The Little Mermaid is now streaming on Disney Plus

You realize what they are saying. The seaweed is at all times greener, in case you have a Disney Plus subscription. So, it’s simply as effectively that The Little Mermaid is now accessible to stream on Disney Plus! The live-action Disney remake, directed by Chicago’s Rob Marshall, stars Halle Bailey because the Disney princess.

Jonah Hauer-King stars reverse her as Prince Eric, whereas Daveed Diggs, Melissa McCarthy, Jacob Tremblay, and Javier Bardem spherical out the solid as iconic Disney characters like Sebastian, Ursula, Flounder, and King Triton.

The brand new film has already made a splash (pun supposed) in cinemas, breaking half 1,000,000 on the international field workplace and securing its standing because the seventh highest-grossing film of the 12 months.

In accordance with critics, it’s among the finest motion pictures the Home of Mouse has ever remade. In our personal The Little Mermaid overview, we famous how whereas the movie is “undoubtedly a love letter to the animation, it doesn’t attempt to substitute it.”

The need to make one thing distinctive with The Little Mermaid is one thing Marshall made clear was a precedence in an interview with us in regards to the Disney Plus film.

“How do you do it? How do you create an underwater musical?” he requested. “It’s by no means been completed earlier than. The whole lot needed to be pre-planned and choreographed upfront — it was nearly like a ballet. We had actors transferring via water, cameras transferring on the identical time. How do you do this after we even have actual individuals who aren’t merpeople?”

One other aim of Marshall’s to make the character of Ariel appear extra “fashionable,” as he defined to Leisure Weekly, “The character goes again to Hans Christian Andersen from one other century, however on the identical time, even in 1989, it felt in some methods like a really fashionable girl, somebody who sees her life in a different way than anybody round her, and goes to seek out that dream.”

You’ll be able to see your self if Ariel finds that dream together with the remainder of The Little Mermaid live-action solid by streaming the movie on Disney Plus now. Then, while you’re completed with that, see what else the streaming service has to supply with our information to all the things new on Disney Plus, together with Star Wars collection Ahsoka and numerous different Disney Plus exhibits.

You may also discover out extra about upcoming Disney and Pixar motion pictures with our guides to The Little Mermaid 2 launch date, Toy Story 5 launch date, and Zootopia 2 launch date.