. She turned into foam at the end and the Prince married someone else whom he thought saved his life
a lot of them have their own issues but for me the overarcing issue with the remakes is that theyre too realistic. like i think the lion king animals, the jungle book animals, and sebastian and flounder (examples off the top of my head) wouldve been waay more interesting if they were 3d cgi versions of their cartoon versions and not just the real life animals with voices.
@@angelic252 they went for realism instead of stylization, which they didn't have the budget for realism/talent/skill, because Sebastian and flounder look awful.
Y’know every main character in Peter Pan has been heroic and villainous in some version of the story at this point, except Wendy and maybe Tiger Lily. I kinda wanna see what a version where Wendy’s the villain now.
So yaknow how they made that live action peter pan and tried to make Wendy a strong independent woman? Yeah, they already did that, but better in the animated sequel "Peter Pan: Return to Neverland" where instead of Wendy its her daughter Jane who's been growing up during one of the world wars and has become cynical Captian Hook kidnaps her thinking she's Wendy, and she tries to find a way back home Its a great movie i watched it a lot growing up
For the Peter Pan movie they should have just gotten permission to use the Lost boys version. Evil Peter might just be my favorite because it really shows how messed up Peter is. Although, they probably would have messed that up too.
Ariel didn't become human just to meet with Eric. Please, that misconsception needs to die finally. She becomes human to spite her father after he destroyed her collection. She's been singing about wanting to be a human before she even knew Eric existed. She doesn't go to Ursula after she meets Eric either. She only goes after her dad destroys everything she painstakingly gathered over years in her own little safe spot she made for herself to enjoy the things she likes. By the end of the movie, she's ready to stay in the sea, even though she will be suffering, because she knows doing things with no consideration of the rules in place is a bad thing. Sure, it's never explicitly stated, but it doesn't have to be. She goes through even MORE development in the sequel when she realizes that cutting off either side of her completely is wrong and damaging and she can have a balance between being human and mermaid. Edit: The ending also isn't just reversing roles, it's also erasing a whole part of the confrontation where Ariel and Eric repeatedly save each other, all in view of Triton, which then later explains why he shows respect to Eric at the wedding.
Oh my goodness and don't even start about Cinderella and Snow White! They are abuse victims! They can't exactly go up to their abusers and break themselves out of the house. Ffs, those movies aren't about making a big statement, they're about staying strong and positive in the face of adversity. They're about someone loving you even when you don't have the power to save yourself. They are about the hope at the end of the road. Can we PLEASE stop dissing old classical stories because we don't understand the messaging?
This is what happens when people listen to unfunny internet websites that misinformed the people about negative implications of Disney movies. Ariel wasn't a simp, Eric was a unique Disney Prince These people insist that Belle suffered Stockholm Syndrome without knowing what they're talking about.
It's not even just animated movies nowadays, but there are also a lot of other movies, including an unnecessary or destroying continuation of franchises.
"Why did they allow Ariel in the palace?" Well, in the past people were much more social and allowing people to stay as guests much more common and unrestricted. It was not uncommon for near-strangers to stay over for days. Part of this was do to the comparative difficulty of transportation. People may have to wait out a storm and then for the dirt roads to dry at the first available building and most people would be accommodating. It is more than likely that the palace has some guest rooms and Eric was being only a little generous for the time.
The ultimate irony of The Little Mermaid remake is that Flounder’s VA was already in a better adaptation of the original The Little Mermaid: Luca Hell, One Piece’s Fishman Island Arc was a better adaptation than that piece of garbage
Even in The Little Mermaid Ariel saved Eric a bunch of times before he saved her in the climax. I’m guessing there’s no way in Hell they let him do that in the live action one.
@@ApolloXL5 really? Then my eyes were just playing tricks on me when I see fake-ariel stole Eric's role and somehow drove a ship without any sailing knowledge, human common sense and legs.
Jokes aside though, a live action adaptation of Black Caludron would be sick as hell if it was actually made by a company that wasn't completely souless.
uh...in the animated Little Mermaid she was in love with human world BEFORE meeting Eric. This is not something that the live action changed. This was already in there. She sang part of your world BEFORE seeing Eric for the first time. She was a teen in hormones and fell in love with Eric extremely quickly in the animated version, yes. But! she actually did have more desires and life goals than just to get married. She wanted to study, to learn new cultures, she wanted to leave her home way before even knowing he existed. He ended up being nothing happy coincidence and a mean to an end that she already desired. Plus, as some comments have said already here and I had forgotten, she went to him partially because the contract compelled her to. If she didn't go to him she would belong to Ursula forever. She would be bound to the sea forever with no way out. She HAD to be with him at that point, regardless if she had changed her mind already or not. Without understanding this, sadly, the analysis of that one movie just...meh. smh.
15:08 Oh, DUDE, Maleficent 'earning' that name would've been awesome- maybe humans could give her that name after painting her as evil. You could still have the 'misunderstood antagonist' angle that way as well if you *really* want to take that route!
It still baffles me that people think og Ariel only took Ursulas deal "to get a boy". Girl was alredy in love with the human world before that! Seeing Eric and crushing on him was just the last domino piece, and Triton destroying her stuff was what coused the pieces to fall. Her wanting to be human was just the result of years and years of obsession and pining for the human world!
In all honesty jar the part where triton and Ursula being siblings was supposed to be in the original but was cut . And if the movie itself wasn't awful it could have given more weight and energy to why ursula wanted the throne so much especially if they made her the older sister . Jealousy and Anger at being passed over for using dark magic or doing something extremely bad. And if Ursula revealed to Ariel that they were related and used that as the reason she wanted to help her niece with achieving her dream would have added a greater sense of betrayal .
I think since 2017 the live action remakes started getting out of hand. And I don’t understand how my sister genuinely likes the Mulan one defending it seriously
My daughter and her friends really really wanted to watch the live action Little Mermaid. So I took them. They liked it, but some parts were boring to them and they ended up just chatting during the whole movie and then kept asking to go to the arcade. They said they liked it but I honestly don’t think they really watched it lol
I like how you didn’t review the “live” action Lion King because it’s not live action also Arial didn’t give up her legs just for some man in the original movie, it’s shown that she was already in love with the surface world long before she fell in love Eric and the reason she is ultimately pushed into giving up her voice isn’t because she’s in love with Eric but because her dad destroys her collection of stuff from the surface
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@@Lucifer_Is_Not_Amused Sad thing is I wasn't, also SOMEONE skipped ahead.
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I love how they changed Mulan to be more “Chinese” and they really wanted it to be a hit in China, and then it basically got shadow banned there.
Pandering in a nutshell 😂😂😂
It was because they used a Western concept of what qi is, which is basically just treated as mana for casting spells but with a vaguely Asian aesthetic; rather than than the Chinese concept of qi, which is basically just the energy that causes a person to be alive. Many Chinese viewers and critics criticised it for that misconception, noting that having a lot of qi would, at most, just make you very good at avoiding being sick and give you a very long life.
@@equidistanthoneyjoy7600so qi is basically like HP instead of Mana
The irony is the original animated version was a lot more accurate to the Mulan legend, Chinese history, and Chinese culture, than the live action remake was.
@@dragonslayermasterornstein83 I got the vibe that it was more like the Force, it had the same amount of narrative consistency. Considering Star Wars has three trilogies of feature lengths movies and Lord knows how many hours of shows under it's belt the fact that a single movie manages to have a magical system *so broken* to rival that is truly impressive writing... it's just not the kind of impressive I think they wanted.
It was so baffling I had to dig more into this and interestingly enough the Mulan remake had not one, not two, not even three but FOUR writers, you'd think with that many people SOMEBODY would have caught the plot holes in that magic system or tried to rotate the research time on chinese culture between themselves or just called any person with more knowledge to be a consultant! But no, must have been a case of too many cooks in the kitchen.
"I'm making a live action version of Moana!"
'Why?! It's not even that old!'
"Money."
'Oh, of course.'
Literally this situation summed up. Good job, JAR. :)
You know, it feels kind of hypocritical too, considering that Dwayne Johnson literally went out of his way at the Oscars to defend animation not being a genre, when just a few weeks later, he decides, “I’m gonna be in a live action remake of an animated movie I was in.”.
@@osmanyousif7849 Damn, didn't think about that part of it.
I bet there's going to be a live action Frozen within the next 5 years
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@@osmanyousif7849 A job is a job.
The animated version of The Little Mermaid does have some logic as to why Ariel gets a free invite to live in the castle. Eric only takes her there just to be nice and get her cleaned up, but the other people in the castle are trying to get Eric hitched to literally any girl. Grimsby even mentions towards the beginning how the whole kingdom is worried that Eric hasn't settled down. Thus far, the only interest Eric has shown in marriage is to this imaginary girl who he claims rescued him from the shipwreck. So when he walks in with a nice young woman who can actually make him smile, it's a "beggars can't be choosers" moment. That's why Grimsby suggests Eric take Ariel out for the day, and why he tells Eric that a real girl standing in front of him is better than an imaginary one.
Ariel gets to live in the castle because Grimsby and the others are trying to manipulate Eric into falling in love with her (which absolutely works).
That was an odd criticism tbh. Like can rich people not be kind?
Back then, hospitality was also incredibly important. A naked mute girl no one recognizes just on the kingdom lands? If they don't take her in and get her back on her feet, they'll lose face with the other kingdoms. That's how seriously they took it back then.
@@angrytheclown801 yes Shadowversity covered this in his inn video.
And Erik is nice. He's down to earth, he talks to his people, he resents a statue being made of him--of course he would help some poor woman he stumbled across. Her being a hottie probably didn't hurt matters either; he may not have been interested in marriage, but his penis didn't know that.
When manipulation becomes good and helpful lmao
If Disney was actually smart and they want to save money they could just re release the old movies in theaters.
Yeah like the ones that bombed a long time ago.
exactly. i havent watched a single live action remake (except lion king which, even at 11 i knew was AWFUL and swore to not watch any more live action disney products) but if they rereleased ANY disney movie pre-2000 to theatres i would be there in an instant. i think the same can be said for the majority of people too
*Cinderella was the only good live-action adaptation.*
*Change my mind.*
Like seriously, the way they expand Ella and Kit/the prince’s relationship was so well done as well as them not treating her as weak simply because she's trapped in a situation that she couldn't control. That thing’s a legit masterpiece
I love that Cinderella film and Cinderella three, it's a good film. And it gave Charming and Cinderella are cute and Charming has a personally as they gave Kit.
Tbh I liked Cruella but it’s not really an adaptation
No need, Cinderella till this day is my favourite Disney live action remake. Hell whenever Disney released a terrible remake, I came back to Cinderella remake to just fresh my eyes that there's actually a good remake before. I admire that they didn't rely heavily on nostalgia and try to be it's own thing with perfect casting all around. Felt like if Jane Austen and Shakespeare had a baby, Cinderella remake is literally that. And her entire arc instead of being an annoying Mary Sue brat like Mulan remake, she simply followed her mother's advice, "have courage and be kind" (credit to Hayley Atwell's amazing acting for just a few minutes as Cinderella's mother) and it totally works to make me care for her
I honestly think Cinderella is the only Disney franchise that hasn't been harmed yet which is great although I could be wrong tho
Best Disney's Live-Action Remakes (so far):
*Cinderella (2015)*
*Pete's Dragon (2016)*
*The Jungle Book (2016)*
Was beauty and the beast a bad live action?🤔
26:02 Giving her a superpower feels like they're saying women can't do significant things without having some kind of special edge given to them. The point of Mulan is that she was just a girl, a very brave girl, who through wit and determination saved both her father and all of China. The story demonstrates that anyone is capable of doing important and significant things, regardless of what you were born with.
And as Nostalgia Critic put it, her lack of combat experience added significance to joining the army; willing to fight for her people without knowing how to fight.
@ her persistence even when being kicked out of the camp is so important to her character as well
plus when they become super heroes you never think something bad is ever going to happen to them. In this when they were like "death if you break the rules" i thought to myself, if she gets found out she will probably just ninja herself out of it.
Nonsense, if u are born with CHI, then and only then u are grant the rank of Master Supreme.
No Jk, I hate that shit. 🤣
@@PurpleIsGreatI disagree that "Mulan's story was never about love". It 100% WAS about love. It just wasn't about romantic love.
Mulan's story comes about out of a love for her _father_. She believes he's too old and frail to survive a war (which she's probably right about), and because she has no brothers, he'll be forced to be conscripted. So she pretends to be a man to take her father's place to save his life. Its about familial love rather than romantic but it is about love.
By the end there is a tease between her and Li Shang but he's obviously not the reason why she went, and he only falls for her after her success at the end of the film.
In the original animated movie, Ariel didn't just give up her voice for a guy, she was already infatuated with the human world before seeing Eric, (Part of Your World first part was sung before seeing Eric). In fact after seeing Eric Ariel planned on just going straight up to him as a mermaid to talk to him, but then Sebastian stops her with Under the Sea. After her father DESTORYS her whole collection, something she has worked on probably for years and it shatters her. Ariel is now in a venerable place and Ursula takes advantage of that. When she is speaking with Ursula She doesn't sign right away, she thinks on it and questions on weather she should go through it. Was it a mistake, yes, but she's a teenager and that happens. In my eyes Eric was a bonus, what Ariel really wanted was to be part of the human world.
This!
I really hate this narrative that Ariel just left the sea for a man.
i mean, she did sign a contract where she had to kiss the man without voice to stay human, while i don't feel it is correct to misjudge a movie, i can understand the mistake everyone makes, you don't remember her singing before eric or her exploring the world without him, we only remember the time limit to make a guy fall for her
@@skylex157
Yes, but it’s to STAY HUMAN: the guy is a means, not an end. If she had to become human to win over the guy, but it’s the exact opposite.
@@PMbarbieri Well to be fair its both in the original, she wanted to be part of the human world really badly..then after she saw the humans up close the got a massive crush on Erik and it was when Triton destroyed the statue after she let slip she was in love with him that she went to Ursula. She didnt plan to become human in either case though, she only found that out after she meets Ursula and the fact she can become human and that the requirements are to kiss the guy she has a crush on makes her take the deal.
@@charg1nmalaz0r51
Of course, it’s not a bad thing for her to be in love with Eric. It’s the assumption that he’s the only reason Ariel wants to be “part of their world” that’s factually incorrect.
I’m going to say this, because a lot of people are saying it: Ariel did not want to go to the human world for a boy. She already was interested in the human world, and went to Ursula (with her eels who first tempt her to) to find out if she could go to the human world when she was mad/sad at her dad for destroying her stuff. Ursula is the one who makes it about making a boy fall in love with Ariel, taking away her voice because she thinks it would be impossible to make someone fall in love with you without a voice, forcing Ariel to sign the contract as a segway to put her in danger so King Triton would give away his trident. Yeah Ariel thought Eric was cute, but wasn’t going to try and smash him right away. And by spending more time with him, she really started to like him, and Eric in turn with Ariel. This is one of the most balanced Disney couples out there and there’s so much misinformation regarding them it infuriates me.
Edit: because I made it sound like Ariel went to find Ursula on her own but she didn’t.
Very true
During the whole little mermaid section of this video It felt like something was wrong, but I didn't care enough to think about it. That really makes me think about how many peoples opinions have been shaped by critics on the internet.
@@kirbyinahateah pretty much. Eric and Ariel are up there with Rapunzel and Flynn Rider in terms of well written Disney couples, but I guess because the Little Mermaid is an older movie it’s easier to plant the idea in the minds of the public that the movie is different than it actually is.
The live action actually makes the kissing part even more problematic than two people wanting to kiss each other but the guy being too awkward to and uncertain because he thinks Ariel is not his dream girl, as Ariel has amnesia of the condition of the contract in this verison and Eric is coming into Ariel despite her being disinterested! It’s so fricking weird it feels like I’m in the Twilight Zone with the media saying this is the progressive version!
Well hold on i think its a mixture of love for the human world and a slight crush on Eric after she saved him
Hell there was a whole convo between her dad and Sebastian where the king notices Ariel being more upbeat and Sebastian accidentally reveals her secret collection
And Ariel never went out of her way to find Ursula, it was Ursula's eels who found her when she was vulnerable after her father destroyed her collection, preyed on her emtional state and guided her straight to Ursula
@@jessamynroguski9649 nah. Ariel already had an immense desire to see the human world. Heck she nearly gets killed by a shark for very simple everyday items from the human world. She sings Part of Your World before ever meeting him.
Indeed I did have in my comment that Ariel thought Eric was cute, has a crush on him and all that, but he was the incident that pushed her over, not initially apart of her reasoning to go at all before meeting him. If Ursula hadn’t made getting Eric to kiss Ariel as apart of the contract, the two would never have happened. Which is the irony of the Little Mermaid, the villain being defeated by her own ego thinking that she was always in control. 😅
@@riotkitty Have you forgotten the cringe lines about Ariel being in love before she even met Ursula? I.E. "But daddy I love him!" Not just that though, the fact that the eels knock over the face of the Eric statue towards her before she told the eels to wait?
You know, in terms of Snow White. If they reaaally wanted to do a diversity hire why didn't they at least try to hire an East Asian actor? If they hired a Japanese actor and wanted to re-write the story to be ethnically different they could've made it take place in Japan and the Dwarves could've been a variety of Yokai.
Thats actually a cool idea
But that would require effort and imagination
I think Snow White should stay German.
@@shrekxrohankishibedas stimmt!
This is what i was thinking. I mean, red lips, black hair and white skin, that's totally à geisha
"Maleficent was actually a fairy."
I guess the twist is that people forgot she was always a fairiy.
Just an evil fairy and the kind of bitch the Fair Folk were usually depicted as.
Like the enchantress.
In all fairness to the Jungle Book remake, the whole idea of mowgli staying in the jungle is meant to represent the moral "Live where you feel like you belong" and in the original book, he doesn't stay in the man village for very long anyways, he returns to the jungle after getting fed up with man and his ways.
Yeah, also, in the original he only goes to the village because he saw a pretty girl, not because he had any interest in living among humans :/
I like the idea that he stayed in the jungle, it makes more sense to me.
@@spicynoodles2742 I personally always took the original as a metaphor for young boys entering manhood-
No one like the girl so she was deleted.
@@spicynoodles2742 No he didn't. Throughout the movie we saw Mowgli struggle with his identity. He knew he was human, but he didn't know what a human was. We see him constantly imitate other animals in hopes of finding a place to belong but nothing worked because he's not built for the life of a wild animal.
He can bond with animals, but he can never be like them.
But in the final scene, Mowgli is made aware of his human nature.
Shanti is Mowgli's first exposure to true humanity; curiosity, community, innovation along with the rest conveyed in the song.
Mowgli doesn't follow Shanti just because she's beautiful (notice how he isn't smitten until he looks into her eyes by the entrance), but because humans are naturally attracted to familiarity. It makes us feel safe and accepted to be with each other. And in that moment Mowgli realizes that what he feels for a fellow human being is something he can never feel for anyone in the jungle. Baloo offers Mowgli friendship and love, but he can't nurture his human potential and Mowgli can't stay in the jungle forever because he'll never grow up. The jungle is important to Mowgli because he grew up there, but in the end he also realized that every boy has to leave their childhood and become a man.
Sean, why are you spreading lies? Mowgli DOES leave the jungle forever in the book. He became infatuated with a girl and realized that the jungle can never accommodate his human needs and as a result he reunited with Messua in a different village.
Ngl as someone who is part Native American (not sure by how much but more than 12%) I thought it was pretty offensive that Tiger Lily constantly speaks in her native language to people who clearly don’t understand her native language, it just makes us look dumb, I think it would’ve worked better if she only spoke in her native languages when she didn’t want the other characters to understand her, maybe as a way to speak in secret with Peter
Yeah, kind of like how Legolas spoke in elvish with Aragorn some scenes in LOTR, like when they're in Fangorn Forest, and at Helm's Deep when they didn't want the other Rohan soldiers to overhear them.
They can't piss off the poor native Americans..remember the 90's.😂 Don't want to be attached by PBS.
I liked the 2003 movie where she only spoke her native language, but she had a tribe so it made more sense
@@LukiKruki okay and? That doesn’t mean much when the character is shown to be fluent in English
I agree with you, though I do know some cases where one character only speaking in a different language can work without making the character seem dumb, and without having to have any other characters that understands what they're saying.
For example, in this play me and my friend made when we were little: there's a kid in the main protagonists school _(who's one of my favourite side characters :>)_ nicknamed by his peers as 'Kiwi' _(his real name is Kareem.)_
He's a class clown/class disruptor, who happens to be of west asian descent _(he was born in Sweden, where the stroy takes place, but his parents are originally from Kuwait - which allowed him to learn Arabic as his modersmål "mother language" in school)._
Anyways, he will jeer people _(the main caracters, as well as the school bully, for the most part)_ in arabic because he _knows_ he can get away with it!
What he says is relatively harmless, not like something suuper mean, cause he's like 13, but the teacher and the other students don't know what he's saying so he can't get in trouble for saying it _(and IF he did - I imagine that he'd be fully prepared to use the "race card" against the school, JUST CAUSE HE CAN. - ie - he's smart lol and willing to argue to get his way)_ Plus he's also a top student, and is acknowledged as such by the teacher, so that's another reason why he will not get in trouble.
He fully understands everyone else around him though and he can speak Swedish if he wants to, but he thinks it's funny that nobody understands him so he just doesn't - _he also gives himself bonus points for not being able to get in trouble for it ofcourse ;>._
*TLDR/* I think that can work ^ where you kinda know that a character is mostly speaking a different language to mock/joke around with people who don't understand said language, just cause the character think it's funny and know that they can get away with it. Where it's played off for comedic or annoying effect depending on how the audience sees it.
So less of a "Good" aligned character and more of a Chaotic neutral character.
Where they aren't necessarily seen as nice, but aren't necessarily seen as mean either.
Another example could be this animated series I just binged called "Murder drones" _(I highly recommend ittttt)_ there's this worker drone called 'Doll' who has thus far - only ever spoken in russian.
It works, cause it makes sense for a robot to be able to fluently speak a seemingly non-native language like that, and her speaking in russian just makes her incredibly intimidating - which is good, cause so far she's been a chaotic evil - you know that she is supposed to be feared.
Plus it's unclear wether the other characters understands what she's saying or not BUT it would make sense for other robots to be able to translate her on the go.
*TLDR/* I think that speaking a different language can benefit a character that is supposed to be seen as an intimidating, mysterious, force of chaotic evil.
I don't think it would work for a Good aligned character though. Cause really, the "good" thing to do - would be to allow everybody that you are talking with - to understand you, especially IF you can speak their language. Like why _would_ a "good" person purposefully talk in a language that they _know_ people around them can't understand?
A small, teeny tiny detail why I think Aladin is worse than u think it is:
In the animated original, where Jafar bring Aladin to the cave of wonders, he actually disguised as an old man, keeping his identity a secret. Aladin later went to the palace not knowing who Jafar is and Jafar vice versa not knowing Aladin is still alive. Jafar only realized it's Aladin when he came back alive after he planned to drown him. Aladin not knowing Jafar was behind all of it till after the lamp is taken.
In the live action, Jafar didn't use the disguise, making Aladin fully aware of Jafar when he arrived at the palace, knowing it's the guy who wanna kill him to take the lamp. Jafar also recognized Aladin soon later without any tests.
So it's kinda ruin the surprise and make Aladin look dumb for not taking any precautions knowing the danger.
This is all correct, but you mispelled Aladdin's name. It has 2 Ds in it.
Minor spelling mistake. I win
English isn't my mother tongue so my misspellings are justified, I still win
Wait, the old man was Jafar!? I haven’t watched Aladdin* in probably 15 years, but that Cave was my favorite place. Not even because of the gold and treasure. The. Enterence. Is. A. Tiger. A FUCKING. TIGER. How badass of an idea is that!?
As a big Peter Pan fan, it filled my heart with great joy watching Peter Pan and Wendy get torn to pieces by people who actually understood the story of Peter Pan.
Ariel saved Eric twice in the original movie, dude. Once where she saved him from drowning, and twice when she saved him from being blasted by Ursula, and killing off Flotsom and Jetsom instead. Hell, that's why Ursula turned giant and tried to kill her, as revenge for the death of her "babies". And Eric killing Ursula prived to Triton that not all humans are bad and that is why he turns Ariel into a human to be with him.
Fun fact: In the German dub of beauty and the beast someone else sang the songs from the normal actors, which makes me wonder, why didn’t they do that in the original English version too? It could have made it a lot better or at least more tolerable than what we ended up with.
Emma watson makes T Pain blush at how much autotune she needed
@@seasonembrace3624 yes I am talking about the remake.
I understand what you’re saying. In Hollywood though most actors/ actress are required to sing their own songs if they are cast as a lead. Otherwise, it was a bad casting decision & they shouldn’t have been chosen. I agree with you though that they should’ve cast better singers. Broadway is full of “triple threat” talent (meaning actor/ actress that can sing/ act/ dance)
@@scarletsletter4466 thanks for the info, I didn’t know that!
Because its probably cheaper to autotune emma than pay another person to sing a song
In the original, Ariel was already in love with the idea of being part of the human world before seeing Eric. She sang Part of Your World before she saw him!!
Walt Disney said, "If you can dream it, you can do it, and don't let anybody say you can't." This is my biggest dream goal of bringing the 2-D animated style from Disney once again, and I'll save Hollywood for stopping all this ridiculous madness.
That sounds wonderful! I believe You can do this! ❤
@Joanna Rojewska thank you very much.
@@joannarojewska2211 thanks for believing in me.
Cheers brother. Here's one for traditional animation
@@iandanielcassidy8126 You're welcome! ♥️ Don't worry and keep working! ✨
You forgot to mention that the girl playing Vanessa is apparently the only person in that movie who is actually expressive when she acts
Thank you for mentioning how amazing the Cinderella live action is
No problem!!
@@JUST-A-ROBOT-AKA-Jar :)
@@JUST-A-ROBOT-AKA-Jaryou rock dude. The 2015 Cinderella was one of the few best ones!
Correction, Ariel she didn’t go to the surface for Eric in the original, she goes to him immediately because the contract says she has to.
She has an entire ship full of books, studies and attempts to learn about human objects, and even says in her I Want song she wants to meet smart studious woman and not be reprimanded. She doesn’t even mention Eric the whole song.
Ariel isn’t a hopeless romantic, she’s a nerd
Edit:Had to fix so many typos
Honestly, OG Ariel is more relatable. She only goes to the surface because she wants to be with the people, a problem that I had growing up. She never wanted Eric’s love, he only grew on her.
Honestly, Disney is hypocritical. There is a whole page about their controversies.
The animated versions of Ariel, Belle, and Mulan we're all nerds, lol.
@@princessresilia6439 I imagine Ariel, Belle, and Rapunzel have a book club in the princess room.
Personally I think the remake did at least an OK job of capturing that she (and Eric) are both nerds. The scene in the study is a good example.
One thing I'd argue. Ariel in the original doesn't want to go to the human world just for love. She's obsessed with humans and has been for awhile, the prince was just the latest in a long line of temptations and her father destroying her collection was the inciting event to cause her to go to Ursula.
Ursula was always intended to be Tritons sister. They incorporated this into the stage production which this film should have been more inspired by. I'd have loved to have seen "I want the good times back" where Ursula sings about her banishment because she liked eating the castle subjects and inherited the magic shell from her father while Triton got his trident.
Now, I haven't seen the live action version and don't plan to, but how the hell does Eric not realize that Ariel is the one that saved him and not Vanessa (Ursula)? In the animated, the sun is behind Ariel, so her features aren't as easy to make out and her hair could be black from his perspective.
Wouldn't he immediately go "Waaaaaait...I was saved by a black woman. You don't resemble that description." It's literally the issue people claim is wrong with Cinderella (despite the fact in that one the king is the one that makes the demand about the slipper and says it's the prince's problem if it's not the right girl because he wants his son to get married so bad and the prince probably WOULD recognize her if he saw her, she just gave him no information of how to find her in the first place).
I agree too much with this comment. I thought this while watching the movie, she’s a completely different race from the woman that saved her, doesn’t even look slightly like her, how the hell could he mistake her for Ariel?
Ursula/Vanessa enchanted Eric using Ariel's voice to make him believe that she was the woman who saved him in the original. Eric snapped out of it when Scuttle and Ariel broke Vanessa's necklace, which broke the spell....not sure if they added that in the live action.
That is another reason why I think the raceswap makes no sense, especially since Vanessa wasn’t raceswapped as well. How you can mistake a black woman with rust colored dreadlock hair for a white woman with dark hair is beyond me.
@@Winterfly999 yeah they didn't make any indication that he was under a spell because he was still wondering where Ariel is
they could have raceswapped Vanessa as well to make Eric believe it was Ariel. Because if you look in the original, Vanessa oddly looks similar to Ariel.
The people who also said that Ariel’s skin color didn’t matter because she’s a mermaid in defense of Haile playing Ariel just attacked an artist on Twitter for drawing the original Ariel in a scene from the live action movie because, apparently what they did was Racist I’m not kidding. 💀 (I’m black btw)
Editing to address these in particular
1. Yes, I am black. Please stop assuming my race over a screen. I have no reason to cap about my ethnicity online .
2. I don’t speak for black people when I say it’s still messed up how people did all of that preaching about how Ariel’s skin color didn’t matter because she’s a “fictional creature/mermaid “ yet attacked an artist online and sent them threats for not only being Russian but for drawing a character from the ORIGINAL in a scene from the live action movie.
Bruh Halle needed to be cast as an original Disney Princess instead of a race swap, she needed a better role than that laziness
I'm black too and omg that's so hypocritical smh. And yeah her skin color does matter to them because what if they made Ariel some rainbow colored abomination. They would be upset over it
@@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375 she could’ve been Tiana. She has an amazing voice.
@@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375 She is an amazing singer and absolutely should have gotten her own character instead of playing a reboot of an already established one.
if the skin color didn't matter than why did they raceswap her then how will twitter respond to that
My grandmother always said, "I don't care what they told you in school, Disney was bland".
Lol what. Is this a meme that I'm too old to understand😭
@@shannonceleste5557 in the netflix cleopatra trailer there's this old woman telling that "i don't care what they told you in school, cleopatra was black" when cleopatra was greek so she wasn't lol
@@ElyushiAndyra2006 Cleopatra was the queen of Egypt. Wouldn’t that mean that she was Egyptian? So, wasn’t she middle eastern?
I legitimately started laughing at the last shot in the little mermaid remake because the sudden cut to Ariel’s dad just staring at at them looked so awkward, then the mermaids started to show up and that almost had me crying laughing because how horribly executed these shots were
Respectfully, your analysis of the original animated little mermaid was pretty off. Ariel didn't leave the sea "just for a man" and I can't believe people actually think that
Yeah didn’t think JAR would think that
I feel like people who think that misunderstand the movie
@@cheshirerose2001It’s honestly because he admits to taking most of his information from an old Lindsay Ellis video. Lindsay made a video recently basically saying how she had wronged Ariel so it’s strange that he didn’t watch that too?
@@Theravingranter TBH, I don’t watch Lindsay. I saw a few of her videos, but couldn’t get into it. Then, I heard that she goes kinda wacky on Twitter, and that gave me even more of a reason, lol.
Yeah she left because she wanted to “explore that shore up above”. Not for some guy. Eric was just someone she fell in love with after she expressed her want for a new life. It’s literally in the song
@@TheLucylola I suppose people just skip the pivotal song she sings in the grotto and only recall the “on the rock” scene where she changes it from being I wanna be part of THAT world to I want to be part of YOUR world. She wasn’t even going to become human until she was pressured to, she was going to try talking to him as a mermaid but she still would want to be human. Eric is just the sweetener. I don’t know why it’s such a sin now to have a romance be a part of your wants. Heaven forbid you fall in love!! The horror!
"Well, the people at Disney have a different thought process than Walt Disney when he started. He just wanted to have fun and tell stories for children... great imagination. People today want to rearrange everything and have nothing new to build on, and since they are not happy people, they can't make happy movies. I'm glad you recognize the differences being made. " Mentioned by my Grandma Georgia.
Your grandma is a whole W
@@JeffUni whole W?
@@iandanielcassidy8126 *Winner
@@RemixOfTheVoid OK, thank you
@@iandanielcassidy8126 👍🤝
The review YMS made on the Lion King 2019 is a masterpiece on UA-cam. Adum goes over the movie scene by scene where he shows how the 2019 version omits important information we would know about these characters and the way they interact. I’m dying for him to release part 2.
The Azure Moon route of Fire Emblem Three Houses was the better Lion King story that came out in the Summer of 2019!
Worth rewatching!
XD
Seen it he is good
I've been waiting for a part two of that review for a whole year :(
@@jorami4838 Dude give Adum time to recover from the tendinitis!
The live action 101 dalmations was so iconic for me as a child. Also I loved Maleficent and the Cinderella remakes. I felt they had so much more depth and character growth. I was sad that they didn't make the prince important at all though for Aurora's story :/
The “fall” of Disney live action remakes??? Since when did they ever even rise???
When they made tones of money
2 movies
Christopher robin
Brandy in Cinderella
@@JUST-A-ROBOT-AKA-Jar any human can make money
Reconnaissance era of Disney happened before all of this crap.
@@superspies32 Their talking about "live action remakes".
51:25 One thing I'll say is I think there was a misinterpretation with Ariel's motivation in the original. She doesn't sign herself away to be with Eric, she signs herself away because she has that deep fascination with human culture and Eric was a sort of "final push" for her, since that was her first interaction with these creatures (humans) that she has been fascinated with since she was a kid. I mean hell, "Part of Your World" doesn't mention love or romance at all and Eric is completely ignored. Her "I Want" song just talks about up where THEY walk, up where THEY run. I'll also say that Triton is the real focal character in the movie in his arc, POV characters don't have to be the defaulted story character, a lot of films do this and Little Mermaid is one of them. I will say Ariel is a bit static, I just think there's more to her than people like to make it seem and there's more purpose behind it than the writers being lazy.
I find it funny that you got that opinion from Lindsay Ellis tho considering her video "Reevaluating The Little Mermaid before Disney horks up another live action remake" (which is the video that you screengrabbed by the way, I thought I was crazy but it's definitely that video that is only a year old) flies against most of those points and is more up to date but whatevah
Also as others have pointed out, ''Part of your world'' is sung before she meets Eric. The reprise of the song is sung when she actually saves Eric, and again the lyrics show Ariel continues wanting to live and experience the lives of humans, just this time she wants to do these things with her crush.
( Lyrics change to ''Where would WE walk, where would WE run, where would WE stay all day in the sun.... etc)
My biggest issue with these remakes is the visuals. The lack of light and color makes it come off as cold and sterile , in comparison with the originals which are bright and vibrant with colors.
As I’ve been saying lately, Disney, where is the Japanese Snow White remake with dwarf Yokai and Snow becoming the embodiment of Snow(Yukionna) to defeat the witch or the anime-inspired Princess Oichi movie where she saves her almost Christlike brother Nobunaga from becoming a monstrous demon(kinda like Rourke from Atlantis) giving us our first Japanese princess.
Your comment was wild lol
yknow, id actually watch that
Make them speak in a mix german-japanese.
Well, iirc we'll be getting a latina Snowwhite who doesn't need a man to save her life.
@@snoozebutton9996 she's "so excited to play a Latina princess" too, from what I remember 🙃
The Cinderella live action from 2015 was amazing. It actually made me feel the "magic" I felt watching the original. It was amazing.
EXACTLY! Let’s thank the director of that film
Couldn't agree more! and I love they give the prince personality too.. the movie is so perfectly balanced
fun fact: in the original Little Mermaid Ursula was supposed to be King Tritans sister. but the seen for the Evidence for them to be siblings was deleted because I don't know why it was deleted most likely for run time
At least the stage show acknowledged Ursula being Ariel’s paternal aunt.
In defense of Disney's original Cinderella, the Stepmother does start to recognize Cinderella but the King's advisor pulls a curtain down to give Cinderella and the Prince privacy and prevented her from snooping more. Much of the time Cinderella was also in an area darker than the rest of the castle and dancing. She had also had a huge makeover with a new dress she couldn't possibly afford. To top it all off the last time they saw her she was in a dress that had been ripped to shreds. Under those circumstances, it isn't surprising she wasn't recognized right away.
Edit. I wrote the prior before finishing the video, my bad. You really didn't notice that Ariel was in love with the human world in the original animated movie long before Eric? Eric was a bonus and not her main motivation. The entire Part of That World song is all about how much Ariel loves the human world and wants to visit it and learn about it. Ariel only went to Ursula at all because Triton destroyed everything she had from the human world. She was already planning on trying to meet up with Eric without Ursula's involvement and had a decent plan set up too. She was at the castle because she was found by Eric and clearly didn't have the ability to live on her own. They gave her clothes because she didn't have any. Eric might be a bit dense in not realizing who she is but he's not heartless. Triton is indeed the character with the most character development and that is the point of the movie. It is a warning to parents about how being prejudiced and overly strict can drive their children to take drastic measures and get taken advantage of. Ariel also does learn how bad what she did was. You can hear the regret, anger, and despair in her voice when Triton takes her place. She does still get what she wants because she and Eric proved to Triton that humans aren't the monsters he thought they were and that she really loved him.
@@princessresilia6439 Cinderella was too nice/submissive due to a coping mechanism called fawning. It's actually a bad and even dangerous thing to be too nice. It's not commonly realized to be a flaw but that doesn't mean it isn't one.
A lot of Disney Princesses aren't particularly good with social skills. Ariel and Belle were also obsessed with stuff that made them effectively shunned by the people they lived near. I found many of them very relatable. My social skills are not great either in large part due to my autism, so it's not too surprising I felt that way about them.
@@princessresilia6439 She was the better person in the scenario going with "the best revenge is a life well-lived". She was definitely sarcastic but never to her stepmother or stepsisters directly that I can recall. At best, she did so under her breath.
I didn't watch Snow white very much because we didn't have it but she was very optimistic and a better role model* than many will admit. Belle is just a great character all around. Ariel, Belle, and Mulan are my top three Disney Princesses, and in that order.
*The attacks on so many Disney Princesses show a fundamental misunderstanding of the characters. They also tend to be rooted in rather toxic ideas of what a woman should be. Being traditionally feminine isn't bad even if some traditional ideas weren't great.
As for Peter Pan: I recommed you all watch the 2003 life action. It's the most magical version you'll ever see and is without any offensive stuff
That was a real good one people should see that one.
I do believe in fairies! I do! I Do!
See, here's the problem with Disney's strong women in the remakes. They're incredibly WEAK.
Mulan isn't a strong woman because she's intelligent, or unique, or determined to be just as strong as any man. She's a strong woman because she's MAGICAL.
Yeah, that's a real good message to send to little girls. "You too can be just as strong as Mulan - if you have magical powers. But not just any magical powers - in order for a woman to be strong, she needs her magical powers to be the best of the best. Intelligence, individuality, determination? That's nothing, because MAGIC."
Thanks to the Panderstone, people can publicly say that Activism is a bad thing.
it's especially atrocious compared to the message of the animated mulan. it showed her putting in hard work, her best effort, and succeeding as well as earning respect. replacing that with magic is honestly just lame.
So. As a person who really did not know how ingrained my life was with The Little Mermaid. I am a 90s kid. I dunno when i saw it but i remember my mom sewing me a hand made Sebastian costume when i was very little. I saw the movie inn i believe 1997 when Disney re-released it in theaters at the largest screen in syracuse. I was in highschool and we played the Fantasmic show with the little Mermaid in the mid point in the ,arch and halftime show at football games. My favorite character is Sebastian and Chef Loius (rest in peace René Auberjonois. You will always be Odo and Hugo Miller) The new TLM is such inane garbage and filled woth crap liek that scuttle song just... it messes with me when you learn in your later years such a short movie meant a lot to you growing up. ALso animated Sebastian was such a wingman.
Arthur as a woman worked out pretty well for the "Fate" series though 😅
Ah shit good point 😂
I almost comment this same thing lmao
Merlin was made female in NNT/7DS (although her "true" form is a loli).
he literally said it on the video as well
(haven't seen fate, but he said that there was a reason tho) (and even if there wasn't it's made with a base of a gacha game, so waifus sell)
He literally says in the video that there was a purpose for it, point being Disney would just make Arthur a woman for legitimately no reason
Disney remakes another movie:
Fans: WHY!!!
Mickey: Money!
Mickey: We've got to have *MONEY*
I think the point of Mowgli not going to the human village is part of the message that “Family isn’t just people who look like you but people you love being around”. I think it’s a good message, especially for kids who were adopted.
Except it doesn't work. Why? Because the jungle can never accommodate his human needs nor can it nurture his potential. It literally has nothing to offer him but misery and loneliness. By having him stay in the jungle, you are basically saying that he never has to grow up. It's like if Wendy stayed in Neverland.
@@vetarlittorf1807 Yet Tarzan turned out fine and it had the same message. I still think it’s a good message and it speaks to people who have been adopted and have identity issues or don’t know which family is their true family. Also Mowgli will get stronger and have better instincts in the jungle, just like Tarzan.
Also Wendy’s story and Mowgli’s story is completely different cause Wendy knows who her parents are. So your example doesn’t make sense. A better example is whether the lost boys should leave neverland or not?
@@GunthersLoyalSoldier1307 No. The Wendy comparison makes perfect sense because Neverland and the Jungle represent childhood. Mowgli staying in the jungle is basically saying that he'll never grow up.
And the Tarzan comparison doesn't make sense. Because in the books, he did end up in civilization and in the Disney version he only stayed because he had to honor Kerchak's dying wish.
And what makes you think Mowgli will get stronger and more instinctual? And how does him staying in the jungle speak to people who were adopted? Because being a feral child is not a case of normal adoption. Mowgli doesn't belong in the jungle because the jungle cannot accommodate his human needs. In the jungle, he will never be able to mate, he will never be able to develop emotionally, no one will be able to relate to him, he will never be able to experience socialization, he will be miserable because he'll outlive all his friends and family by many many decades, he'll be denied basic natural human traits like civility, introspection, transcendence and productivity and he'll grow up emotionally stagnant, confused and lonely.
He has no future in the jungle. He's not built for it. It's not in his nature to be cut off from humanity.
So why should he stay in the jungle just because he was raised in it? Why should he be denied prosperity for the sake of his short-term comfort zone? Heck, he doesn't even get to meet the love of his life.
@@vetarlittorf1807 Idiot, Wendy still has her parents while Mowgli doesn’t. Wendy staying at neverland would make no sense cause she has no connection to neverland like Mowgli does with the jungle. Also you can’t use the books cause the books and movies are different, Tarzan is an amazing movie and he grew up strong. The same message was in both movies and they’re good messages. I’m not saying everyone should live in the jungle, I’m saying family is where the heart is. Also what love of his life? He left his friends behind because of his hormones XD yeah, fuck friendship and get some ass! Great message! Or “it’s better to stay with people who look like you and you have no connection to them” perfect!
The message of the live action Jungle book is that family and home is where the heart is. That speaks to people who have been adopted, I’m not saying they should be a feral child, I’m saying kids who have been adopted will see that family is who you love and not people who look like you or have the same blood as you.
If we’re gonna go down the rabbit hole of “Well, this is what’s gonna happen after the ending” then you might as well believe all classic Disney movies suck.
@@vetarlittorf1807 To be fair, in the original story I'm pretty sure he wasn't even accepted in the man village either. It was meant to be an insight to the author's feelings that he doesn't belong anywhere.
I almost burst out laughing when you repeatedly called Triton Trident. I actually like that they returned Ursula being Triton's sister (I think it was that way in the original story pre Disney?). And them being not of the same species per se is not that strange. Triton is the son of Poseidon, and guess who is also the son of Poseidon; Pegasus! Triton is siblings with a flying horse. An octopus is not that big of a stretch then. Anyway, great video!
If there’s any movie I would DESPISE being remade into live action would be Treasure Planet.
THAT MOVIE IS TO REMAIN **UNTOUCHED**!!! Disney doesn’t even deserve to remake it in ANY way… Damn. The very thought of that happening makes me unreasonably angry…
Ariel always wanted to be in the human world because she didn’t feel like she fit in her own which is the whole point of the song Part of your world. Prince Erik is what made it even more enticing, heck she even thought about going to Eric as a mermaid but Sebastian stopped her and we get the Under The Sea song. what set her off was when Triton destroyed all of her collection that she most likely took years to gather all of it and risked her life for, only for it to be gone way quicker than it took to get them. then once she was at her most vulnerable Ursula and her eels took advantage of her at her most lowest point. Eric was down to earth person as shown him wearing peasant clothes, him not liking the statue, and he spent time in the village but he’s also a hopeless romantic and a good person an Ariel blowing the cigar dust in the old guys face which caused Eric to chuckle, one of the servants mentioned that it was the first time Eric gave a genuine smile in weeks when Ariel was taken by Ursula Eric dove in to save her even giving Ursula a cut by throwing a dagger at her and when he went up to get air the eels grabbed him and Ursula was about to blast him if Ariel didn’t yank on Ursula’s hair causing her to miss Eric
She saved Erik twice which the second one killed the eels and that caused Ursula to go in a blind rage and target her but due to this it left Ursula vulnerable and Erik took advantage of it which also showed Triton that not all humans are bad when he witnessed Eric saving Ariel
Pinocchio reviving Gepetto with his tears was also in Pokémon: The First Movie
It's one thing to rip-off your own animated movies that made you household name, but now Disney is ripping movies that arguably weren't even movies.
How is Mewtwo's Revenge not a movie?
@ In the eyes of the parents that were forced by their kids to see it and the people from Japan that made it, it was just another commerical for the games disgused as a feature film.
Not that it doesn't have any value in terms of story, characters, and themes, but still.
They actually did plan to make a Live Action Version of The Sword and the Stone but it got never made. Personally I don´t think it would work because The Sword and the Stone is one of the cartoonier Disney Movies (and you just know that if they remade it nowadays all of the Animals would look uncanny). The Black Cauldron on the other Hand could work really well as a Remake if it had a good Script
Thats just nonsense. We have had decades of cartooney looking cgi or realistic looking cgi working just fine with real characters. This uncanny weird realistic nonsense literally just comes from this company and their live remakes.
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 I am not saying that it´s impossible to make CGI look cartoony. What I meant to say is that if they were to remake The Sword and the Stone they would make all the Animals hyperrealistic like they have done before
@@entityontheinternet oh yeah for real, they would and i really don't understand why because they don't have to and it looks awful
Two minor things about The Little Mermaid: (1) Ursula was the King’s sister in Disney’s animation but the lines referencing the relationship were cut, and (2) The Little Mermaid was taken in via the palace in the original story.
Mulan doesn't need actual powers, the point of the story is she is powerless but because of her hardship and determination she could save all china, giving her actual super powers just decreasing her actual empowerment since she doesn't have anything to worry about
And if you simply have an issue with these Disney live action movies, you are the problem and then get hit with labels.
Yep the typical isct phobe labels
Typical corrupted company
"Yeah, I don't like the remake of the lion king. It isn't even live action and they nerfed scars song."
'Well, fuck you. You're the problem.'
"..?"
'Racist.'
"HOW?!"
@@crumbsfor they nerfed Scar's regular voice to.
"They gonna call you names, label you as bad or evil till you're ashamed" Tom MacDonald
Hot take: I loved the live action 101 Dalmatians. This was before Disney's quality became a big hit or miss and before they became that kind of company with their live action remakes. I also admit that I wasn't aware it was a remake until the House of Mouse made me aware of it. Anyone remember that show?
I actually forgot it was a show, i still have the DVD for the villain takeover movie somewhere
2D animation will never die off. In fact, in recent years, it has only gotten more popular than CGI animation. There is a way to save Disney, but it requires patience and determination to take back the magic of the company. I hope I can succeed in the end.
Re: Beauty and the Beast origin story. Not only is the "enchantress" horrible, but the prince was an 11 year old kid - who had apparently been left home alone. What prince opens his own door? I mean, he skips that whole awkward teenage phase of his life, but he's set to die on his 21st birthday if he can't break the spell. What a gal!
In Madame de Villeneuve’s version of Beauty and the Beast, his mother was a warrior, and he was raised by a fairy (whom, even the warrior queen was afraid of) , and, he was cursed because he didn’t want to marry someone who practically raised him; he was basically the victim.
To give ONE TINY POINT to the live action Mermaid, sailors of the past were absolute trigger hungry jerks.
I mean there's accounts of a HUGE sea serpet swimming by a large ship around 1818, and did nothing but swim past the boat. The boat immediately opened fire on the poor thing, and it was never seen again.
As much as I liked the movie personally, It also bothered me back that a really gentle and kind fairy would be called ‘Maleficent’
I would have thought it was the Kingdom that dubbed her as ‘Maleficent’ because they saw her as a literal Demon or something 😅
It would have been amazing if they called her “Beneficent” and then as she became darker, more twisted more evil in their eyes she had a Sweeney Todd moment and was like “No that part of me is dead. If they want me to be the villain…a villain I shall be.”
@@Theravingranter That should’ve been so tragic, it’s clever. Like, it almost seems like it might’ve fleshed out of her character a bit.
1:34 YES! I've always hated how company choose the worst possible thing to adapt to live action like there are tons of animated things that could work better in live action but instead they go for things which are popular/nostalgic, but they they don't take in consideration what they lose when they transition from animation to live action especially if what they are adapting is highly stylized which most animated movies are. Removing the animation from an animed movie strip it of vibe and aesthetic and doing this could work if the live action adaptation replaces what was lost with new and unique things which could work in live action and help the adaptation stand on its own, but sadly most adaptions of animation is usal just a retaling of the story minus the animation. This basically leaves you with a blend and soulless cash grab and you would've had a better time just rewatching the orinal movie,but that's mainly because they were attempting things which heavily rely on animation like the loin King or the little mermaid a lot of the non human characters worked in the originals because they were animated and created for that with that in mind Hansen why they look so soul less in live action but somthing that would adult benefit from.being in live action would be somthing like Atlantis the Lost Treasure or Treasure Planet because even tho they are animed movie they aculy don't relie on animation all that much and plus treasure planet is basically pirate star wars lol
I personally really like the live action 101 Dalmations. Sure, it's nothing groundbreaking or particularly different from the original, but I like how they fleshed out Roger and Anita, making them as involved in the plot as their dogs, the addition of the Skinner was pretty dark for a kids' movie, and Jasper and Horace balanced it out by being hilarious. Also, Glenn Close absolutely kills it as Cruella. The main reason why I like it, however, is because it was made with a completely different mindset from the post-Cinderella remakes: it wasn't a soulless cash-grab made to mine on nostalgia, because... who WAS nostalgic for the original at the time? They were just experimenting with the idea of remaking one of their movies in another medium, and didn't try it with any other movie.
Honestly it has that 90s charm at points that no movie today can replicate
@@dabatman5187
I agree. It was a simpler time, when companies didn't try to revitalize old brands just to stay relevant.
Moral of the story: DON'T TRY TO FIX WHAT ISN'T BROKEN. Honestly...
The reason why the Mulan movie sucked is because they remove mushu
You know the dragon
Hi, sorry to parrot what alot of people have said in the comments, and I understand the movie was only "good" to you, but this part of the video definitely rubbed me the wrong way:
Ariel did not want to go to the human world for a boy. She already had a deep love and interest in the human world that was established at the beginning of the movie where Ariel is shown to explore sunken ships to find human "treasure" to collect and take back to her secret grotto that is just FULL of stuff from the world above. Ariel is shown to be reckless and impulsive doing this cause she almost got eaten by a shark alongside Flounder just to collect trash to her collection, yet that trash is important to her. She has a deep desire and dream to be part of their world, hence the song "Part of your World", its Ariel singing about how much she wants and desires to be part of the human world, how she's sad and miserable cause no one understands her and at worse there's her father. Triton angrily telling Ariel how humans are dangerous and so on, which is why Ariel keeps her grotto a secret cause literally NO ONE will understand her love for the human world.
Eric is just a bonus to the human world for her, also Ariel still didn't want to become human just for a boy. Before the Under the Sea section Ariel was talking about how she was going to meet with Eric again as a mermaid, saying she'll swim up to her castle and Flounder will splash around to get his attention. It was Ursula that planted the idea of Ariel becoming human to meet Eric, she sweet talked and manipulated her when she was very vulnerable after Triton destroyed her secret grotto in rage after learning Ariel was in love with a human. Ariel actually didn't go initially as she already knew who Ursula was, telling the eels to leave her alone, the temptation and desire to see Eric after what you can say was a very traumatic experience put Ariel in situation that Ursula could exploit for her own selfish gain.
Let's not forget, Ariel is 16 years old. She's not dumb, just a naive, reckless, and impulsive teenager who has a very overprotective father that would not support her interests and passion about her collection, which makes her life miserable as she feels all alone. It was even brought up again by Sebastian after Ariel became human when he talked about her backing out of the plan.
Sorry this went on too long, but I am so tired and annoyed of the whole "She became human just for a guy" thing when that WASN'T the sole reason why.
THANKS for deflection Ariel? Yah it annoyed me when ppl complained about her personality traits like she’s a TEEN
"Admit it, you forgot they made a live action version of this." (Dumbo)
Sorry to say JAR, but no I didn't, because I never knew they made one until you just now told me about it.
If live action Lilo and Stitch happens I will never watch another Disney movie again.
Okay Maleficent dispute it's flaws is still one of the better Disney remakes because it actually did something different. It didn't just copy the same story unlike the others and was pretty cool. All the other remake just rehash the same story making them pointless. The live action lion King is so dul and soulless
Not to mention that the posters for pinnochio said, and i quote, "All he wants is human flesh" Disney what were you on?
The funny thing about actual animals? They CAN emote and express their emotions quite well... but the CGI lion king staff just completely forgot about that.
101 Dalmatians was deliberately the same, but in live action.
Disney has fallen so far it's not funny... then it loops back to being funny again, then it just becomes sad.
Hook (the movie) was also good.
Can confirm... if something bad happens, previously happy memories can become bittersweet or painful at best. Hook was probably miserable and lost all hope
>.> Adaptation! A-dap-ta-tion! Otherwise, much fun and insight. Bashing the Rat is almost a spectator sport now.
EDIT: Fun fact, live action Sebastian is a LAND DWELLING CRAB.
John Favreau did a pretty good job with Prehistoric Planet. Easily the best depiction of dinosaurs since the og jurassic park back in the 90s.
Well, 101 Dalmatians used actual dogs back in 1996/2000. Which can emote quite well as you pointed out. It's sad that Stuart Little from 1999 has better CGI that Any of the newer Disney "live action" soulless cash grabs.
You mentioned Hook!!! My millennial heart is so happy! I still think that movie has the best depiction of the lost boys and how wild and rowdy they are and I love them so much.
The scuttlebutt still haunts me in my nightmares
Adaption. Adaptation. Not the same thing.
"Why would Ariel sing along?!" Well, in Kingdom Hearts 2, Ariel actually sang along with Sora and Sebastian in it. It started as Sora and Sebastian with it still playing the same, but then somewhere along Ariel joins in. And as for Ursula, yeah they've brought it up in the original story that she and tritan were related or something like that. I know that in the Little Mermaid Broadway they brought it up so...
Here, it’s contradictory. Kingdom Hearts II takes after the one-to-one retread of the first movie, and by then Ariel should’ve gotten a child already, but never did.
They’re making remakes we the audience haven’t asked for. We are perfectly satisfied with the animated versions. There is no demand for live action remakes. We just want new, original content.
IKR? It's no wonder finding a needle in a haystack isn't a term that's used very lightly these days!
I looked at the rotten tomatoes reviews for little mermaid and some of them look fake as the flat earth theory
(Verbatim what they said
(This one’s my favorite) 1: I love it and Ariel get her voice back
2: I enjoyed the movie
3: Great movie! Beautiful to watch!
4: this was amazing. Loved it.
Either those are bots, or actual people trying to just inflate the score
But somehow RT is unreliable solely because of review bombing--no one makes fake good reviews, nor are bad reviews ever purged for no good reason!
@@dabatman5187 on that site I could believe either
I’m not saying Disney live action remakes are bad (on paper) but the problem is Disney could have added more time and effort when it comes to their live action remakes, Hell, there’s rumors going around that they’re remaking hunchback of Notre Dom. They could have an opportunity to make it look like the Broadway musical(yes, Disney did make a Broadway musical of hunchback of Notre Dame, which is dark as hell BTW) but Disney being Disney are probably not gonna put any time and effort to it.
Yes! I would like to see a film adaptation of the stage version
Loved that version
"why is there so little color in this peter pan movie?"
this is basically my problem with all the live action adaptations I saw. Which... are not that many, honestly, but still.
it is like the time videogames tried to make their locations look realistic by making everything in tones of brown or grey, even the grass being a muted green to fit, and with a lot of bloom
just they make everything dark and without many colors instead.
I mean, look at scenes from Hook, that you yourself mentioned (which is still valid by the way, since in Peter Pan 2 they kidnap Wendy's daughter, leaving the brother behind, and in Hook he ends up marrying her GRANDdaughter so no retcon needed)
Yes, most of it was not very colorful, but it was not just because it is real people. It has a purpose there - a purpose that becomes very clear during the food fight scene. Things are so colorless because most people lack imagination and happiness. Or rather Peter, from whose eyes we see everything, sees most things in bland colors save for, for example, the Lost Boys' clothes. But as soon as he starts the food fight he is able to see it all, and WE see that the food is as colorful as a rainbow, and the food fight covers everyone there in those colors.
Now take the message that passes forward, and consider how lifeless the Lion King is despite the "realistic graphics" - look at how they massacred I Can't Wait to Be King and Be Prepared.
Things like this makes me think that those filmakers basically never go outside the concrete-filled cities.
50:13 In the original Hans Christian Andersen story, the Mermaid did not get what she wanted. She turned into foam at the end and the Prince married someone else whom he thought saved his life
a lot of them have their own issues but for me the overarcing issue with the remakes is that theyre too realistic. like i think the lion king animals, the jungle book animals, and sebastian and flounder (examples off the top of my head) wouldve been waay more interesting if they were 3d cgi versions of their cartoon versions and not just the real life animals with voices.
But they ARE 3d cgi versions of their og designs? Did you actually think those were real animals?
@@angelic252 i mean like what the chip and dale movie did yknow
@@angelic252 they went for realism instead of stylization, which they didn't have the budget for realism/talent/skill, because Sebastian and flounder look awful.
Alvin and the Chipmunks did it waaaayyy better and way earlier.
@@Cardinal_claw ye
Y’know every main character in Peter Pan has been heroic and villainous in some version of the story at this point, except Wendy and maybe Tiger Lily. I kinda wanna see what a version where Wendy’s the villain now.
I feel like I remember a song series about that?
Edit: The Wendy trilogy!
So yaknow how they made that live action peter pan and tried to make Wendy a strong independent woman?
Yeah, they already did that, but better in the animated sequel "Peter Pan: Return to Neverland" where instead of Wendy its her daughter Jane who's been growing up during one of the world wars and has become cynical
Captian Hook kidnaps her thinking she's Wendy, and she tries to find a way back home
Its a great movie i watched it a lot growing up
For the Peter Pan movie they should have just gotten permission to use the Lost boys version. Evil Peter might just be my favorite because it really shows how messed up Peter is. Although, they probably would have messed that up too.
Ariel didn't become human just to meet with Eric. Please, that misconsception needs to die finally. She becomes human to spite her father after he destroyed her collection. She's been singing about wanting to be a human before she even knew Eric existed. She doesn't go to Ursula after she meets Eric either. She only goes after her dad destroys everything she painstakingly gathered over years in her own little safe spot she made for herself to enjoy the things she likes. By the end of the movie, she's ready to stay in the sea, even though she will be suffering, because she knows doing things with no consideration of the rules in place is a bad thing. Sure, it's never explicitly stated, but it doesn't have to be. She goes through even MORE development in the sequel when she realizes that cutting off either side of her completely is wrong and damaging and she can have a balance between being human and mermaid.
Edit: The ending also isn't just reversing roles, it's also erasing a whole part of the confrontation where Ariel and Eric repeatedly save each other, all in view of Triton, which then later explains why he shows respect to Eric at the wedding.
Oh my goodness and don't even start about Cinderella and Snow White! They are abuse victims! They can't exactly go up to their abusers and break themselves out of the house. Ffs, those movies aren't about making a big statement, they're about staying strong and positive in the face of adversity. They're about someone loving you even when you don't have the power to save yourself. They are about the hope at the end of the road. Can we PLEASE stop dissing old classical stories because we don't understand the messaging?
This is what happens when people listen to unfunny internet websites that misinformed the people about negative implications of Disney movies. Ariel wasn't a simp, Eric was a unique Disney Prince
These people insist that Belle suffered Stockholm Syndrome without knowing what they're talking about.
Treasure Planet is a gem, and doesn't need a makeover.
Same! It's my second favorite Disney movie!!
It's not even just animated movies nowadays, but there are also a lot of other movies, including an unnecessary or destroying continuation of franchises.
"Why did they allow Ariel in the palace?"
Well, in the past people were much more social and allowing people to stay as guests much more common and unrestricted. It was not uncommon for near-strangers to stay over for days. Part of this was do to the comparative difficulty of transportation. People may have to wait out a storm and then for the dirt roads to dry at the first available building and most people would be accommodating. It is more than likely that the palace has some guest rooms and Eric was being only a little generous for the time.
The ultimate irony of The Little Mermaid remake is that Flounder’s VA was already in a better adaptation of the original The Little Mermaid:
Luca
Hell, One Piece’s Fishman Island Arc was a better adaptation than that piece of garbage
47:24 What have they done to Stitch. He isn't fluffy
Even in The Little Mermaid Ariel saved Eric a bunch of times before he saved her in the climax. I’m guessing there’s no way in Hell they let him do that in the live action one.
No, Eric does save Ariel in the remake as well.
Really that's not what Ryan George says.@@ApolloXL5
@@ApolloXL5proof?
@@ApolloXL5 really? Then my eyes were just playing tricks on me when I see fake-ariel stole Eric's role and somehow drove a ship without any sailing knowledge, human common sense and legs.
@@polker8380 Eric still swam down to free Ariel from Ursula like in the original.
I am not saying she did not kill Ursula in this remake.
Jokes aside though, a live action adaptation of Black Caludron would be sick as hell if it was actually made by a company that wasn't completely souless.
I love the part when you said the word "bland" and immediately showed the expressionless face of Emma Watson, the blandest actress that ever existed
uh...in the animated Little Mermaid she was in love with human world BEFORE meeting Eric. This is not something that the live action changed. This was already in there. She sang part of your world BEFORE seeing Eric for the first time. She was a teen in hormones and fell in love with Eric extremely quickly in the animated version, yes. But! she actually did have more desires and life goals than just to get married. She wanted to study, to learn new cultures, she wanted to leave her home way before even knowing he existed. He ended up being nothing happy coincidence and a mean to an end that she already desired. Plus, as some comments have said already here and I had forgotten, she went to him partially because the contract compelled her to. If she didn't go to him she would belong to Ursula forever. She would be bound to the sea forever with no way out. She HAD to be with him at that point, regardless if she had changed her mind already or not.
Without understanding this, sadly, the analysis of that one movie just...meh. smh.
15:08 Oh, DUDE, Maleficent 'earning' that name would've been awesome- maybe humans could give her that name after painting her as evil. You could still have the 'misunderstood antagonist' angle that way as well if you *really* want to take that route!
It still baffles me that people think og Ariel only took Ursulas deal "to get a boy".
Girl was alredy in love with the human world before that! Seeing Eric and crushing on him was just the last domino piece, and Triton destroying her stuff was what coused the pieces to fall.
Her wanting to be human was just the result of years and years of obsession and pining for the human world!
Once again glad to see the Cinderella live action getting the appreciation it deserves ^^
It wasn’t a remake so I couldn’t have it on the list.
@@JUST-A-ROBOT-AKA-Jar *fair point*
@@JUST-A-ROBOT-AKA-Jarcan you try write the essay about fate stay night king Arthur
In all honesty jar the part where triton and Ursula being siblings was supposed to be in the original but was cut .
And if the movie itself wasn't awful it could have given more weight and energy to why ursula wanted the throne so much especially if they made her the older sister . Jealousy and Anger at being passed over for using dark magic or doing something extremely bad.
And if Ursula revealed to Ariel that they were related and used that as the reason she wanted to help her niece with achieving her dream would have added a greater sense of betrayal .
- 'The Black Cauldron'
- 'I made that?'
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Gilbert Gottfried's Iago is one of the best things about Aladdin. How dare you!
Gilbert Gottfried hate WILL NOT BE TOLORATED!
Ok seriously tho, I didn’t even know Gilbert Gottfried was possibly to hate
People with distinctive voices often get a lot of hate for it. Which is understandable, if you really hate the sound of their voice.
I think since 2017 the live action remakes started getting out of hand. And I don’t understand how my sister genuinely likes the Mulan one defending it seriously
Gnosticis
Because she's a kid (is she?) and doesn't understand the real meaning behind the cartoon one?
@@LukiKruki Yes but she's only 2 years younger than me, 14
For Pride Month, Disney should start taking Howard Ashman's advice
My daughter and her friends really really wanted to watch the live action Little Mermaid. So I took them. They liked it, but some parts were boring to them and they ended up just chatting during the whole movie and then kept asking to go to the arcade. They said they liked it but I honestly don’t think they really watched it lol
I like how you didn’t review the “live” action Lion King because it’s not live action also Arial didn’t give up her legs just for some man in the original movie, it’s shown that she was already in love with the surface world long before she fell in love Eric and the reason she is ultimately pushed into giving up her voice isn’t because she’s in love with Eric but because her dad destroys her collection of stuff from the surface