Little Mermaid (2016) Reviews

• Modern Take on an Old Classic

  mytoesarecute2017-09-19

  This movie is not for your children! I have read many different versions of the old classic. Most people think the original telling was the rewrite by Hans Christian Andersen, where in the end she dies and becomes a "daughter of the air". However in his original telling was a much darker end than life after death, as she was denied an immortal soul and became seafoam after refusing to kill her prince when he chooses to marry another. He later rewrote the ending. Though this movie was far from the Disney classic, the plot had much more in common with the rewrite by Hans Christian Andersen himself than the cute Disney movie. Yes, it's modern, yes the witch caused her man to go blind-which never happened in the fairy tale...yet, it has happened in many other fairy tales, like Rapunzel. And though she was stripping, the mermaid actually did dance for the prince in the old story...despite every step feeling as though she was walking on broken glass. The ending is tragic and yet beautiful, as are traditional fairy tales, which were meant to teach life lessons to young children, rather than send children into a cruel world expecting "happily ever afters". It wasn't a horrible movie, but the ending had me bawling like a baby, as I had expected a happy ending rather than a traditional one. Any critics saying this movie was awful have probably grown up on Disney movies and never read a real fairy tale in their life.

• Doesn't deserve this much negativity

  comicbooks0072017-03-31

  I wanna start with, this movie was far from perfect. Far. But this much negativity isn't warranted. Also, it says based off of the ORIGINAL story by Hans Christian Andersen. Not based off the cartoon version by Disney. I got from the movie what I got from the original fairy tale. The OG fairy tales were dark and some of them (including The Little Mermaid) had sexual parts. Was she a stripper in the original story? No. But the prince made her dance for him. So I can see the inspiration there. SPOILER ALERT He sleeps with another woman (and marries her) in the original story. And they end the exact same. If you have a problem with this ending then I suggest not reading the OG story and stick to your kid friendly cartoon. The acting by most of the actors was great I felt like. The main stripper girl and the guy at the beginning could've been better..... The sound was atrocious in some parts. Most of these people don't have many credits to their name (besides the sound guy surprisingly..............) so I think it was good all things considered. Would've rated a couple of stars lower had the negative reviews not been so drastically harsh.

• Some like it, some don't.

  AmandaFerris852017-03-24

  First, I would like to say that just because you don't like a movie, doesn't mean that everyone else that did is affiliated with the movie in some way or paid. It just means we have different tastes. It's a bit childish to assume that anyone who has a different opinion than you must have been coerced in some way. I watched this movie with a few of my friends. I had seen the trailers and follow the page on FB so I was well aware of what I was getting into. A low budget indie. I had shown one of the friends watching the first trailer they had and the other hadn't seen anything. I personally loved the movie. The music was incredible, the acting was genuine (by most) and the movie felt raw to me. A realistic story for an unrealistic circumstance. Boys are mean and dumb, and girls can be catty and vindictive. She experienced all of these real relationships that we all experience every day, and a lot of movies don't have that. This wasn't a fairy tale type love-y dove-y movie. In parts it was, but it was more than that. My other two friends were "meh" about the movie. So I understand how some people liked it. Filmmaking was lacking in some areas. But obviously from their credits on here, they're new filmmakers. I look forward to what comes next.

• Could have made a better film using my smartphone

  phantasmda2017-03-23

  Funny how the few "glowing" reviews of this are from people who signed up a month ago and wrote ONE review saying how magical this is. Trust me, it's awful, slow, depressing, poorly filmed, woefully acted, reeks of micro budget and it's just a painful watch. It's not often I come across a film like this, that is so terrible, it makes you question how some people really are allowed to make movies. This really does feel like something that was put together for public access TV. I'm guessing that given another month or so, the rating numbers on here will drop drastically once the honest ratings from genuine movie goers are totted up. Real bottom of the barrel stuff with zero redeeming features I'm afraid.

• How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

  cnycitylady2017-02-04

  Little Mermaid, and independent and not widely known interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic and most beloved fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" is a powerful, faithful and tragic retelling of the story. Our heroine wishes to be human and sells her voice to the sea witch, classic right? But here they show us in vivid, intimate and hurtful detail just how big a part human interaction plays in this tragedy. Petty jealousies and misunderstandings unwittingly send the two lovers into a downward spiral that ends only in suffering. The Sea Witch plays a wicked part, too. This is a true fairy tale full of all of the love and heartbreak that turns a simple child's story into an epic of character, emotion and essence. 8/10