To be fair we also hated on Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin.....Hate against Disney remakes isn't exclusive to The Little Mermaid.

Its more than just the skin color. The animals look hideous, the added songs are horrible, they made the movie way longer which than the original without adding anything of content (except new s****y songs). They changed the ending making Eric basically useless besides as a love interest. They even changed how ariel kisses eric and he turns away to the opposite, which doesn't make sense because in the cartoon she wants to kiss him as soon as possible in order to keep her legs. So yeah there is more in life than just shovinh everything under racism.

Rob and Stardust already pointed out the main reasons for the hate, so I would add: Her race isn't the problem, the trope of Hollywood changing established characters for some cheap Virtue Signaling is. Original black characters are liked as any other GOOD written character, no matter the race. Avery Johnson from "Halo" for example is a fan favourite, the "Creed" movies are liked by the audience and Roberta Warren from "Z Nation" was badass. What companies like Disney do is to use a beloved IP to cash in on nostalgia, change things to tackle "modern social problems" and pat themselves on the shoulder for being such good people. And if anybody has any critcism (Bad CGI in this example) they get labeled as bigots, racists etc. - So the black character gets abused as shield on top of all of that.

The CGI sucks first of all, second: the people making this movie didn’t seem to get the point of the original so they changed a couple of scenes in the movie

Changing Ariel's skin color bothered me no more or less than giving Harry Potter blue eyes. I don't like either, because it's inconsistent with the original characters. That's it. It would've been better imo to make a new mermaid/princess with darker skin, instead of changing the appearance of an existing one.

What we hate is the movie is objectively bad, there’s no original idea, the CGI is trash, the songs took are terrible, and really, making Ariel a person of color, while not inherently bad in any way (representation is good) is essentially used as a buy out for the rest

I agree 100% that the hate due to the skin tone of the little mermaid is ridiculous. However this post said nothing about that. Just a general dislike for Disney remakes. Let's not infer something that's not there.

In the first place, the OP was talking about Disney remakes in general. He or she didn't cite any specific example. BP chose the picture, not the OP. Second, since we've brought up the subject, if "whitewashing" is bad, why is "blackfacing" OK? Some here at BP have defended Disney's actions on the grounds that Ariel is a fictional character, so why does it matter. Yes, she's a fictional character, but she's an *established* fictional character. People expect her to look a certain way. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character too, but I wouldn't want to see Morgan Freeman play him any more than I'd want to see Benedict Cumberbatch play Alex Cross, another fictional character, whom Freeman *has* portrayed. Alex Cross is black. Sherlock Holmes is not. Nor are Ariel or Abra Stone from "Doctor Sleep." There's absolutely nothing wrong with giving a voice and a presence to people who've been under-represented for far too long, but create new characters, don't appropriate established ones.

The problem is that Little Mermaid is a well built character and she had white(ish) skin. They could create any number of mermaids with any roots: Asian, African, Native American etc., who cares, but they changed the skin colour of Ariel. There is no logical explanation as to why they did so. I think it was even bad for merchandising. When a little girl asks for Ariel in a toy shop, the salesperson asks her if she wants the white one or the black one? It's ridiculous.

So the next black panther can be played by a Caucasian woman?

That just happened to be the image they used, no one mentioned a specific Disney movie.

The CGI and songs are horrible but Disney’s changing character’s races to look woke. If it was purely because they thought the actor was a good choice then I’d be fine with it. Edit: Live Action remakes of animated movies are just generally bad

Who ever talked about hating an specific movie? Oh yeah, you did...

I have no qualms with the actors; I just hate the color palette and how it’s all muted and dingy. It’s supposed to be a kids film, not a WWI film

As long as they keep it mostly to the storyline, I feel like it's fine. At that point all that should matter is the quality of the camera work and the CGI.

I love Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin remakes! ❤️

...what only emphasizes their subliminal way of disrespecting and mistreatening their own rules and laws and so on...Maybe in »Arielle 4.1 H2O« the female protagonist will fall in love with a piece of sushi?

The only "remake" of a Disney cartoon that was amazing was/is the Broadway version of The Lion King. I was taken away by how they could replicate that on stage, especially the scene with the wildebeest.

Disney's literally just doing the remakes to get woke points lmao

It isn’t, though. And I don’t care about Ariel’s skin color, she is a mermaid. I care they made Scuttle a girl, the movie too long, etc. I don’t like the live action, either. I haven’t for any of them.