The Little Mermaid (PG) 135 minutes, opens on Thursday 3 stars The story: In this live-action remake of the beloved 1989 animation feature, Ariel (Halle Bailey) is the youngest of King Triton’s (Javier Bardem) daughters. The young...
In fact, scenes with maritime action – Ursula’s spell rituals, ships torn by storms or wrecks raised from the ocean bottom in the climax – owe their visual punch to the Pirates Of The Caribbean films .
One update is inspired – Bailey is there as a result of race-blind casting, but the film-makers have used her ethnicity to make a realistic point about geography. Sebastian’s Caribbean accent is not just for effect. Prince Eric lives in a tropical, multiracial Afro-Caribbean world, with a musical palette to match. This movie’s ethnic logic is internally consistent and impeccable.
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