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This week on the podcast we got one item to talk about with 4k spotlight.
With through the wall we got nothing, absolutely nothing.
So after those two items, or one item, we'll be moving on to our headliner of the evening
which will be our breakdown of the 2023 remake of the Little Mermaid.
So Caleb, what do you say we get started?
I say let's do it.
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Alright so this week for 4K Spotlight, we only got one title coming out but it's a big one.
It actually just crossed being the fourth highest grossing animated film of all time
and it's working its way up to number three.
It honestly might be frozen too before it comes out on 4K and that would just be amazing.
But of course I'm talking about the Super Mario Bros. movie.
I honestly did not expect it to come out this soon.
That honestly really shocks me but you know what?
I'm happy about that and there is a bunch of exclusives with that.
So coming with Best Buy, we have a Best Buy exclusive steelbook where the front is the
classic mushroom, flip it over to the back is the classic superstar and if you open the
steelbook it's the mushroom kingdom.
It's a simplistic steelbook but it still looks really good.
I already did pre-order this of course and it's actually already sold out.
I'm sure when release date comes around or release day comes around it will definitely,
I'm assuming, come back into stock or at least I hope for people that missed it.
So that's the first exclusive that we're getting.
Like I said, it's a 4K steelbook.
Target is getting an exclusive that's just a Blu-ray exclusive.
It is not a 4K unfortunately but it is a close-up of Mario.
Looks like he's about to jump.
That's honestly what it looks like.
I don't know really how else to explain it.
It literally looks like he's like, kind of looks like he's in a running pose but he also
looks like he's about to jump.
I don't know which one to go with and I believe it's also lenticular.
So that's what makes it different.
So it's a lenticular slipcover with just Mario on the cover and it looks really, really freaking
cool.
I'm disappointed that pre-order sold out before I could pre-order it but honestly whenever
I pre-order from Target, the day that I get it, the slipcovers always come beat to shit.
So I always have to take my chances in stores with these ones.
So excuse me.
So this movie will be no exception but you know what, that's okay.
So that's the Target exclusive and then the Walmart exclusive is really freaking cool.
This one is coming out with two versions, a 4K and a regular Blu-ray.
But it is a freaking, so they are calling it the, so it's just a limited edition gift
set but what's really cool about this is that it's, I don't know how to explain it.
It's kind of like what they did when they did the Jurassic Park movies where they come
in like a tin that's shaped like the classic Jurassic Park logo.
So it comes in kind of like a tin but it's shaped like a superstar.
So it's not just a regular movie case.
You're getting something that's shaped just like a superstar but you're getting, if you
get the 4K set, you're getting the 4K, Blu-ray and a digital copy and then if you get the
Blu-ray set, you're getting a Blu-ray, a DVD and a digital copy.
So I definitely want to try to get the 4K of this movie.
Yeah, I'm going to really try to get three different freaking versions of this movie
because you know, collectors got to collect even though I've already bought this movie
on digital like literally the day that they released it because I freaking love this movie
so much like I can't remember, like it was just, it had been such a long time since I
had such a good time with a movie at the theater than this movie.
It was such a good movie, so much fun, does justice to the source material and I absolutely
loved it so I literally just got to own every single exclusive version of this movie.
So yeah, so those are the three exclusive versions coming out, the Walmart exclusive,
Target exclusive and Best Buy exclusive and then we're also getting just Bare Bones regular
4K and, wow, Bare Bones regular 4K and Blu-ray releases and as you can see, Caleb, because
he's a freaking champ and is more prepared than I am, has pulled up how these exclusives
look and I have some of this out of the three.
So okay, for those of you that don't understand what's going on because we're not releasing
this video.
Oh yeah, sorry.
So we're testing some stuff out with recording and so yeah, I was able to pull up a little
like a screenshot of what this superstar thing will look like.
So like I said, this is just to test some stuff out more for shits and giggles than
anything but hopefully it works.
It looks super cool, like I'm not going to lie, it would look cool on display purposes,
like say you have a movie shelf and you put it on top, it would look cool but it's going
to look really out of place if you're just putting it with a regular collection.
So with these kind of sets, I feel like I really have to love the movie for me to go
for these kind of sets.
Lucky for this movie, I absolutely love this movie so I feel I have to own all three exclusives.
Dude, I think that would be a really cool display piece because from the looks of it,
it comes with a stand.
Yeah, it does look like that which I really appreciate.
Yeah, I mean that's sick.
Like you can't freaking beat shit like that though, that is really freaking cool.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah, that is really freaking cool.
Sorry, my cat does not want to be alone.
Anyway, that's it for 4K Spotlight.
I will say, which I'm assuming they're going to put on the regular Blu-ray, but on the
4K it's called the Power Up Edition and whoever decided to put that on the cover, I freaking
love you and you deserve a raise.
That's all I gotta say.
And looking through these other exclusives, this is how you freaking do a title.
Dude, this thing, the one with the mushroom on it, that's freaking sick.
It's simplistic but it works for the Super Mario Bros.
Oh yeah, simplistic is going to be way better.
But I'm just, yeah, for some movies it works, some it doesn't.
For this movie it especially does because the front is the mushroom and the back is
the Super Star.
Open it up, bam, there's the mushroom kingdom.
Or wait, no, I'm sorry.
Caleb, thankfully, Caleb just pulled up a reference for me.
The freaking backing is not the Super Star.
I thought it was.
It's just the back of the mushroom.
But still, it's really cool.
The front and back is the mushroom and then open it up, bam, there's mushroom kingdom.
Right?
It is just the mushroom kingdom, right?
I'm not missing anything.
Or I'm not saying wrong information here.
No.
Okay, so it is the mushroom kingdom in the background.
So yeah, like I said, I'm going to really try to get all three versions.
I have one secured because I pre-ordered the best by exclusive steelbook.
I just got to get the Walmart and Target.
What freaking sucks is I worked the day that this movie comes out.
Oh.
I gotta freaking, I gotta, yeah, dude, I gotta freaking pray that both of these releases
are still available.
Target, I can at least do store pickups so I can secure that one in the morning if they
still have it.
Walmart, ugh, I'm going to have to freaking pray or I might just have to go to a bunch
of Walmarts because for some reason, I don't know what happened with my Walmart account,
but I got banned from buying shit on Walmart.com.
Dude, what'd you do?
I don't know.
Dude, I don't know, but like yeah, I can't even use my Walmart account anymore.
It won't like accept my debit card now.
Nothing.
And like, and it won't even tell you the reasoning why.
It will go like reasons like, oh, it could be this, it could be this.
So it says like, you know, like too many returns or you did the, I'm like, I literally returned
one thing within six months.
I don't think it's that.
So, dude, this is like freaking Tinder all over again.
You got banned from Tinder?
Dude, I didn't tell you that.
No.
Yeah, dude, I got banned from Tinder and dude, I have no, I have no idea why I reached out.
I'm just like, Hey, you know, like it says that I'm banned off my Tinder account.
Can I get an explanation why?
And there's like, Oh, we're sorry.
We can't disclose that information.
I'm like, it's my freaking account.
Why can't you tell me why I got banned?
It's not like I'm asking for someone else.
No, dude, what bullshit date because this shit happens.
There's other dating sites other than Tinder.
Oh, I know, but I've tried them.
Like I'm just saying, like, dude, you like, even though you have it in your bio, how many
guys when they're just like, Oh, sorry.
Are you, are you, so are you like, you know, full on gay and you're just, and you say bisexual,
they're like, Oh, no, I can't do that, man.
I'm afraid you're going to cheat on me.
I'm like, why does, why, why do you guys assume that?
That's just dumb.
Like ignorance.
I put it in my freaking bio that I'm bi.
Like read the frickin screw dating.
I'll die single.
I'm fine with it.
F that.
I feel like most people assume that when you say bi that you're like, like, like you're
attracted to both.
Like that's kind of what, what it comes off as.
But I don't think I hope, I hope people know that's what bisexual means.
Yeah.
You would think you would have female, you would fricking think, but I think people also
feel like, Oh, they're not going to be 100% committed to me.
Like they're going to, it's just like, I don't think it's that it's just, I think I, I'm
one that understands like, yeah, you, you're attracted to all, but I think I feel like you'd
be loyal to one.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So like it's a freaking no, no duh situation, but freaking assholes.
Yeah.
That's all I say.
I'm just going to die single.
It's all good.
I'm okay with it.
Anyway, I'm like saying that and like, I'm not even 30.
Come on.
I'm Jonathan.
Uh, anyway, let's not, let's not get into a, a session of why Rose is single.
Um, we could turn that into a whole podcast.
Dude, straight up.
Dude, like I even have like the idea for the name of that show and everything.
It's going to be the single Rose garden.
The garden of one.
I love that, but at the same time, go fuck yourself.
You're an ass for that.
I regret nothing.
Yeah, you shouldn't, but still kiss my ass.
That's freaking hilarious.
And you know it.
Oh, that was freaking great.
But also you're a dick.
I'll take that all freaking day, dude.
Anyway, moving on.
So that's all that we got for 4k spotlight.
And since we got nothing for through the wall, Caleb, what do you say we not make, God damn
it our headliner of the, dude, that's a fricking throwback for you.
We're going to do, I'm going to, I say one of these days we need to have like a 100%
throwback episode.
Like old, old intro, like whatever that intro was.
So does that mean we're going to record also like on these mics, like our headphone mics?
We're going to do that too?
We won't go that far.
It's not that kind of throwback.
We're not going to make the audio that shitty again.
Yeah, we'll just throw in like our old theme song, the in between segment music and all
that good stuff.
If I can find it, dude, I'm down.
What's our anniversary date again?
When did we first start?
It's like in November.
Okay.
So like the week of when we posted it, we should like do something like that.
Okay.
Yeah.
So that would, that'll be the November 13th because our, our anniversary is the 14th.
Okay.
So let's, let's do that.
Let's do a throwback in November of how it was when the all bros first started.
Hell yes.
Oh, that's hell yeah.
That's going to be, anyway, really fun.
Headliner.
What do you say?
I say let's do it.
All right.
So like I said, for this week's headliner of the evening, we'll be breaking down the
2021-2023 live action remake of the Little Mermaid.
But before we do that, we did ask a question of the week on our social media platforms.
I most certainly do.
So yeah.
So we asked in relation to, in relation to the Little Mermaid, what, just because this
is a live action remake, like what is another movie, a Disney movie that you would like
to see remade into live action?
And we got a redonkulous amount of responses.
So I just chime in really quickly.
Yeah.
I just want, I just want to point out that the one that I would have wanted remade live
action remake, I want to take that back because they butchered it so bad.
So if they could just, you know, re-degree.
So I'm hoping within a couple of years we can get another live action remake.
Dude, good fricking luck with that.
They butchered it so bad the first time.
God, I hate you Disney for the make.
All right.
So because we got so many responses, Rose, if you want to go through our TikTok answers,
and I'll go through our YouTube answers because we got a lot of those and you read off like
your like top five picks, obviously like shout out to whoever responded.
But yeah, like let's do that.
And I do, I do have like a top pick too.
So okay.
All right.
And I'll start.
And this is the most popular one that we've gotten.
So we got a response from the Burger King, Kelsey, GL Funhouse, Princess Peach Gaming.
And yeah, so we got a response from all of them that all said Princess and the Frog.
That's a good choice.
I mean, Disney wouldn't F that one up.
That was as far as I know, that was the last.
But well, no, I'm just saying I hope that they wouldn't mess that up because wasn't
that.
I'm pretty sure.
So you would hope with how special that movie is to a lot of people, not only because it's
a movie, but for the fact that it was a hand drawn Disney film, you'd hope that they actually
want to take the remake seriously.
But yeah, like you said, this is Disney.
So I don't know if they actually would.
I would hope that they would.
But I think they could do some amazing shit.
Dude, they really could.
But at the same time, I don't want them to F it up because God, I love that movie.
Yeah, same here.
So yeah, those are the two responses that we got.
So you want to hit us up with one?
Yeah, definitely this one I feel is I feel I want to choose this one because of Caleb's
response to it on TikTok.
It's freaking amazing.
And they said so just Mo said Snow White would be impossible to mess up.
And then Caleb responded, don't underestimate Disney.
It's not wrong.
And honestly, I feel that this is already in the works.
Like they're already doing a live action remake of Snow White.
So yeah, I agree with Caleb.
Don't overestimate Disney.
Because like you said, they did with Pinocchio.
So I mean, yeah.
Yeah, I love the original Snow White Seven Dwarves.
I mean, it was the first Disney and for how freaking funny the dwarves are in that movie,
I am so scared to see how they pull them off in live action.
I am freaking terrified to see because they better not F that movie or they better not
ruin that movie for me.
They just might, dude.
They just freaking might.
I like to think that I have faith in Disney.
You're not wrong there.
Let's see, we got one from Lizzie TV.
And this one was a fun one.
They said turning red.
Okay.
Interesting.
And a bunch of people.
Can I be a jackass and say that that's Pixar?
That's not Disney.
Can I be a jackass and do that?
It's basically the same shit, dude.
It is basically the same company.
Pixar is still its own thing.
Like I said, I'm going to be a jackass.
It's barely its own thing.
It is barely its own thing.
Yes.
So people reached out on there and they're just like, that would be difficult because
of made red panda form.
And they're like, yeah, but if they got it right.
If they got it right though.
I actually, I feel we are one of the few that actually enjoyed turning red.
So I, I, I support this live action remake.
I'm down for it.
But when it comes to like live action remakes, I feel the movie needs to be at least 10 years
old.
That's why it absolutely does.
The fact that, yeah, hell, I'd even push it to 20 because the fact that it still pisses
me off with the whole Juana, the movie's not even 10 years old.
Like there doesn't need to be a fricking live action Moana.
Dude, he, he is very much letting his ego show lately.
Oh dude, yeah.
Since Black Adam failed, he's just like, well, I gotta be making, I still gotta be making
money somehow.
So, yeah.
So he jumped straight back into that.
Yeah, and he fricking jumped straight into Fast and Furious again, didn't he?
I think he did, but that franchise isn't doing so hot anymore.
Cause yeah, the domestic premiere.
So I know Vin Diesel said, oh yeah, we're, I'm going to really try to get them to do
a trilogy for the last bit of movies.
Yeah.
I don't, I don't know if that's even going to happen for, for, yeah.
So they should just do the last one, do 11 and then just call it good.
Cause did you hear Vin Diesel, how he straight up said the faster I can get the main Fast
and Furious series over with, the faster I can jump into the spinoffs.
I'm like, are you fricking kidding me, dude?
What spinoffs?
Come on.
Oh dude, he has so many spinoffs planned.
Like Dom Toretto's son, he wants a whole spinoff with him.
Oh my hell, dude, there is only so much that you can do with racing or just cars in general.
And freaking what's her face?
The comments she made about how many Marvel movies.
Oh, seriously.
Like I truly hope that she was kidding.
Uh, because, uh, yeah, but it doesn't seem like she was.
But um, I, yeah, dude, I hope she's, I really hope she was because I really enjoy her as
an actress, um, especially fricking in like Dungeons and Dragons.
It was really good in that.
Um, but yeah, no, don't be saying, oh yeah, how far can you go with Marvel movies?
Fast and Furious, we can keep going a lot fricking further than you can with Fast and
Furious.
Yeah.
I'm like, you do realize that there are decades of comic book stories to be told, right?
Like, where else can you go with fricking racing cars?
And it's not even about racing cars anymore.
Yeah.
You freaking what you guys went to space.
Like you're turning into Friday the 13th.
The 13th.
Fricking dumb.
Like seriously.
So dumb.
Next up, we're going to get, uh, Fast Goes to Hell.
Yeah.
Or Dom Goes to Hell.
There we go.
That's going to be, that would be the, that's the spinoff that we need.
Dom Goes to Hell.
That like, you know what?
That's actually us.
That'd be like the only Fast and Furious movie.
His Dom Goes to Hell.
I did see Hobbs and Shaw, like, but probably because, uh, well one, like me and a couple
of buddies wanted to, you know, meet up after they're not seeing each other and we decided
to go see a movie and that was like the only movie playing at the time that we were able
to meet up.
Um, but like actually I had a good time with that and I think it's because it's not a part
of the Fast and Furious main franchise.
It's a spinoff.
Um, but yeah, I could get two shits about the Fast and Furious franchise, but we're
not going to get into that rant.
Nope.
Uh, what's your next, uh, answer?
Uh, next up I'm going to go with the Emperor's New Groove.
Um, and I definitely grew with this answer.
I think this is a good one and I apologize.
I'm going to point out who said it.
Uh, Grilled Cheese is Delicious is the one that said that on Tuck and I absolutely agree.
Uh, count name Grilled Cheese is Delicious.
Um, so yeah, like I said, they said the Emperor's New Groove.
Caleb said yes, absolutely agreed, but I want David Spade to come back to play him
in live action.
I don't care how he's getting older.
I don't give a shit.
No one else can play Cusco except for David Spade.
Dude, I...
Oh man.
This might be a hot take, but I don't...
I, okay, if he would, then yes.
Okay.
But if it had to be someone else, I think I know who I would really like to play Cusco.
Alright, let's hear it.
I would want, uh, Adam Devine.
I don't hate that because I freaking love Adam Devine.
Alright, I'll accept that.
Yeah, alright, you son of a bitch, I'll take that.
Not even a little bit sorry.
Alright, um...
As you shouldn't be.
Yeah.
My next response...
I only got like a few variations, but one's from Alexa Guijosa and Lilia Calambula.
So both of them said Moana, or yeah, so both of them said Moana, which we're gonna get
sooner rather than later.
But I wanted to shout out to Lilia's other choice who, and she said Tangled.
Yeah, someone pointed out Tangled on TikTok as well.
I'd be up for a live action Tangled.
I'd be a little scared just because this is a hot take.
I actually like Tangled more than...
But, so I'd be a little, especially when it comes to how they, the special effects with
her hair.
But I'd be very interested to see how they pull off a live action.
I would be too.
So yeah, what's your next one?
Tyler Bohan said, and so this is a Pixar movie, but you know, since we're counting that, I'm
gonna go with it.
Such an asshole.
He said, I'ma flip if they bring Wally into live action.
Considering that I do not like Wally that much.
I've literally seen it once and ideally, I would actually be very interested to see a
live action remake of Wally and see if I like it anymore.
You know what?
I'd say bring on a live action remake.
I'd be down for that, honestly.
It'd be mostly like CGI and whatnot, but I think that'd be pretty killer.
No, no.
Like you said, I'd be interested.
The way that Pixar told the story didn't really work for me, so maybe Disney might do better.
Yeah, I think where you would lose me with the Wally live action would be the people
all being super fat.
Fair enough.
But other than that, I'm not hating the idea of a live action Wally.
Yeah, it's not a horrible idea.
Alright, the next one we got is from the Why Pullout Productions who said Hercules, which
I want sooner rather than later.
Yeah that's a good one.
I'm honestly amazed that that hasn't been made yet.
I know!
For how many people freaking love the original movie?
Why is Disney not taking advantage of the ones that would do well in live action?
No, I agree.
This is nothing against some of the live action remakes that we have gotten, but I'm honestly
amazed that they made Lady and the Tramp before they made freaking Hercules.
More people when they say like, oh hey this is like my top 3 or top 5 favorite classic
Disney movies, Hercules ranks way higher for most people than Lady and the Tramp.
Like honestly I don't even know if most people would put Lady and the Tramp in their top
5.
Hercules, absolutely.
I know Lady and the Tramp has never been in my top 5.
Me neither and it's nothing against Lady and the Tramp.
It's a great Disney movie and the live action movie did it justice.
The live action version was actually very good.
But a live action Hercules makes way more sense than a live action, I almost forgot
the name of the movie, live action Lady and the Tramp.
Yeah.
Alright, you got another one?
Yeah.
I did that, said Tarzan and Caleb replied with this would be a great one if they do
it right and I absolutely agree.
I know we got a live action Tarzan a couple years ago with Alexander Skarsgard that played
him.
Yeah, but it wasn't like the Disney version or anything like that.
Yeah.
But I mean I never saw it.
But anyway, like yeah, fricking that Disney movie is amazing and yeah, they would have
a lot of up to when it comes to that.
And all I'm saying is if they didn't bring him, if they don't bring back Phil Collins
to do the soundtrack, I'm going to fricking riot because only Phil Collins can do any
soundtrack for a Disney Tarzan movie.
I wouldn't go see the movie.
I straight up would never.
I would not go see the movie.
I just wanted to make sure that Phil Collins is still around.
Okay, yeah, he is.
Okay, yeah, we're good.
Okay.
Yeah.
No joke.
If they announced the live action Tarzan and Phil Collins was not involved, I wouldn't
go see it.
I wouldn't.
I wouldn't watch it on principle alone.
Dude, fricking Phil Collins not associated with Tarzan.
That's like John Williams not associated with Tarzan.
I said it.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
The last response that we got on here that was from Mallory Young Green who said Frozen
1 and 2, which I think Frozen would actually work out pretty well in live action.
It would.
I still feel it's too soon for it.
Yeah, I absolutely agree.
It's too soon.
It's too soon for it.
But I agree.
Frozen could definitely work in it.
As much as it drove me nuts, I would love to see the let it go scene in live action.
I feel like that would look so freaking cool.
Dude, that would look badass.
I'm not going to lie.
So that's my last response on YouTube.
I do have a winner if there ever was one.
So yeah, so do you have another response?
Yeah, I got one more.
It's from Lechuga.
I hope I pronounced that right.
They said Peter Pan correctly.
Yeah, I definitely think that.
Correctly.
Yeah, Caleb's the kicker right there.
Yep, yeah.
Peter Pan correctly.
Yeah.
I know that Caleb definitely liked Peter Pan and Wendy a lot more than I did.
Yeah, I definitely want an AM Live action movie.
I definitely agree with your comment.
Yeah.
All right, so the number one, like the winner for me is going to Professor Rupert Marmalade
the fourth, who said Treasure Planet.
Oh, yeah, dude.
Absolutely.
Dude, that is one that needs to be made.
If there's any movie, oh my gosh, that would be...
I can't even express how excited to see that movie I would be.
Yeah, no, dude.
Absolutely.
Yeah, so that's my winner.
Do you have a winner of any that you saw?
I say I do.
And honestly, I feel like both of ours, our winners are just movies that even Disney,
I feel, as a studio looked over these movies when they first came out.
And so mine would be, who said it?
It was Darius Lanier, I hope I pronounced that right, Atlantis, The Lost Empire.
Oh, damn.
That's another good one.
So the fact that Atlantis and Treasure Planet were so overlooked by Disney and really freaking
sucks pisses me for so freaking good that, yeah, we need a freaking live action adaptations
of both of these movies because kids need to find out how great these stories are.
So I fully push for both of these movies to have live action remakes.
Absolutely.
Yeah, couldn't agree more.
And then just a quick shout out to the untrained eye for responding with a goofy movie.
If there's anything that doesn't need to be made in live action, it's a goofy movie.
Yeah.
I don't know who wrote it.
It was Beth or DJ.
No, it was DJ.
It was absolutely DJ.
It was DJ.
OK.
I just love it points out firstly, Disney needs to stop this madness, but secondly,
it should be a goofy movie.
Dude, I sat on that.
Oh, yeah.
I sat on that answer for a really long time.
And I was just like, it's nightmare fuel.
No matter what I've done with it, doing it with normal people, nightmare fuel.
He doesn't have the same like the same vibe to it.
Anything that I've done to it in my imagination, none of it has worked.
The only thing that I could have imagined is it had like the 3D animation vibe.
Yeah, I will say if they did, I know it's in an extremely goofy, but they have to bring
in the that.
What's his other?
I forget his other friend's name besides PJ.
Shit.
Oh, the one that first the one.
Yeah, we did.
Like my buddy, JC pointed out that like in the movie, he makes a joke about about like
you ever wondered why we wear white gloves and we can never take them off.
And he made a very good point.
We never see that character again after that movie.
He's he's in nothing else after an extremely goofy movie.
So even though Disney wrote the line, apparently he asked too many questions.
And so Disney had he ended up in a mysterious one car accident.
Yeah, there we go.
But I don't think he ever said anything about not being able to take it off because he took
his glove and like lifted it up.
Oh, yeah, that's what he did.
Yeah.
But they got to do that joke because that'd be yeah, that'd be frickin hilarious.
It's honestly how I how it felt when Mario and Luigi took off their their gloves when
they that was that was unnerving.
Yeah, just that was weird.
Yeah, I thought like I thought seeing Mario without his hat was weird.
But just like actually seeing any of the the Mario brothers without their hat on.
Dude, not even that barefoot.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
So he's no no, I'm good.
It's like, yep, didn't need to say no, thanks.
Anyway, thank you to everyone that answered our question of the week.
We really appreciate it.
All right, well, getting into this breakdown of The Little Mermaid, Caleb, would you like
to let everybody know how we break down movies on this podcast?
I would love to if the damn thing would open up.
So if you are new to our breakdown system, we have split movies into eight different
categories that we individually score to come to a final All Bros letter grade.
The eight categories that we score are story, writing, acting, character development, effects,
music, costumes, and then we give it our own personal score at the very end.
All of those numbers get magically added up and spit through our algorithm and give us
a letter grade to compare this movie to others of a similar grade, as well as a percentage,
which is just for fun, despite how big of a deal we make it out to be.
That is true.
Very true.
So if you have not seen The Little Mermaid, the new one, obviously.
But if you haven't seen the original, like seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?
Yeah, that's the freaking kicker.
If it's kind of like hard to spoil, if you've seen The Little Mermaid, you kind of get what
it's about.
They threw in some new stuff, not much, but a little bit.
So yeah.
Yeah.
So Rose is about to read off the synopsis for this.
He is going to spoil the entire movie for you.
So if you listen past this point and anything is spoiled for you, it is your own damn fault.
So we gave you proper warning.
Yeah.
Alright.
So Ariel is a mermaid princess and the youngest daughter of King Triton, ruler of the mer
people of Atlantica.
She is fascinated with the human world despite never having seen it, as Triton forbid all
merfolk from going to the surface after Ariel's mother was killed by a human.
Ariel collects human objects with the support of her best friend, Flounder, a sergeant major,
and scuttle a northern gannet.
Ariel misses the coral moon, meaning that she was supposed to attend with her sisters,
and is scolded by Triton.
Afterwards she sees fireworks above the ocean and surfaces to see it up close.
The fireworks come from the ship of Prince Eric, a prince of nearby Caribbean island
kingdom.
Sorry, I butchered that.
I apologize.
The fireworks come from the ship of Prince Eric, a prince of a nearby Caribbean island
kingdom.
Wow, I am really killing.
Ariel overhears Eric telling the Prime Minister, Grimsby, about his wish to explore the unknown
and help the people of his kingdom.
A storm arrives and the ship crashes against the rocks, forcing all to go for the lifeboats.
Ariel rescues Eric and brings him to shore, where she sings with her siren voice to help
save his life.
She flees before he can regain full consciousness.
After Eric recovers, his adoptive mother Queen Selena forbids him from sailing again.
Ariel's absent-minded behavior is commented on by her sisters.
Overhearing this, Triton questions his advisor, Sebastian the Crab, and learns that she saved
a human's life.
Triton travels to Ariel's grotto to confront her.
Oh my god, sorry guys.
When she refuses to swear to never go to the surface again, Triton destroys her collection
of human objects.
After Triton leaves, Ariel is approached by a pair of Moray Eels, who show her an image
of the Sea Witch Ursula, Triton's estranged younger sister and Ariel's aunt, who was
banished from Atlantica fifteen years prior, and she offers to help Ariel.
Ariel follows the Eels to Ursula's lair, where she presents a deal.
She will transform Ariel into a human for three days, during which Ariel must receive
a true love's kiss from Eric to remain human permanently.
If she fails, she will transform back into a mermaid, and Ursula will claim her.
To become human, Ariel must give up her tail, the ability to breathe underwater, and her
siren voice, the last of which Ursula will keep in a Nautilus shell.
Ariel accepts the deal and is given human legs.
She is taken to the surface by Flounder and Sebastian, and is rescued by a fisherman,
who takes her to the Island Kingdom and to Eric's castle.
Eric, who has been frantically searching for the woman who saved his life, rushes to meet
Ariel when he hears of her arrival.
Ariel is excited, but her lack of voice has Eric immediately turning away.
Later that evening, Ariel explores the castle and finds Eric's collection of items he'd
accumulated over his travels.
Eric and Ariel spend time together, poring over his collection.
The next day, Eric takes Ariel around the kingdom.
Sebastian, who has followed Ariel on land, realizes that Ursula has put a cheat in the
spell that's causing Ariel to forget that she needs to kiss Eric.
Sebastian, Scuttle, and Flounder take it upon themselves to get the pair to kiss.
They are almost successful, but are thwarted by Ursula's eels.
Ursula is enraged by the close call and transforms herself into the guise of a beautiful young
woman named Vanessa and uses Ariel's siren voice to hypnotize Eric.
The next morning, Ariel and her friends discover that Eric will be announcing his engagement
to Vanessa later that day.
Scuttle discovers Vanessa's true identity and informs Ariel, who rushes to the engagement
party and confronts Ursula to break the Nautilus shell around her neck.
Ariel's voice is restored to her and the enchantment on Eric is broken.
But before they can kiss, the sun sets, then Ariel transforms back into a mermaid.
Ursula reverts to her original form before grabbing Ariel and diving back into the ocean.
Ursula is confronted by Triton, but reveals that the deal that she made with Ariel is
unbreakable.
Triton trades himself for Ariel and is turned to dust by Ursula's eels.
Ursula claims Triton's trident just as Eric arrives to help.
In the melee, Ursula accidentally kills her eels.
Enraged, Ursula uses the trident to grow to a monster size and summons a storm to threaten
Ariel and Eric.
In the storm, Ariel pulls herself onto a surface ship and turns the helm at the right moment
to impale Ursula with its splintered bow spread.
Once Ursula is killed, Triton comes back to life.
He and Ariel recognize the other sacrifice for them.
Eric manages to return home, where Selena acknowledges that Eric and Ariel's love was
real.
Triton eventually accepts that although Ariel has returned home as he wanted, she is unhappy
without Eric.
On Sebastian's advice, Triton transforms Ariel into a human permanently and she reunites with
Eric.
The pair decide to travel together with the blessing of both their parents and the support
of people from both their worlds.
That was a big hmmm.
Were you not a fan of this?
No I was, I was.
It's just, I was just trying to like think while you were talking like what if, what
if any significant differences between this and the original were.
And I feel like they followed this pretty true.
Yeah dude.
I absolutely agree.
And you know what, I will say that like maybe like a couple, I feel that there was enough
difference in it.
Like barely like maybe like little tweaks to just make it feel a little bit more original
than other live action Disney remakes.
Like I feel like the Lion King is like a beat for beat remake.
I feel that this one does a little tweaking to where it still feels more original than
that movie in my opinion.
It does.
I mean obviously the dialogue is damn near beat for beat.
In some cases like a lot of Ursula's stuff is pretty much like word for word.
That's a very good point.
But yeah like it did enough with the source material and like changed enough things that
it made it feel a lot more fun.
Or just interesting.
Yeah like, no like it really did.
Like I feel that, because like I'm trying to remember the original a lot.
Like I made a really big mistake in not watching the original either before I watched this
movie or after I watched this movie so like I'm trying to remember a lot of it.
But the opening of the original, is it like the opening of this one?
Is it like the whole ship with like Eric and like everything with his like crew and all
that stuff?
Is that happening?
Pretty much.
That is?
Okay.
For some reason that was escaping me.
Yeah like honestly that was a great retelling.
And the introduction of Ariel is fricking fantastic.
And fricking don't get me started on the introduction of Ursula.
Like that was fricking practically perfect.
That was to me just as good as the animated one.
Oh my gosh dude.
No kidding.
I can't wait to talk about her.
Right?
Oh dude yeah I'm so excited to talk about acting.
Like the differences that I feel that they made, I liked that all of the like not spot
on human knowledge that Ariel had was utilized out in public and not just at like the table
in the castle.
Yeah.
Oh dude I loved when she was in the village.
That was such a cool.
Yeah.
That, dude the fact that that's the cameo that, oh my god the original voice of Ariel.
Judy Benson.
Thank you.
I loved her cameo in this where she gives her the fork and you know she does the whole
thing with her hair and she's like what the hell are you doing?
That was just so perfect.
That was so well done.
I don't think I couldn't have imagined a better scene for the two ladies that have played
Ariel to be in together.
It was so perfect.
Dude that was fantastic.
I'm trying to think of like other changes.
I liked how they kind of got rid of that whole like choir performance with like the sisters
and then it was like suddenly Ariel's not there during the performance or whatever.
I thought that was kind of.
I felt the sisters had more to do though in the animated one.
Not much more.
Like I feel.
So the sisters they were, their role in the original was obviously they were there for
like the choir performance.
They sing the songs.
They go and then you don't see them until Ariel has already interacted with like the
shipwreck and has saved Eric and then she comes into the castle and is like singing
and humming and they're just like then they like tell Triton like oh can't you tell Ariel's
in love and then that's it.
That's like all that we see from them.
Yeah.
But for some reason I don't know to me I cared less about the sisters in this one than I
did the original.
That's nothing against the actresses.
Like they did fine with what they were given but I feel they were even pushed more to the
side even more in this one.
That I would have to disagree with you on.
Really?
Okay.
Because the Little Mermaid's still like the original is still pretty fresh in my mind.
Yeah.
Like no joke.
All you see of the sisters is them at the concert, them telling Triton that Ariel's
in love and that is it.
In this it felt a little bit better where it's like they're sitting there at the meeting
and then they're there cleaning up the shipwreck and all that good stuff and then they share
that oh we think Ariel's in love and then you see them at the end too when they're like
seeing Ariel off.
Yeah.
Can we, I was telling Christina this, maybe it's just me but you know as they're you know
all the merpeople and you know humans are seeing them off and you see some merpeople
sitting on the edges of the townspeople's boats.
If I was one of them I'd be like get the hell off my boat.
Who said that you could sit on there?
Yeah, it's like excuse you.
I'd be kind of, yeah.
I'd be honestly irritated.
Like you're getting my shit all wet.
Dude, I thought the same thing I was just like don't touch my freaking boat.
Yeah, exactly.
Do you know how freaking hard it was to build this shit?
Yeah.
That was a cool scene though.
Like for what it was.
It was.
No, it was a very sweet scene.
Trying to think of some other like beats.
I liked how the sisters were more like not just ditzy girls where they all served a purpose.
See, I liked that.
You like the ditziness?
I did.
I liked that in the original to where like I'm sorry in this one they're kind of boring
to me.
They are but it felt like they served more of a purpose.
Like it felt like they were like, it felt like they contributed to society a little
bit.
Well, it's fair but like the part when they're like cleaning up the ship and everything to
me they're just like they're kind of just bitching.
I know they make the joke with how Ariel is, of course yeah she's the youngest and one's
just like oh yeah you remember how I was like that and then I actually wanted to be like
you guys and everything.
I don't know.
I liked them better when they were like ditzy in the original animated one.
To me they had more character with that.
I'll give you that.
I will say that it did feel like they were a little bit more fun and had some character
to them but I don't know.
I dug what they did with this.
No, I appreciate that they tried to do something different with the sisters but it just didn't
fully work for me.
That's fair.
I did like some of the changes where like Eric actually had a parent in this.
Yes, that was a really good change.
And I really liked the story that they had for Eric too.
Yeah, that was really good.
Especially with the contrast between like how her or how Eric's and Ariel's story is
basically exactly the same.
Where Ariel has an overprotective father where he is banned all travel to the surface because
his wife had been killed by humans.
And then the opposite with the queen where the queen has banned most sea travel at least
in regards to her son because the king was lost at sea.
And how Eric was found on the shores and was taken in by the queen and adopted and raised
to be the prince where Ariel basically did the same thing like saved him, brought him
on shore and everything.
How she ended up being the one that was taken to the castle and saved from the waters and
basically adopted into the castle.
The contrast between them or the similarities was just amazing.
They made Eric way more interesting than I feel he's ever been.
They really did.
I loved his backstory, his ambitions.
Way better written character in this live action version.
Oh yeah, way freaking better.
I'm trying to think if there were any other changes.
Can't think of any off the top of my head.
I can't believe this is just a random change but I know Scuttle was changed from a seagull
to a type of bird that can actually go underwater.
I don't know where to put this.
Why was she able to talk underwater?
Like clearly.
Dude you caught me.
I don't know because it's Aquafina I guess.
She has Aqua in her name.
It was weird dude.
It was really freaking weird.
Fair enough.
I will definitely dock it for that but some of these live action remakes you kind of got
to disobey belief or some shit like that.
Not disobey.
Set aside your...
I know what you're trying to say.
It's a term that I always forget but I get what you're saying.
I'm not the only one.
Let's hope the listeners understand what we're saying.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Yeah I had a good time with this one.
I think that the minor changes that they did make were good.
Yeah I agree.
They didn't drag down the story or make it too long.
I feel that it definitely expanded on the Little Mermaid lore and it made it that much
better.
Oh yeah.
Absolutely.
I feel like they could have gone over the top with some of the things or maybe just
change things that they didn't need to but it felt like...
This is more of a writing thing so I think that what they did was they kept the things
that worked, edited the things that were maybe a little outdated, and added in some new things
that actually enhanced the overall story.
Yeah absolutely agree.
So with story I don't know where I'm at with this one.
I'll say this I'm not quite in the 90s though.
I'm not either.
So I say I'm at like...
You know what?
I'm gonna go in 87 for me.
I might be a little bit below you.
I'm around an 84.
No fair enough man.
Fair enough.
Alright moving on over to writing.
And again I think this is pretty much on point.
At least in terms of dialogue.
I felt dialogue was fine.
No no I absolutely agree.
Yeah I honestly don't really have a lot wrong with the writing.
Like you said it takes basically all of the beats when it comes to character dialogue
from the original and brings it into this.
It might add some.
Especially with I feel Eric definitely adds a lot of dialogue for Eric but it works very
well especially for how much more of a character Eric is in this movie.
I do have a question.
Was Triton as bland as he is in the original?
Not even a little bit dude.
Okay he felt so...
I absolutely understand where you're coming from with that statement.
Okay yeah and I don't think this is Javier Bardem's fault at all.
I feel it's the writing for him.
Triton was written so bland in this one.
He's literally just the very stern oh my daughters aren't able to do anything else but what I
tell them to do helicopter parent.
That's literally all that Triton is.
That's all he is in the original though too.
But...
True but I feel he was...
I think you're giving Javier Bardem way too much credit.
Yeah maybe I am.
He made Triton bland or King Triton bland.
Yeah maybe you're right.
It was not the writing at all.
It was absolutely...
Because I love Javier Bardem.
I do too.
I do too but you gotta call him out on his shit.
Maybe he wasn't the best choice for King Triton.
You needed I think was especially a role like that.
You need to have someone that has that authoritative presence about them that can basically lay
down the law like when they need to.
And Javier Bardem doesn't have that authoritarian vibe about him.
He seems very soft spoken but it's just a presence.
Like Javier Bardem doesn't have a presence about him.
And this is where I feel like they...
When I heard of this casting I was bummed out because there was so much shit going around
that Terry Crews was going to play Triton and I would have loved that.
I would have hated that.
Listen I know that we've only seen Terry Crews in comedic roles right?
I think if he would have dialed back his comedy, used his presence because like...
And this is like coming from someone...
Did you ever watch Everybody Hates Chris?
Dude absolutely.
I freaking love that show.
So you kind of get what I would be talking about then.
No I do.
He had these moments where he could lay down the law and it still felt like there was care
behind it but he could also express that anger and show his dominance.
No that's fair but I don't know for some reason his voice for me just would not work for King
Triton.
He would have to make his voice at least a little deeper for me.
I feel like that's an easy edit though.
Because they did the same thing with Javier Bardem.
They didn't make it deeper but they kind of added that echo.
Alright good point.
That's a very good point.
So I think he would have been a little bit better.
Because like I said there's a commanding presence about King Triton.
He didn't have it.
And I think that's what made him bland because everything was delivered so consistently.
Even when he was going and destroying...
We're getting into acting stuff.
But no with you bringing up him destroying it felt more impactful.
It felt more like holy shit.
This is a freaking serious moment that...
Did you feel that in this one?
No not really.
Felt in the original absolutely.
In the original you're just like what the fuck?
I don't feel it's Halle Bailey's fault at all.
It's Javier Bardem's.
Very much so.
I want to hold off more on this conversation but discussing writing I loved the dialogue
in this.
I think it was higher than the story.
So with this I'm probably...
I'm still probably lower than where you were at with this story but I'm around an 86.
I think writing...
I think I'm going to match my story.
I'm going to go an 87.
Fair.
Alright but getting into acting.
So yes so Javier Bardem during that scene where he's destroying all of Ariel's stuff.
In the original you hear him...
It's a booming voice and you can feel his anger and he's pissed off and then he's going...
They got the essence of that to a point but Javier Bardem needs to express his rage better
in this.
No I agree.
That's what he was missing.
It was missing the rage.
Yeah I agree.
When his trident lit up and I was like oh shit's about to go down but he was blowing stuff
up but it felt like he was still very soft spoken.
He was talking with a stern voice but it wasn't like booming.
And I think that's what it was missing.
That is absolutely what is missing.
I am going to just make one edit.
Just bringing this up so it doesn't just come out randomly.
I am going to actually match Caleb on writing so I'm going to change my score to 86.
So I just want to get that out there.
Back to acting.
But yeah I don't think Javier Bardem was the choice for King Triton.
I agree.
The guy didn't even make my top 5 for favorite actors in this movie or favorite performances.
What does your top 3 look like?
Number 3 I'm going to give to Melissa McCarthy.
I absolutely loved her as Ursula.
So freaking good.
Honestly I wish that she was in it more.
I know that Ursula wasn't in it.
She was in this movie as much as Ursula is in the original.
But she is just so freaking good as this character.
I know this is more so in effects but when she becomes like giant Ursula at the end of
the movie.
Dude I feel that matched the original when it comes to absolutely terrifying.
That looked so freaking good and Melissa McCarthy looked absolutely terrifying as Ursula in
that scene.
But anyway getting back to her acting.
Fantastic.
Such a great job as Ursula and her performance of Poor Unfortunate Souls was so freaking
good.
Nothing but good to say about her.
So she's number 3.
Number 2 I got to give to Jonah.
I'm going to butcher his name.
Howard King.
I hope that's how you say your last name man.
As if like you're listening to this.
But no Jonah did fantastic as Prince Eric and like Caleb and I pointed out I feel he
even brought more of a character to him.
In this one than Eric had in the original.
And that not only is due to him as an actor but it's also due to the writing of Prince
Eric.
Dude so I was talking with Brielle.
Eric apparently has always been one of her favorite Disney princes.
And I'm like from the original or after this movie.
And she's like no he's always been.
And I'm like why?
He's so boring.
I love that why?
Like there are some princes I 100% understand the obsession.
Eric is one of the ones I do not.
I'm like dude you're so freaking boring.
Like what?
Like it's so dumb.
So freaking dumb.
I've never liked Prince Eric but Jonah Howard King did make me like Eric a hell of a lot
more.
Same here.
Like freaking like you said added so much more character to him.
Freaking all of his new original song that Prince Eric gets in this movie.
It's really really good.
It's one of the rare songs in these live action Disney remakes that actually like makes sense
and it adds to the story.
It doesn't feel out of place.
This one I feel definitely it felt like it should be.
Which I really appreciated.
So he gets number two but number one I got to give to Halle Bailey as Ariel.
She was oh my god I can't say enough good about her.
I got nothing wrong with her as Ariel.
She was fantastic.
I was almost brought to tears with her performance of Part of Your World.
Her scenes with not only Eric but Ursula just her scenes in general with just anybody that
she had to be on screen even when she was with Sebastian and Flounder.
Just absolutely amazing.
I really hope that a lot happens for Halle Bailey after this movie because this girl is
going places.
I truly hope that is the case.
Yeah, god she was just perfect as Ariel.
Yeah, I got nothing else to say.
Like you said I can't say I can't say enough good great about how amazing she was as Ariel.
So yeah that's my top three.
Oh boy dude my top three looks way different than yours.
Really?
I am going to give a shout out to Jonah Howard King as Eric but he did not crack my top three.
Okay.
Like I said I really appreciate the characterization that he was able to give to Eric.
Like I said made him way more interesting than I feel he's ever been in his entire life.
So much appreciated.
My number three though this is going to be a hot take.
I'm giving it to Art Malik who played Sir Grimsby.
Dude Grimsby was the bomb.
That is a hot take.
I mean fair but yeah that is a very hot take but you know what I like it.
Dude he was a freaking boss.
He was so cool.
Like I thought like initially when we like meet him I thought he was just going to be
another like exactly how the other one was where it's just kind of uptight and just like
oh so proper and all this other bullshit but he ended up being so much freaking fun and
so freaking cool.
Like I couldn't help but love him.
Like I was I was Team Grimsby like all the way.
Like I said freaking loved it.
So yeah that gave me my number three to Grimsby and mainly for like I think what won me over
like ultimately was when the rain dropped when Vanessa was was there and he kicked it
away.
Such a great moment.
I'm just like dude I love you.
So yeah that's my number three.
My number two I will be giving to Halle Bailey.
All right I'm out.
Just kidding.
Oh man.
Like don't get me wrong left her performance.
Me giving her number two has nothing to do with her performance.
There is just.
Okay.
My number one I liked a lot more.
Okay.
But Halle Bailey she did an incredible job at portraying the innocence and curiosity
that Ariel is supposed to have.
Like I thought she did an incredible.
Like and especially not having to speak.
Like I feel like that's that's the big challenge not being able to speak like freaking wild
like amazing amazing job.
So loved her.
But I'm going to be giving my number one to Melissa McCarthy dude as Ursula.
Holy dude I told you she would.
I told you she killed it.
You are 100 percent correct.
Dude I will say I did not see this performance coming.
Dude right.
Dude I hate how much hate that Melissa McCarthy gets.
Like it honestly like irritates me because everyone thinks that she's not funny.
She's not a good actress.
She's both of those in my opinion.
I've been a fan of her since day one.
Yeah.
Not funny.
That is absolute bullshit.
She is hilarious.
Yeah.
I love.
One of the best female comedians working today.
One of the best comedians working today.
Easily dude.
Easily.
But listen when this announcement came out I had my doubts.
I absolutely had my doubts.
But this is this is how I thought it was going to go.
I thought she was going to play Ursula exactly how she plays every other comedic role.
Like I don't think I've seen Melissa McCarthy in anything that's too serious.
Fair.
So seeing something where she has this.
Off the top of my head.
Yeah.
Like what I will say about about her performance is it it felt like it was done with such care.
Yes.
Like.
Oh my gosh dude.
She she handled it perfectly.
She really did.
Like I've it is very unfortunate that the original Ursula actress passed away.
I believe last year I believe it was last year.
And it's sad that she wasn't able to see Melissa McCarthy's performance because I feel that
she would have been very pleased with what Melissa McCarthy did.
Dude I think she would have too.
She did such an incredible job.
I was so pleasantly surprised.
Like if so I chose not to watch a lot of clips for this movie.
The couple that I did was I listened to the full version of Part of Your World before.
And it's just because I wanted to get a vibe for how all the other songs were going to
go.
And Halle Bailey did not let me down whatsoever.
The only other clip that I listened was like part of Poor Unfortunate Souls.
And I got 30 seconds in and I turned it off because I'm like I'm sold.
I am 100 percent sold.
Like I said she did such a good job.
And I thought she was going to be over the top.
I didn't think she was going to be unfunny but I wasn't ready for her to overplay Ursula
but she played it.
She was so refined in her performance and it felt exactly how Ursula should feel.
Like I'll say it I think Melissa McCarthy may have I'll say it I think she outdid the
original actress.
That's a hot take.
I know.
A very hot take.
That might be the hottest take of this episode.
That might be the hottest take of the podcast as a whole.
I think it is.
Damn.
Wow.
I loved her.
I can't wait to hear the comments on this.
I was saying I would just love to hear what people say.
I know people are probably going to hate me.
But yeah it gives a shit.
People suck anyway.
I loved her performance.
I was completely enthralled from the get go.
And I am so glad or so happy how they handled giant Ursula.
Not really giving us a clear look on her face.
And keep being clouded and dark and just scary.
Dude.
Freaking terrifying.
Yeah.
Freaking some major nightmare fuel.
Dude.
Seriously.
Like oh my god.
So I think everything she did was handled really freaking well.
So very happy with her performance.
Like I said that's why I'm giving her top spot.
You know absolutely fair man.
Understandable.
Alright where are you putting acting?
Like honestly the only person that I really had problems with was Javier Bardem just because
yeah he kind of made King Triton bland.
Like Daveed Diggs was fantastic as Sebastian.
I loved him.
Jacob Tremblay as Flounder.
He was great.
There's nothing wrong with his voice.
It's just his design that I had like it was a little hit and miss for me but that's for
effects.
His voice was fantastic for Flounder.
I loved him.
And even Awkwafina I thought was great as Scuttle.
Yeah dude you know it's honestly crazy like how late this movie came out to when like
they did the voiceovers and everything.
Because I've seen like behind the scenes stuff for this movie.
And Jacob Tremblay was still like his little kid self when he was recording his lines for
Flounder and like seeing him now he's like 16.
Oh shit.
In like one of his interviews.
Yeah dude in one of the interviews he pointed out he's just like because he did like a voice
crack and he's just like yeah this just proves that I can't even do the voice anymore that
I did in this movie for Flounder.
Yeah forget like I didn't even know it's like Halle Bailey first audition for or she
got the role for Ariel when she was 18.
She's now I think she said she barely just something like 23 or 24.
Damn.
So this movie's yeah this movie's been in production for that long.
But you know like with COVID and everything yeah it makes sense because I think they had
barely just started production on this movie like right before the pandemic hit.
I'll say this I'm glad they waited.
Oh yeah me too.
If this would have been rushed like I think I don't know if it would have been nearly
as good as it ended up being.
I yeah I absolutely agree.
Yeah no like I feel for the most part like everyone did a really really good job.
The only person I really had a problem with was Javier Bardem.
So I'm trying to think for acting though just because Javier Bardem does bring it down for
me.
I'm gonna go on 85.
I don't think he was in it enough for me to be down that low.
I'm actually fairly high.
Damn man I'm the bad one here.
I know between Melissa McCarthy and Halle Bailey I'm sitting at like 91.
You're so wishy washy.
I know I am shut up.
I gotta match you on that you fuck you effer.
I like how I say that and I've already said the F word on this episode.
Yeah I know like just own it dude.
You already freaking got us the explicit tag.
You're welcome.
Alright character development.
I feel it's it's basically this I'm assuming we're doing Ariel.
Yeah of course.
Yeah so basically you're getting the same development that you get in the original with
you know her wanting to see above the surface.
She gets that wish from Ursula.
You know she's able to experience it with Eric.
Things unfortunately don't go as she planned after she finds out that Ursula is sabotaging
it and yada yada yada.
But at the end she's able to become a human again and live happily ever after with Eric.
It's a classic it's classic Disney but it's it's told so well and Ariel I feel still has
a very good character development because I feel that even though you know she gets
what she wants she still she still has to deal with the repercussions of it throughout
her time on land.
And towards the end you don't actually think so.
I mean if you haven't seen the original yet you're going to think that oh my god maybe
she doesn't actually get her happy ending.
Maybe Eric does actually marry this lady that Ursula is pretending to be.
So just for the what she goes through as a character I feel is I feel it's pretty damn
good.
Like I wouldn't say it's great character development but as far as like Disney Prince Princess's
character development I feel that Ariel's is definitely one of the better ones.
Barely.
Yeah this is one I feel like I'm going to be harsher than you.
I mean we'll see I'm like I can't I don't know if I'm even in the 80s.
I might be in like the low 70s on this.
The low 70s?
Dude are you going to make me the good guy on this one too?
So the way that I see this like completely average upon average character development
is like that's where I put like at a 75.
This I'd give a couple points higher I'd be at a 77.
Like it is barely.
And this is I'll say this.
The more Disney Princess's we do the lower this score is going to go.
The character development of Disney Princess's is garbage.
Touche.
I can't really argue that.
He's not wrong.
Yeah there's not a single Disney Princess that I feel has decent character development.
Yeah fair enough.
Alright moving on over to effects.
You text me before and you said like it's hit and miss.
I absolutely agree with you.
There were times.
There were moments.
Yeah there were times when it like it was mostly I feel during the part of your world
that I'm just like okay this is looking really good.
But then you get moments when she's like swimming in freaking under the sea when Sebastian is
first singing and she's swimming backwards.
I'm like oh my god this does not look good.
Dude there was a moment with the freaking eels.
Like I think when they tipped them over and they were swimming away I'm like what in the
ass?
Like why does this look so fake?
So I saw the like the behind the scenes of how they did it.
So yeah like they literally would have them like strapped to a mechanism.
Their torso strapped to a mechanism.
They'd have two people wearing suits controlling the actors legs and then they'd be wearing
like a motion cap helmet that would you know that's where their hair would go.
But there were just like so many instances that I'm just like I can tell that the head
is real but the the rest of everything is CGI and it is so blatantly obvious.
Dude the final fight with Ursula was rampant with bad effects.
Yeah dude I feel like the worst when it came to like I'm just like oh my god I'm having
a hard time believing that it was freaking Javier Bardem's Triton.
Like I feel he looked really really bad.
Dude the freaking fake facial hair was rough.
Yeah like when at the beginning when the sisters you know first swim in for the coral meeting
I'm just like please tell me this is not gonna be the CGI throughout the whole movie and
thankfully like there is like I said to Caleb there's hits and misses in this movie.
But that beginning scene when they're like swimming in or yeah they're first swimming
in I'm just like oh please tell me the whole movie when it comes to underwater scenes isn't
going to be this hard to watch.
I hate this movie for proving James Cameron's point.
Dude yeah like seriously like I think I got to take back like all the shit I was or at
least some of the shit I was giving Aquaman for like the underwater scenes like somehow
it didn't look that great because I will fully admit the underwater scenes in that movie
look better than they did in this one.
Yeah dude I was watching some behind the scenes stuff for The Way of Water and how James Cameron
was just like yeah we had them on wire rigs I didn't like how it looked so we created
this whole underwater studio system and blah blah blah and all I was thinking through I'm
like you're such a pretentious prick.
Like of course you did like you had to make like go and make this movie as complicated
as you possibly could and now seeing this I'm just like damn it.
Yeah that begs the question though have you seen those underwater scenes in The Way of
Water?
I've seen some with visual effects breakdowns.
Okay yeah every single one is freaking jaw droppingly beautiful.
I know and that's what pissed me off.
I was just like dude you got like seriously I'm just like son of a bitch.
I know my freaking dumb ass was saying like you could have easily done this with wire
rigs you asshole.
Like you didn't have to go and do this like no one asked you to and then after seeing
this I'm just like damn it.
It's like yeah maybe yeah maybe you got a point Cameron.
Yeah I'm like alright I'll give you that point.
Like honestly this is like definitely my biggest problem with the movie because I even told
Christina this like overall this is a really good live action remake.
It's just like you could tell that when it comes to a retelling of The Little Mermaid
with live action what we can do with effects unless you're James Cameron when it comes
to underwater definitely haven't caught up yet with how we want The Little Mermaid portrayed
in live action.
Maybe give us maybe give maybe give us 10 years.
Like I said James Cameron's already mastered it apparently.
Really like I think James Cameron might have been the one to direct The Little Mermaid.
No he would have made it too freaking serious.
And that's coming from someone that actually really likes the way of water.
I know I hated myself for that thought.
I was just like god damn it.
Oh shit.
So where were you sitting with the effects?
Cool question though.
Character design.
That goes in costumes right?
Yes.
Okay.
So okay I'll leave that for that.
Well yeah yeah that goes in costumes.
I got some things to say about some of the characters.
I do too.
Okay cool.
I'm pretty sure it's the exact same characters.
Yeah I'm sure it is as well.
The effects just because they were so hit and miss.
God I might be at like a solid 70.
I might be that low.
I don't know.
I think there's a lot of stuff that missed.
I'll definitely give you that.
But the stuff that hit hit hard.
That's true.
Like honestly like especially for me it was like the part of your world.
Like the swimming in that looked really good.
Bailey looked great in that.
God damn it I hate you.
Okay listen.
I'm not super high.
I'm not 70 low but I'm not like I'm not in the 80s.
No matter what I do I will not be in the 80s.
I think I'm gonna sit at a I'll be at a 75 as well.
Yeah we're gonna go 75.
I'm probably going to go a little bit higher.
I'm gonna go I'll do the same as my development score.
I'll go 77.
And this is because I had an issue with how the underwater scenes looked.
I feel like it could have been a little bit more bright and vibrant but I understand why
they went with like darker darker tones.
It kind of made the movies feel a little darker than it needed to.
That yeah.
All right next up we got music.
I feel they did a fantastic job with all the numbers.
All of them?
Oh do you have which one did you have a problem with?
I'll see if you can guess.
Is it under the sea?
No it's the freaking scuttle one.
Oh the scuttle butt?
Dude I was ready to claw my face off.
Okay but the question with that is it is it the song alone?
It's the song alone.
Oh it's not Aquafina?
No okay if that was Aquafina singing decent voice it's the song.
I'm pretty sure it is.
I wanted to claw my face off dude.
It was so bad.
Like what in the actual ass was that song?
I didn't hate it as much as you did apparently.
That was easily the worst.
It is so bad it brought my music score down.
Oh shit.
Oh man.
Yeah but please tell me like okay like okay I brought up under under the sea.
How did you feel about that rendition?
I thought it was great.
I actually really liked it.
Yeah Daveed Diggs did fantastic.
I that was the the one song that I was really worried about.
Fair that is absolutely fair.
Yeah the original is so iconic.
Yeah and it was so bright.
It was so it was so colorful.
It was like just super busy and fun and just so elaborate and I feel like that was a super
hard thing to copy and I think they did it really well.
Okay you've already had a hot take and I'm gonna have a hot take this episode.
I like this rendition and just atmosphere of Kiss the Girl more than the original.
Oh damn.
Yeah I thought this rendition was way better.
Like I said.
Hottest of takes.
Yep.
I gotta have a hot take this episode too.
Damn.
Yep.
The I'll give you it was good.
It was really good.
I can't say it was better though.
No dude I get it.
I would say part of your world that to me that's on the same level as the original.
Both are just fantastic.
Oh yeah I will give you that.
Bodie Benson and Halle Bailey like both perfect performances.
Like you said earlier her performance almost brought me to tears.
It was that good.
Yeah really freaking good.
This is a total side note and it was just because I was thinking about it.
After Ariel was given her legs and she had to swim up to the ocean I am actually really
glad that she was in the middle of the ocean.
And not just like quick swimming distance with it like to shore.
Damn you wanted to see Ariel suffer?
I didn't want to see her suffer but like that was one thing that never made sense to me.
I'm just like okay so she's just randomly like on land now?
Yeah she had to freaking swim like hell.
So when she got caught up in the net I was just like thank you.
That was a part like an added bonus that I didn't know I needed.
So yeah okay but music why like getting back to the music overall it was good.
Except for Scuttlebutt.
Like I said I could have taken a freaking ice pick to my ear.
I hated it that much.
I liked it.
I didn't love it but I didn't mind it.
Dude I knew Lin-Manuel Miranda did some music for this.
And I was wondering I'm like I wonder where his music influence came.
And then I got hit with that song and I was just like there it is.
Yep there it is.
There's the Miranda charm.
Yeah I do not like the Miranda charm.
Holy shit.
Gosh I feel like I'm going to be such an asshole.
Where are you at?
I would say I'm at an eight for me personally.
Oh damn okay I thought I was going to be the asshole here.
Are you at an eight too?
No I was at a nine.
Oh see I thought you were going to be at an eight so that's why I'm just like maybe I
guess I'll do an eight.
But if you're at a nine I can totally do a nine.
No the rest of the soundtrack was freaking bomb.
Oh hell yeah okay cool.
Like I said I thought Scuttlebutt brought it down to an eight.
No okay a great soundtrack with one bad song is I'm at a nine or it can bring me down.
And so that's exactly what this is a great freaking soundtrack with one horrid song.
I did like the other like additional songs though.
The one like I have to take everyone's word on that because I had to take Iris to go to
the bathroom.
Yeah so dude that one sucked because it's like I left right as he started the song and
came back right after he finished.
Damn it that sucks.
But yeah like when I got back Brielle and her friend the one that we went with they
were like swooning real freaking hard.
That's funny.
Like ladies you need to keep it in your pants.
Yes Christina was swooning over Prince Eric the whole movie.
Geez.
So yeah I'm giving it a nine and I know that it's because I'm being an asshole about Scuttlebutt.
Like I said I hated that song more than I can express.
See I liked I didn't hate Scuttlebutt I liked it and even I still agree with a nine.
Like I'm sorry it did not hit a ten for me.
Yeah I will say this the original definitely does.
Oh yeah absolutely.
And that's just because it's like as iconic as Iconic can get.
Oh yeah absolutely.
Alright next up we got costumes which I mean the outfits for this were so good.
Oh yeah freaking Ariel looked beautiful like always.
I loved what they did with the tails.
Yeah they looked so freaking cool.
Yeah the freaking design on all of the merpeople was fantastic in this movie.
Oh yeah absolutely.
The biggest problems I had well actually it was only one problem honestly because I liked
the design of Sebastian.
I feel it worked.
It grew on me.
Same here it took me a minute to get used to it but I got used to it very fast.
Scuttle looked fine.
It's freaking Flounder that I have a problem with because someone did not do the research
with this movie.
Or even though that's his name he is not a Flounder fish.
I can't remember what type of fish he is in the animated movie but he is not a Flounder.
Like I said that's his name but that is not the type of fish he is.
And freaking like I loved like I said I loved Jacob Trembley's voice as Flounder.
Great choice but just the freaking eyes on this fish made him sometimes terrifying to
look on screen.
He was terrifying to look at sometimes.
He was an odd looking fish.
And that sucks for me because Flounder was my favorite character from the original.
He still is but they done my favorite character dirty in this movie.
Voice casting?
Perfect.
I just looked up the Ocean Conservancy.org and they had a real animals Little Mermaid
page.
And yeah like they got to Flounder and they said it is most definitely not a Flounder.
There's a consensus that Flounder is more than likely some type of Angel Fish or some
other similar vibrantly colored real fish or reef fish.
Yeah.
Why couldn't they have done that?
Yeah.
Is that what they made him like an actual Flounder?
Yeah.
They're just like oh his name is Flounder so he has to be a Flounder right?
No.
Um are you sure?
Oh yeah never mind.
I'm looking at like side by side.
From what I read yeah they made him look like a Flounder.
Yeah I'll definitely say this a cuter Flounder than most.
Fair enough.
Yeah nothing against Flounder fish but yeah they definitely ain't the prettiest to look
at.
No.
Um.
That they are not.
But um yeah uh that's like honestly like the biggest when it comes to costumes yeah like
Flounder is like the biggest one that I have wrong with.
Uh like like Caleb said yes Sebastian like it takes you a minute to get used to but after
you do the design is actually not bad.
Um Sebastian looks fine.
Like I said Scuttle looks fine.
Um like all of the costumes for the merpeople looked great especially uh uh Ariel and oh
my god don't even get me started on Ursula.
Oh my god the design was perfect.
Dude whoever's idea it was to make her tentacles like translucent needs all the money.
Agreed.
Yes I absolutely agree.
That was an inspired choice.
Yes that was chef's kiss.
No freaking joke there.
Um gosh where are you sitting at with costumes because I don't I like I said I don't know
where I'd be with this.
I don't I'm just trying to think of how far Flounder brings me down but just for how much
I enjoy the rest of the designs I don't think he brings me down that much.
Um so like like I'm probably I don't like I want to say I'm at a nine but I can like
most definitely be talked down.
I'm just like just thinking Flounder's the only one I have an issue with like a true
issues with.
Everyone else like they looked great.
King Triton looked great.
All the sisters looked really good.
Um Ariel looked fantastic.
I'm at a nine.
I can definitely give you that nine.
Let's do it.
All right last up we got our own our personal scores.
I will take this one.
That's all right with you.
Yep.
Okay.
Um so yeah overall uh this is most definitely one of the best live action Disney remakes
that uh Disney has done.
Um this is honestly in my top three of the best ones that they've done.
Um I had a really really good time with this one.
Uh the casting is on point.
Um while the effects are hit and miss they're they're still decent for what they were able
to do.
Um and just I feel that they brought new life into this classic animated uh or into this
classic story.
Um and I feel that that's it's a tall task to do considering how beloved the original
is but I feel that they pulled it off very very well.
Um so I would say I think I'm gonna be at an 87.
This is a really well done remake.
I feel like there are not very many good Disney remakes.
This is not one of them.
This is definitely on the higher end.
Um I loved everything that this movie was able to do with the small tweaks that they
made with the uh with the story and kind of giving us a better insight on different characters
like Prince Eric.
Prince Eric is more interesting than we've ever seen him be before.
And then just like the biggest of shout outs to Melissa McCarthy for her portrayal of Ursula.
She was just chef's kiss so freaking good.
I I have nothing but positive thoughts about that performance and Halle Bailey like oh
my gosh.
She enveloped that character of Ariel so well that it made it so fun to watch.
She captured the innocence of Ariel, the curiosity, all of that good stuff extremely well.
But honestly with with the hit and miss effects and me not necessarily being the biggest fan
of The Little Mermaid.
But I mean it's still a really good watch.
Definitely definitely worth seeing.
My personal score for this is going to be in 83.
It's definitely on the higher end but it's not quite up there.
Fair enough man.
Fair enough.
Well with that that wraps up this week's breakdown.
So going through the categories real quick starting off with story.
Started off pretty strong at an 85.5.
Writing got a half point boost sitting at an 86.
Acting was the absolute high point of this movie starting or going up to a 91.
Work development took a dive and that's just because Disney Princesses aren't written very
well sitting at a 76.
The effects got the exact same score sitting at a 76.
Music was a solid nine and that is mainly due to Scuttlebutt.
And the costumes were fantastic and the character designs were good.
Our main issue was Flounder but so that brought us down to a nine.
And then our personal score averaged out to an 85.
So with that the final Albrows letter grade for The Little Mermaid 2023 has come out to
a B.
Okay I'm cool with that.
I am absolutely cool with that.
So it is sitting at an 84.93.
So like I said this is sitting at a B.
So like I said this is sitting at an 84.93.
So comparing this movie to other movies within the B category.
This puts it below the Oath which is at an 85 as well as Hocus Pocus which is also at
an 85.
It is barely below the Lion King which is at an 85.1.
Damn that was one that I wanted it to be.
Son of a bitch.
It is below Holes which is at an 85.25.
And then it is below the Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent which is at an 85.37.
Going the opposite direction it is above Megan which is at an 84.81.
It is above The Matrix Resurrections which is at an 84.7.
It is above Christopher Robin which is at an 84.56.
Oh shit okay wow.
It is above Prey which is at an 84.43.
It is above Avengers Age of Ultron which is at an 84.37.
And then finally it is above Solo a Star Wars Story which is at an 84.21.
Alright not bad.
Not bad at all.
So yeah that is where it ranked.
Sweet.
I will say the only one I disagree with is Lion King.
Yeah dude I am the same way.
I would have wanted it to rank higher than the Lion King but we have to pick our battles
right?
True.
It is a 0.2% difference.
So damn.
I mean like I said the ranking doesn't matter as much.
Like we do it for fun.
That's true.
But at the end of the day it is a B movie.
I absolutely agree it is a B movie.
Exactly like I think Lion King is a B movie.
Yeah I agree.
Well I would say that concludes this episode.
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