And the reviews are in.............Little Mermaid

[luv2cheer92]

Nothing but overwhelmingly positive reviews from many of my friends. I've seen at least 15 posts today just from scrolling with very positive reviews. Can't wait to see it for myself!

 

[ronandannette]

I just had this come across my newsfeed. Apparently it's reviewing so low overseas that they're suspecting the data is somehow faulty.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/movies/ne...p&cvid=70040c8fb8c0408696de56cab1e3aa2e&ei=11

 

[longboard55]

I just had this come across my newsfeed. Apparently it's reviewing so low overseas that they're suspecting the data is somehow faulty.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/movies/ne...p&cvid=70040c8fb8c0408696de56cab1e3aa2e&ei=11

If you go to Rotten, for verified audience, pretty much all 5s, but if you go to all audience half are ones, so clearly the reviews are false and under attack. People have no life, a very small minded group of people would like to see Disney fail.

 

[Chirple]

We are seeing this tonight. I've been wanting to see it since they announced it. Maybe we are the oddballs, but the live action remakes are fine with us and have really enjoyed the ones we have seen. However, we did not see The Lion King just because I feel Beyonce's singing is overrated.

 

[ronandannette]

We are seeing this tonight. I've been wanting to see it since they announced it. Maybe we are the oddballs, but the live action remakes are fine with us and have really enjoyed the ones we have seen. However, we did not see The Lion King just because I feel Beyonce's singing is overrated.

Honestly, The Lion King was so heavily CGI'd that it shouldn't even have been called live-action. Not sure what you would call it, but live-action wasn't quite right. And it didn't matter who was singing; the ears of my heart only heard Elton John.

 

[K and K's Mommy]

My DD 21 and I loved it! When she was 3-4, she wanted to be Ariel when she grew up, so we knew we needed to go see this.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

Remake discussion aside.... A DISer friend and I saw it on Thursday and we both really enjoyed it. The audience laughed out loud in parts, and the ending was poignant. It's one of my favorite remakes. And I keep singing Scuttlebutt in my mind. I loved that song performance. lol

 

[Disney Bobby]

Disney has oversaturated the market for Star Wars and Marvel. Not sure how many of the upcoming remakes other than Snow White are going to be big hits. Outside of the Avatar movies, I could see a long dry spell for movie revenue in the future.

 

[Chirple]

We're back, and my husband and I loved it.

 

[Miffy]

When I see a movie that has a 67% critics rating and 95% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, I'm pretty sure I'm going to love it. I learned this with Greatest Showman, which I avoided seeing because of the terrible critics reviews, then I went after I saw people talking about it here on the DIS and I totally loved it and couldn't wait to see it again.

I'm only sorry I may not have the time to see it in a theater.

BTW, I really enjoyed Treasure Planet and could never understand why it didn't catch on. Ditto The Good Dinosaur. And, yeah, I liked Strange World as well. I've never seen Atlantis but maybe I'd like that too!

 

[imbelle]

I look at remakes not as an effort to improve on the original, but as an opportunity to interpret the story in a different way. If they tried to exactly replicate the original version, then there would be no point.
In my collection of children's fairy tale books, I may have, say 5, Beauty and the Beast books. They all tell the same story, but at the same time they are varying versions, beautifully illustrated in completely different ways.
It doesn't have to be a contest between different versions, you are free to enjoy all interpretations.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Strange World

I never saw that one - will have to look it up on D+

Where are all the creative people, where are all the original writers, where are the folks that read BOOKS and see a movie in them?

Sadly, not enough people read books at all anymore.

And then I think why did the writers think this would be an improvement on the existing version?

That's my problem with the remakes in general. Objectively, they're not improvements (IMHO) because the originals are so good - and suited to animation. But today's kids are way too sophisticated and don't want "cartoons" after a certain age. They want "real" movies.

 

[TwoMisfits]

Since D+ has been dropping a lot of Disney original stuff I haven't watched yet, I'll wait to at least have something to enjoy before I drop D+ Black Friday...

Spiderverse has $5 TMobile tickets coming this week, which makes it the way better theatrical experience value for us right now...

 

[mom2rtk]

I look at remakes not as an effort to improve on the original, but as an opportunity to interpret the story in a different way. If they tried to exactly replicate the original version, then there would be no point.
In my collection of children's fairy tale books, I may have, say 5, Beauty and the Beast books. They all tell the same story, but at the same time they are varying versions, beautifully illustrated in completely different ways.
It doesn't have to be a contest between different versions, you are free to enjoy all interpretations.

The problem is that Disney only makes a finite and limited number of films every year. My issue isn’t what they are making. It’s what they aren’t making because of the remakes.

 

[BrianL]

When I see a movie that has a 67% critics rating and 95% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, I'm pretty sure I'm going to love it. I learned this with Greatest Showman, which I avoided seeing because of the terrible critics reviews, then I went after I saw people talking about it here on the DIS and I totally loved it and couldn't wait to see it again.

I'm only sorry I may not have the time to see it in a theater.

BTW, I really enjoyed Treasure Planet and could never understand why it didn't catch on. Ditto The Good Dinosaur. And, yeah, I liked Strange World as well. I've never seen Atlantis but maybe I'd like that too!

If you dig Treasure Planet, Atlantis should be right up your alley!

 

[longboard55]

Everyone in our party of 4 loved it. Underwater mermaids, pretty amazing what they can do now. Did not find it too long, story moved along at a good pace. You can tell they put a lot of thought into making it. Halle was perfect. I think its definitely a big screen movie. It was very entertaining, nice to see a big budget movie that did not have any super heros or space aliens.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

If they tried to exactly replicate the original version, then there would be no point.

That's exactly what they have done with some of their remakes.

 

[Mysterian]

No surprise, sadly. The best live action Disney movie recently has been Cinderella and that was near perfection.

The animals in this LM look so weird... we will wait for D+!

I agree about Cinderella. I think it helps that Kenneth Branagh directed it, and it was more of a drama with a fairy-tale element than just a copy of the animated film. That, and I think Cate Blanchett elevated it too. She could have played a caricature of a wicked step-mother, but she did not.

I had hopes for Mulan, which was done more like a Chinese action movie, yet I couldn't walk away loving it. The director was Niki Caro, who did Whale Rider, a wonderful movie (and I say a film that Moana owes a debt to in some ways). She also did North Country, which I liked.

The only live-action one I haven't seen yet is Dumbo. I like Tim Burton, but Dumbo looks like a trainwreck.

 

[HopperFan]

Where are all the creative people, where are all the original writers, where are the folks that read BOOKS and see a movie in them? The industry is hurting and they will only kill themselves off if they don't put something out there folks are excited about going to see.

Sadly, not enough people read books at all anymore.

I'm not talking about "people" - I'm talking about the powers that be, the decision makers, the creators and others who's job it is to find the content & writers to create movies. I'm sure they continue to read and pour over new content options.

When I see a movie that has a 67% critics rating and 95% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, I'm pretty sure I'm going to love it. I learned this with Greatest Showman, which I avoided seeing because of the terrible critics reviews, then I went after I saw people talking about it here on the DIS and I totally loved it and couldn't wait to see it again.

I'm only sorry I may not have the time to see it in a theater.

BTW, I really enjoyed Treasure Planet and could never understand why it didn't catch on. Ditto The Good Dinosaur. And, yeah, I liked Strange World as well. I've never seen Atlantis but maybe I'd like that too!

I have NEVER listened to critics other than to think perhaps I would love a movie just because they hated it. In my book they are a worthless almost dangerous part to the creative process. And people's opinions of the current online review ... why would I trust them? Too many have issues with everything and are the first one's to complain.

I look at remakes not as an effort to improve on the original, but as an opportunity to interpret the story in a different way. If they tried to exactly replicate the original version, then there would be no point.
In my collection of children's fairy tale books, I may have, say 5, Beauty and the Beast books. They all tell the same story, but at the same time they are varying versions, beautifully illustrated in completely different ways.
It doesn't have to be a contest between different versions, you are free to enjoy all interpretations.

SO MUCH THIS!!! Maleficent and Cruella are great examples to give us a different version and very often it brings the story full circle.

And with time there is the chance to change some to create a more current story and The Little Mermaid is one of them. Without full spoiler LOVE how Ariel changes her ending, empowers herself.

 

[BrianL]

I agree about Cinderella. I think it helps that Kenneth Branagh directed it, and it was more of a drama with a fairy-tale element than just a copy of the animated film. That, and I think Cate Blanchett elevated it too. She could have played a caricature of a wicked step-mother, but she did not.

I had hopes for Mulan, which was done more like a Chinese action movie, yet I couldn't walk away loving it. The director was Niki Caro, who did Whale Rider, a wonderful movie (and I say a film that Moana owes a debt to in some ways). She also did North Country, which I liked.

The only live-action one I haven't seen yet is Dumbo. I like Tim Burton, but Dumbo looks like a trainwreck.

If you like Tim Burton in general though I think you woul dlike Dumbo. It is pretty good and not a copy/paste of the original.