My family did not enjoy The Little Mermaid | The 6 Kid Review 

Should've watched Fool's Paradise instead.

Not only that but I had adults constantly getting up and leaving and then coming back?? It was very distracting

You asked “why are they doing this” well here is the terrible answer. The reason all this race swapping & blackwashing is happening in film ONLY to white characters in film and television, with both actual historical figures & “fictional” characters is for one reason & one reason alone. The reason is to promote & normalize the Kalergi Plan of white racial replacement in the minds of the masses. It is all there for propaganda. And they will keep doing race swapping & blackwashing of whites even if they lose lots of money & have horrible ratings, because it was never about money or ratings. Cinderella & Beauty & the Beast for example are ancient European fairytales that likely predate even Christianity & there should be ZERO black people in those live action films. Just like, in a live action Moana film (even though it is not ancient) there should be an entirely Polynesian cast. Just as in a live action Mulan should be an entirely East Asian cast. There is a reason they ONLY race swap & blackwash WHITE characters. And again, the reason is about promoting & normalizing the Kalergi Plan agenda. Nothing more, nothing less.

People in my theatre were clapping throughout. Different experiences I guess

If kids are bored that’s a problem. I’m glad I’m single and childfree, so I don’t have to watch this movie.

Ugh. I know, they did this with Beauty & the Beast to.

​@@steflondon88 Did what?

I agreed. I was big mad about the change 😂

💯💯💯

@@Gaia_Seraphina I’m assuming Belle killed Gaston

Yeah, they also grew up to be decent looking and solid actors. The guy who played Harry Potter (blanking on his name at-Daniel Radcliffe!) is a bit of a Shai LeBeauf (sp?) type, doing interesting things with surprising acting chops. The movie wasn't perfect, but I recommend Guns Akimbo. A surprising number of funny moments.

Eh, yeah though now more than a few of them have become insufferable activist types who happily bad mouth JK Rowling for her opinions despite the fact she's the reason they have careers.

That's because the casting choices were influenced by Rowling herself. Some would say thst Hermione was too pretty, but I disagree, because Hermione in the books was in fact pretty. It was just hard to see at first because she doesn't care about her looks.

I thought Harry and Ron looked the part. But Hermione was just bad casting. Emma was a pretty bad child actor. Daniel Radcliffe was ok as an actor but he got much better when he was a bit older.

​@@vetarlittorf1807she wasn't pretty in the books,there is an interview where rowling says that the actors looked way better than she imagined the characters. There is also an interesting video about Adaptional attractiveness on RU-vid about that topic.

Actually I'll take some of her flat lines and fold those clothes next

Soooooo good!

Yeah, I liked that one too! The man knows how to turn a phrase!!!😂😂😂😂

Ha ha

🙄 wow, original.

I'd even call it a re-imagining.

@@Selrisitai yeah, good point. That's a better descriptor! Because they aren't really adapting a source material (like a book or play) called "Hook" they took characters from the original and reimagined them with a continuation of their stories.

Hook was not well received at the time, and I don't think it's a very good movie. The premise is well-done, and there are some iconic portrayals to be sure. Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of Hook is iconic, as is Bob Hoskins as Smee. But even though it has an excellent opening act that build suspense and mystery, by the time Peter makes it to Neverland the film quickly drops off a cliff. In the end I like the film, and remember it fondly. But it needed a lot of work to really be regarded as "fantastic." Although, it definitely justified its own existence, so I think I agree with your central point

Helps that Hook was essentially exploring Peter Pan in an actual interesting angle, namely what would happen if Peter grew up. There are things they could've done with the Little Mermaid, granted they kind of did some of that with the sequel and prequel but there have to be other story options.

You mean a de-imagining because nothing about it looks imaginative.

…. But the movie was really good? Took my mom and she loved it so much she cried by the end. I loved it. Boyfriend saw it with two friends and they all loved it. Entire audience seemed extremely happy with it. Now if you want a bad remake: Pinocchio. Also lion king was literally shot for shot. But it’s funny seeing how up in arms people like you get

​@@ryanb4940 🍆🚴

What bullshit. Dude

@@PPolendina 🖕🫵

@@PPolendina leave them alone they’re just giving their opinions.

Don't forget that they're the same people who would cry and shout at you when it comes to whitewashing.

It's insanely insulting. A 20 second Google search tells me that Africa has a myth about the Mami Wata, a sea spirit that can kill people, similar to a siren. But writing an entire story about that would take effort. Just dust off an old story and change the cast. Presto! Representation!!!

Why is color that important to you? Words like “immeasurably fucked up”. Over a skin color?????? That makes absolutely no since….

​@@FF-fd4tmWhy was color so important to Disney that they felt the need to raceswap Ariel to begin with?

@@TheStrawberryCloud why are you automatically assuming it was about race. Why can’t you accept the possibility that they did not see color…. Unlike u. I’m so tired of ppl making such a big deal about skin pigmentation. We all bleed red. All lives matter you know!

Incorrect. That’s part is still there. He was confused the whole time just like in the first movie and unlike the original written story.

And she fucked up as any teenager not listening to her dad, but her dad loved her no matter what and chose to sacrifice himself to save his little girl.. ❤ Ofc Ariel understood how much her dad loved her and tried to correct her mistake that lead to him suffering. All in all a great sum up of many families, dads can be overprotective at times, even if we don’t agree we know they care for us and will be there to protect us from our mistakes at any cost.

Netflix did exactly the same things in the Witcher That's why Henry Calpil left He wanted to stick.close to the source material but the narcissistic men hating feminist cows at Netflix want to change it for" modern audiences " Part way through season 2 in came the woke and identity politics ,prefect Mary sues and any male character was treated like crap The witcher to me was dead part way through season 2 And I was a fan of the show and the games Then they released " blood origins " and session 3 of the witcher Fans just up and left Jamming woke and identity politics down people's throats and attacking anyone who dares to complain is not the way to run a business Yet all the studios are doing the same things Disney, Amazon ,Netflix ,MSHEU , Marvel etc I've boycotted the lot

Yes! This is what I’ve been saying!

They removed the love story? That’s the whole point of the little mermaid. Bad enough the mermaid doesn’t even look like the mermaid in the cartoon.

Because she is asian.thats all

Mel Blanc was the GOAT, nobody could hold a candle to him. RIP Mel

Don't forget June Foray. The biggest mystery is how we got from June Foray to Awkwardfina.

It doesn’t matter who has more experience behind the microphone. In the original, Scuttle was voiced by Buddy Hackett, a comedic actor who had very little previous experience in voice acting. It’s not about experience, it’s about how much the actor commits to their part. Unfortunately, there are a lot big name actors who don’t take voice acting roles as seriously as they do with on-camera roles. I haven’t seen the movie and I probably never will, but given her past roles in animation and how well she’s done with them, Awkwafina, to me, seems like a good pick.

​@@Unqualifiedmedicalperson maybe she needs to pick better animation roles then?

Wow. They just strip all the humanity from these terrible remakes.

@@kurtdewittphoto Yep, and now we just proved that we don't have to look like a certain character to relate to that character.

She still went to the surface tho…she still goes beyond her kingdom when her father says not to. Her rebellion isn’t gone.

@@SoWhatHo But in the original she is constantly going to the surface, which is why Triton is frustrated, but with that minor change, she didn't really have the reason to constantly do that and it wouldn't really explain why Triton was mad that she went up to the surface to see the bird and ask questions about the human world, which they still kept it in for this remake.

@@clairelin0216 I understand that. But in this one, instead of always going to the surface, she goes farther out into the ocean where she isn’t supposed to be (ex: the ship wrecks). And she was already curious about humans which is where Triton’s frustration come from.

What a great way to convince guys to marry! /s

They did say that it’s a “modern” take of the story. Never a good idea

oh my god ariel is melania!

Disney's vain attemp to normalize the Communist Democrat Party policies of pampering illegal aliens at the expense of tax paying citizens.

Woooooow!

It’s not as dark as the trailer makes it look when you watch the whole thing. I thought it was goin to be dark to but it wasn’t.

It isn’t dark!

@@Libra3705 The word 'dark' is a very bad word. We now say 'less Caucasian'.

...but not the opposite point of the original tragedy. "The Little Mermaid" is *supposed* to be dark. Disney made a bad Mermaid movie the first time around. I admit to being amused that anybody thought a remake in Current Year was ever going to be a thing.

Uhh, the original story WAS a horror story. Shows just how ignorant and bandwagoned you people are.

Clearly this movie wasn't for a 40 year old man. Little girls love it

@@suzygirl1843 lmaoo

They keep making this crap and playing the victim. It's amazing

You went to Little Mermaid and were surprised it was a remake? Wtf, dude? Have you not been paying attention since Jungle Book?

​@@davestr7031 who here is surprised?

I hate how accurately of a summation that is. Old Disney taught guys to strive to be strong, confident, brave and the like, now it's all about being submissive doormats while Woman are encouraged to be rude, career driven to the point of insanity and generally selfish.

​@@ravissary79 I think no one SHOULD be surprised

You didn’t watch it then and decided whether you enjoyed it yourself. That part of it was really fun.

@@nematoaddd idk what you’re talking about, but Hans Christian Anderson was heavily inspired by Italy and it’s literally been stated by the Disney RU-vid channel that the og Ariel grew up in the Mediterranean Sea and that Prince Eric’s castle is somewhere in Italy

@@nematoadddthe movie was complete dogshit but I’m not surprised you’d defend it, you look like someone that would enjoy a Disney remake.

Yep. I remember listening to Sabastian sing "under the sea" in the original and how much of a Mediterranean vibe it had 🙄

@@brendajameson5093 all I’m saying is the movie is based on the location being Italy. You can have your opinion, or you can spend 30 seconds looking it up yourself and see that the original was heavily inspired by Italy and Mediterranean architecture. I love under the sea and it’s a fun song, but that doesn’t change that the location of Atlantica is in the Mediterranean (similar to where Atlantis is based) and Eric’s castle is in Italy

Forget anti wyite propaganda in colleges

You can get the exact same experience for a lot less money just by buying *The Jeffersons* on DVD.

I never thought about that but it's so true.

women weren't on board cause they thought they would have the same reasonability as men coruse that never happen and now they got same power but none of reasonability

I call it Twitter Brain. The producers and writers pretty much make scripts and dialogue like they are talking to others via social media and Instagram bubble, parroting "We support the current thing!" narrative. They do not know how to interact with others in real life.

I agree, It was always a nuanced and layered story. Nuance is something in short supply in Hollywood these days

"I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! Well, not that shocked" - Fry, Futurama

They're just scared to say it because they'll get called racist

I was waiting for him to say she was so wooden she should have been cast in Pinocchio

I'm calling Halle Barry princess Tiana not Ariel lol nice joke 😂.

Yeah cause no one wants to be labeled as a “racist” just for calling out ANY non-white actors inability to act…

Halle Berry isn’t in this film

Nowaying right now 😭

THank you. It's time we had a black little mermaid. I'm tired of white people stealing all the parts!

Sarcasm. Love it.😂

Racewashing always seems to have an agenda behind it. Like with Jesus becoming white passing despite being middle eastern. Ariel and Cleopatra seems like something like Jesus white washing.

Wow so glad normal people loved it lol

Oh they do, but the whole point is to twist and destroy White heritage.

Their bread and butter is princess stories. But the princess stories rarely have the princess in a postion of power. Imagine trying to remake Cinderella and somehow she is the hero of the story. Or Snow White. She has to be the one to save the prince who is now asleep. Even Lilo and Stitch and Stitch now has to be Stitchette because the hero can't be male. The princesses now all have to be African American because keeping them white isn't diverse enough. The villians all have to be white male because women can't be doing wrong to another female. (Can't be a Karen.) These are the sort of things the writers have to deal with. They are given a list of things to make happen in the story and something as simple as a character's motivation might sabotage the whole storyline. Imagine Lady and the Tramp and Lady has do some very not lady like things to save Tramp. Who is a beta male but living on the streets ... somehow.

They don’t even have the ability to retell. Bankruptcy is the right word.

Which is why DreamWorks is burying Disney with top-notch animated films like Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

I don't think it's that simple. I've seen some old school writers describe the fact that a huge cost savings for these big companies has been to lay off the talented experienced writers and hire untested grad students. I'd buy that explanation for a dollar. And aside from that it's also top down corporate decision making. Meaning the big execs are stifling creativity and telling the studios to pump stuff out as cheaply and quickly as possible with little to no effort to be spent on writing things that are entertaining or make sense. Just remake something already made, slap some woke messaging on it. And print us money. But at the end of the day we have to stop moaning about this stuff but seeing the movies anyway. Stop going to see this crap. You know before you enter the line at the theatre that it's going to be some rubbish that places its political messaging ahead of its value as entertainment. So just don't see it. We dont win this fight by complaining online. Theyre perfectly happy generating controversy because it's free marketing and drives chatter. We win by refusing to participate altogether and hold these companies accountable for a bad product by refusing to buy it.

yeah she mentions in the original she was banished and we end up seeing why by the end of the film because she has been slugifying merpeople. Its also clear she is angry at Triton for banishing her and wants his crown. There was really no mystery in the original why she was doing what she was doing and why no one liked her.

Wow. I said the EXACT same thing just now to my boyfriend and specifically referred to the "Be Our Guest" scene with Emma Watson. That's nuts.

@@missmerbella I'm glad it wasn't just me who noticed that.

I just saw that and there's one disturbing scene with dead bodies but other than that (and really only one part with a bunch of skimpy clad women) it is pretty family friendly

Dude. Congratulations 36 likes on your BS trap. Must be proud

Shut up

Wowie 😆

Yeah, the original song was saying that under the sea is better than the surface. If she's singing along, then....is she agreeing with Sebastian? If so, if it's truly worse than under the sea, why be obsessed with the surface world?🤔 Why abandon the sea for a world you think isn't worth being in? Figures. One of the few times she looks happy is during the one song when she should have looked bored out of her mind....

Whaaa? No Chef Louie? :(

Gene Wilder, though, was brilliant as Mr Wonka!

@@SteveCarrashe’s a LEGEND. His sarcasm was on POINT

That “no wait stop” was freaking hilarious. But unlike Halles role, it was supposed to be delivered that way

Thank God, a person with a intellect that sees my exact point of view, I actually had made an exact similar comment like this one I got annoyed one of the person said they were going to see be excited to see Eric kill Ursula with the boat and I put we can’t have “that because of women empowerment” and a person argued with me. It was good that Ariel did it but I highly disagree. It’s fair that Eric helps because it shows he’s not a cheap douche bag. He actually cares for Ariel, like she did for him when he fell off the boat, so I get annoyed with the argument, Ariel’s a damsel in distress. She literally went into shark infested waters, literally saved a man from going overboard lol! P.s sorry for the long comment XD

@@Heavilune I'm cool with the long comment I'm not always a huge fan of romance but it was fine in the 1989 movie. Eric had a personality and cared about Ariel, helping her when she needed it. It's okay to ask for help when you need it and that's what this remake refuses to understand

@@DragonGoddess18 exactly!

Please don't refer to them as "partners." Don't make love sound like a job. They were equal as people, mates, or a couple. They were equal to each other. Literally no reason to tack the word "partners" on there. They wouldn't need it to know they're equal, unlike insecure people today.

@@englishatheart And yet some people are cool with describing their romantic relationship as an "equal partnership" Love ain't easy,in this world or any world You don't like the word "partner"? Fine, that's you. There are plenty of people out there who are fine with it,so tolerate it.

I read somewhere that The Little Mermaid (original) saved Disney. They were having some kind of financial problems and The Little Mermaid saved them.

-CHOICE- COLOR

After their casting choice for Peter Pan in his remake did such a bad job at the role, they can never use the "best actor for the role" excuse again.

Can’t wait for the exaggerated she was so amazing as the character all the haters were wrong and when you mention her bad acting it’s you just don’t like her cause of her skin color.

If she was the best choice, I would like to see who else they auditioned

Was thinking the same thing, they kept saying she was best choice as Arielle. 🤣 At least, she can really sing. 😬😅

It may be best for him to ask them to rerate the movie a few days later. Sometimes you don't realise how terrible a terrible movie was until a few days later. I had that experience with seeing The Last Jedi in cinemas.

@@cassiefuchs3657 I had the reverse with Guardians VoL3 where I thought it was just a weird movie, not even good or bad. Now I say it’s decent, and shoot, at least they kept the tone serious when they were actually in those serious moments.

At least in korea it's already creating issues among kids with them arguing about ariel's skin color when coloring the original ariel and 6~7 years old needing to say i am not being discrminatory it isnt how she looks like and etc and another saying but in the MOVIE 🤷🏻‍♀️☠i feel bad for the kids

Well I enjoyed it

I loved it!!!!!!!!! Period.

She is a typecast actress too, so it isn't a stretch to play as Ursula either.

It wasnt even that shallow either. She didnt even trade her fins for legs for him either. At that point she was told she could become human and Ursula was the one that pushed her to get true loves kiss. It was more of a bonus for her that she happened to have a crush on him. I think her real motivations were to get on land and away from her overbearing father.

@@charg1nmalaz0r51 This live action movie also really turned Ariel into this hyper feminist unbelievably strong woman trope who never needs to be rescued or supported by anyone else, especially another man. Now, she’s just another unbelievably competent, independent, self-reliant and strong Mary Sue, who never has any moments of vulnerability in this live action films that put her in a position where she needs to be rescued or supported by another character, especially if it happens to be a man. I’m so sick of female characters getting this sort of writing in modern day media. I’m so tired of these females characters who are written or rewritten to be impossibly resilient, resourceful, and self-reliant *all the time.* No, women shouldn’t *always* be portrayed as being clingy, dependent, and helpless in media either. In real life, no one would need to even have relationships to survive happily, if we were actually as impossibly one-dimensional in our capabilities, independence, strengths, and vulnerabilities. We’re much more emotionally and socially complex creatures who should display both strengths *and* vulnerabilities in equal measure, just as we usually do in real life. The live action movie seems so intent on making Ariel look like she can accomplish everything by herself and doesn’t ever need any help from anyone else, especially not another man. It’s just a hyper-feminist interpretation of the character that I don’t like, and it’s not *just* in this scene at the ending where she kills Ursula instead of Eric in which they’ve made her such an impossibly competent, independent, and strong woman who can do anything and everything herself either. Ariel magically being the one to kill Ursula instead of Eric when she is trying to kill her for revenge also undermines King Triton’s character development of getting over his xenophobia towards humans, and eventually being able to let his favorite youngest daughter go be with the right one, now trusting that she’ll be able to be safe. However, this live action movie doesn’t care about character development, storytelling, and the overarching theme of being able to let your children be true to themselves. It’s only about showing what a “Strong WAHMAN” Ariel is at the expense of all that. In the “Kiss the Girl” scene of the 1989 animated film where Eric expresses that he feels bad not knowing Ariel’s name because she can’t speak, Sebastian is the one to whisper it in his ear to offer his aid because he still can speak and sing. In this live action version after less than three days on land, Ariel magically knows more about astronomy and constellation patterns in the sky than the average human land dweller will know in their entire lives. She comes up with a way to tell him her name is “Ariel” by showing him the constellation of Aries in the night sky, and gets him to say “Ariel” by moving his lips in the shape of her name with her hands. Yeah, I can see how that might look cute, but it also makes Ariel kind of look like a Mary Sue. In the 1989 animated film, after Scuttle finds out about Vanessa actually being Ursula in disguise hypnotizing Eric to marry her with Ariel’s voice, he tells Ariel, Sebastian, and Flounder, and they plan an ambush to stop the impending wedding before the three days are up. Ariel tries to get to the site of the wedding as fast as she can to help with Flounder’s aid. However, she is still very new to using human legs, she really isn’t as fast or as strong of a swimmer without her fins, and Flounder is the one who helps get her there with a rope from a barrel tied between him and one of her legs. As a result, by the time she gets to the site of Eric’s wedding with Vanessa, Scuttle has already been doing his best to stall the vows until, and it’s a bit too late for Ariel to just intervene. That’s why Scuttle is the one to grab Vanessa’s necklace with his beak and break it, so that Ariel can get her voice back. You might say that the scene where Ariel gets swam to the site of the wedding would be much more difficult to animate with a tiny fish, but what even was the point of Scuttle’s animal ambush to stop Vanessa/Ursula when Ariel decided to just get into a cat fight with her to rip off her seashell necklace and break it to get her voice back herself after Scuttle told them what was going on, anyway? They also made it so that Ariel is the first one to notice the shark about to attack her and Flounder in the 2023 film in the opening scene when they’re exploring the sunken ship for human things at her insistence, which, is again, turning her into more of a Mary Sue. In the Disney animated 1989 film, Ariel does save Flounder’s life from the shark when he accidentally knocks himself out swimming away, but she’s not the first one to notice the shark behind them on the sunken ship. Flounder, her anxious companion, is the one to first notice the shark behind them posed for sneak attack when they are exploring the sunken ship at her insistence, and that’s when they quickly swim away. She was too caught up in collecting and examining human artifacts, knick knacks, and silverware to immediately notice that she an Flounder were about to be attacked by a shark. It also is a moment that gives us insight into Ariel’s greatest character flaws in the 1989 animated film in her opening scene with Flounder when she isn’t the first one to notice the shark because she’s too distracted by her obsession with the world above to be considerate. Ariel’s essentially a good person at heart, who is brave and loyal enough to those she loves to always be there to bravely rescue them when she notices that they need her. However, she also is obsessive about her personal desires, dreams, and interests in exploring the world above to the point of distractibility, impulsivity, naïveté, and selfishness. It’s just annoying to me. Ariel wasn’t a perpetually helpless and weak damsel-in-distress, who only wanted a man, and constantly needed to be spoon-fed in the 1989 animated film either, but she was still allowed to be rescued, be vulnerable, and have character flaws, too. She was an independent heroine with her own agency, personal interests, and hobbies. However, she also wasn’t this impossibly perfect female role model who never needed to be rescued and supported by others in moments of vulnerability either. Regardless of our strengths, just like real men need to be rescued by other people at times in moments of t vulnerability, there are times when those of us who are women need to be rescued by others in those moments too. Just because we were given equal rights as men, it doesn’t mean we need to be independent and strong all the time around them to be of value. It is just as problematic to portray women with no vulnerabilities as it is to portray men with no vulnerabilities in fiction. Believe it or not, but presenting yourself as *completely* emotionally/physically invulnerable and self-reliant *all the time* in relationships with other people is just as much of a turn off as being exceedingly clingy, codependent, desperate, and helpless *all the time.* The point is to be able to have a healthy balance between independence and vulnerability in relationships with other people to be able to develop and maintain long-term and meaningful ones. You don’t want to be too clingy, desperate, and dependent on others to be rescued and supported by others *all the time,* if you can help it, because then you’ll never be able to grow and often push them away by suffocating them. However, you also won’t be able to develop and maintain deep and meaningful relationships with others, if you never can be vulnerable around them and rely on them for support in your times of need from time to time either. That’s a major problem with how “strong “female characters keep getting portrayed in modern day media. Yes, having female characters with greater motivations than *just* romantic love for a man is important, but Hollywood has gotten so “woke” these days that we’re not allowed to have many female characters who can be portrayed as vulnerable sometimes, too. Real women aren’t strong *all the time,* just like real men aren’t strong *all the time.* We’re not allowed to be portrayed as being people with meaningful friendships and relationships in which we are allowed to ever expect aid, consolation, and support from them in situations where we are vulnerable in return for having their back when they experience those moments of vulnerability by our side and need us, especially not women. I just find that really frustrating with female characters in modern day media, like Ariel in this TLM live action remake, Mulan in the 2020 live action remake, Belle in the 2017 live action BATB remake, Bo Peep in Toy Story 4, Rey from the new Star Wars movies, Daenerys throughout much of GOT after S1, and so on. Just stop trying to portray female characters as impossibly strong female archetypes all the time, and focus on making them human instead. Those were some of the great things about fictional female characters like Ariel, Anna, Elsa, and Mulan. They were allowed to be both strong and vulnerable around other people in relationships. They struggled to achieve some goals without help, and also had moments where they saved others. They weren’t just these impossibly strong archetypes who never needed help. Like, why do Eric, Sebastian, Flounder, and Scuttle even have to exist in this live action remake of TLM anymore, if Ariel is able to magically be so independent, intelligent, and resourceful *all the time* that she never needs them to support her in return? Just for the sake of appealing to nostalgia and creating comic relief.

@@charg1nmalaz0r51 Yeah, I said that Triton didn’t seem too bad as a parent, aside from that scene where he destroys Ariel’s grotto collection as punishment to “get through to her” for rescuing and falling in love with a human in the movie. However, upon reevaluation of his character, the TV series prequel, and Ariel’s Beginning, it does seem to be this recurring trait for him to be a somewhat emotionally/psychologically abusive parent in the exceedingly avoidant, controlling, harsh, impatient, and illogically unfair manners his rules and reactions to disobedience of his authority take place. I Granted, I don’t think Ariel is completely without her own flaws in the animated movie either. Triton’s too controlling overbearing, overprotective, and he was absolutely being an abusive dad when he destroyed her collection to punish her for falling in love with and rescuing one. However, Ariel also did have an impulsive, naive, sassy, and selfish streak. I’m not saying she was wrong to want to get away from an overbearing dad who refused to understand her point of view after he destroyed her entire collection of everything she loved from the human world to “get through to her,” but she also was making a deal which meant leaving behind her sisters and many friends forever for her own gain. They weren’t ever exceedingly harsh or overbearing disciplinarians. In her introductory scene, she was kind of bullying poor Flounder to peer pressure him into following her onto that sunken ship to collect human odds and ends with her, even though he repeatedly tried to tell her that he wasn’t comfortable doing this with her. There’s also the fact that Sebastian said she missed many rehearsals with her sisters for the concert he was composing for her sisters. Yes, it isn’t fair to push your kid to perform in something they don’t want to be a part of, but it is also made obvious that Ariel loves dancing, music, and singing. She was the one who pushed for it be brought back into the kingdom when an angry, grief stricken, and widowed Triton forbid it after his wife accidentally got killed because of it. Not to mention the fact that by missing those rehearsals and that performance with her sisters in Sebastian’s concert, she really was letting down him, her father, and her sisters in favor of doing her own thing. When you’re a performer in an ensemble, particularly one where you have a feature role, it is your responsibility to either notify other people involved that you’re not interested in performing before rehearsals get under way, so that they can hire someone else, improvise without you, or hire an understudy to fill in for you when you’re out. As this was a family musical performance by all the daughters of Triton composed by his advisor and court composer, Ariel wasn’t going to get an understudy. Triton definitely was a domineering and overbearing father, regardless of pure intent, but in the instance of the musical recital with her sisters, I actually don’t buy that anyone pushed Ariel into performing in it because she is shown to love dancing, music, and singing several times to herself and others throughout both the 1989 animated film and its follow-ups. She even names her child Melody. That being said, yes, I do agree that Triton had emotionally/psychologically abusive overprotective parent traits. I think there is this misconception that any adult who displays abusive behaviors and traits in their relationships are deliberately malicious cartoon villains who delight in controlling and hurting their victims, so we must never forgive them because they will definitely never change and definitely never experience genuine remorse. Triton is a rather abusive parent to Ariel at times, but not in the same way that Lady Tremaine abuses Cinderella, or Mother Gothel abuses Rapunzel. He does genuinely love his daughters, particularly Ariel. He doesn’t belittle and mock them, delight in making them unhappy, physically harm them, and/or go looking to start fights with them. His avoidance of dealing with his grief and insecurities in a completely healthy, honest, and open manner with his family and friends out of fear of being seen as “weak” and not being taken seriously by them, helicopter parent tendencies with Ariel, hot temper, and xenophobia bring him into that bad parent territory on occasion. However, he’s not ill-intended. You’re never obligated to forgive or take back someone who abused you as their victim, even if they apologize or claim to have changed. You shouldn’t ever enable their abuse of power, or stick around them when they refuse to change. However, Ariel really doesn’t do that with Triton. She rebels against his illogically harsh restrictions and rules, and little by little, he grows as a parent and a person because he does love his daughter. She leaves after he destroys her grotto. Moreover, she also gets her freedom and space from him at the end when he grows. Ariel was never obligated to forgive her father, but she did because she had a kind heart.

Can I get the short verson?

"Just bc we were given equal rights as men it doesn't mean we need to be independent and strong all the time around them to be of value". Yes, we were given back rights that were taken from us, that never should have been taken in the first place. The response to being "given back" our literal human rights isn't gratitude or a gold star for those willing to see us as equal humans. They don't get a cookie for doing the right thing. Also the rights were fought for, not just given benevolently. And so now, bc we have those rights, we don't need to be independent and strong all the time around them to be of value. How are the two even connected? People should emote how they feel, whether that be a vulnerable emotion or the desire for independence and not sharing their feelings, regardless of their status of equality. Value doesn't factor into that argument. Why are you so concerned with how we are of value to men, rather than just your value as a human and a person?

The changes were absurd for plot consistency. At one point they are complaining that the humans keep littering the sea floor with the pieces of their wrecked ships. As the king of the ocean, I feel like Triton has an easy fix for that...

So THAT the secret! I always wondered what magic they are doing because I can't replicate it, even on the stove

Amen

I've only seen the novelization but it's embarrassing how they didn't GET what they were rewriting

They should have cast Zendaya, who is widely considered the best actress in the world.

​@@trhansen3244 But she's not, Zendaya is extremely mediocre, she's just good at modeling bruh 😂

@@alexandersmith4731 Wow, what a claim you had over Zendaya. Where did you get that from? 😀

@@alexandersmith4731 I have to wonder if your objection to her as a thespian is because she is black?

@@trhansen3244 She's half black, incredibly favored by casting agency cause they don't like fully dark black actress, she's the favored light tan of Hollywood skin tone, you will never see Keke Palmer have the same opportunity as Zendaya due to that alone, even her role in Showman was awful, always looking like somebody fart in her way when the camera is focused on her Srsly, Zendaya is just the half black version of Emma Watson

SpongeBob movie was actually 2015 but I see your point

I love this idea - that would have been a much better idea.

I used to work in an office and oh booooy! Did they do and say crazy things that no one should do or say in public. Heck! I could write a whole book on what not to do in a professional environment. And, your story made me laugh so much it reminds me of Matt, I used to work with him. He got himself fired. I don't know exactly what happened but by the next week we arrived and there was someone new at his desk. 🙅‍♀ 🤷‍♀

Which is about 50 people. XD

Pushing their agenda is more important than anything else to them.

Wish elon musk could destroy twitter sooner so these woke people can't keep floundering in their echo chambers.

It doesn't have to ruin your childhood if you don't let it, back when my sister made me watch the crappy live-action remake of Aladdin I went home and cleansed my mind with the amazing animation lol. I'll do the same with Mermaid.

Mission accomplished. They've made $125m already and counting 🎉

"Actresses" when it comes to girls and women.

@@englishatheart Actors covers all people who work in front of the camera. Go check a dictionary...

​@@englishatheart What is a woman? 😏

I see prettier girls at church on Sunday.

Guess Halle either loves money or attention. Maybe both Or the contract she signed with Disney told her to say what she said

Did u have the same complaint regarding the actors in all the other remakes because those are also copy/paste too.

@@brendajameson5093 All of them are terrible except for Cinderella 2015

Whats the political Agenda you speak of ? Only brain dead people and losers fall for the agenda crap

I had that experience on my birthday with Brian and Charles

I appreciate it, I'm glad you're here!

It does. You vote with your wallet. Go woke go broke.

The animated Disney version from the 90s shat on the original story to begin with 😅

Definitely does not shit on the original. Maybe watch it first. You can still see yourself in Ariel and the first Ariel athletically.

@@ErgoDog I disagree. While being Disney, they obviously weren't going to keep the bittersweet ending, (they didn't have the guts to do that until Pocahontas), they did keep the essence of the theme which WAS largely the self-sacrifice for another's happiness. I WILL agree that King Triton giving her legs was a LITTLE out of left field, but at that point, Ariel had TOTALLY proven her worth for being granted such a gift.

Christine, Love your response and thoughts on this. Especially as to why don't they come up with original stories. Too bad they have no creativity to do anything past cash grabs.

Yeah, and she's been cast in a remake of The Color Purple. If she can't act in a kids' film, just imagine how bad she's going to be in a serious drama.

@@matane2465 ... She's a masochist, isn't she?

The story never took place in Denmark though, but in Italy.

It's not meant for adults. And so what if his kids don't like it. Plenty of others did. This guy is a nobody trying to ride that hate train

@@suzygirl1843 "If you aim for kids alone, you'll fail. After all, adults are just kids grown up." -Walt Disney

@@DragonGoddess18 Hmmm.... Honestly. Disney adults are weird. I don't think I want to be buying toys for myself or watching kids movies alone. If I didn't have my niece then I would avoid all these movies and rather watch Succession on Streaming. It's weird trying to relive what's passed. America is behind China because they're stuck debating the past and present and refuse to move to the future

They did some race swapping in The Lion King as well, it’s just more subtle. You have to pay attention to whose voicing the characters.

Well guess what .... 😂 Snow White is coming and Snow White's skin is NOT white as snow and NO dwarves. 😮 Disney has lost their minds

Snow black

Yeah thats in the original, i always assumed that its because shes a mermaid and can talk to fish.. if we ignore scuttle lol

I never noticed until my wife brought it up. Weird

Tbf... By the time she's actually introduced to Max she can't talk at all iirc (at least in the animated movie). Just cause the movie doesn't translate dog, doesn't mean Ariel can't understand it.

I would love to hear kids honest Opinions on movie remakes like this more often…same goes for other kids movies

I definitely would love that!

They race swapped everyone except Eric. It makes no damn sense.

If it’s your favorite you should watch it. The story was faithful

Aladdin was a complete joke. Growing up that was my favourite movie and I hate the remake. Aladdin is some nervous awkward low self esteem guy and Jasmine is all about being the Sultan and girl power. Hated it. Jafar was a joke as well.

I don't know if it's hilarious or incredibly sad to watch grown people lose their minds over a Disney movie because of a mythological character's skin color. Is it 2023 or 1923?

S. Valens. Something else that I've noticed too is the alleged cast for Lilo & Stitch (Live C-V-Ctrl) that some of the main cast actors are being put under scrutiny by media and Twitter trolling bad-mouths. The main leads were supposed to be this colour and another colour, and this hair colour. In case Disney or the US population hasn't done their research in the most recent years, most of Hawaii is mixed race, today they look completely different. Some of the Natives do remain but because people from other countries have visited, toured, and married into the main population; some people in Hawaii do have different skin tones. My friend, her boyfriend, my BF and myself, went to Hawaii last year and there were many changes. Although, my aunt's family does look the same as they did ten years ago. Lol! They were happy to see us and enjoy the holidays together. What I dislike is the hate and microscopic details and dumb misconceptions about what we look like and what we sound like. We've changed, that's good.

Agree with pretty much everything, just wanted to comment that your first point is exactly what this feels like. It feels like a middle schooler's self insert fanfiction

Because that is even worse and people would be even more pissed off. It makes Ariel even more horrible and Disney would avoid that because cancel culture would eat them up.

Probably more that, but it differentiated itself, which these new live actions do not

@@gregowen2022 on that we can wholeheartedly agree.

@@gregowen2022 See i think theres two ways you can do a good remake. One way is to make it as close to the source material as possible and make it look better (peter opan 2003) and make a different story based off the source material (pan, hook). But like you said they didn't try to make this look good nor did they really try and change anything. All changes were surface level and ruined various scenes. Like why was Ariel singing with Sebastian in under the sea.. missed the whole point of the scene just because they wanted to make her sing a bit more lol.

What about the 2003 adaptation?

@@DanielChannel57excellent book adaptation, great use of cg to fit the mood of a fantastical setting rather than trying to be overly realistic. Overall, 2003 IS Peter Pan, while disneys Peter Pan and Wendy on d+…is revisionist “fan” fiction.

She can act stay made

​@@junetothemoon * wiggles mermaidly * 😐

Yep.

Stfu, she did great y'all are just mad.

Yeah cause people don’t wanna be labeled as “racist” for calling out Any black actors inability to act

Gotta read the cheat cards that Disney provides, or you will lose access.

You people are ridiculous and when I say that it’s not about color it’s the fact that you guys wanna hate on Halle so much.

Hook was great. I also should have mentioned Maleficent. That was live action, but a different take on the character