The Little Mermaid is inoffensive yet unremarkable in most respects...which still makes it one of the better live-action Disney remakes.
. The ones brought back from the original are serviceable, if mostly just reminders of their animated equivalents, the majority if not all of which are superior, especially visually. “Part of Your World” is the clear standout of these covers, carried solely by Halle Bailey’s transcendent performance that’s the only instance in this movie of anyone successfully taking a song from the original and making it their own.
The rest of the performances are, for the most part, serviceable without being particularly noteworthy. Most of them just seem to be trying to be close to their animated counterparts without deviating much from them, and while they could hardly be blamed after adaptational changes in certain other Disney live-action remakes ended up getting a ton of flack from fans, it becomes a glaring reminder of this film’s status as a nostalgia cash-in and little else.
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