The Little Mermaid

As an adult, I expected more. I knew this wasn't like the original story but the title little mermaid isn't right. They should have called it something else like the curse of the mermaid.. I do believe kids will like te movie and thats why I gave it 5 stars.

I watched this with my child who was so bored she wandered off within the first 20 mins. This could have been fantastic but was ruined by the very slow pace, poor script, poor (read diabolical) acting, lack of good cgi and wishy washy ending. I didn't read any reviews before watching it so wasn't swayed by other's opinions. I had seen the shorts previously and was looking forward to seeing it with the understanding that it was nothing like the Disney version & it was only loosely based on the original Hans Christian Anderson story. How on earth anyone could rate it higher than 3/10 is beyond me, I mean c'mon how awful was the actor playing Locke? My dog could play a better Wizard than this guy and for pete's sake the henchman with the feather, Argh!!, Oh and don't even start on dog boy!! There was nothing breathtaking about the story or the visuals, every aspect was as dull as dishwater. I did however enjoy the song that Poppy Drayton sang, I just don't understand why there was a song at all though, just the one. That makes no sense, surely if the lead sings in the movie then you have a few songs scattered through at least? Or no songs, perhaps the producer just couldn't decide what to do.

VERY ho hum twiddle my thumbs, daytime tv movie stuff.

So so boring and pointless. Horrible acting, script and plot. One of the worst movies I've watched in my life.

This movie wasn't great but I think some of the reviews are a little harsh.

It was filmed beautifully. I thought some of the costumes were nice and the overall story was shaky but ok. Don't get me wrong though because it did need work. I also thought that there was a lovely song for this movie and the young lady singing had a sweet voice.

This isn't Disney. It only had a $5 million dollar budget comparing that to the $100's of millions spent by Disney easily puts this in the category of low budget films. I chose to consider that when I watch something like this and for that reason, I think this is an "ok" movie. I think there was a lot of effort but not enough cash or time spent in the script.

So many ignorant people here who don't realise that Disney did not create The Little Mermaid. In actual fact, it's a fairy tale written in 1835 by Hans Christian Andersen. Whilst I agree that this movie has some very bad acting and is a bit slow paced, it's a good story, fairly close to the original story and overall I enjoyed it