MOVIE REVIEW: Inessential remake of this Disney classic is bloated as a puffer fish.
: But his every addition becomes a subtraction from John Musker and Ron Clements' lean but touching original. He consistently underlines every point that they left implicit, while crowbarring in a clumsy and inessential subplot about tensions between the surface folk and those under the sea. The reason Triton is so mad at the humans is that they murdered Ariel's mother – echoing the opening scene in which the crew of Eric's ship tries to harpoon a dolphin they mistake for a mermaid.
Even the little tweaks make matters weaker: For example, the family gathering at the beginning is no longer a concert, but a governmental meeting. So the importance of Ariel's voice is reduced, even though that's central to the story. It's a minimal change, superficially, but subtextually infuriating.
At least the singing is up to par, even if the new songs add little."Wild Uncharted Waters," an Ed Sheeran-esque power ballad, is part of that unnecessary push to give Eric more depth, but it's still better than the awkwardly inserted"The Scuttlebutt," a tone-breaking rap by Diggs and Awkwafina that should have Disney reconsider its mandatory Lin-Manuel Miranda policy. It's also yet again proof that Marshall believes that a good tune can make up for a lagging plot.
But Marshall is at least generally respectful of the original, more so than Tim Burton with his weirdly deconstructed, and so enough of what made the original magical is still there to make this recognizable. But, yet again, that's all of what's best here, new interpretations and impersonations of what was done before. McCarthy's tentacled menace is fine, but merely an approximation of what Pat Carroll did with the voice and Ruben Aquino created as character animation.
At the end of the day, people won't be lining up at a Disney park to ride a clamshell into a ride based on this live-action version. And that tells you everything you need to know. Next time, maybe just give this kind of money to the ink and paint department.
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