Fans Agree That Little Mermaid Is Doomed Even With Halle Bailey's Brilliant Acting

The Little Mermaid will soon be released in theaters and viewers will finally get to see the movie that everyone has been talking about lately.

However, some fans argue that even the great performance of Halle Bailey, who is now being praised by almost everyone, cannot save the remake.

The thing is, viewers are tired of remakes of Disney classics. A new era of remakes and reinventions at Disney began in 2010 with the release of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

It didn't look like a 1951 animation, but that didn't stop Burton's Alice from grossing over $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

After some time, the studio released a new version of Sleeping Beauty with a focus on Maleficent, as well as a number of new versions of popular animations: Cinderella, The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, Dumbo, Aladdin, The Lion King, Mulan.

The Little Mermaid was announced in 2016, when another project based on Anderson's fairy tale fell apart.

Disney is one of the world's leading entertainment conglomerates, so working on remakes of classic animations is naturally linked to the need to get new content for the Disney Plus streaming service.

Of course, the original Dumbo, with its references to Jim Crow laws, is hopelessly outdated, but the new one, directed by Tim Burton, is hardly a masterpiece.

Jon Favreau's The Lion King may have grossed $1.7 billion worldwide, but it's really just a computer-generated and very realistic version of the 1994 animation.

Robert Zemeckis changed almost nothing in his Pinocchio – as a result, the movie passed the box office and was immediately available on the Disney Plus streaming platform.

So far, the studio has been much better with movies like Cruella or Maleficent – a different take on a popular story is always more original and interesting than a frame-by-frame remake.

Many fans are sure that The Little Mermaid will suffer the same fate.

The movie will be released, the discussions caused by the diverse cast, the realistic Flounder and Sebastian will die down, and the movie will eventually turn out to be another remake with nothing outstanding in it.

It will be shelved further away, with the 1989 animation being rewatched again and again as it was before.

One thing is for sure – if you do not like the movie, it will definitely not be Halle Bailey's fault.