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by to Towner's last aka, we are here to talk about The Little Mermaid,
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you know, alongside some other things, but this will definitely be our
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Little Mermaid spoiler field review, even though there's not much you can really spoil
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about a movie. Well, I mean you could for me because myself,
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I've never seen The Little Mermaid, the original order remake, I ain't never
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seen no Broadway play, I ain't never seen I've seen you know, clips,
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big Gas clutching pearls. But I mean, The Little Mermaid was the
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very first Disney movie I've ever seen Highrelife, and it holds a very very
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special place in my heart. So this movie was important to me on many
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different levels, but also from the most basic it was my favorite Disney movie
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because it was the first. It was the first time I got jumped by
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you know, Big Mickey, and ever since you know, been stuck in
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that that Disney life. So I don't know what the first one I ever
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saw. I remember seeing Bambi's mom get murkeed as a kid and baby way
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after the fact, being like that was pretty cold bloody, you know,
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like, but I don't remember seeing like I don't even remember seeing the whole
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movie. Then. I think I walked in and I was like, oh
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wow, you know, and it was like all right, you know,
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kept the moving. Um So I don't I don't. Yeah, that's a
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yep, this was my first one, soul. I don't remember. That's
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well, that's crazy. I mean, I mean, I don't know.
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I mean, I don't know. Maybe it wasn't a Disney vault by the
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time it came around and you didn't care. I don't know, but no,
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no, no, I remember it specifically like when Beauty, like that
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was when they had their big because there was there was like dead years for
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them, you know, and then they had Beauty and the Beasts and then
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they had Little Mermaid. I remember, but I also just remember not giving
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shit. I do remember like at the Osters when they showed the effects of
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Beauty and the Beasts and there's like this shot where Beauty and the Bell dance
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and the camera goes around them, and how they did it, and I
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was like, oh, that's crazy. But I still didn't watch the movie,
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you know. I was like, Okay, that's a shot, you
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know, but you basically did it. Oh that crazy when you just want
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the person to end the conversation. But how y'all did that? You know?
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But now that I've seen that, that's all I need, you know.
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So I was like, all right, cool. And then I never
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saw The Little Mermaid for pretty much same reasons. And yeah, I just
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never saw them join it. I think I've seen Beauty. I've seen most
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of Beauty and the Bees. Aladdin, yes, recently, not till I
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was grown, though very recently, like very recently. I thought it was
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amazing. I thought it was amazing. The Lion King, Yeah for the
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most part, you know. Yeah, so so said The Little Mermaid.
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The Little Mermaid twenty twenty three. Well with the old version, that animated
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version of original. That was always my shit, right, And I known
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that ship front to back, So I actually and I know a lot of
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people went in saw some critics talking about how they had low expectations and in
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one hand, I don't blame them because coming off the heels of live action
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Lion King, which I didn't really like, uh like that, and then
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also a Laddin, which fared a little better, but it's still kind of
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fifty fifty depending on who you ask. A lot of critics had low expectations.
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I had high expectations, namely because of one woman, young lady,
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young queen, Hallie Bailey. Yes, knowing what I know about her,
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I've been following her her sister since you know, they were younger, when
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they would be on YouTube singing. Obviously continue to be a fan of them
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when they were on like Grownish and because and a lot of people don't remember
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for some reason, like like Hallie and Chloe. But they've been acting.
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This ain't new to them, right, So they've been in the game,
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they've been had, are developing the chops, if you will write. So
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I was expecting high quality. I was expecting, and it's Hallie Bailey,
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one of you can argue, probably one of the best voices of the generation
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right now, nine voice of that generation, I mean of this generation.
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She because she considered Gen Z millennial. She's like young twenties, so millennial
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right, But which one? I never know millennials older. Yeah, so
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gen Z she definitely. But the point is, yeah, so she's I
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disagree with nothing you just said right there. She's an incredible actress. I
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watched every season of Grown Ish. I think I loved it up until they
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switched to Junior. I was good after that because come on, man,
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come on man. But that being said, I always thought that Hallie and
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Chloe were a great part of that. They can asses off in it.
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Uh, Chloe was great and um swarm you know they're moving on and how
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you know? I was anticipating this. So I was anticipating this even having
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never seen the first one. And that's saying and that's a big deal,
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and that's the that's the tip. I was one no matter what. Like
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it's Hallie, right, and Little Mermaid is known for these songs. Most
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Disney movies are obviously known for the songs, but particularly this one because this
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has such a long, rich history and there have been TV shows and animations
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and you know all this other side show shit, but the movie, the
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Flagship is what you aspire to be, right, because I mean iconic stuff.
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So I expected the most and it delivered. This is The Little Mermaid
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is the best Disney live action adaptation to date. Again, so depending on
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what side defense you want, that might not be saying much because the others
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weren't that The Lion King, Aladdin, maybe one other that I don't know,
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and there's more common, but still I never But the reason why I
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still think that comment is relevant is because the amount of effort and marketing and
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money that had went into things like The Lion King, and how that was
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for a fucking full year of like full force promotion. That was the last
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Disney marketing summit that I went to was the one where they showed us clips
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from a Laddin and showed us what they were doing for um the marketing.
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Do you remember how hard they went? Oh, we were like yeah,
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it was super hard to remember at the summit even seen the clips. You
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know, it was we were anticipating it, but nobody was like, oh,
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yeah, you got this. You know, it was absolutely hopefully and
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then adding the facts the obvious you are having are being played by a young
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black woman, you know, a traditionally white character. At the end of
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the day, though, she's a mermaid. So that's a whole it's a
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fantasy character, right, so they're probably not even real racist, right cartoon
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I mean she's a cartoon at that too, but as a mermaid, like
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your racist murmurs to me ethnicity, right, your racist mermaid. Maybe there's
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you know, and you'll get into that later. Maybe no races. Your
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race is mermaid and your ethnicity. I don't even know if they have such
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things as a mermaid, right, Maybe they do, depending on what ocean
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and what. I don't know. I mean, your water is colonized.
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I mean, if they were, then they got races, you know,
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like if they were, then they'd have no idea to concept what your water
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is colonized? I don't know, ven I mean, but this movie does
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not go into that whatsoever needed did? Fortunately? Yeah, but I don't
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think Disney's gonna hire you to make the sequel, Ben, I mean probably
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not what that not with that thinking, I don't think. So this movie
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delivered it. Yes it was. It was the best out of the bunch
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so far, but it gave me what I needed. It did what needed
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to be done. Hallie did what needed to be done from her delivery,
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her encapsulation of the character of Ariel, that heart and soul that goes into
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Ariel. Ariel is a very headstrong, fourth right, fun, life loving
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character the whole. And you said that even though you've never seen the original,
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you do know just from pop culture what the story is about, right,
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Yeah, And Ariel also made some questionable choice, at least in the
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original, so her questionable choices makes sense in the context of her age.
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I don't I don't think. I don't think. In the movie they mentioned
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how old Hallie was, and that was me Hallie's Ariel was, And that
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was on purpose, because you know, liability, you can't say nothing,
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but you know, like, I think, like, but when when in
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those times when things like the original Little Mermaid came out based off of these
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fairy tales where it was okay to say shit like you're getting married at sixteen
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because you run away from home at sixteen and shit like that. If you're
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watching this on Twitched, our TV slash for all nerds, you see my
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face right now stretched up. You know, at first I was like,
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okay, sixteen, and then the math you think about it, Like a
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minute Shorty went and got legs, and I'm like, I don't know how
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far went after that? You know, I got married. Well you don't
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see. No, there's no sex or anymore. But she got married,
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was there night? A lot of dolt scenes such as colonialism, colorization,
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like you're just going off the deep, a lot of sea words to Disney
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isn't thinking about No, But I do think you need to remember and everyone
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this is based off a kids movie, and it's built to be a kid's
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movie. Right. So, like I said, Hallie did the thing.
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She I'm talking more in the original, That's what I'm saying. Was there
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did they spend the night together in the original as Mary, No, you
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saw not that you saw it later on. I can see you're not kind
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of see it. I mean like no, I'm sure. And like I
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said, there were sequels and maybe she had baby mermaids, who the fuck
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knows, But I mean they stay married right end? Yeah, what you
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mean at the end, it's like Disney movie, you get married the fucking
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movie. The fucking camera goes off to the sky and mermaid No, no,
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no, no, not in the original movie. Now again, if
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they're sequels, what a fire. If they're a sequel, so listen,
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If there's sequels where that does happen, then maybe, But no, in
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the I'm gonna give you the Quicker Bridge movie because you're asking, you're asking
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a lot of questions that you shouldn't be asking me. Sixty year old mermaid
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loves and is enamored with everything that's not of the sea. She's enamored with
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the human world. Keep going, She's enamored with the human world and everything
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that that that she learns about the human world. Right, she's in the
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ocean. Right, So they're shipwrecks and all sorts of shit as she explores
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the ocean on her day to day, you know, doing her best ash
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catching, collecting them all she lets these fucking random human trinkets, right,
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could be a cup, could be a fork, could be a flute,
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could be a statue, all sorts of shit she collects because that's her ship.
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She's a fucking hoarder and she enjoys collecting things that are of the human
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world because it's it's new, it's something that's all she knows is to see
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right the bottom of the fucking ocean. Wonderful, fantastic, fast forward,
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right nine percent of the world, right, fast forward. She she finds
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out about this Nigga prison Eric. I guess he's like eighteen twenty one,
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twenty five. Who the fuck knows he's around that age. He's he's he's
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cute as fuck. She ain't really fucking with the merman like that. She
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again, she she wants human, She's all about the human world. She
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falls in love with him, She wishes and pines for his for his attention
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to love. Right. She gets into an argument with her father that basically
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makes a runaway from home and in doing so a sea which sees this is
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the opportunity to use that vitriol and that and that and that breakdown between that
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relationship between the daughter and the and the and the father to get revenge.
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And she says to Ariel, hey, they I'll give you legs. I'll
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let I'll give you, I'll give you a chance to be with your man.
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But there's there's but there's a catch, right m hm Ariel gets her
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legs. She she makes the blood pack, and it's blood. She makes
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a blood pack with the fucking see which gets with magic, gets legs.
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Her job is to get the prince to kiss her the kiss of love in
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three days and fast forward to the part where she learns the grasses and greener
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on the other side and then goes back to her. She don't, she
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don't, she don't. That don't happen. That don't happen. Flash forward
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to the part where she learns from No No She She learns that she she
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that her father loves her, but she abandons him. Essentially, she's sixteen.
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You don't think about that. You don't think about I don't feel like
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I felt like that at sixteen, but you don't. You don't be thinking
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about that. Shite my long term implications at sixteen, Like I've already seen
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all the YouTube videos that you know, explaining how Ariel made terrible choices,
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and how terrible choices has a very bad message at the you know, bottom
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of it, And I have to agree having hearing your rundown, because it's
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that's a terrible message, you know, like to give up ninety percent of
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the world that you rule over. It'd be like if at the end of
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Coming to America, she's I mean she could potentially, I guess she's daughter
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of King Triton, who rules. It'd be like if coming with the end
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of Coming to America, Eddie Murphy is like, NA, I'm good and
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gave up everything for shorty, it wouldn't happen in Eddie Murphy's movie. But
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why isn't up in the Aeriel Because it's based off of a Western fairy tale
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that chooses values that are maybe not congruent with what makes sense. Because many
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women. That's reason, the main reason why a lot of a lot of
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Disney movies there is no mother or they get killed in the beginning, right
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bamby Um. Yeah, So anyway, uh, messages for women have bound
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in Disney films. I guess a lot of a lot of a lot of
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function happens in between those three days. Um. Coming down to the final,
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the final countdown where essentially Ariel ends up killing the sea Witch. An
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Ariel, with the help of Ericans, somewhat ends up killing the sea Witch.
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She ends up breaking the spell, freeing everyone who was on the spelling,
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you know, including she kills the goddamn it. I'm saying Disney is
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very technically violent. She killed that nigga, the bitch, She kills her
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um and her dad. Seeing that, like, you know, all everything
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said and done, she's still pining for the human world and to be with
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Eric, Prince Eric, her father is like, you know, because her
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father feels like her father is all in his emotions about how he made her
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run away and all this shit. Her father blames himself and he goes,
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you know, I just want my little girl to be happy. He uses
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his own powers to give her legs permanent. Damn, he could have done
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that a weight earlier. That's why I'm like, you could have did did
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this, sir. But you know, but my thing is the other part.
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You don't know his father, the father hates humans and hates the human
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worlds. Humans killed Ariel's mom, so she don't. He's basically magneto,
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you know, fuck with non mutants. He ain't with it. Understandable,
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understandable, right, yeah. But at by the end he has a change
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of heart because he just wants his daughter to be happy. He gives her
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legs permanently. She runs up, pulls up on Eric and be like,
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I'm here, nigga. They get married, set sail. To make his
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daughter happy, he abandoned her to colonizers. So that's the original story in
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this film. That's the original story, and this movie. The twenty twenty
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three live action adaptation started Halle Belly follows it generally, bar for bar shot
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for shot frame for frame, I was like I was seeing the outline of
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the animation as I was watching in my head, because that's how ingrained in
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my mind. It is so for that way, it pleased a lot of
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people who were fans, right because like they didn't really deviate. There were
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some changes. There were some adjustments, some slight adjustments, some which worked
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and some which did not. Maybe explain that later, but but the point
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is overall it was a good film. The casting. Obviously, Hallie,
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she's a fucking Disney princess. No one can, I mean, the prototypical
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live action Disney princess like you gotta be huh if you if you try to
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be the Princess of all princesses and love, you gotta be Hallie. And
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I don't think it's gonna happen because you ain't got the voice, nor the
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talent, nor the charisma and all that stuff because she had at all.
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And Um, you really were completely enamored with her and connected with her.
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Um the rest of the casting. Prince Eric, he looked like the nigga
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in the cartoon. That's the most I got to say about him. Um.
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Melissa McCarthy as Ursula disappointing to me, not that she did a horrible
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job, but it's just like I expected more of the characterization Rsla, And
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further, I would personally did not like her as being casted as that character
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I've always seen Ursula. Ursla gives drag queen tease. Yeah, and to
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be a drag queen like you have to have a certain caliber of energy and
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confidence and the commanding of respect. And not that she didn't, It's just
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I needed more. It just it was just I didn't want to say tune
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in scenery because I feel like it's giving too much to say that. It's
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just it wasn't could be really good. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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Yeah, And it wasn't even that. It just wasn't as bold as I
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thought it could be. It was just a lot of yelling. Uh yeah,
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see that's not really chewing. Bold chewing sometimes yelling yelling is out.
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And she looked good in the costume slash. It was really cgi like,
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it looked cool generally, But I just I've seen better. I've seen better.
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I've seen better. Fucking have you ever seen or that means you haven't
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seen the live action play that they did on ABC a few years ago,
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where Queen Latifa play God. I mean, there's no comparison there and Queen
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as it was fucking amazing, you know what I'm saying. So, and
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she didn't have the CGI and all that other ship. So I don't know,
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I just expect it more. It wasn't horrible acting, but it's just
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Javier Bard him. He paid King Triton flat as fuck, surprising, flat
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as fuck, not much emoting, not much emoting going on, like No
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Country for Old Men. Yeah, yes, there was like maybe towards the
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end, like I told you that the story. Towards the end, King
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Triton gives his door's legs and it's like, I love, but it was
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just like is the nigga crying or can he cry? But he looked like
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a totem trying to cry, and I it's just it was a stiff.
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It was giving. It was giving stiff. No, it was giving stiff
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as in Harvey is not stiff, you know, like it was giving stiff.
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It wasn't giving me anything. He was just kind of just and every
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fucking scene it was this is brooding, this is mad, this this is
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sad. Like no, I said, no, country because he plays that
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role and that's that character. Yeah, but in no other roles is he
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ever like that that due could be a wild boy when he wants to be.
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He he wasn't giving, He wasn't giving. He was just wow,
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he was flat for me. Um. The other thing about the Little Mermaid
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is she's supported by a want to know about. Yeah, she's supported by
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a few animals, sec faring creatures. She's supported by mainly by a crab
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named Sebastian. Oh, she's supported by at least no, no, no,
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don't go, don't still, let me get right now him okay,
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because he's the one that everybody wants. This is like like about like being
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like she supported by jar draw beans and let's move on. No, no,
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no, no, it wasn't like that at all, like that at
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okay, But that's what I'm saying, Like what what skin? From what
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I know of, you know, the talk around the original Sebastian, and
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when I've seen him in clips, I've been like, well that's interesting.
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I don't know how I'd like that for a whole movie. You know.
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So dv Dix played Sebastian in this film, and he was he was the
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best supporting character who he was the best supporting And let me explain the context
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of which he embodied Sebastian and again, the original Sebastian you knew. I
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might saying, mother it's good or bad. I'm just saying the original Sebastian
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you knew. He provided the levity him, him, and and funny enough,
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Aquafina who plays Um Guttle the bird Um. In the original it was
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a seagull and this one is like some of the diving birds. But anyway,
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so David Diggs and Aquafina, they actually played really well off each other
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and they brought fun too, especially in this in the in the areas of
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the movie where it was more like dark or sad, they did bring fun
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to it. Like they did offer the levity that that scene or area of
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the film needed. So they did what they were supposed to do. That's
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all right. The thing is, like David Diggs on Blackish, I really
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enjoy I think he's you know, good. I like Aquafina and um some
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sh uh. You know, I still have issues with Aguafina, I do
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too, ye, big big, big issues David. Even though like I
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said, just to continue, he he played the role well, and the
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kids. He's gonna be a kid favorite. And I remember, y'all,
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this is this good kids movie, and it's definitely tracks like a kids movie.
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Um, I hated his fake ass. To make an accident, there
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we go. That's what the hated. That's what I mean. Like,
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I like the Vid, but as soon as you said him and picturing him
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doing it, I was like, whoa the I mean, they might as
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well have cast Shaggy because at least you would have have even a slightly more
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authentic tone. No, the thing is Shaggy, don't you know. Let's
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put no disrespect to him. He blew the fuck up. But that man
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is one of them, like you go back to his roots. He is
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a Jamaican dance tall king, you know, Like that man is a you
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know, Jamaica. Like he ain't no fake, you know, not Devid.
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I don't know what his origins are, but I've never heard it.
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Devita is David is black father, white mother Americans. He's not. He
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doesn't. That's a bad choice. No, oh, it might as well
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have been. Honestly, And actually, when I did the fancasting sandcasting.
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When I did the fancasting years ago, I said it should have been Shaggy.
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Yeah, Shaggy would have been amazing. But you know why David got
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it right with lind Man Lineman. Oh yeah, Linden was also part of
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the music. Oh you just hit me with the original with so Glad.
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I watched that Lakers Day, Lynn went well, Miranda, I'm sorry I
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can't say his name, but uh, lyrical, spiritual, I'm saying.
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That's the only reason. I'm just saying, like they are long time collaborators,
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so I would think there could be some connection there. I don't know,
25:45
but yeah, I hated. I hated like them. And like I
25:53
said, this movie follows bar for bar the same tone, cadence and the
26:00
same literal script as the original movie. So Sebastian is saying Barbara bar the
26:06
same things he said in the animated version. But as as as I mentioned,
26:08
with that fake ass, fucking Jamaican ass, and it bothered the fuck
26:15
out of me. Them little kids eating that up, and you know that
26:17
ain't gonna be doing that fake That's what I'm saying. It's so disful.
26:21
Shaggy would have been so much better. Oh man, Shaggy would have been
26:26
per ship and also and what and again as someone who has Ariel and original
26:32
little memory deep in my heart. Whenever I would hear Divid's version of Sebastian,
26:37
I only heard the original like I would kept comparing it against the original
26:41
voice actor Sebastian E. Wright Samuel E. Right, excuse me, Sebastian
26:48
Sorry, mister Wright, Samuel E. Wright. Um. All I did
26:52
was hear his voice, and then I kept making the comparison like this doesn't
26:56
sound right. Like I just kept saying, no, this isn't right.
26:57
This right For little kids who've never seen a woman mermaid, which was going
27:02
to be the majority who comes to see this, that's what they're gonna have
27:04
as the voice of the thing is don't sleep like because of Disney plus some
27:08
things in that nature. Most hits have seen a little mermaid like already and
27:14
multiple times a lot, have a lot, have it a lot, have
27:17
not a lot, have not especially like like I was there, like two
27:19
year old or three year old little girls. Yeah, but ain't that time
27:22
to you can't see that. And they've seen a lot of Disney stuff and
27:25
know it like Frozen is this fucking shit to them? But they've never trust
27:30
is don't blow up after this, but they're gonna go home wanting to see
27:33
this home again and that's all their mom got. Yeah. So so honestly,
27:37
in that way, it was disappointed to me. Did he do a
27:40
good job? Yes? Did I like how it sounded? Absolutely not.
27:44
Um No, I'm disappointed in any American doing a fake Jamaican adsent. That
27:48
is just like, I don't think in this day and age, they shouldn't.
27:51
They don't have to, especially for a character that's already so questionable to
27:55
Jamaicans. I know, you know, like Sebastian is. I think that
28:00
that's a big misstep. It's it's yeah, and butel you know, I
28:04
mean, because my thing is, why else would you cast again? And
28:08
this is not this is no shade to divide, But how would you make
28:14
that logical leap from let's think about getting a Jamaican or even something a little
28:18
closer to jipmaking sounding to let's get divide. It's a it's a leap,
28:26
and it's again, no shade. He's a talented act I like him.
28:30
Yeah, I do too, in certain roles. I just didn't see it.
28:33
But anyway, yeah, he was one. He's one of the main
28:36
supporting characters. For Ariel. There's also the bird, as I mentioned Um
28:40
played by Aquafina. She did a good job. Yeah. I have my
28:45
issues with her, and you know I have the time. I don't even
28:47
like her, but she did a good job and she was a great foil
28:51
against David Sebastian. Yeah, that's once again I echo everything you said.
28:56
I have my issue with her, but on screen she usually does a good
29:00
job. Yeah. The other actually big let down was Flounder. Flounder is
29:07
the fish, the old yellow fish. That's that's that's Arial's bestie, bestie
29:11
because because the fish can't really go above water like the other two can.
29:15
Right, He's like he's like arm in an attack on Titan before he became
29:23
a Titan, like soft as fuck. I don't know the arm in reference,
29:29
but I believe it. Sharman is what we call him. But he
29:33
soft as fucked. But he used to be anyway. But anyway, no,
29:37
no found soft. Flounder soft. But he's like the cowardly lion type
29:41
where like for the end he gets it, he gets his yeah, you
29:44
know, he gets his gangster, but in the beginning he's who you know
29:48
that Yeah, um disappointing because he might as well have been erased from the
29:52
movie because he did nothing. There was no reason for flounder but to be
29:56
there, you would have never known you. I have never known flowers.
30:00
There. There was a position, there was a part in the movie where
30:03
the nigga was flopping on the deck of a boat like a fucking magic cart.
30:08
But all right, I keep forgetting and oh wait, I saw your
30:12
gifts today. So these are like actual animated there are like it's a crab.
30:18
That that leads me to the next point of what I don't like about
30:22
these live actions. How did that nigga that die when he's flopped? Hey,
30:26
So I just like, you want to know why? Because as I
30:29
sat there the question him, I said, wait a minute, he's gonna
30:32
die. Dvide pushed that nigg in the water. He said, okay,
30:33
you gotta get out of here. He literally said, okay, we gotta
30:36
get you back in the water because because you're worthless, you're a magic cart.
30:41
But that at the as I was leading onto, that gives me back
30:45
to the points of what bothers me about these Disney live actions. I do
30:52
not like photo realistic live action talking animals. No, that was one of
31:00
the downfalls of the lion King. You cannot emulte as a photorealistic talking animals.
31:06
Photo realistic talking animals don't have fucking eyebrows and make bugged out cartoonish faces
31:11
because they don't have those facial features to do. So. The reason why
31:15
the link, why you feel when symbol is in complete and utter just just
31:23
terror when the herd is coming down the mountain is because of how he's drawn,
31:27
the fear in his eyes, the way the jaw drops, and like
31:33
everything, all the context clues, especially as humans, all the context sclues
31:37
that show you when someone sad, mad, angry, whatever. You can
31:41
do that with a cartoon because you can impose humanistic traits on a cartoon.
31:44
You can't do that with a photorealistic animal because there are no there are no
31:48
frown lines. There don't know this there at that. You can cheat it
31:51
there, it's a crap. You can cheat it some ways, and they
31:53
did. But the best one, the best Sebastian, was the only one
31:56
where they really were able to cheat it like that because as Crabby has these
32:00
two fucking eyes up here, so sometimes they would get real big and real
32:04
like the pupils were get a little bitger, but it wasn't enough. It
32:08
wasn't enough. So I so when if Sebastian or Founder or anybody was startled,
32:14
they always looked startled like because they're fish and crabs and birds. This
32:20
is just like, yeah, this is just like when once again, going
32:22
back to that Disney summit, at the same one, they showed us footage
32:25
from the Lion King and I've still never seen a live action Lion King,
32:29
but remember nothing. Everyone in the room once again was like they said,
32:35
this, ain't it like because you can't. And again that's where the the
32:39
voice acting comes in because it's like you have to then lean so fucking heavy
32:44
on the delivery of the line, but dulous emotion when like it's a lion
32:50
or a crab talking and they're seeing some sad shit and they just dropped the
32:52
plating face, the pla the one watch man face like actually again it wasn't
33:05
no I know they add, you know, like like try they tried and
33:08
actually can look they didn't have a real because lions to look sad, you
33:13
know, like, I don't know, bro, kids look sad like I've
33:16
seen a dog. I saw a dog the other day. Dog that was
33:20
would have broke your heart. The nigga just falling down. The dog does
33:23
other things, right, It goes whimpers, it puts his head down,
33:27
the ears go down, this other thing. Yeah, but his eyes too,
33:30
it was all in his eyes. Yeah. Do you know lions that
33:31
be doing shit like that? I mean with me, I ain't never seen
33:36
a lion fall downstairs. That's when the dog had done, so he was
33:40
quite sad. Dogs is like one step away right from human, so like,
33:45
yeah, dogs is tight. And also we're trained to pretend as humans.
33:49
We're training to pretend these humanistic traits in dogs. Yes, we just
33:54
oh that nigga's happy. The nigga is just panting. He's not happy.
33:58
He's a dog. His mouth is over and that's the main thing. Anyway.
34:00
These animals can't do that and don'ts Yeah, yeah, they have emotions.
34:06
These animals in this film can't do that. And that's my one of
34:07
my biggest hangups about these live action adaptations. It's like they're photo realistic,
34:12
so they don't emote us to you. Yeah, um like the other crabs.
34:21
Some motherfuckers is like yeah, oh you see that craft. The way
34:27
the film looked from a visual's perspective, it was beautiful. Um, there
34:31
were to me very small Some people may say more so, but they were
34:36
very small times where I was just like, okay, that looks a little
34:38
funny, like, um, like maybe a fish a mermaid flying by too
34:43
fast, swimming by too fast, or something like that. You know,
34:45
it's just but it was a small yes right to me. Nothing that took
34:51
it away, because at the end of the day it looked really, really
34:52
good. The lighting was flattering. Anyone who told you it looks murky and
34:57
ugly, they're fucking lining, they don't know what they're doing, or they're
34:59
seeing a bootleg, because that's not how it looks on screen. It looks
35:01
very, very good. The colors are a bit more muted. Um,
35:05
I think some people really wanted super dumb, vibrant clothes, which you do
35:08
get in different scenes of the movie, but like particularly underwater, like they
35:14
compensate for being fucking underwater, right, Like certain colors will pop more than
35:19
others. All right, I see. That was one of my things.
35:22
Like when I saw the first trailer, that's all I've very seen. It's
35:24
the first trailer, and I was like, yeah, it's kind of dark,
35:27
especially coming off of Avatar, which was super bright for the most part
35:31
under the water, and then comparatively to even with Conda Forever, which was
35:37
more of the murky style. It was it's way brighter than Conde. Yeah,
35:42
I mean Condefever was quite dark. It was actually hard to see the
35:45
under the water Conder Forever. But no, you see everything perfectly in and
35:50
Little Mermaid. There's nothing. There's nothing wrong with that visually, it's it's
35:53
actually some things they do is you're pretty stunning. Like there's this one scene
35:58
where the introduction of Triton where they go into his throne room and he's surrounded
36:04
by his daughters of the Seven Seas and he's he's swimming up to his throne.
36:08
He turns around his fucking cape train whatever you want to call it.
36:15
It's made out of like trout or fish or something. It's made out of
36:20
like fifty of them, and the way that it moves and like undulates,
36:24
it's fucking insane. It's actually like it's again kudos to the animators, like
36:29
they really made some beautiful work in this film. So I thought it was
36:34
enjoyable, and um, you saw Mermaids of all that, I was talking
36:39
about ethnicities earlier. You saw mermaids of all colors, shapes, and sizes.
36:45
So you saw you saw thin mermaids, thick mermaids, black, white,
36:52
Asian like, you saw them all. They were all generally represented and
36:57
um kid mermaids adult like, they were all there. I say mermaids as
37:04
a catchall to all of them, right, but yes, merman too.
37:07
But they were all there. So murder them, Yeah, I like that.
37:10
Murder them, auto murder, murder them, auto murder them. Was
37:15
there, big up massive. They was all representing, and particularly Tritan's daughters.
37:22
I there was this one daughter. Her name is Tamika. She had
37:25
she starts skid regals fuck the way. And that's why I tell people,
37:30
like when people say that it wasn't it's not a good looking movie, they're
37:32
fucking lying. Because the way that they animated and dressed the mermaids, the
37:37
colors and the patterns of their like built in bras and outfits or whatever the
37:44
fuck ben when you see her like I was, I guess because when it
37:49
Because what he does is in the beginning Triton, after he's introduced, he
37:52
says the name of his daughters of the seventies, and they the camera stops
37:57
on each one of them, right, and each one of them represents different
37:59
areas of the world. So you have a Russian looking one, you have
38:01
you know, a Southeast Asian looking one, you have a South Asian looking
38:07
you know what I mean. Give all these people, and then you get
38:07
Tamika, which I presume is like from off the coast of Madagascar or something.
38:13
I don't know, but that's Atlantic Ocean though I don't know, but
38:19
maybe, oh maybe she is Atlantis. I don't know, but but they
38:22
said seems too so it could be anything. Anyway, point is unbelievably gorgeous
38:28
and and all of the people were unbelievably gorgeous. Looks great. Uh what
38:34
else can I say about? Oh? The music. I think that's the
38:37
biggest part. The music, all the original songs that they did. Blew
38:44
it out, the wad of phenomena, No no complaints. It's fucking Hallie
38:47
Bailey. She she did, and and her even some of her rendition because
38:52
she did it slightly different with her own flourishes, her own all that some
38:57
of her stuff is actually a little better that I think than of it.
39:00
Like really, it's like Okay, well, and might I say better,
39:02
I mean that I like it better, not that you know her arrangements especially
39:07
yeah, yeah, her and the sisters together, like her runs, yeah
39:13
everything. I mean, like you said, she's one of those ones,
39:16
you know, like both of them are one of those ones. Like,
39:20
yes, they aren't many like them, Like I really love them especially.
39:23
I mean, I know they're like doing their solo stuff, but I love
39:25
the fact that they brought that harmonizing game back to the R and B game
39:30
because it would have been so lost because so many people are doing the thing
39:35
where it's like they do the tip talks and instagrams where they're just they're doing
39:38
everything themselves, you know. So because of that, you don't have this
39:42
conflict in the chaos and even the camaraderie that's that's made by two or three
39:49
different voices because one person can do different parts, but it's not the same
39:53
because voices have timber, they have inflections. It's just that they have humanity,
39:58
you know, and that's what's missing, It's like, and so I
40:00
love them for that. I've been a big fan of them. No,
40:04
they but they have a humanity in this and I mean obviously and music.
40:08
Her arrangements was just impeccable and and and even in the original songs, they
40:15
they did some difference, a few different flourishes here and there that weren't in
40:19
the original And because it's Hallie and she sounds the fuck good. It was
40:22
amazing. Yeah, the new original songs, lin Manuel spiritual. Of course,
40:34
line Manuel put a rap in there. Oh the Little Murmaid has no
40:37
raps. It's it's it's Broadway Disney singing. It was like when it came
40:43
out, it was like super early, like no, no, no,
40:46
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Disney
40:47
don't even now do you know any maybe one movie do you know this movie
40:51
that really be niggas be rapping like that. I mean they kind of did
40:53
it, and I thought they did it well in Um, but that was
40:57
more the rock style is in in Moana. Yeah, yeah, song that
41:04
sing song, sing song because that that like crabbing to see he has some
41:07
bars that nigga was spitting boy in that journey Crabs in the Sea. Yeah,
41:12
no, the one when they when they go in the water. Yeah
41:15
no, no, not no, not I'm not in that. I'm talking
41:17
about in Moana crab that man. But he's singing, yeah, shiny,
41:24
that's shiny you're thinking of shiny? Yeah, he was stunting on the mode.
41:29
Yeah. No, that music is phenomenal. Yeah, this original,
41:31
original stuff, and like I yeah it was. It was a bit hit
41:36
and mister me, there was one song where I was like, they should
41:38
have cut the funk out of this would have saved five minutes out of the
41:42
movie if it was even that long. Prince Eric has an original song clip
41:45
that shit, it's a chop for me. I hated it. I hated
41:51
it. I'll be honest, I've never been a fan of Lynn Manuel.
41:54
It's like musical stylings. I've just always felt that he is one like he
41:59
was I do who did the lyrical miracle spiritual whips in the ciphers, And
42:02
I've just never felt him. And I definitely know or from what I know,
42:07
I'm gonna say definitely, but from what I know, his politics have
42:09
always been weird to me. He's always been weird to me. Like I
42:13
just I thought Hamilton was a hot mess. I think the idea of using
42:16
hip hop to represent slave owners is wild, and yeah, I just never
42:22
understood it, Like I never crocked it, never got with it. I
42:25
think when he involved in some of the music Malana too. I mean he's
42:29
been involved in a lot of different Disney production. Yeah, it's been Yeah,
42:30
I don't know, I don't know what he didn't that that's actually good
42:34
music. Smells like an op. But you know that's that's always been me.
42:37
Yeah, Prince Eric is a chop. It was a chop like most
42:42
of the time. Yeah, I said that rap. Uh, that rap
42:46
belongs to Akwafina. There was definitely old. The rap is specifically scuttle.
42:53
It's a new song. It's scuttle song and the name of the song,
42:57
the name of the song is scuttle. But take these to the stomach then,
43:00
yeah, like you already it's literally it's everything you hate in one place.
43:07
I mean straight up, like you got lyricle, miracles all that shit.
43:14
Yeah, like I mean, just the idea of Aquafina rapping with her
43:17
fake hip hop, fake blackness. Yeah, and the lyrics weren't like horrible
43:22
or nothing, but it's just like again, the kids will probably love it.
43:27
You and I and other people who may have know the history of this
43:30
lady may feel differently. Yeah, um, there was there was another original
43:37
song that Ariel sang Hallie saying that was good. Again. Anything Hallie touched
43:43
was gold, platinum, diamonds, jewels, rubies, everything. Anything she
43:47
did, she even literally quite literally her standing there and smiling or looking into
43:52
the camera was like Oscar like you want it to be and protect Aria at
44:00
all costs. And that's how I felt every time she was on screen,
44:01
like truly in awe of her. And as mentioned, just everyone else to
44:06
vary degrees support it that that vision. So we talked about the way it
44:13
looked, the visuals, We talked about the music, the casting, and
44:16
just overall I would say that it's worth watching if you are interested in curious
44:22
of what it looks like. It's still the niggles aside, it's a good
44:25
movie. It's a good movie. It doesn't deviate too too far from the
44:30
original, and it gives you the main thing is the main thing, which
44:35
is Arial and you get that. So just so I mean spoilers, But
44:42
does it end the same way? Yes, slightly different way of how they
44:45
get to that end, but yeah, yeah, but so basically she abandons
44:50
the see for some dude how couldn't tell it? And the way they did
44:54
it it was a little ambiguous. I wouldn't say abandon because like at because
45:00
for all you know, she's still visits the visits the people's like at the
45:02
end, and they did the same view at the end when she's riding off
45:07
to the sunset with with ye really at this point, some dude, But
45:12
she's right off in the suns of repose Eric, like the murr people who
45:15
remember, the murder people and the people of the land were not fucking with
45:17
each other and all the other stuff. Now they've realized harmony and unity and
45:22
maybe they can live together as one. The murder people, like the people
45:27
on land are waving. Then the murder people come up from the water.
45:29
Usually they hide from the humans. They come up from the water and integrate
45:32
fully with the people on the land and they're all waving and loving on them
45:37
and all that other stuff. Yeah, that smells like obst to me.
45:40
Again, murder them humans, murder people, stay away from it. And
45:45
I mean, but then I think you would like to you would be pleased
45:47
to know that there is commentary and in the original and in this one about
45:51
humans eating fish, there is commentary on that, Like they're like, how
45:54
could you be friends? Were the human. All they want to do is
45:57
fry us. That's actually part of the Basha sings a lot about that.
46:00
I'm pastorta, so they sing a lot about that. They just think they
46:07
they do. They do talk about that type of hardship like why and and
46:09
and Triton calls humans, he calls them all source of names. To be
46:13
honest, like he really goes in on them. He calls them barbarians and
46:16
some other shit. Um. And you know at the very end he not
46:22
just lets he enables and facilitates her to go off into the sunset. A
46:28
bit of a failure. Their dad. She said thank you father, I
46:31
love you at the end, because I don't think she ever said I love
46:34
you to him. And what other es you're an idiot, you're an idiot.
46:45
Um. Oh they did one day. I didn't want to say.
46:49
They did an amazing job on the animation of area for me. Other the
46:52
other reason being it being Holly and her being black, she has blocks.
46:57
They and they did this mixture like kind of like how my ears now It
47:00
was locks but also like loose hair like kind of goddess situation, goddess locks
47:05
high and they were like beautifully animated, flowing all the time. But you
47:08
like, she's a black girl. There was no ambiguity about that she's a
47:13
black girl. And you saw the locks and it was flowing. They was
47:15
looking cute. Even when she was above ground. They gave her slightly some
47:19
some slightly new look, but it was all locks. Nice. Yeah,
47:22
So I was happy about that. I was I was happy at the end
47:24
of the day. I was fucking happy. What questions any other questions you
47:28
have been on men? Like? Overall, I think you know, I'm
47:30
happy to see you, like you said, this black woman and they belie,
47:34
you know, other little black girls to see themselves in a magical fantasy
47:37
role. And also for you know, her to come out shining because of
47:40
all the hate that she went through. So I'm happy to see that.
47:45
It wasn't like, oh damn, you know, it wasn't one we gotta
47:47
be like nah, you know it's Hallie. You know we got defending no
47:51
matter what, you know. And the screaming, the screaming I went to
47:53
a majority. I mean, even though people had seen in as early as
47:57
last week, a majority of the the press saw it last night actually,
48:01
and so it was tens across the board for the most part, like everyone
48:07
had some not everyone. Some people had similar um like you know, things
48:12
they liked and did not disliked, but overall very very positive. So I
48:16
I'm thinking this is, this has to at least get in the eighties when
48:20
it comes to Rotten Tomatoes, if you know, if not a little bit
48:22
higher, but at least mid eighties. I would hope, Um, this
48:25
this is worth it was worth supporting even with trash because this Hallie. But
48:30
but it's not like I want to support her endeavor, so I would still
48:35
do it anyway. But no, it's actually a good movie, okay,
48:37
And it's family friendly. It got all the typical shit that happens and sometimes
48:42
in these family quote movies where some scary stuff might happen that might not be
48:45
suitable for super super young kids. There was one little girl who she was
48:49
so tired she fell to fuck asleep, so you know, and and other
48:52
new girls who's like in it like this and whatever, you know what I
48:55
mean, um, and and again, and there were some there was some
48:59
weird scenes and things happening that I just like inadvertently laughed at that I knew
49:02
you were supposed to laugh at because it just didn't look right. Um,
49:07
it was just strange, but it didn't take away from the overall win that
49:09
this movie is. So I really do hope everyone sees it. I do
49:13
hope people. I mean, the hate that Hallie received was absolutely ridiculous.
49:16
WHS you knew that ship was going to happen, racism and all the other
49:21
ship but it's completely unfounded. It's completely unfounded. This requires and this this
49:25
to receive praise. All right, Um, yeah, I'm probably catch it
49:34
on Disney Plus, but you know, I'm fine when I do. You
49:37
know, maybe I'll watch the original. It looks really good on big,
49:40
big screen, so if you can see it. I think it's also has
49:44
an IMAX version, So if you can see it in an Imax, seed
49:45
in Imax because you will just get that much more vision of like the ocean.
49:50
The best scenes were when they were in the water. To be quite
49:52
honest with you, yeah, I'm sure. And then all the other accoutreman
49:55
going on was fine. But uh yeah, I can't think. I don't.
50:00
I think I pretty much got everything. I can't think of anything else
50:02
or any other like I know, someone had asked me when I posted my
50:08
social review because I can't say everything. They asked me that she wear more
50:13
than one dress. No, they asked me because because did she have I
50:15
don't know why that was relevant, but they did ask me that. No,
50:19
she's say where it's the same one blue dress the entire time, you
50:23
know, the dress becomes a character. Yeah, they wanted to see her
50:25
stunt, that's why. Yeah, but no, you don't really. I
50:30
mean she's a new dresser then, but it's like you're not really pay attention
50:31
to no, godam dress. It's live action. They don't even spend no
50:34
time on the fucking clothes like that, Like it just fits the whole.
50:38
And I did think of slavery, but if it's that whole colonial way,
50:43
way, what time I thought a slavery because of where it's technically located,
50:46
right, Like I think it's supposed to be like Dominican Republic type area because
50:52
it's in the Caribbean and number one Wow, and Chris Prince goes off for
50:57
the Colonizer a straight up and down calling us well, also, here's the
51:00
thing the way Disney doesn't you know, because they're they're they're they're flipping everybody.
51:05
So Prince Eric's parents his mom is the Queen and she's black, and
51:12
she's if I'm not mistaken, she's frigga from the Watcher, not the Watcher,
51:17
the Witcher do you remember barely anyway though, but the queen of what
51:25
England? They don't say, They just say the Queen the Queen, but
51:30
it's but it's clearly like it's like one back in the days when they were
51:36
calling that fucking space Hispaniola. Like it's like those types of whoa, yeah,
51:40
it's like that time, Frank alrighty uh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
51:47
So that's why I said, like the first thing I thought, I
51:50
was like, okay, well there's some slaves potentially, but but but it's
51:53
also a Disney movie. Excuse me, not slaves but enslaved people. But
51:57
it's also a Disney movie, so they're not gonna clear they're not gonna put
52:00
that in there. It's literally multicultural casts and supporting casts and background people living
52:06
the life on a fucking random pretend island with a random pretend black clean with
52:10
her white ass son, where we also note that he's not, I guess
52:15
biologically her son. They make a hint about it. I'm like, why
52:21
did y'all even say anything. Who gives a fuck like doing like how y'all
52:22
did Cinderella where the sun was like Asian and WHOOPI Goldberg was his was his
52:28
mom and no one cared that, no one asked questions, just do it
52:30
that way. But they he says, oh, I what did Eric say?
52:35
He goes, yeah, well my mom found me. He goes,
52:37
my mom found me. I wasn't born into this, And then it's so
52:43
funny. He starts about to say his history and his fucking Fonsworth Bentley Nigga
52:47
pulled rolls up and go, hea, you're saying too much. Like he
52:51
stops him before he could finish telling his story. So I'm like, oh,
52:53
he was basically adopted. Unnecessary y'all on But anyway, Yeah, that's
53:00
that's everything, you know. We gotta keep this race thing in order,
53:04
you know what I mean. The colonization's gonna work. We got mature,
53:06
y'all noted, we're different over year. Yeah, that's everything. Good movie
53:12
overall. Watch it. Bring your kids, bring them all, have a
53:15
blast. Halle. I'm happy to support Holly and everything, but I'm just
53:21
still concerned about the messaging for young women. You know, I feel like
53:23
that's crazy. What what is your deal about the messing about running from home
53:28
and turning your back on your people and yeah, I mean everything you just
53:30
said. And the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
53:32
Um. I could go on and on, you know, like the fact
53:36
that you rule ninety percent of the world and you're give it up for ten
53:38
percent. Uh, you know, no messaging about colonizers and you know,
53:43
like staying with the native get off the colonize said that would never be a
53:45
message In the Dizey movie lesson What do you talking about? They had these
53:49
white men are dangerous, like they don't play around the same You have ever
53:52
seen a since? It's because it have you ever seen a since? No?
53:57
No, so that you'll never see it. Yeah, that's technically a
54:01
Marvel movie. That's Marvel even though it's owned by Disney, it's still Marvel.
54:06
That's not I'm saying, a full Disney movie. Do they ever talk
54:08
about that shit? No? No, okay, but they do talk about
54:12
like empowerment and stuff, and they do talk about power, and they try
54:15
to play this off because that's what they original where they try to play this
54:16
off as empowerment. They were like, yeah, she's a head strong young
54:20
woman, like why are you holding me down? And Prince Eric echoes the
54:22
same thing. Stop trying to keep me in this castle. I want to
54:24
live my life YadA yah meen and all this stuff. Yeah whatever, be
54:29
um. Yeah, I gotta say. You know, Eddie Murphy didn't have
54:31
been in his team and at the end of coming to America, So why
54:35
should she because she's six Well I don't know how old she is in here,
54:37
but in the in the animation sixteen better. No, you have to
54:43
care how old to you because that informs the reasoning or non reasons for why
54:45
she makes it. I mean, like, dude, it's supposed to be
54:47
like twenty one I think, right, and something like that coming to America,
54:51
right, because he's turning come to America. Yeah, I guess.
54:52
Yeah, yeah, So sixteen it's very different from twenty one than I mean,
54:58
it's still very young, but that's also very every different mindset. Eddie
55:00
Murphy would never abandon this stead because he's the man. Eddie Murphy did not
55:05
sail to Hispaniola to marry it up. Now with the queens, there you
55:10
go. Yeah, I already made the good decision. In that beginning part.
55:15
Indeed, yeah, I did the same. Um all right, So
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do with anyone comics all ready, Yeah, I'm when I say, and
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this is what we've been hinting at for what like six months now. But
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where we said, Ben, I mean's we're gonna something really really really really
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Is it those no bounds? I am just I've already passed all the
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59:45
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59:52
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59:55
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59:59
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1:00:02
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And yes, kudos, big ups to Mellow. I love you too,
1:00:08
Mellow. I'm proud of you, Melo. You already doing a damn thing.
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Appreciate you. I'm glad to see this happen. I'm glad to see
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1:00:22
when it was fan ro, so you know he was. I think he
1:00:23
was also doing the wrestling stuff, like like Mellow's the guy so I'm very
1:00:29
happy for him. Yeah, Mellow has been around. I've known Mellow actually
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longer than even this show. It's just that I met him when Twitter.
1:00:37
When I first joined Twitter, he was one of the first people I met.
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And we've been through a lot together. You know. We both were
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writing on American Gods together. We've done multiple things since, and that's my
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brother. But this is like our first thing together that is actually coming out,
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you know, because our season of American Gods never made it to air.
1:00:57
A lot of our ideas did, but you know, at season.
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So this is the first thing that we've got together coming out. And like,
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I'm just so, there's so much more. I don't want to spend
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