The Little Mermaid Trailer Has Me Confused 

I mean, let's be real, there was absolutely no chance Sebastian wasn't gonna look weird lmao

I find funny and sad how Alsan and other animals from The Chronicles of Narnia showed more expression than the current cgi animals in these remakes and that was back in 2005!

Halle does look and sound absolutely incredible… I just so wish that her hair colour was more like the original.. she’s a mermaid, it doesn’t need to necessarily look like a totally natural human colour, it should be so much brighter like bright corals (*not saying the actual colour ‘coral’)… they could always have had it tone down for her becoming human… I’m so glad they are showing more colour though, really hope they heighten it even more.

I just wanna now if Eric’s dog, Max, is going to be in it. Also it looks much better than it did before but the animals just look really awkward and it does still look like too much green screen but it’s an improvement for sure

Here's my only wish: I hope that the script is good and doesn't try to change the original movie, and I REALLY, REALLY hope they get Ariel's bubbly, lively, passionate personality right and that they don't make her sensual and wistful

Remember Mera, the redheaded girl from Aquaman? She doesn’t look out of place on land or off land with her vibrant red hair, in fact, she looks super pretty. I wish something like that for Ariel yet they decided to settle with… that. This is supposed to be a fantasy, fantasy is supposed to be colorful, vibrant and bright. Not dull and “natural” and “realistic”.

You are right; they did brighten the underwater scenes, if only slightly. Honestly, I've felt iffy about this movie for many reasons, not least of which is that I haven't liked a single live action movie, except for Maleficent. However, I love Halle's look, her voice, and that, when there is color, the film does look stunning. Provided the trailer shows an accurate depiction of how they will actually go with the film, I am cautiously optimistic. I will probably always like the animated film better because it feels more magical, but I hope the film is good and they don't add too much nonsense to it like they have done with every other live action film. Some extra is fine, but too much may ruin it for me.

I don't like how bland it looks and Sebastian gave me a jump scare and flounder just looks so slapable to me

Im just glad they cast someone who can sing as Ariel. Little Mermaid songs are some of the most memorable Disney renaissance songs, so on that front I’m optimistic

I wish they did a deeper red for her hair. Just to add some contrast on her face shots. She kinda gets lost, and sometimes it just adds to the blandness of the color pallet if she's in certain scenes.

I feel so bad for not liking the trailer cause her voice is amazing 😭 But the underwater scenes look meeh & I'm still sad her hair is not bright red ...

Yes, because after 15 horrible disasters of film-making abominations, surely the 16th attempt will be a masterpiece.

my only issue with disney racebending already established characters is the fact they set themselves up for failure by poorly lighting darker skinned actresses. I was rlly disappointed with their handling of tinkerbell and wish they would back up these actresses with good visuals. This looks great though glad they took some of the criticisms to heart

For the same reason I'm ok with the darkness during the rescue scene, I'm ok with the low saturation of the beach scene. It's going to be dark at night and it's going to be low saturation at dawn. If it was brighter, that would mean she swam about 5+ hours to land to go from pitch black night to almost mid-day sun. When she turns in the water to stare back, the lighting is beautiful dawn lighting. Soft shadows, slightly cool, desaturated vs mid-day which is harsh shadows, vivid, super sharp, and slightly warm. I hope the wedding is during sunset or sunrise to really showcase the journey of Ariel.

For me it's 100 % looks better than previous teaser trailer, but I still don't wanna watch it after seeing the first glimpse of Sebastian in this, and I was like NOPE

They definitely heard some criticisms towards the colorgrade. I think they should make an effort to add nore vibrancy before release. Ariel's hair looks like a washed orange instead of red.

Yes. I think this looks much better than what we’ve seen before. Still not a fan of the live action animals but this actually made me think it could be good

The fact that they doubled the length of the final note, we needed thaaat. PLEASE tell me it's not editing and just pure breath support because THAT is what vocalist fans are waiting forrrr

I'm glad it's a little brighter because before it was definitely more on the Gotham color spectrum. As far as live actions go, Disney should've taken notes from Universal's Peter Pan because the color choices in that film were fantastic

Sebastian reminds me of, you know in the SpongeBob movie where they dried out SpongeBob and Patrick and all the other dried out fish had googly eyes on them? That lol

My main issues are: selective vibrancy, the cg animals look terrible, and the beginning when Ariel saves Eric is supposed to be lit up by the ship on fire and the fireworks and explosions and they didn't really give that. Otherwise it looks better than what they put out before

I’m glad they upped some of the vibrancy, but it sucks that Disney frequently has to be pushed to give fans what they want/deserve.

I don’t know if anyone else noticed this but some of the shots definitely don’t look finished like they look too green screen to me. Also it’s weird how some shots are dark and grainy and then some other ones are bright and colorful like they almost look 2D animated. But then we have the realistic animal characters that are giving me uncanny valley vibes. OK scuttle honestly doesn’t look bad to me because honestly that’s what I expected her to look like but Sebastian looks plain out terrifying. I understand it’s a crab and there’s not much you can do with a crabs base since they quite literally don’t have facial muscles or expressions but The other animals better have a good expressions on their faces because most sea life like dolphins for example I’ve seen irl and definitely have lots of expressions and emotions. Oh well I’m still excited to see this movie and I definitely think hailey has a gorgeous voice and everything else looks great to me.

Nobody ever said Halle wasn’t an amazing singer and makes a beautiful mermaid. It still doesn’t remove what Disney is doing.

They’re definitely going for race blind casting. Triton’s daughters are all different ethnicities, each one based on one of the seven seas and the regions surrounding those seas. Simone Ashley, who was the female lead in season 2 of Bridgerton, is one of them.

No lie Sebestian looks terrifying to me flounder looks like a generic pet fish BUT Ariel looks Beautiful the hair, voice, tail Beautiful! And I'm surprisingly hyped!

As much as I have my doubts about this movie, I have to admit that this trailer was actually pretty decent and I agree on them doing good for fixing the ocean brightness!

I think the actress was great and she makes a great mermaid. I'm just sad that she had to be in a live action de-make of a Disney property and not an original character in another, better mermaid story

My only issue is that they should've given Melissa more lavender pigmentation in her skin and Halle's hair should've been more vibrant as more of a callback to the original animation. Also I don't think they were going for race blind casting. For all we know, her mom in this version is black or mixed (if we ever see her, which we likely won't). Everything else is perfect and I'm sold and I'm gonna sob uncontrollably during this movie I'm dying save me omg I wanna watch it NOW 😭

I’m willing to forgive this movie IF they keep the original ending. At the end of the day, the little mermaid is not just a tale of love, but to learn to let your kids go so they can start their own life. Ariel marrying Eric, an act considered of separating from your family to make a new your own, and saying goodbye to her dad with the “I love you daddy” is so much powerful than a dumb girl boss moment

not excited for the movie, but her vocals are amazing, I have goosebumps.

This trailer made me have goosebumps, I was still gonna watch it and judge if I loved it or not, I just it’s just as good as this trailer is making it look

The thing is, this looks indeed alot better than we feared. Halle has a beautiful voice worthy of Ariel, she looks amazing as a mermaid, Ursula's portrayal is also giving me some actual hope again and the sea finally looks better too although alot can still be improved. The standards regarding these remakes has never been "Everything needs to be 100% dogshit to not be concidered good". These movies cost millions upon MILLIONS of dollars, there _better_ be good stuff in this! But that doesn't mean any of this should automatically be tolerated just because it wasn't as bad as we feared. Especially not when the BAR has been brought down to the floor by Disney itself in the last decade. No, Halle's beautiful singing voice is not proof that the movie itself is good, it just means Disney at least did prioritized the singing voice in casting (which Hallelujah, after Emma Watson as Belle). But her singing isn't deciding if the movie is good. For all it is, they could have had a bad singer in a good movie and the movie would still be good. In that case the OG version would just have suffered alot and people should watch international dubs where proper singing voices made up for the bad OG. But no dubbing studio could potentially save this little mermaid remake if it's simply a bad movie. And regarding the visuals? Again, millions upon millions of dollars. "it looks better than I thought!" is one seriously pathetic and outrageous standard to hold DISNEY to. It's not hard to look better than I thought when Disney teached me to expect the worst :/

I'm so torn on this one. I'm like half excited and half disappointed. I think they did brighten the trailer footage in a few places, but not enough of the movie looks brightened, and I'm so disappointed that her hair just looks brown. Halle looks beautiful and sounds great, and I like a lot of the design work like on the mermaids' tails. Ursula might look great, but we didn't see all of her clearly yet. I just wish they'd be willing to revamp the colors before it comes out.

I feel like the blander underwater scenes are there to intensify her sadness. That might just be me, though.

i'm skeptical. they can slap as much color on it as they want, but will it add anything to the story? probably no. it will be like the remake of beauty & the beast which felt flat and oddly wrong.

Okay the trailer is making me more excited about it! I love Halle's voice too, her and Chloe's songs are always so beautiful.

Lol you’re expecting bright, saturated colors at night, during a hurricane, in the middle of the ocean??? The movie looks incredible!!

Cool trailer, but it will never be no where near as good as the original.

Halle is a good singer and deserved her own original princess story, however she did go all in for another raceswapped character, that'll only be remembered as being a lesser version, especially without the vibrant red hair, so I don't feel that bad for her if this kills her career. The only thing worse than the murky color palate, is the fact the ocean looks so fake and the animals look like nightmare fuel.

Honestly, good job to the guy nailing the trini accent for sebastian. Not so sold on sebastian tho lol but I'll let it slide. Not that deep for me. Lol

The questions of why it’s so dark in THE DARK and in the day where the sky is covered in clouds was actually driving me crazy. Like we’re really pretending that the underwater scenes where she’s isolated in the animated versions are colorful? Because their dark as hell…

it looks pretty good i just wish she had bright red hair, it drives me crazy that her hair is not red!!

Considering the information available, colorblind casting is very likely. It was recently confirmed that Simone Ashley (from Bridgerton) plays one of Ariel’s sisters, even though she’s South Asian, and I looked into some of the other actors cast as Ariel’s sisters, and they’re of different backgrounds as well. And Lin-Manuel Miranda *is* involved on the production side of things, so that could be a factor. Granted, in the original, none of the sisters looked alike anyway, and other media expanding on it (like the prequel movie) demonstrate how the mom was basically Ariel’s twin and the dad also had red hair as a younger man, so it’s possibly an homage to that?

It looks better, but... so much of the coral looks so DEAD. I'd love to see the reefs in all their full color in this movie. I think it could be really cool, and it might even be able to save it. A few other notes I have is that 1- in the part where the birb (can't remember its name) is like "you look different!" the plants on deck with them look REALLY plasticky. 2- I could see a little bit of too-light color around her hair, so it looked really unnatural. 3- The ocean has a lot of STUFF in it, and I think a lot of the shots don't look full enough. 4- The ocean has a lot of SMALL STUFF in it, but the layering is really weird. Things that are farther away should look bluer and with less detail, but in this it really looks like they just had regular lights in a regular room and just put an ocean screen behind them. It should look like they're IN the ocean, not next to it. It looks a lot better now, but there are still some things that I'd love to see fixed! :D

I almost shedded a tear watching it 🥲.

I think her hair should have been more red.. that’s literally Ariel’s signature feature. Her hair looks more strawberry blonde than red in several shots. Also, I don’t like the casting… except for Halle, she’s perfect for this role. But as for Ursula, Eric, and King Tritan🥴.. eh. Lastly, I think the cgi in several scenes looked subpar.. the only scene that looked really good was the ship scene at the beginning. I think I’m just super critical of it because The Little Mermaid was my favorite Disney princess movie, as a little girl. I was obsessed with Ariel. So my standards are really high for this one… I want to feel that same magic and emotion I felt as a child. I just didn’t get that from this trailer. I had the same expectations for the remake of Mulan, and was horrifically let down. Fingers crossed for this one 🤞🏼

I do think it looks much better now and absolutely love the more vibrant and colorful scenes. The only thing I could pick on is Ariel's hair colour as the current shade (looks like a cinnamon colour) is fairly similar to Halle's skin colour which is honestly okay if people prefer it that way but I honestly wished they used a darker or added a bit of hot or crimson red colour so that her beautiful complexion and facial features don't get lost or become one with her hair.

To be fair, the shipwreck scene was just as dark in the animation. The thing that concerns me is that they still don't really seem to know their audience. It almost seems like they're trying to take this in an edgy meta place based on the music and the colors. But if you want to do that, you can't call it "Disney's The Little Mermaid" because everyone is going to expect a wholesome colorful animated camp fairytale. They had the right idea with Malificent because it already distanced itself from sleeping beauty by not being called sleeping beauty. Alice in Wonderland distanced itself because we knew it was made by Tim Burton and that was the pitch.

Does anyone think that the teaser trailer was intentionally darker to stir up talk about "how bad" the movie will be, just so they could release this brighter "better-looking" trailer and have people put a more positive spin on it?

I think Halle Bailey was the perfect choice for the role. I agree with you that everything looks a bit TOO realistic. Maybe I’m just being picky but I wish they had made her hair a little bit more vibrant shade of red

So far the only gripe i have is how extremely darkly toned it all is, even with my brightness all the way turned up so i hope they do something with that. Sebastian also looks a bit funky but that’s something to expected/feared xD

The quality of this movie is more for TV than for the theater

I don't hate her cuz she's black, I hate this because this is the same person who said animation is for kids!

Why did they take away the ginger hair. it has a tint of red yes but it mostly just looks brown. I wish they could have made her hair a bit more red But Halles voice is incredible

Let's be real, When I first saw the trailer & Ariel said "Its show time," as she swam into the batmobile to fight off the last transformer, I wept.

This trailer made me do a 180 on this movie. I went from ZERO interest to being excited for it. I hope it’s not another case of having a good trailer with a crappy movie. Like to me, the Multiverse of Madness trailer was so good. But the movie blows. I really hope that’s not the case here. I want the movie to do well. Halle has gotten so much undeserving hate that it would be nice to see this succeed.

Halle looks eternal like a Disney Princess and has a sweet voice, i can see why they casted her.

I wish they made her hair red, Ik they had to ad realism with gingers but that’s the most annoying thing about remakes.

Cartoon Sebastian and Flounder in CGI would be horrible. Imagine a crab with a human face.

I would like to know why Disney thinks I should care about another remake that will pale in comparison to its own original. It can be pretty. Diverse. And full of well meaning actors, but in the end it’s telling the same story but without the magic of surprise that the world had upon seeing the original. We go to the theater for the magic of surprise. This, even if it were great will only get me a passing view of it on Disney + and that’s after exhausting all other options.

I just can't get over how bad sebastian looks 😭

Everyone’s saying he doesn’t look like her dad as if he birthed her himself, she has a mom lmao, also the story states she looks almost identical to her mother so.

I actually got excited when looking at the new trailer!

These shots do look brighter than before, so they clearly lightened them up.

It says a lot the live action Lion King had better cgi animals, since that was an animal documentary, while this was just a woman talking to nightmare hallucinations.

As someone who's favorite princess movie is "The Little Mermaid", I have soooo many mixed feelings about this movie. It's too dark, and Ariel's friends are ugly!!

Right???? Oh my gosh! Lord knows I've had so many differing opinions on this movie but this trailer may actually change my opinion completely!

this does look great! the colors are much much better in some of those shots, still needs more vibrancy but this looks a lot better than what we were shown before :) i like the bird guy, he looks nice.

Now THAT is a good trailer! Way better than the teasers. Now I am very excited for this. Very beautiful trailer that it put me in tears. The little mermaid is my childhood, I loved it when I was a kid. So I’m excited to see this beautiful remake now that I’m an adult. And wow Halle Bailey is so beautiful. Also I love Melissa McCarthy as Ursula

So you think realism flounder looks weird but a more cartoon looking one would look good in this life action?

I have my doubts about this movie actually being good.

Brittney I love your understated joy in this video, "I actually think that looked pretty solid!" as you start to get visibly hyped lol 💜

I’m actually so excited. Besides all the controversies surrounding it, this movies been the only remake i’ve been genuinely excited for since … whenever. hopefully they don’t mess up lmfao

I have 2 critiques for this trailer: 1) The CGI on the hair pls its soo smooth 😂 2) they did Sebastian so dirty like you could have at least made him a porcelain crab so he looks pretty 🤯

The live action animals were ok, somewhat realistic, and that make sense, they're not gonna make them like the animated film. So far looks good!

The colours look a lot better. My only real criticism is that the ocean world feels really...lonely? In the original Little Mermaid, the underwater world felt like its own distinct and thriving society that was rich with culture and characters. Here, the realistic fish and lack of other merfolk makes Ariel seem kinda isolated from any sense of community. Dunno if that's just me though.

If anyone is still angry over this they probably were sold by this trailer. Like you said… that determined look Halle have had serious Disney Princess power and this may very well make Halle an immortalized star.

Ya know, Halle Bailey as Ariel is actually growing on me. Besides the dark scenes that are difficult to see and the CGI animals this movie looks like it could possibly be good!

Feels like the shots were either really fun to look at or boring, like it's not even the same movie. And make her hair vibrant. She's gorgeous tho and sounds lovely, she's great for the roll. Trident felt off, idk. Maybe he needed to be more robust? Ursula might be okay, but her skin could be more purple. I hate the animals. I want them to emote back to ariel. I imagine some will be great and some will be disappointing, not much middle ground imo. But who knows.

Her voice is incredible! Her face is so very Disney princess… I just wish so wish she had RED RED hair 😭😭😭

So this is my 1st time seeing the trailer and I agree with a lot of the sentiments. Especially with how dark things are. I think they should take something out of the playbook from the ppl who made games like, Subnatica.

All of her sisters are played by actresses of different races so I think while Javier doesn't directly look like Halle he also doesn't look like *any* of the daughters really so it works LMAO

They practically showed the whole movie in the trailer lol. Halle sounds amazing but I'm still not sold with Melissa McCarthy as Ursula lol, for me, Pat Caroll will always be Ursula (and Morganna!). I'm not a fan of Triton's voice in this. It's very dark and murky indeed. OMG Scuttle looks *HORRIFYING* so does Sebastian....whyyyyy???

Omg when I realized she changed the last note and was going higher!!!!! Omg my singing brain is going crazy!! That belt is so strong and beautiful and LONG. Wow, her voice is more than perfect for the role!

i literally cried yesssss loved this trailer so much. my only complaints are that damn crab and awkwafina

Your joy and wholesomeness made the video! Im so happy you reviewed it so early! I did cry at the trailer Halle looks gorgeous and I feel like she nailed Ariel’s vocals and even speaking voice. I do wish her hair was just a liiiiiil bit more red and scuttle and. Sebastian sounded different but you win some and loose some. I feel like the backdrop and location gave pirates of the Caribbean vibes and idk how I feel about it I agree it looks so washed out like the editors couldn’t find the saturation button Also why is flounder so tiny 😭

It's literally a live action movie why would the animals not look like real animals???? If Sebastian looked like he did in the animated version you guys would complain bc he'd look like a blob. I'm genuinely so confused by this type of critique

I sometimes get a bit worried when trailers look really good in fear that the ad companies deliberately choose the parts that look the best to make the film appear better than it actually is, but I think it looks pretty good! I think the on-land shots were made to look desaturated so it had a stronger contrast to the vibrant, colourful and magical tone of the ocean, but I do hope that the areas within the kingdom are more colourful. Flounder and Sebastian look super weird but I was fine with Scuttle, honestly. I mean I really adore birds so I might be a bit biased, but at the very least I think he looked the best out of the three. I also like that they made him a Gannet instead of a seagull because I love Gannets!

Halle is going to absolutely crush this movie in the BEST way. The pieces of songs Ive heard so far with her voice is stunning. Some of the visuals are amazing in the trailer. Yes it seems dark, but its the unfortunate that theyre trying to convey full realism instead of going for the 'Roger Rabbit' type of mixture of cartoony cgi characters with real life people. Overall Im super interested in watching this, this might be the best 'live action' Disney movie yet.

I’m so proud of Halle it’s so sad how individuals are picking apart every single detail of the movie, it’s actually kinda disturbing. Yikes!

Looks like Disney did some color correction. Some of the scenes look awesome. Others look a little too blended. Like bad water color. Seeing this. I think, Disney might want to test it's trailers on a smaller audience or have a trailer preview.Before posting it to RU-vid.

This trailer is MILES better than the prior teasers Disney has released to the public....but then again, the Mulan 2020 Trailer was equally as majestic as this clip and we all know how that final product turned out 😅 Still interested in seeing how the film plays out upon release.

I just finished watching your video discussing the drab darkness of the film! Excited to watch your updated opinions!

Her voice is incredible 😭😭❤

love Halle acting and singing but to me Disney could of expand the ariel franchise and brought more to her world. TBH we only see ariel in one setting maybe due to ariel and eric's marriage, they created a treaty between the land and sea, we could get a new character from another part of the sea under triont rule that maybe follow the same themes as ariel but have a different path she could also get her own prince following a similar theme they explore parts of ariel world that we didnt get to see and their villain could be from a cultural myth of the evil mermaid.

The Little Mermaid is of Danish origin and was originally conceived by writer Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1837 and it doesn't look like the author intended.

Shuttle looks terrible doesn't even look like a real bird Flounder is too small to toy with areil. Ursula looks terrible Don't believe triton is areils father It real drap.

Still going to wait for the reviews of this film. I still don’t trust Disney not to slip something into the film because “current year Disney”, but I really hope that they can just tell a story. Really hope that it becomes the best Disney remake! I currently have more optimism for films like Mavka (Animagrad: Ukraine) Currently not ready for American cinema, but the trailers, and music videos make it look exciting.

After all the negative criticism of this movie so far, I figured it would be another Live Action Disney dud. This new trailer, however, breathed new life into the movie. While we won't know for sure how good the movie will be until it comes out, there is at least a little hope for it to be, at the very least, a descent movie.