REVIEW: 'The Little Mermaid' belongs with the best of the live-action remakes, writes Peter Travers.
May 26, 2023, 4:06 AMThe trick to remaking a massive movie hit is to plug a livewire into the leading role. "The Little Mermaid," now in theaters, does just that with shining new star Halle Bailey as Ariel, the mermaid who longs to be human in this live-action echo of the 1989 Disney animated classic.&B duo Chloe x Halle with her sister Chloe Bailey, takes charge, the movie springs to thrilling life.
Soon, she's singing about her wish to be part of his world. Bailey's rendition of that irresistible earworm is a show-stopping dazzler that makes you eager to hear the new stuff composer Alan Menken, with an assist from "Hamilton" whiz Lin Manuel Miranda, has in store. I'm not sure we needed a solo from the ever-bland Prince Eric , but Miranda contributes a hilarious hip-hop ditty "The Scuttlebutt" for Awkwafina to rap as Scuttle, no longer a seagull but a diving bird. OK, then.
Luckily, this feminist-forward mermaid isn't in it just for a boy-band ready prince. It's the whole human world Ariel wants to investigate. McCarthy is devilish fun singing "Poor Unfortunate Souls," this time deleting lyrics that spoke of a girl needing to hold her tongue to get a boy.
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