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Disney mocked for 'woke-a-thon' $250M Little Mermaid live-action reboot: with 'drag queen' Ursula, King Triton the environmentalist, mixed-race mermen, and 'affirmative consent' slipped into prince's love song
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 26 2023 | JAMES REINL

Posted on 05/26/2023 12:58:13 PM PDT by knighthawk

Disney is under fire for 'wokery' slipped into its live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, which is projected to bring in $100 million for the company despite mixed reviews this Memorial Day weekend.

Critics and audiences have given the reboot of the 1989 animated classic 'average' and 'unfavorable' reviews on ratings site Metacritic. Some bash the makers' efforts to update the film to contemporary social mores.

Naysayers have focussed on tweaks to the plot and lyrics that play around with sex, ethnicity and cultural values to make the 125-minute remake fit with Disney's progressive politics.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 05/26/2023 12:58:13 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

I wasn’t planning on seeing it anyway. The only two Disney remakes I liked were the 2016 version of “The Jungle Book” and the 2019 remake of “The Lion King”.


2 posted on 05/26/2023 1:00:43 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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This remake makes the Little Mermaid tale even less realistic given that we’re supposed to believe those actors can swim.


3 posted on 05/26/2023 1:03:27 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Just a bunch of stupid garbage. The poor kids of today need something lovely, not all that propaganda trash.


4 posted on 05/26/2023 1:08:14 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: knighthawk

When I was a kid, I read Hans Andersen’s original version of “The Little Mermaid” (Copenhagen: Reitzel, 1837) and didn’t like it, so I never saw the movie.


5 posted on 05/26/2023 1:18:58 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: AmericanMermaid

If Disney really wanted to get butts in seats, they would bring the classics back to theaters the 30 somethings have children now.


6 posted on 05/26/2023 1:20:21 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: AmericanMermaid

Back in the 1980s, my feminist late mother-in-law gave our children the earliest example of woke propaganda for children I know of: a picture book reimagining of “The Little Engine That Could,” as retold by “Waddy Piper.” In the new version, the titular Little Engine was female, and all the haughty larger engines were oppressive male machines. Of course, the male engines failed to get up the hill, while the plucky female Little Engine made it through sheer determination and, I suppose, to strike a blow against the patriarchy.


7 posted on 05/26/2023 1:26:27 PM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: I-ambush

I originally misread your last sentence…..oh AGAINST the patriarchy….


8 posted on 05/26/2023 2:12:41 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: cnsmom

Yes - that’s what they used to do with great success. I didn’t realize 101 Dalmatians was decades old when I went to see it in theaters as a child - and the theater was full.


9 posted on 05/26/2023 2:15:53 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: knighthawk

Disney has lost the will to live


10 posted on 05/26/2023 2:16:59 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: knighthawk
"'affirmative consent' slipped into prince's love song"


11 posted on 05/26/2023 2:19:42 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: knighthawk

Mixed reviews, like:

“Stinks on Ice”

“Lower than whale poop”

“Slimier than a swimming pool of hagfish”


12 posted on 05/26/2023 2:32:33 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: knighthawk

Next, Disney will offer unfiltered kiddie porn. If they don’t already.


13 posted on 05/26/2023 2:40:37 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: knighthawk
Scuttle, a male seagull in the original, has become a female gannet.

This changes everything!

14 posted on 05/26/2023 2:44:14 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Toda la creacion pregona la grandeza del Senor.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

The kids loved it with the huge screens and sound. I’d probably go again even without kids in tow


15 posted on 05/26/2023 2:50:27 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: I-ambush

Wow, that sounds perfectly awful! You’re a lot nicer than I am because I would have read it to the kids only once, and that would be with a lot of editorializing so as not to pass on the MIL’s toxic feminism.


16 posted on 05/26/2023 3:06:49 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: Samurai_Jack

In their effort to be politically correct they run into a filthy under meme
Oh well it’s funny


17 posted on 05/26/2023 3:08:23 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjamybeyin Franklin.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Little mermaid needs tarter sauce!


18 posted on 05/26/2023 3:09:56 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjamybeyin Franklin.)
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To: knighthawk

I wonder when this non-stop Trans crap is going to end.


19 posted on 05/26/2023 3:47:49 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: AmericanMermaid

The kids never knew. In my reading, there was no gender reversal.


20 posted on 05/26/2023 6:38:20 PM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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