Review: The new LittleMermaid is just more of the same—an uneasy mix of carbon copy and superfluous added material, presented in “live-action” that looks and feels (and is) as artificial as Lightning McQueen.
: an uneasy mix of carbon copy and superfluous added material, presented in “live-action” that looks and feels as artificial as Lightning McQueen. It’s diverting for an hour and a half, until you realize that there are 40 minutes of movie left.
The film’s heart, at least, is in the right place. It’s reimagined the seven daughters of King Triton as members of an oceanic United Nations who hate how humans are always throwing their garbage into the sea. The home island of hunky Prince Eric is rendered as a vibrant Caribbean kingdom.
Like so many of the remake’s changes, though, those songs seem intended to fix problems that never really existed. Does it matter that Ariel doesn’t talk for half of the movie, after making a deal with wicked Ursula ? Not if the entire story is done and dusted in 83 minutes.
by not having Ariel sign a contract with Ursula, and adding a silly extra parameter to Ursula’s spell. Who cares about Eric’s backstory, or his family? The new
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