She should fall in love with a pirate.
Posted on 05/30/2023 5:18:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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This feels lousy to say, because I was rooting for a huge success to follow the noxious backlash to the trailer last year: Some people apparently couldn’t handle the audacity of reinventing a cartoon character as a Black actress. But star Halle Bailey, in the role of Ariel, has nothing to apologize for: She’s the best thing about this movie. Unfortunately, that’s faint praise.
A lot of ink and pixels have testified to the value of Black children and their moms being able to see themselves in a Disney heroine, and that’s a powerfully admirable goal – as well as a long-overdue one, given the brand’s still overwhelmingly White majority of characters.
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Then there’s the running time: Two hours and fifteen minutes. The original was an hour twenty-three. The time expansion is such a comically bad decision, I still can’t get my head around it. Nothing little kids like more than sitting still for over two hours! Most recent Disney remakes have kept it at least under the two-hour mark, with the exception of 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast” and 2021’s “Cruella,” both of which were, at least, livelier than this one.
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She should fall in love with a pirate.
Yeah I mean they never even had Cosby and folks in an intact smart nuclear family show...or Fresh Prince in the 90s
It’s like replacement theology - you have to twist and alter what’s actually written to try and make it fit.
Modern Disney films are made to exploit children.
Most Disney movies have been about children disobeying their parents. It’s a common thread in a lot of Disney movies.
That in a nutshell is the entire problem with trying to please the Woke. Can't be done. And all it does is piss normal people off.
She’s woke. But she knows it’s crap. What can she do?
#17 🤢🤮 Tired of the constant barrage of interracial wokeness. Puke.
I have seen the reviews. Its way too long, dreary and drab, and too boss girl, which is the real problem.
Yep...I’ll never see that as a favorable ‘thing’.... Each to his own kind is a good thing.
Do you have a citation for that?
“They loved him before they hated him”
So many people fall under this statement when its about lefty socialist wokesters
I haven't seen the movie but I assume the mermaid is the masculine character while the guy she's dating is feminine.
“Black children and their moms being able to see themselves in a Disney....’
Even better if theyvcould see their daddy.
What's a daddy?
How ‘bout the black queen who has a white son as a prince?
That left me scratching my head, TBH.
AND Poseidon having so many different daughters representing the earthly seas? Wow! He sure was “laying some pipe”.
Yes, I noticed that - as they have an almost genetic phobia of water.
How many black women and girls have naturally straight long flowing hair like that?
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