The Little Mermaid Movie Review - It Gave Me Crabs
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- This is the only The Little Mermaid (2023) movie review you need to see. From a grown man, going alone to watch Ariel and friends frolick around under the sea for a couple of hours, wondering where his life went wrong. This newest "live-action" Disney remake is pretty much on par with The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and the rest. Halle Bailey is really strong but the fugly visuals and hodge-podge of music slow things down a lot. Also Scuttle is absolute trash. These movies are pointless but young kids and parents don't seem to mind.
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Narrated by: Adam Olinger
Edited by: Adam Olinger
Thank you for not shilling for Disney. We are all so sick of this Disney Era..
Over the years, I've really begun to examine the fundamental differences between animation and live-action movies. The only thing I'll say in regards to Disney's live-action remakes (aside from the animated originals not needing remakes in the first place) is that sometimes, a story can only be told well in one medium. And the majority of Disney's animated classics fall into that classification
I disagree with that live action can't work, but Disney has done a very poor job at doing it. Mulan could've work as a live action but they decided to change it in the worst way possible, Mulan was strong mentally and won her battles through strategy and now in the live action she's strong because of magic.
Mulan, pocahontas, Tarzan, Disney already did a live action jungle book back in the 90s and it was good.
@@nelsonrivera5287 It's true enough that bad writing is bad writing, regardless of the medium. But this raises another question - why are these getting remade at all? They are literally referred to as classics! In my opinion, I would be way more impressed if they took a movie that originally performed poorly and remade it. Which is honestly is how movie remakes SHOULD work
Money is the game, The Little Mermaid is popular and despite the criticisms many are talking about this movie. When one side hates something, the other side will go support it. We seen this with Joker. Many on the right felt the left were hating on straight white men, so they flocked to support the movie. It's all a win for Hollywood. Drama sells. Captain Marvel also made a billion. They even gave Brie Larson a ton of publicity. They will keep making Batman, Superman and Spider man forever because it sells. These companies don't care about culture wars, just money and publicity.
@@kicknowledgesmith8608 exactly
@@kicknowledgesmith8608 I disagree.
And just looking at ESG score style politics one can see that money won't be made (from audiences) by filming these kind of political pieces, but they film them anyway.
In the case of this mermaid film, they will lose something like 100- 150 million dollars on the film.
That's AFTER countless failures. This is ideology, not money driven... that said, there is a money motivation. A 250 million dollar production budget before advertising for a film that looks like a cut scene from a video game screams money laundering.
Somebody made a lot of money off of this, but it didn't come from ticket sales, it was channeled through the budget and will likely be eritten off of taxes after the movie finishes bombing
'The Little Mermaid' live-action movie gave you crabs, Adam? You got off easy then because the live-action remake of 'The Lion King' gave me Ebola...and rabies. ;)
The lion king was the least shitty of these tho lol
@@JohnnyNada I wouldn't know since I never saw it and I prefer the animated classics and just don't want to see the live-action remakes. :)
My 10 year old retained a passing interest in this until I told her they were changing the lyrics in "Poor Unfortunate Souls." She loves that song with a passion, regularly walks around the house belting it oout, and that was the end of her wanting to see it.
The lies
@@kennethrosario6706 the ones by the people claiming this is a good movie and better than the original? Yes, they are terrible lies. If you're talking about my daughter deciding she doesn't want to see the character assassination of frankly everyone in the film, I don't know why you'd think I'm lying. She's never been particularly interested in any of the live action remakes (she's more into anime, live action doesn't really do it for her, especially not when it's over 2 hours long), but her opinion of the live action remakes has certainly soured since I told her they removed all the songs from Mulan, her *favorite* Disney movie, and swapped out Shang.
Akwafina, keeps getting roles, because she’s Asian. Her voice is basically, nails on chalkboard for me, and the Scuttle “rap” in the “film,” is one of the worst things about about it. Also, she almost single-handedly *ruined* the film, Renfield, where she was once again, terribly miscast as a police officer.
If they put in someone who could act, that wouldn't be stunning and brave, and it wouldn't meet DEI goals. Talent or intelligence or good writing has NOTHING to do with how they make decisions now... and... it's for the best, I can't wait until all white people are swapped out of 100% of all content. That seems very FAIR and INCLUSIVE! REEE REEEE REEEE
So she's the only Asian on the planet?
@@kicknowledgesmith8608 With name recognition, who can (arguably) “sing,” in that age-bracket, yes. No, no…it’s purely for her talent, right? Di$ney checks off diversity boxes now. Pay attention. She got the part in Renfield, because she was born to play a cop?
@@celluloidtherapy5003 please stop it. name recognition I can go with but are you saying all non-minorities are qualified for every position? it's always called checking boxes when it's minorities. Did shows like Saved by the bell, and power rangers not check boxes? Was Winston in Ghostbusters not a token? Many acting like Hollywood became evil just yesterday. The majority were ok with it when they were the focal point in movies and shows. Power rangers had 2 white male cool guy lead characters, so I guess it was cool, while the black ranger was a token dancing idiot. Saved by the Bell, Zack was the cool lead white guy, so I guess it was all good. Funny thing is the actor isn't even blonde. They wanted him to look white as possible, he spoke on that. He's also half Asian.
@@kicknowledgesmith8608 Uh, it’s called “checking boxes,” because it only applies to minorities, that’s why. The mind-set now, is that entertainment is “too white.” If that isn’t massive, blatant RACISM, I wouldn’t know what really is. Hollywood didn’t ALWAYS have to abide by ESG, did they? You know, where, had they not had a specific number of minorities represented in TV, and film, would LOSE access to capital. They will NOT be considered for Oscars, if they fail to abide. Back in the day, it was done organically, not shoved down your throat, like it is today. So, comparing yesterday, to today, has no real merit. How does turning Scuttle female, advance the story? It doesn’t: it’s BOX CHECKING.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
That impersonation of Akawfina's Scuttle singing "Kiss The Girl" was hilarious. No way in hell I was going to go see this movie. 😂
Disney won't be losing any sleep due to ur lack of attendance 🙄
@@mdroz2754 Thanks for letting me know that I have options when it comes to seeing movies. 😏
I seen the movie twice loved it! Some people are just crabby!
Seen it and it was ok would say great
@@mdroz2754ooh baby I like you I got sass to spare
Sadly it is just a cash grab. Hollywood truly cannot write anything new and ruins IPs with shoddy remakes or re-imagings. Usually, these are also ways to push an agenda either subtly or ham fisted. This why I have a lot of classic movies to re-watch because not a whole lot gets me to want to go to the theater dropping tons of moola on disappointment. I love your reviews, keep up the good work.
Agreed 👍
They do want to tear down men and white culture as much as possible
I've heard about kids getting really really bored during it.
Many of them rather be on youtube or playing Roblox, they have short attention spans.
Kids have short attention spans. Although when I went, there weren't any kids that were bored
I've heard that from the same people!! I also heard kids were so bored, they were doing their homework during the movie.
@@brendajameson5093 Okay, this movie is turning a lot of people into liars for real🤣
This movie just looks like hot garbage. Just show these newer generations the original film. It's as simple as that.
I can't stop staring at her Halle Baileys eyes...her face is the definition of the uncanny valley...supposed to be fish from the waste down but they wanted her to have the eyes of a fish too..IM SORRY THEYRE DISTRACTING
Her eyes are trying to make a break for it
Thank you! I’m glad someone said it >~< I keep calling her a dead fish in my head because she didn’t look like she used a lot of emotion besides happiness sometimes and really watered down anger
Halle is gorgeous. Guarantee she looks better than any girl you’ve ever been with or ever will be with 😂
@@vmlksm9 Halle is beautiful!
Adam, I have a friend that works for a major VFX company and he has worked on titles like Multiverse of Madness, Tron 2.0 and Dune. I had a conversation with him about the murky and muddy CGI we see lately and he said they do this so they can render less frames by limiting cycle-expensive lighting and shaders. It takes days to render 5 mins of colorful, fully lighted and motion-acted scenes. If the production house has hit a wall with render-times and cant afford more machines or cant outsource rendering to a cloud service they can “muddy up” the scenes and cut the render-time in half. Its done to make the films quickly and cheaper.
Dear lord imagine Akwafina singing the intro to Beauty and the beast! I would jump off a cliff!
I have no idea why akawfina keeps getting put in movies
She flops every movie she is in and her voice is that of a straggled cat
Like no one ever was like awkafina last album has bars never!!
This review was 💯 accurate. I will say the new things weren't enough to justify the longer run time. My problem with the remakes are the same as yours...it's a lazy cash grab from a company that used to be able to generate wonderful fresh new content regularly.
Shut up, Kristin. People like you went in already deciding you weren't going to like it 🙄.
Pay attention. They still make original content. Calm down babe they can do both
Wrong wrong and let me check this….yes wrong
How many raving about shows like Raising Deon, Naomi, Wolf pack, Citadel, etc. Popular brands make more money, so they will keep making it. Heck Fast n Furious keep getting sequels, it makes money. We see this same thing with comics. They will keep making Superman, Batman, Spider man, x-men, etc. new things rarely sell, it takes time to build new things up.
They threw new stuff in to pad the running time, but they took out the glorious kitchen scene from the original??
The only reason why I’m not seeing the movie in theaters is so I can skip the scuttle song when it comes out.😭
As someone who is indifferent to Awkwafina as an actor, hearing her sing is something I never want to hear.
I appreciate you challenging you’re criticism and acknowledging that you’re not the “target” audience but you should remain open to expanding the influence of your individual perspective. You should probably lead with the fact that most of the things you don’t like about this movie exist in the original (story line) and also don’t assume your kids (or other kids) aren’t into it.
I’ll also add that, for there’s a seemingly contradictory ability to “win” in this category… You either make the same movie that stays “true” to the story or you detract and/or add nuance and/or details but then get accused that you don’t respect the original source material. Can’t make anyone happy.
Disney arent showing Ariels face on any promo material in South Korea. So many children there went to the theater and they cried throughout the movie, saying “thats not Ariel” and “she looks scary.” 😂😂😂
That's hilarious 😂
Liesss
@@Tikklerr1 it's true! I heard about that. I heard one of the kids cried so hard he exploded! True story😏
I'm so happy this has a good number of views. Excellent review, as always!
I can't stop laughing when you talk about the kiss the girl song and Awkafina lol. Your reviews are always solid.
Ryan Reynolds vibes here. Ok. I’ll subscribe.
That Scuttlebutt song is truly horrific. I can't even imagine sitting in the theater and hearing that song and Awkwafina's annoying voice acting.
I have listened to it on UA-cam and it would probably be a decent comical song if it was any other female singer or comedian singing it. I don't even mind its some kind of "rap", it has a bit of a Caribbean touch that doesn't make it that jarring. Definitely more a Manuel Miranda kind of song than an Alan Menken song but it could be passable . It's mostly Awkwafina's voice what makes it terribly irritating . Also it's pretty funny how the original Scuttle was portrayed as a bad singer as a gag in the original movie and Sebastian and other characters avoided him to sing during the Kiss The Girl sequence but here Awkwafina does sing, she sounds terrible and apparently nobody tried to stop her.
I watched it last night. Yeah, it was fine. I didn't hate it. One of my big issues with it was they weren't consistent with the changes. For instance, in the original, after Ariel "falls in lust" with Eric, she goes back home and her sisters notice that she is obviously head over heals with someone. She is humming to herself while looking in the mirror putting flowers in her hair and being aloof in that moment she is pining. This causes Tritan to wonder who this boy is. In this one, she is upset and irritated about something, so when Tritan gets the idea in his head she is in love, it just doesn't work. Lots of weird little changes that don't make sense. And yes, all the new songs suck. The worst part of the movie for me was Sebastian. Aside from the awful CGI, the new voice actor just doesn't work for me at all (he was my favorite character in the original). Theater was empty, by the way. Just me. All the way until the movie was just about to start and some chick in her 30s came in and sat somewhere behind me. Weird for an opening day.
I didn't know live action intailed 95% CGI........sounds more like a "refined" animated movie!!
Adam, tell us how you REALLY feel about the music in this movie😂😂😂. The "Kiss the Girl" segment was the best part, and I don't even know who Aquafina is 🤣🤣!!
So far I think the only one of these “live action” remakes worth anything was Cinderella. That was a nice attempt.
I loved your review and humour. Subscribed.
Appreciate that, thanks!
I hated the "Scuttlebutt" song and so does my Spellcheck because it keeps trying to correct the spelling.😅
I don’t know if a slow paced 2+ hour movie is going to keep the attention of little kids. My 11 yr old has zero interest in this and Disney in general so we’re not going.
It will be interesting to see how the box office turns out. Disney is a floundering company so they need some success.
I’ve been looking forward to this review . I knew he would have the guts to be brutally honest .
Hilarious when you imitated some of the songs 😂. Thankfully my friend offered to take my daughter to see this so I don’t have to.
Sassy unhinged Adam is the best Adam
Wouldn't it be keen if the had the original animated 89 version shown at the next theatre? Lets see where kids and parents go😅
As someone who’s about to hit 50 with no kids, I watched the review just to see you make fun of it 😂
…I have no desire to watch the movie
I watched almost all of his mandolorian reviews and I never watched one episode Lmao
Don't give Adam a hard time people. He has to see it. He is an official RT critic. It's his job. 😉😁 I'm pretty sure Akwafina took the number one spot of his music Playlist with her song from the movie on his drive home. So in the end, not a complete time waster. 😜
I'm sure this will do fine the first weekend, but highly doubt anyone will go back for a repeat view, which is what this needs to become anything close to a hit.
I am. Taking nieces today to see it. And may do a third viewing in 3D.
@@tchallasqueen4861 Good for you. Now if millions of people do the same maybe it will make a difference. Let's see if that happens...
I’m going this weekend for my birthday again
Look, I have to drop some truth here. I’m very tired now of this black washing with previous characters. It really shows a serious lack of originality in writing and entertainment in Hollywood. It’s embarrassing to watch something like the original trilogy of Star Wars and not able to find something today that beats that. Even the next Spider-Man Miles Morales movie has Miles wearing a BLM pin (which is hilarious since the BLM riots in NYC were devastating plus they support defunding the police and Miles dad is cop! LOL) and then showing us last year that Spiderwoman was white, but now she’s black. Whatever! Now, you want to see a good animated film, probably the better than this next Spider-Man movie? See “Puss In Boots: Last Wish”. WOW! Now this movie was so well written and had with no racism or political messages with phenomenal animation to boot. It has a strong message with fear and life that I didn’t see coming and it just blew me away. I bought it on blu ray and it has a incredible strong replay value….it’s what we need more of today than anything else. Peace out!
I saw/reviewed Last Wish. It was great. Definitely took animation inspiration from Into The Spider-Verse, which was also a wonderful film. I'm looking forward to the sequels! As for the political/social messaging. That's everywhere and has always been that way. Maybe not as on the nose as it is today but whatever. I can look passed a pin on a suit if there is a compelling story in play. I have hopes there will be.
At least Miles Morales is an actual character and not a raceswapped Peter Parker.
please look up yellow face, white washing , black face and minstrel shows. Hollywood been doing this stuff for decades, race swapping is hardly new, it was done to appease the majority in many films. For example Angelina Jollee character in Wanted is black in the books, but Angelina is box office. Jake Gyllenhal was the prince of Persia. The kid in the Last Airbender was white, etc. etc, Also many police officers support BLM as well. There are black officers that shared their experiences with racism on the job. My job gave associates the option to wear a BLM pin, it wasn't mandatory, it's free speech. Many companies stood with their black employees after George Floyd was murdered in front of the world. Do I support the organization BLM? NO But I support the sentiment that black lives matter, like most black people. If that wasn't caught on camera, that officer probably would have walked. Movies had social and political messages since forever. Every TGIF show had messages. Heck Star Wars has politics and messages also. the Jedi are like Catholic Priest, so it touches on religion also.
Yeah... what's happening as 40 year olds are crossing into bitter/angry adulthood. I see it in a lot of my friends now. It sucks. The "good old days" where movies were "agenda free" was never actually a thing. The messages were just different but they were always there. I've been re-watching a bunch of classics and every one of them has a moment or two where some line was said by a character that would be called "woke". People like to get worked up about nothing, it seems.
@@kicknowledgesmith8608 But BLM is a Marxist organization that used one man’s tragedy to rake in millions for themselves while setting the nation in chaos. I’ve seen racism all my life, on all sides and it exists as long as keep talking about it and pushing agendas, keeping people feeling victimized and fearful with tons of misinformation. You climb back through the history books and pinpoint tons of “racism”, but yet we are all hypocrites for owning tech or clothes that are made in slave conditions in third world countries and China, but hey, it’s ok right? Also, there was a white unarmed woman murdered by a black officer during the so called, “Insurrection”. Her name is Ashley Babbit and no one called racism there.
Before the movie gets started, they make you excited that they may have a fresh take because they put up the quote, but…nope. No interesting changes or new interpretations. Even changing the location just for it to play no role in the story 😔.
Stroooooooooooooong feeeeeeeemaale leeeeeeaaaaaaadd, though
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(It's about time)
1:46 I sat here .... for 20 minutes trying to do exactly this lol.... i hate u
When I heard "Scuttlebutt" I immediately thought of that scene in Walking Dead with "Easy Street" and replaced it with "Scuttlebutt" Daryl would have been a "Negan" in no time flat and for all you people wanting to say Disney doesn't care about you NOT seeing it. Firstly, shows how much you know about box office math/profits, and secondly Disney is losing China on this one and that's been their only way into the billion dollar club and trust me they want to be back in it again. So they might want to start being less divisive and more a crowd pleaser like they've always been.
Did the movie explain why Ariel and her dad are different races? Is she adopted or something? And are her sisters in this movie? If so, are they all different races too?
The Gods get around. That's not uncommon. He said something to the effect of "My daughters from across the 7 seas".
Weird. Definitely doesn’t sound “family friendly.”
@@fitnessmentoringwithdaniel6006 You aren't wrong though.
Anemic color palette, scary CGI animals with speech, absence of Les Poisson, and that awful song about a bird.
Great review as always. Hey! You hammered your finger, haha.
Hahaha, it's been like that for a solid month or two. You can deep dive into recent past videos and see the progression over time. That story might be more compelling than The Little Mermaid.
Adam I totally agree with u. If I want to see a mermaid movie I’ll just watch the best which is “Splash” from 1984
Or Aquamarine, not to be confused with Aqwafina
Ok...once again this just confirmed that the movie is for LITTLE KIDS!! So why is a grown ass man continuously ranting about it!! Geez!! Don't guys drink beer, play sports, fix crap and just do all the guy stuff anymore?? Why are men going off about a mermaid that's NOT even REAL!! Aren't men actually MEN anymore??
Families have to PAY to take their little kids to see this movie. The movie is 2 hours and 15 minutes, which makes it harder for children to stay interestes. Little Mermaid Remake is struggling in the box office and may not break even. That being said, these are giant, summer tentpole movies. Did you expect move channels NOT to review this movie? It's a huge $250M Disney movie with probably $100M marketing.
It’s kinda funny because I’m actually fascinated with these for pretty much 2 reasons…first because they correct the heritage of the original tales when it was otherwise whitewashed or just carelessly lumping an entire region together because being ethnically accurate was completely and harmlessly irrelevant in the eras these classics were made in…and 2…because it does that while still maintaining the original Disney visions and storytelling in the process…in an era where you can research absolutely everything…I think that making things more accurate makes these stories that much more believable and therefore causing the audience to be more submerged into the experience
You are hilarious. I Can’t believe you only have 60 k followers
Appreciate that. Help spread the channel (if you want).
@@AdamDoesMovies you got it
I just don't think any of the remakes are going to be remembered the way the originals are
I dont know if kids can last 2 hours of live action.
After Avatar: The Way of Water, this new remake looks like absolute a**.
Then theres Scuttlebutt....
Damnit Adam! Bring back the pun counter, you’re already making the puns!
Excellent and hilarious analysis! 😂 keep making this great content man, really enjoying it!
Thank you for pointing out that the movies are by default also made for the parents that have to bring their kids.
I keep wondering when people will just let all of this nostalgia nonsense go. Is life so empty that we need to relive stuff from our childhood and worse yet, spoon feed it to our children. Let it go, folks. Grow the hell up and move on with your lives. Let the kids have their own things.
I haven't seen it but I completely called Javier Bardem phoning it in. He looked bored and out of place in the trailers. I gathered he wouldn't have as much of an intensity as Kenneth Mars did in the original.
The biggest problem with the movie was an outdated director and bad sceeenwriter.
"That's not Arial" - 4 yr old black child
Glad I'm not the only one who can't stand Awkwafina.
Its a good movie just felt like they could've made ursela more memorable.
I was obsessed with the little mermaid as a kid. I would watch it religiously every weekend growing up. The live-action version of it is good and enjoyable to watch. Halle embodies Ariel so perfectly, Vanessa is such a perfect cast choice and Eric is such a heartthrob. Sebastian despite his weird design which later on grew on me, was one of the highlights of the movie. So many funny liners. I wish Triton and Ursula were more menacing tho. Poor unfortunate souls visually was so good. Part of your world was magical. Kiss the Girl where Ariel uses Aries in the star constellations to tell Eric her name was so cute and clever. You actually fall in love with their relationship which is not very common for these live-action princess films where the relationships seem pretty surface-level. The final battle where Ursula turns big was amazing and took me back to the times I was scared watching it in the animation 🤣. The movie is engaging enough that you don't really feel that it is long unless you need a toilet break 😅. I feel it is better than Beauty and the Beast (I found that one pretty boring). I'd as it is on the same level as Cinderella. If the CGI was on the same level as Avatar with better pacing, this would easily be the best live-action princess movie to date.
I’m glad you liked it. I’m going to rewatch the animated version instead. It was sufficient and I never needed this murky remake.
Halle does NOT embody Ariel at all you're mad dumb
No one should give Adam crabs.
Thanks for being honest. I subscribe to people who aren’t paid shills. I agree with you on the remakes. Not watching any of them nor will my kids.
Regret wasting my money watching this movie. I hated all the changes. They had the opportunity to make a perfect live action but no.
The cgi looked like it wasn’t finnished it looked like something from 2001.
Also Disney is truely insulting the viewer’s intelligence by having all these different races everywhere that are sooooooo blatantly obvious that it’s anoiying. There shoving the race card down your throat. I don’t care that Ariel was black, I just wish she had Ariel’s signature red hair & blue eyes
I think they stuck to the movie as much as they could, the movie was VERY dark. The underwater scenes it was so hard for me to see anything. If Disney dropped 250 million on this movie plus 100 million in advertising they need to call James Cameron for some help
The little mer..maid did not clean up at the cinemas...😣
I've watched an animated film that has 2 hour run time, and it was a fun experience. The visuals were amazing, the story was perfect and magical, and that animated film remained one of my most favorite animated films of all time. The film was for teens and adults but I knew from watching it that the story told in that animation was something that children would enjoy.
But children don't want this...If they had made something interesting, then yeah, I can imagine people around the age of 13 and up enjoy that for 2 hours, this is not "something interesting" because they destroyed the magic and love that was in the 1989 animation.
One of the advantages of animation is stylization, which allow the creators create memorable characters that can emote in some way to make the story interesting, but we have to keep in mind that not all stylization can translate to real life proportions and real life animals and human beings because those are set in a world where magic exists while magic don't exist in real life. With certain stylizations, they can only be appealing in animation and not real life, and even with stylization of human characters that look good, it's hard to find someone in real life with real life proportions of the same face that look just as good.
They already stylized the fish which doesn't look cute in real life, doing live action with that and make them look real while also talking will give people nightmares.
Disney strategy might be working....blacks and hispanics came in for this movie with diverse mermaid.
Dude honestly, you are awesome! 🤣
Thanks for this review. This movie sounds exactly how I imagined.
This thumbnail will haunt me forever
I feel like I'm the only one who didn't have a problem with Awkwafina being Scuttle. I didn't even think Scuttlebutt was that bad.
Spot on about the visuals. I kept taking my glasses off and putting them back on thinking something had to be on them. The climax was so dark I couldn't even tell what was going on. Javier Bardem was awful imo. You could tell he didn't want to be there lol
Personally I thought this movie did some things very well it's just... the stuff they got wrong they really really got wrong.
She's awful
As I said in the short review, I appreciate you seeing this essential for the audience. We knew this wasn't going to be anything to write home about. I don't plan to see this in cinema and maybe at best streaming. I actually felt the old school movie was good, but not super amazing. Unpopular opinion, I liked Hercules more then The Little Mermaid and the live action Hercules I think can be really special if done well.
Just in time for Disney to recast Hercules as a strong female person of color 👏
I have no hope
@@isaacxcii4289 I wouldn't even see it as a second in cinema which would essentially be free. I will be honest I skipped most of these remakes even on Disney+. As a 38 year old single guy it just isn't worth it.
Wasn't The Rock already in a live action Hercules? But yeah, I guess if they replace him with an obese trans woman of color, that'd be a step forward. I don't think they do enough of these remakes where they swap out the gender or race of the main character. It's stunning and brave, and so creative. I like that it grabs me by the hair and shoves my face into the DEI message... it's SO important that my entertainment be created by soul-less 20 something Gender Studies majors with blue hair who've never seen the inside of a gym. Give me MORE of that.
@@RealYRM Yes he was
My black friend told me she was the Lil Mermi D
Does it give off the same pacing as Aladdin? Like, it’s longer, but feels shorter than the original due to just trying to hit the story beats as quickly as possible while taking time for the new shit?
Had to watch this again 😂. I feel this is one of your best reviews to date. It has that sprinkle of Adam humour but serious at the same time. Some great valid points are made!
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I think you are wrong, that this movie will appeal to children, because for little children it is simply to long.
My 6 year old asked to leave the theatre after the one hour mark. She didn’t care what else we did, as long as we left. That should tell you all you need to know
In today’s episode of things that never happened 😂
@@vmlksm9 Little Mermaid is struggling in the box office, especially in International box office. It's going to have a hufe second weekend drop. Remember when Disney fans thought it was going to hit a billion? Well, that's never happening. It's going to struggle to make its money back. Lol. Obviously, it's not drawing in familes and repeat viewers. Paulo was right!😄
I cannot believe disney wants to make Moana into a live action
.. after this.. mehn
Hailey is yummy on the eyes? Well, tastes are different. They should have used Emma Stone or Emma Roberts or Emma Watson with red hair.
I wanna see it just to see how they did and I like mermaids. Disney hasn't had a good live action, they're tolerable and sometimes enjoyable. I wish they'd stop doing it.
I heard aquafina was the worst part of the film and I knew she would be, like who thinks she's funny anyway?
I'm going to see it soon. 😊 Who doesn't want new stuff? They're setting themselves for someone to come in like dream works did back in the day and dominate.
I appreciate the honest review
Valiant Renegade has an Excellent and repeating rendition about how much Little Mermaid and other movies need to make to break even. For example, much will depend on the Domestic side: $500 million in the Domestic Box Office, is worth a LOT more than $500 million coming from the International Box Office - China only nets the studio 20%-25% of profit....The US returns AT LEAST TWICE that in net profit. So literally $50 million in Box Office in the US, is worth MORE than $100 Million coming from China, if you're the production company. And THEN throw in the multiplicative gains (or losses) regarding merchandise, marketing opportunities, downstream business effects on Parks, Hotels, partnerships, etc.
Bottom line, my call is that the studio needs $900 million to break even (that is a CONSERVATIVE estimate).
This is considering what MUST be grossed in the Domestic Market...a minimum of $500 Million Domestically. IF they DON'T get at least $500 Million from the Domestic Box Office, then they would need to get an extremely high number from the International BO...which I find highly unlikely.
And again, even so: IF the Little Mermaid movie "breaks even", or even just "makes a little money" even at $1 Billion, that is STILL a possible loss for Disney given how much leverage they've bet on other aspects of their business on this movie. When they were marketing this thing, it was NOT just for the movie. If they don't move the other business "opportunities" and "inventory" surrounding this movie, those investments become an albatross around their necks and their distributors (not to mention Disney is ONE of those distributors)..
So realistically, this is about how much Disney has leveraged themselves on the Little Mermaid: Given what we've all seen regarding marketing, we can guess "A LOT".
Realistic numbers for The Little Mermaid to be a profitable business IN THE REAL WORLD?
The movie must make WELL OVER $1 Billion...somewhere approaching Super Mario Bros territory.
Adam - “hell, trash I would use this as a new form of torture on my enemies” 100% Adam! No better new form of punishment for your enemy!! Seriously can we try to use it on Putin? It may be the thing to help defeat Russia!!!
Why take little kids to this when you have mario or....Spiderman. My kids have some taste.
3:35 when eric runing on the path outside, he looks like he must run on a greenscreen right? same cartoonish as the hobbit when they running in the cave/mountain?
This is next level lazy for Disney and I'm not even going to watch this movie for free on Disney plus. Sure, The Jungle Book remake was decent but it's still on the forgettable side and I've never had any desire to rewatch it over the years.
The little mermaid live action was amazing just because you have a short attention span. Doesn’t mean this two hour movie was bad clearly you’d much rather watch porn then actually good cinematic art
Art? More like nightmare fuel. The CGI animals looked hyper-realistic and soulless. The Vfx were very muddy and the lighting was extremely dim. Little Mermaid is having a terrible second weekend and Disney is just hoping they can make it's money back, which is going to be incredibly difficult with weak international support. If this movie was great cinematic art and storytelling, then it would be financially successful.
Thanks for saving me 2hrs
How did they do le poisson?
It could be nightmarish with the realistic fish.
Or did they cancel due to possible offense to the French
This review made me laugh really hard while chopping carrots which was a bit dangerous. But yeah, pretty much exactly the opinion I figured you’d have. I kinda figure most people would feel the same. Like, it’s fine. Not better then original. It exists.
My position is that I haven't watched the original but I know the beginning, middle and end and the songs. Some of the main actors draw me in. I'm interested in see this but not in the cinema, partly down to my level of interest but more so I don't have to be around young families. Is this worth watching for me do you think?
I'm predicting this be more than just better than Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King by default (I didn't watch any of them). Bailey has excellent physical acting from what I can see from the footage and her singing sounds promising.
I live in key west Florida this movie NOT Caribbean are they kidding? They made Ariel brown skin because of the “Caribbean” so full of shit even the new songs not even catchy summery Caribbean theme there’s one VERY annoying song by Aquafina a rap song because Ariel black can you believe that? The movie 2 hours but feels 98min I’m very confused what made it 2 hours????? The movie MESSY instead of the HORRIBLE unnecessary new songs it would have been better to focus more stuff we didn’t get to see in animation more UNDERWATER the movie very RUSHED but it’s 2 hours that’s what’s confusing me movie not good im disappointed overall
Love that you're keeping alive the tradition of Hawai'ian Shirt Friday.
I like your reviews.
This never should’ve been remade I mean this was beyond stupid and when it fails, I’m gonna be so freaking happy.
😂 the thumbnail is incredible!😂😂
Your awkawfina impression is spot on
You are really the only movie reviewer I watch. Thanks for what you do.