Cast your mind back to 1989. The break-up of the Soviet Union was underway, the Berlin wall came down, and a certain animated red-headed mermaid took the movie-going world by storm. Ah, life was good!
The Little Mermaid immediately became one of Disney’s most-loved films. It was natural then that here, in 2023, it gets the live-action treatment, joining the likes of Beauty & the Beast, Dumbo, The Lion King and The Jungle Book. But the quality of these remakes has been patchy – so where does this reimagining fall on the Disney spectrum?
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