Once upon a time, I saw a real mermaid with my own eyes. Before our attention is a magical fantasy called “The Little Mermaid”. The movie is new, but it takes its roots a bit from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale and adds a little bit of its own. The sorcerer is changed to a magician, an alternative story is created, and a new, magical fairy tale is obtained.
The topic of mermaids is very interesting, and I personally love it since childhood. Mermaids are fabulous creatures about which a number of films and cartoons in world cinema. There are good stories about them, there are stories about evil mermaids, but in any case, these underwater, fictional heroines are very interesting, and there is a lot to think about about them.
So did the storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, and in his story the mermaid turned out to be a martyr who loved the prince and gave everything for her love, and then her life. The story of the mermaid is very sad, but it was only this writer who so touchingly told us about her story. There are many terrible and dark stories about mermaids, where they are described as the embodiment of evil, beckoning sailors, and then killing the unfortunate.
There is a funny, but terrible film “Horror from the Abyss”, where the story is told about an evil mermaid. The movie is great and I recommend it. The most famous work about the mermaid in the Disney cartoon. Everyone knows Ariel. There is a separate cartoon about it, which is considered a masterpiece, as well as a whole animated series.
You can list stories about mermaids in cinema for a long time, but I mentioned the most worthwhile ones in my opinion. There are many failed works about mermaids, but they will be omitted. Now before our attention is a new fairy tale “The Little Mermaid”, directed by Blake J. Harris and Chris Bouchard.
In this picture, two granddaughters are told the story of a grandmother who says that she once saw a mermaid with her own eyes, and this very mermaid saved her life. The grandmother tells an interesting story full of adventure, magic and, of course, love.
The grandmother is played by the respected American actress Shirley McLaine, who is 84 years old, and she looks decent and continues to play in the big movie. (I’ll always love The Language of Tender and Steel Magnolias.) The star of “The Chronicles of Narnia” William Moseley plays a major role in this fairy tale, and it is with his hero that we go through this fairy tale story. By the way, the choice of this actor here was very successful. Well, the mermaid herself is played by cute Poppy Drayton, and the scenes with her when she has a tail look especially interesting and fascinating.
This film is very kind and naive, so the viewer should understand that it is a fairy tale, and it is childish for the youngest viewers. Underwater fantasy will not please everyone, namely children or spectators who love stories about mermaids.
"The Little Mermaid" is an American, children's, adventure fantasy of 2018. I treat this fairy tale neutrally and advise adults not to dare to watch it, only, I repeat, the youngest children or lovers of underwater nymphs.
5 out of 10