While the live-action version follows the original story’s plot fairly closely, it somehow feels much slower-paced. I was simply there to pass on one of my most treasured memories for them to hopefully cherish the way I once did. Hearing the kids’ laughs and giggles, mostly at Daveed Diggs’ hilarious take on Sebastian and Awkwafina as Scuttle, was confirmation that while nothing will top the original, the kids deserved an updated, more inclusive version. But watching it from the perspective and awareness that Disney didn’t make this for me but for a whole new generation made the film more satisfying. Most people who grew up in the 1990s or early 2000s have their favorite go-to princess-and Ariel was mine, so my expectations were high going in. As I sat in a packed theater filled with little kids wearing their best mermaid-inspired ensembles at the AMC Lincoln Square in New York earlier this week, I realized I was not Disney’s target audience for their latest live-action remake of the classic and neither were the rest of the film’s OG fans. The original came out in 1989, which means that the children who grew up watching it are all well into their 30s. The live-action The Little Mermaid film, in theaters now, is not for us adults-and that’s OK.
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