A young reporter, Cam, and his sickly niece Elle take a night off from closely monitoring her health (a persistent cough that causes her to fall to the floor ahem), to take in the circus that’s just come to town. Among the elephant and fortuneteller lurks an even greater mysery: a real live mermaid, Elizabeth.
She’s kept in a tank and it looks pretty real, but it must be some trick, right? Wrong. This mermaid is being kept in slavery by the evil carnival barker, and it’s up to Elle, who idolizes her, and Cam, who’d like to, um, romance her, to save her.
You might have been excited to know that a live-action version of The Little Mermaid
was hitting Netflix, but that would make you a fool. It’s an abomination. The plot is as poor as the production values. Seriously, the special effects were short-bus special, and the effect was that I hated it, and felt embarrassed on its behalf.
Pointless, absolutely, but also completely boring. Kids won’t have the patience for it, and parents won’t have the forgiveness. The rest of us are just chumps for watching. If I had a mermaid tail, I’d flip it dismissively as I swam decisively away. If I’d lost my voice in exchange for legs, I’d flip it the bird. If I suddenly used a fork as a comb, well, I’d get on the short bus because mermaids are the least of my trouble.
ASSHOLES WATCHING MOVIES 
I’ll wait for the inevitable Disney live-action remake.
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Best off sticking with Aquaman!
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“Pointless”, that sums up my first inclinations of this based on the title. x
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** Title of the film, not your review, just to make that clear! D’oh!
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Proves that everything doesn’t have to be a live action movie.
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Hadn’t even heard of it, happy not to. Your review makes a lot of damning points.
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Well this is disappointing
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I saw this pop up on Netflix and I’m pretty I visibly groaned, but am still going to give it a shot as I don’t mind garbage movies. For the most part anyways. lol
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Oh wow. Okay, so that one sucked. I’ll avoid.
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If I want a live action version of The Little Mermaid I’ll go back and watch Splash again.
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So, you loved it, then? (Thanks for the warning, Jay.)
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My kids also thought it was the worst movie they had seen in a long time. And it’s not often they all agree. So points for getting my kids to agree on something. But it was terrible.
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Haha, good finding the silver lining!
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