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Opinion: I hated ‘The Little Mermaid’
CNN ^ | Tue May 30, 2023 | Sara Stewart

Posted on 05/30/2023 5:18:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

**SNIP**

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.

**SNIP**

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: littlemermaid
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To: caww

She should fall in love with a pirate.

21 posted on 05/30/2023 5:57:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Magic Fingers

Yeah I mean they never even had Cosby and folks in an intact smart nuclear family show...or Fresh Prince in the 90s


22 posted on 05/30/2023 5:58:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: martin_fierro
Neither does this....With her hair like Bob Marleys no less!


23 posted on 05/30/2023 5:59:22 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Secret Agent Man
...or Fresh Prince in the 90s


24 posted on 05/30/2023 6:00:34 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

It’s like replacement theology - you have to twist and alter what’s actually written to try and make it fit.


25 posted on 05/30/2023 6:02:20 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Modern Disney films aren't made to entertain children.

Modern Disney films are made to exploit children.

26 posted on 05/30/2023 6:04:03 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch

Most Disney movies have been about children disobeying their parents. It’s a common thread in a lot of Disney movies.


27 posted on 05/30/2023 6:06:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Poor Sara. I get the impression that this miserable excrescence suffers purely from not being woke enough to suit her. Oh, and being boring. That too.

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.

28 posted on 05/30/2023 6:15:36 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

She’s woke. But she knows it’s crap. What can she do?


29 posted on 05/30/2023 6:17:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: caww

#17 🤢🤮 Tired of the constant barrage of interracial wokeness. Puke.


30 posted on 05/30/2023 6:36:25 PM PDT by eyesopenandsee
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To: MinorityRepublican

I have seen the reviews. Its way too long, dreary and drab, and too boss girl, which is the real problem.


31 posted on 05/30/2023 6:39:55 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: eyesopenandsee

Yep...I’ll never see that as a favorable ‘thing’.... Each to his own kind is a good thing.


32 posted on 05/30/2023 6:40:49 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Apparatchik; MinorityRepublican

Do you have a citation for that?


33 posted on 05/30/2023 6:41:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: dfwgator

“They loved him before they hated him”

So many people fall under this statement when its about lefty socialist wokesters


34 posted on 05/30/2023 6:42:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: KC_Conspirator
too boss girl, which is the real problem.

I haven't seen the movie but I assume the mermaid is the masculine character while the guy she's dating is feminine.

35 posted on 05/30/2023 6:52:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Black children and their moms being able to see themselves in a Disney....’

Even better if theyvcould see their daddy.


36 posted on 05/30/2023 6:53:18 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline
Even better if theyvcould see their daddy.

What's a daddy?

37 posted on 05/30/2023 7:01:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Magic Fingers

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”.


38 posted on 05/30/2023 7:03:01 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some are more equal than others.")
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To: Apparatchik

Yes, I noticed that - as they have an almost genetic phobia of water.


39 posted on 05/30/2023 7:20:36 PM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: caww

How many black women and girls have naturally straight long flowing hair like that?


40 posted on 05/30/2023 7:23:22 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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