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For the most part, they're right. It's a perfectly cromulent adaptation and will check a lot of entertainment boxes for folks. Ashman introduced the American musical theatre style to The Little Mermaid, resulting in songs that not only reveal more about the characters but move the plot forward.

There's something very subversive about the relationship being heterosexual on paper, but the idea that Ariel has to modify her body so drastically to fit in the way she wants to is powerful — and it hits harder today than it did in Rugged meaning gay, I imagine it's going to hit harder for those folks looking for acceptance now than when the film went into production a few years ago.

He doesn't want to see his daughter fall prey to them, let alone become one of them. That film was a huge success and became a staple for Disney kids everywhere. Perhaps it's King Triton's. That's how far the world has descended into lunacy: creating a gay over trans folks as though they aren't just people trying to live their most authentic lives.

The Little Mermaid fairy tale was written by a queer man, Hans Christian Andersen, so protests about the new movie's diversity are pointless. She's the central protagonist and it's her desires that drive the story.

Up until The Little Mermaid, Disney’s musicals were mostly jukebox style. He wants to maintain the old order of things; he distrusts the humans and thinks they're responsible for everything bad in the sea. That's really not what I'm saying. It's this panic that makes me wonder if the most powerful story inside "The Little Mermaid" isn't Ariel's, though.

But King Triton Javier Bardem represents those people on the fence. They've removed a song or two, and they've added a few more. The story itself isn’t the only thing that has a queer resonance. Hans Christian Anderson wrote the mermaid fable — about a mermaid who wants an immortal soul, and must earn it by winning the love of a human as part of a deal with a sea witch — in The story has been used for inspiration and fodder by everyone from Oscar Wilde to Shirley Temple, but the best-known iteration of the story was really the Disney animated musical that was released in The ending was notably changed from Andersen's original conclusion, in which the little mermaid's love goes unrequited and she throws herself into the sea to die — only to be reborn as a spirit, with another chance to earn an immortal soul by striving to help mankind for three hundred years.

Many of those parents that are taking their kids to see this movie are the ones who are getting caught up in the panic over trans rights. Ursula's cave also feels like a powerful allegory, too: in this day and age when politicians ban the proper care from professionals — from trans health care to abortions — those in need of that care will get it wherever they can, safe or not.

They've bulked up the running time, and they came up with something visually opulent. Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid has had complaints over its differences from the cartoon, but the original story was a deeper allegory. When he discovers that Ariel has made a deal with the sea witch to become a human, he's enraged and feels like he's failed his daughter.

For kids watching the movie, there's a potent message that tells them that they, too, can overcome barriers and step into a world that's outside of their own. I don't want to take the story away from Ariel played beautifully by Halle Bailey and little things on a dude.

As a father of a trans-non-binary kid, King Triton's story felt easily the most relatable. The story of "The Little Mermaid" is an old one.

Revisiting the forgotten queer

The newest take on "The Little Mermaid" is a pretty faithful live-action adaptation; if you had any special connection to the original film, there's no reason to think you'll hate this. Disney's ending is a bit more straightforward: Ariel wins the prince's heart, keeps her human legs, and lives happily ever after.

Most people will look at "The Little Mermaid" and think the most important story is Ariel's.