The fish and crab designs in 'The Little Mermaid' are criticized for being soulless and horrifying.

In fact, before this newspaper revealed characters like Flounder the fish (voiced by Jacob Tremblay), Sebastian the crab (voiced by Daveed Diggs) or Scuttle the bird (Awkwafina) to talk about how Disney had "ruined the childhood" of the audience when creating live-action versions of these characters, the Vietnamese online community had been passing around pictures of the characters and expressing surprise at their live-action appearances.

The characters from the new Little Mermaid are placed next to the characters from the old film.

This publication doesn't hide its rather frank and pessimistic view of how Disney filmmakers "treat" their animal characters when they are remade into live-action versions. It writes: "Experience over the years has shown us that we shouldn't expect too much from characters from old Disney films being remade into live-action versions."

This newspaper cited cases such as the design of the character Dumbo in Tim Burton's remake of the same name and called it "a real nightmare in character design"; or the characters in Jon Favreau's The Lion King were commented as "extremely gloomy".

Flounder fish in movie poster

Characters like Flounder the fish, Sebastian the crab, and Scuttle the bird are lumped together with other animals from the ocean floor and are poorly designed. "All the characters in the movie, the ones that made up your childhood, all look dull and lifeless," the paper continued.

The author of the article pointed out that the reason for such a big difference between the original animated version and the current remake is due to the character design. The old animated characters were hand-drawn and anthropomorphized many times, while the new characters were designed in a realistic style like Jon Favreau did with the Lion King, so they could not convey emotions to the audience, even though the movie had not been released yet.

Sebastian Crab on movie poster

Scuttle the bird feels so real it's like a documentary.

The Little Mermaid is Disney's latest live-action film project, a remake of the original 1989 film of the same name. In the film, the role of mermaid Ariel is played by actress Halle Bailey, the role of Prince Eric is given to Jonah Hauer-King; Melissa McCarthy plays the octopus witch Ursula, and actor Javier Bardem plays King Triton - Ariel's father... Sticking closely to the original film, this year's film tells the bitter, tragic love story between mermaid Ariel and Prince Eric. The film is scheduled to be released on May 26.

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