Genre: Fantasy; Romance; Drama; Director: Rob Marshall Writer: David Magee Starring: Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay and Javier Bardem The Little Mermaid is the best Disney live-action adaptation. It doesn't mean it achieves brilliance, but it does rise above the bar previously set by the previous adaptations. It offers some new takes on subjects like sexuality, a feminist approach to some scenes that were first presented as "damsel in distress" situations and it also sets a multicultural/diverse set. But the movie's secret ingredient is Halle Bailey - she's the best reason for audiences to buy a ticket and go watch the film on a movie theatre. The movie starts with a relatively dark approach in the visual department (for a Disney movie), but it then evolves for the standard and brighter looking (and more family friendly) movie audiences expect it to be. The visual effects work is inconsistent - it does ...
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