Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "Little Mermaid FLOPS Journalists ATTACK FANS For Failure" video.

Thanks for taking the hit and closely examining the new Little Mermaid movie, Disparu. Most of us will never pay it that much attention, so I appreciate your taking the time to analyse it and make this video. Your observations make a lot of sense. They wanted to change Ariel's motivation by neutering the love story at the heart of the movie, but didn't replace it with anything else. No wonder the movie feels hollow for people. The irony here is that the animated division of Disney is extremely good at taking old stories and "re-imagining" them for modern general audiences. "The Little Mermaid" from 1989 changed quite a bit from the original Hans Christian Andersen story, but always in the service of making the story less weird and more likeable. Then they did it again in 2013 with "Frozen," a loose adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen." It took years to figure out an angle that would open up the strange little fairy tale for general audiences, but they finally did it, and it was a tremendous success. The animated side of Disney has always been very good at capturing what makes a story timeless while simultaneously reproducing it in a form that appeals to modern audiences. It's no surprise the live action division of Disney is trying to do the same thing, but in reverse: taking their own animated movies and adapting them for a new era with real actors and lots of CGI. But the problem is there's nothing left for them to improve upon. The animated movies aren't dated or unappealing to modern audiences - they're as fresh and popular as ever. The animated movies did such a good job adapting the stories, any changes the live action versions can make just makes their movie feel less timeless and less universal. More like a story meant for California in 2023, as you said, and less for general audiences.
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