The Little Mermaid s biggest goof proves why Disney s live-action remakes are doomed from the start

Get the Full StoryThe Little Mermaid, the latest of Disney s endless procession of live-action remakes of their beloved animated classics, hits theaters today and, well, it s earning pretty much the exact reception you would expect. Halle Bailey deserves all the praise for her star-making leading performance, but the film is as bloated as a pufferfish, and some of its weird character choices are reeling in ridicule online. Case in point, the new Scuttle literally makes no sense.

As William Bibbiani went viral for pointing out on Twitter, there s a scene right at the beginning where the filmmakers apparently forgot that Scuttle isn t a fish, so they just show a bird talking and breathing underwater for several minutes.

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