5 reasons why everyone is talking about the trailer for ‘The Little Mermaid’

I don’t know what to do, when it will be, but I must return here. And with here we refer, of course, to the remake of ‘The Little Mermaid’ and the 5 reasons why everyone is talking about its trailer. I feel like I can be a part of it.

“I didn’t expect it because, in a way, it seemed to me that we had left that kind of thing a long way behind.“, commented the director, Rob Marshall when the braying of a noisy sector of society poured on Halle Bailey for playing Ariel being African-American, instead of a hake. “There is no agenda, we simply looked for the best actress for the paper and point End”.

Now, since it appeared in the middle of the 2023 Oscar delivery gala, the new trailer for the live-action version of one of the best animated Disney films has shown us more of what is to come. Forecast has changed from Swell to Swell/Strong Swell.

Sebastian the spider crab

Not much to say about it. The charming crab Sebastian, the Caribbean heart of ‘The Little Mermaid’ (John Musker, Ron Clements, 1989), one of the best musicals in film history, is now a spider crab that has escaped from a fishmonger’s counter.

Daveed Diggs, a regular on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’, will have to work hard to make his voice stop us from seeing a crustacean that, somehow, has managed to escape from the market where it was exposed.

Looking for Flounder

And if Sebastian gives a mixture between fear and rejection, the once charming Flounder only produces sadness. This is no longer a fun goldfish friend of the protagonist, it is a poor fish about to bite his last hook.

Jacob Tremblay, who has already caught on after ‘The Room’ (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015) and ‘Wonder’ (Stephen Chbosky, 2017) and the always undervalued ‘Predator’ (Shane Black, 2018), is in charge of lending his voice to this poor being.

King ‘Cage’ Newt

There is no real downside here, we like King Triton and the choice of Javier Bardem to embody it still seems to us a success, but did you really have to look so much like Nicolas Cage? If they wanted Nicolas Cage to play the character, they would have called Nicolas Cage. If you sign up for what it takes!

Ursu ​​Pythoness

Nor do we have anything too negative to say about what has been seen of the evil Úrsula. The original sea witch had Divine as an official referent and, although the one played by Melissa McCarthy is somewhat closer to a beautiful combination between Aramís Fuster and Raquel Mosquerathe tentacles and colors chosen for the cauldron scene have finished convincing us.

goodbye to the mane

We are not going to be rednecks, like the beings who continue to cry because a fictional character representing a mythological being has slightly changed the amount of melanin in their epidermis, but the truth is that the change from Ariel’s reddish hair to this variable collection of braids (different at each moment of the trailer), disappoints us a little.

‘The Little Mermaid’ has a release date of May 26, 2023.