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A live action reboot of the movie was released on May 26, 2023. It drew heavy criticism on the movie's YouTube teaser trailer, with nearly 3.6 million dislikes against the teaser trailer versus just over one million likes because of Disney's decision to create a "[[woke]]" reboot of the 1989 film with a black actress, Halle Bailey, portraying the title character Ariel;<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/disneys-latest-woke-remake-water-public-weighs-million-dislikes-counting/ Disney’s Latest Woke Remake Under Water as Public Weighs In, Over a Million Dislikes and Counting] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> the teaser trailer, as well as the official full trailer that followed, are also drawing criticism because of YouTube engaging in censorship (by shutting off comments on the teaser trailer and by deleting negatively critical comments and even actively and intentionally blocking posters from posting negative reviews, indicated in the form of a "We weren't able to add your reply" error popping up, on the full trailer), leading to critics of the movie trailer to instead creatively post sarcastic and mocking "positive" reviews on the movie's official full trailer as a way to get around the censorship.  Disney supporters on Twitter have claimed, without proof, that Bailey's race was the reason for the trailer getting so many dislikes and negative criticism, leading a Twitter poster to counter that the reason the movie is so disliked is because of it being a "woke" live action remake, not because of alleged "racism", and that people are tiring of forced diversity,<ref>[https://twitter.com/BondaBoyyy/status/1569378049799364609 "Reasons why this remake sucks: 1. It's a remake 2. It's live action 3. It's woke] at Twitter</ref> a point agreed on by many respondents, including at least one black Twitter poster who stated that he resented race swaps being used for the sake of [[political correctness]] for existing fictional characters who were originally created as white, rather than create original black characters.

A live action reboot of the movie was released on May 26, 2023. It drew heavy criticism on the movie's YouTube teaser trailer, with nearly 3.6 million dislikes against the teaser trailer versus just over one million likes because of Disney's decision to create a "[[woke]]" reboot of the 1989 film with a black actress, Halle Bailey, portraying the title character Ariel;<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/disneys-latest-woke-remake-water-public-weighs-million-dislikes-counting/ Disney’s Latest Woke Remake Under Water as Public Weighs In, Over a Million Dislikes and Counting] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> the teaser trailer, as well as the official full trailer that followed, are also drawing criticism because of YouTube engaging in censorship (by shutting off comments on the teaser trailer and by deleting negatively critical comments and even actively and intentionally blocking posters from posting negative reviews, indicated in the form of a "We weren't able to add your reply" error popping up, on the full trailer), leading to critics of the movie trailer to instead creatively post sarcastic and mocking "positive" reviews on the movie's official full trailer as a way to get around the censorship.  Disney supporters on Twitter have claimed, without proof, that Bailey's race was the reason for the trailer getting so many dislikes and negative criticism, leading a Twitter poster to counter that the reason the movie is so disliked is because of it being a "woke" live action remake, not because of alleged "racism", and that people are tiring of forced diversity,<ref>[https://twitter.com/BondaBoyyy/status/1569378049799364609 "Reasons why this remake sucks: 1. It's a remake 2. It's live action 3. It's woke] at Twitter</ref> a point agreed on by many respondents, including at least one black Twitter poster who stated that he resented race swaps being used for the sake of [[political correctness]] for existing fictional characters who were originally created as white, rather than create original black characters.

On a budget of $240.2 million, it got $569.6 million at the box office, making it a massive flop for Disney.

On a budget of $240.2 million, it got $569.6 million at the box office, making it a massive flop for Disney.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinereid/2023/10/02/disney-sinks-300-million-into-over-budget-little-mermaid-movie/ </ref><ref>https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt5971474/</ref>

==Broadway version==

==Broadway version==