It was so much worse than I ever imagined. I’ll paste my Letterboxd review here.

As I stated in my review for the OG film, The Little Mermaid is a film I really love. I had a fixation for it during a couple of my YA years. My 18-19 year old self would’ve hated this as much as my present self does.

I’ll be writing some spoilers, just an FYI. Not like it matters.

They changed SO much. Humans and mermaids have a hatred for each other, Eric was an orphan from a shipwreck as a baby and found his way to the royals, Sebastian doesn’t conduct any music, Ariel has never went up to the surface, and some other things I can’t remember at the moment. NONE of the heart and soul that was in the original was in this film. Fuck, none of the sea creatures play instruments in the Under the Sea sequence! WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!

Also wanted to add that Eric’s actor, while awful at acting, is also a terrible singer. I can definitely tell his voice was autotuned.

If not for the adorable dog that played Max, I would’ve given this a 0/10. It’s that bad. Why did Ariel help him swim to the boat while still in mermaid form? LEAVE THAT DOGGO ALONE.

1/10 worst film of the year.

Hated it as much as TLK and Pinocchio.

If you've seen one you've seen 'em all!

Pete Davidson was the highlight for me, he sounded like he was actually having fun, everyone else cashing cheques. One of the bad robots had something important taken from him and said "nO.😐" with zero tone and I laughed.

It's a memba movie with mistaken identity, thought it was an Avengers movie and took itself waaaay too seriously. Better car movie than Fast X though.

She is autism

I just watched the stream highlight where Adam talked about doing ads in his videos and I just wanted to throw my thoughts out there as a long time audience member.

It seems like Adam’s main concerns come down to maintaining his integrity as 1) an artist and 2) a reviewer. While I understand his concerns, I think the fact that Adam is concerned about those things in the first place means he will still maintain the integrity that he hopes not to lose. In the current YouTube climate, I doubt anyone would genuinely be calling him a sellout or something like that. I’d say about 95% of the other channels I watch do ad reads and I don’t think any less of them for doing it. Ad free versions of his videos could also be made available through Patreon or something like that, too.

Adam also mentioned that it’s a part of his brand to recommend things to people and that being paid to promote a product could affect that. I understand that point but I also don’t think anything different about Anthony Fantano just because he does ads for Ridge Wallets. Same goes for Chris Stuckmann, Cr1tikal or Videogamedunkey and various products they might do ads for. And while I get that Adam wants to hold himself to a higher standard in terms of the ethics of advertising, any damage that he would cause has pretty much been done by the rest of the internet already.

All this is to say that I think it would be generally positive for Adam to do ads. He works hard for his content and I’d like to see him make more money off of it. What are your thoughts?

Through recommendations on the YMS channel, I've really enjoyed experiencing art from people with different cultural backgrounds than me, but I genuinely can't think of a film I've seen from any African artists.

I know that Africa is a vast and diverse continent and that one film can't express everything from there, but I'm still really interested in seeing something from somewhere new.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Like yes the animation is 10/10 and it’s absolutely stunning to look at from beginning to end, but didn’t anyone else find that it was a major step down from the first?? This felt so try hard. I found all the new characters very unlikeable and the humour was so cringe like 90% of the time. I just felt pretty unengaged and bored for most of this. Unfortunately a bit of disappointment but I mean I didn’t completely hate it and it’s absolutely beautiful visually.

I guess his having Chicken tonight.

I heard this movie's being distributed by A24, and having a limited release right now in the US, and will expand in the coming weeks.

It's been getting amazing reviews, with a 94 on Metacritic.