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This movie definitely isn't the worst. The beginning had a good establishing of Greta, the school in a funny and interesting way. The transition style of the film is very creative, costume and sets are really nice, I also loved the otherworldly edits for posters and objects connected to Greta's childhood done in a life-like way. But towards the middle and third act, it felt messy and unexplored. We got more out of the real world rather than the fantasy one, it didn't really feel developed aside from a few things.

Not expecting Narnia levels or Where The Wild Things are of worldbuilding , but I think we needed more direction of this journey Greta takes in this fantasy world to feel more impactful. It just felt so fast and then things were just resolved.

Will give credit that the people behind it are very skilled, the story needed more work done to feel fleshed out for me to feel "wowed" by it.

I'm someone who usually doesn't like the Disney remakes, especially Mulan, Beauty and The Beast and Pinocchio. But I don't want to write them off as all bad as two I genuinely liked was Cinderella and The Jungle Book, movies who tried to utilize the story into something enjoyable. And I believe this movie did that job.

The CGI for the animals and water effects aren't great, also with some of the actors being kinda eh and of course the lyric change to "Kiss The Girl" but Halle's performance was really good. Her singing is gorgeous, she tries to really emulate Ariel's energy. Ariel's personality compared to the original is more tweaked, but not by a major difference in my opinion. Her development with Eric felt natural and so sweet. Melissa did her best job as Ursula, she was putting her all into it. Same for the actress for Vanessa, she killed it in her scene.

There are changes to the plot with new info or changes to character lore but it doesn't feel like a slap in the face or a way to make fun of the original. It's not like the most amazing remake of all time in my opinion but I believed the people behind it genuinely tried to make a movie to just enjoy. So I give it a thumbs up. 👍