![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With a little help (and a Faustian bargain) from octopus-bottomed Aunt Ursula ( Melissa McCarthy), she has three days to receive true love’s kiss from Eric, with her soul as collateral and Triton (played by smart-choice Javier Bardem) sure to be upset. ![]() She likes his looks, he’s smitten by her voice, but the two are from different worlds. She keeps a cave full of thingabobs that fell overboard, even going so far as to rescue one such castaway - Prince Eric (Jonah Hauer-King) - and swim him back to land. The story you know: Ignoring her father’s orders, teenage Ariel explores the forbidden parts of the sea, taking an interest in all things human. Just wait till you hear her sing “Part of Your World,” delivered with all the conviction of Jennifer Hudson’s career-making rendition of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.” A star is born, and as if to punctuate our discovery, Marshall poses Bailey there on a rocky outcropping and smashes a giant wave against her back. Director Rob Marshall found his Ariel, and together, they’ve made a keeper. Well, good news in the case of “The Little Mermaid”: Halle Bailey is all the reason that any audience should need to justify Disney revisiting this classic. At least half of Disney’s recent cover versions have been colossally disappointing, turning touchstones of Americans’ collective childhood into garish CG eyesores while threatening to tarnish our memories of the original. ![]()
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