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==Plot==

==Plot==

The 16-year-old mermaid Ariel is very interested in the human world, and she spends a lot of her free time exploring ship wrecks, and collecting human objects, and placing them in her grotto of treasures. Her father Triton however, hates humans, and forbids Ariel from going to the surface to see them. After Ariel sings “Part of Your World,” she sees a ship, so she surfaces, and sees fireworks. Exited, she swims to the ship despite Sebastian telling her not to do so. She climbs upward to see what the humans are doing, and she sees them dancing, and she then encounters a dog named Max. Max likes her, and licks her to show affection, but his owner calls for him, and it’s a Prince named Eric. Ariel thinks he’s handsome, and smiles at him. Later, Eric’s advisor and steward Sir Grimsby shows him a statue of Eric, which he and Max don’t like that much. Grimsby tells Eric that he planned to show it to him when he got married, to which Eric says he hasn’t found the right girl yet saying she’s out there somewhere which gets Ariel’s face to light up. Then, a storm hits. The ship’s crew evacuate, but Max is still aboard. Eric risks his life to go save him, which he does, but his foot gets stuck in the wood, and the gunpowder gets set on fire, and the whole ship explodes knocking him out. Ariel then finds him, and swims him to shore saving his life. She then sings to him, which wakes him up, but she leaves almost right away due to Max and Grimsby finding Eric alive and well. Eric says a girl saved his life, but Grimsby says that’s nonsense.

The 16-year-old mermaid Ariel is very interested in the human world, and she spends a lot of her free time exploring ship wrecks, and collecting human objects, and placing them in her grotto of treasures. Her father Triton, however, hates humans, and forbids Ariel from going to the surface to see them. After Ariel sings “Part of Your World,” she sees a ship, so she surfaces, and sees fireworks. Exited, she swims to the ship despite Sebastian telling her not to do so. She climbs upward to see what the humans are doing, and she sees them dancing, and she then encounters a dog named Max. Max likes her, and licks her to show affection, but his owner calls for him, and it’s a Prince named Eric. Ariel thinks he’s handsome, and smiles at him. Later, Eric’s advisor and steward Sir Grimsby shows him a statue of Eric, which he and Max don’t like that much. Grimsby tells Eric that he planned to show it to him when he got married, to which Eric says he hasn’t found the right girl yet saying she’s out there somewhere which gets Ariel’s face to light up. Then, a storm hits. The ship’s crew evacuate, but Max is still aboard. Eric risks his life to go save him, which he does, but his foot gets stuck in the wood, and the gunpowder gets set on fire, and the whole ship explodes knocking him out. Ariel then finds him, and swims him to shore saving his life. She then sings to him, which wakes him up, but she leaves almost right away due to Max and Grimsby finding Eric alive and well. Eric says a girl saved his life, but Grimsby says that’s nonsense.

Ariel then happily sings to herself which her sisters point out to her father that Ariel is in love which gets Triton to smile. Ariel then plans to see Eric again, but Sebastian sings “Under the Sea” to convince her that her life is good down here, and it would be a mistake to leave it. Flounder then tells Ariel there’s a surprise for her in the grotto, which she happily leaves Sebastian singing by himself. After the song, he’s informed that he needs to speak with Triton, and he thinks he knows what happened that night. He spills the beans, which makes Triton furious. Ariel sees the surprise, and it’s the Eric statue which she loves very much. However, Triton is there and tells Ariel that she should have let Eric die. After Ariel shouts out that she loves him, Triton destroys the grotto in a rage. It devastates Ariel, and even Triton has some regret. This is the opportunity Ursula needs to manipulate Ariel into giving her what she wants. Ariel then goes to Ursula’s lair, and tells off Sebastian due to him telling her father what happened. Ariel meets Ursula, and she tells her that she can turn her human, but she’ll have to get Eric to give her true loves kiss by sunset on the third day, or else she’s Ursula’s slave. Ursula also brings up that Ariel will have to give her her voice. Despite the lopsided deal, Ariel reluctantly signed the contract, and she gets a pair of legs.

Ariel then happily sings to herself which her sisters point out to her father that Ariel is in love which gets Triton to smile. Ariel then plans to see Eric again, but Sebastian sings “Under the Sea” to convince her that her life is good down here, and it would be a mistake to leave it. Flounder then tells Ariel there’s a surprise for her in the grotto, which she happily leaves Sebastian singing by himself. After the song, he’s informed that he needs to speak with Triton, and he thinks he knows what happened that night. He spills the beans, which makes Triton furious. Ariel sees the surprise, and it’s the Eric statue which she loves very much. However, Triton is there and tells Ariel that she should have let Eric die. After Ariel shouts out that she loves him, Triton destroys the grotto in a rage. It devastates Ariel, and even Triton has some regret. This is the opportunity Ursula needs to manipulate Ariel into giving her what she wants. Ariel then goes to Ursula’s lair, and tells off Sebastian due to him telling her father what happened. Ariel meets Ursula, and she tells her that she can turn her human, but she’ll have to get Eric to give her true loves kiss by sunset on the third day, or else she’s Ursula’s slave. Ursula also brings up that Ariel will have to give her her voice. Despite the lopsided deal, Ariel reluctantly signed the contract, and she gets a pair of legs.

==Reboot controversy==

==Reboot controversy==

A live action reboot of the movie has been set for release on May 26, 2023. Even though it has not been released yet, it is already drawing heavy criticism on the movie's YouTube trailer, with nearly 2.5 million dislikes against the 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 trailer is also drawing criticism because of YouTube engaging in censorship (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), leading to critics of the movie trailer to instead creatively post sarcastic and mocking "positive" reviews 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.

 

==Broadway version==

==Broadway version==

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