Speaker 1: I think this version of the Little Mermaid is even
Speaker 1: more trans than the cartoon.
Speaker 2: She's sheen im.
Speaker 3: Me no, may not my name? Yo? Yo yo?
Speaker 2: What is your child? I am a cook?
Speaker 3: You know what's going down? Before round?
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Like a Virgin Patreon where we talk
Speaker 1: about stuff that we want you to pay money to
Speaker 1: listen to. I'm roised on you and I'm fran Torado,
Speaker 1: and we're fulfilling the promise of our Little Mermaid DVD commentary,
Speaker 1: which if you haven't listened to, you definitely should. It's
Speaker 1: very funny. We have now both seen the live action
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid and we're going to talk all about it.
Speaker 1: And I actually have some friends to help.
Speaker 2: Me do that.
Speaker 3: Oh do oh?
Speaker 2: I think I know what this is. Virgins?
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Mike down, woman down? Wait wait keep we're
Speaker 3: keeping all of this. Okay, the virgins can't see. But
Speaker 3: Rose has a friend recording with me. Lifted up a
Speaker 3: limited edition Hallie Bailey.
Speaker 1: As it is not limited edition, that's like sell it
Speaker 1: at Target. They sell it a Target. It will be
Speaker 1: made forever. So there's just one friend. This is one
Speaker 1: friend who I have, and then another friend who I
Speaker 1: have is is that the Vanessa.
Speaker 2: Oh no, this is.
Speaker 1: Human aerial and her like blue dress and her sandals.
Speaker 3: Oh, her sandals are very lesbian.
Speaker 2: And then I do have Vanessa.
Speaker 3: I love that you have Vanessa. Is that Vanessa from
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three or is that a vintage Vanessa?
Speaker 2: No, this is Vanessa from twenty twenty three. Wow.
Speaker 3: I'm so shook that they made a Vanessa doll too,
Speaker 3: because like, she's such a small part of the movie.
Speaker 3: They like kind of, but she's an iconic part, which
Speaker 3: we'll get to. Yes, are Rose and I have big, big, big,
Speaker 3: like lots of thoughts about this, Like I feel like.
Speaker 2: Can I guess?
Speaker 1: I can I guess?
Speaker 2: Can I guess what you thought about it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I would love that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I loved it. So I'm assuming you didn't
Speaker 1: you loved it. I loved it, Okay.
Speaker 3: I loved my experience of watching the movie. I would
Speaker 3: absolutely watch it again. I did not think it was
Speaker 3: an amazing movie. But I thought that Hallie say that
Speaker 3: to Halle's face as I was about to say.
Speaker 2: That, Wait, we need we're gonna spread. What do you
Speaker 2: think of my movie?
Speaker 3: Fand Roses holding up the Bailey, Barbie and it's actually
Speaker 3: one of the funniest inside of.
Speaker 2: So I was gonna say it again, say it again
Speaker 2: to her face, So say it to her.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I did not think, Oh, wow,
Speaker 3: her mole is present. I love that.
Speaker 2: And look she has she has edges too.
Speaker 3: Wow, she looks so good. I was gonna say, I
Speaker 3: did not think it was an amazing movie, like on
Speaker 3: the kind of construct and like creative directorial level. But
Speaker 3: I thought that Halle Bailey was amazing, and I will
Speaker 3: watch that movie over. I will watch that movie again
Speaker 3: just for Halle Bailey. Like to me, very extreme statement incoming.
Speaker 3: I feel personally that Halle Bailey has given us the
Speaker 3: greatest contribution to the Disney Princess cinematic universe since Lea
Speaker 3: Slanga gave us Mulan like. I adored her and her performance,
Speaker 3: and it was untouchable to me as far as all
Speaker 3: other as far as Rose is still playing with the doll.
Speaker 2: As far I've been playing with in the.
Speaker 3: Grand scheme of Disney reboots, of which I have seen
Speaker 3: almost all of them, I think I haven't seen Dumbo
Speaker 3: or jungle Book. I actually heard jungle Book was pret good.
Speaker 3: But I've seen all the other ones, and I felt
Speaker 3: like this was far and beyond way better than the
Speaker 3: other reboots. I know that's a very low bar, but
Speaker 3: that's what I'll say. Okay, I think it's a good
Speaker 3: place to start. I feel like we both really liked
Speaker 3: our experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, okay, so I loved it. I I gave
Speaker 1: it when on my letterboxed review, I gave it a
Speaker 1: four point five out of five.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I Hallie was incredible.
Speaker 2: She had.
Speaker 1: She brought such such a lovely softness to the role.
Speaker 1: She was so innocent and effervescent, and she really was
Speaker 1: a Disney princess exactly. She was so expressive the part
Speaker 1: of the movie where she couldn't talk, like her feelings
Speaker 1: were still all on her face.
Speaker 2: She was beautiful.
Speaker 1: Her voice was incredible, bowl.
Speaker 2: And I loved the movie.
Speaker 1: There was enough different about it that while I was
Speaker 1: watching it, I found myself thinking, Oh, Like I found
Speaker 1: myself not like wondering what was going to happen next,
Speaker 1: and like, obviously I know what's going to happen next
Speaker 1: because it's the Little Mermaid, but I was still it
Speaker 1: took me along for the ride. I was still like
Speaker 1: fully immersed in the narrative and like everything was still
Speaker 1: like surprising and funny.
Speaker 2: I thought it was beautiful.
Speaker 1: You know some of the cgi stuff, like was a
Speaker 1: little entranning Valley, you mean her.
Speaker 3: Fall face of makeup, her fall like Pat McGrath beat Underwater. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but you know that's just like magic, magic Disney movie.
Speaker 3: I was about Mermaid's like I could not spend I
Speaker 3: was not distracted. I honestly didn't even I wasn't even
Speaker 3: thinking about it until someone brought it up to me
Speaker 3: after I had seen the movie.
Speaker 1: I thought her her tail was beautiful. I thought like
Speaker 1: all of the sea creatures were really well articulated, even
Speaker 1: like you, I know, Sebastian Flounder, which there was obviously
Speaker 1: so much conversation around in the lead up to the movie,
Speaker 1: like yes, the first time you see them, they're a
Speaker 1: little startling. But that feeling for me passed very quickly
Speaker 1: and I was fully immersed in the movie. I loved
Speaker 1: the music, you know, the new linn Manuel Miranda songs
Speaker 1: like I don't love him as a songwriter, but Halle's
Speaker 1: like I just Got Legs song was fun and catchy.
Speaker 1: Prince Eric's song was so good. Also, Prince Prince Eric.
Speaker 1: I need him biblically. I am in love with him,
Speaker 1: and I thought he and Hallie had incredible chemistry. I
Speaker 1: thought there scenes of them, like running around the island
Speaker 1: were so effective and so fun. I loved the sort
Speaker 1: of fan servicing moments like when Jody Benson gave.
Speaker 2: Her the fork.
Speaker 3: Was Jody Benson?
Speaker 2: Jody bensid so amazing?
Speaker 1: Okay, I sobbed through so much of the movie.
Speaker 2: I cried. I cried so much.
Speaker 3: What was your biggest crime moment?
Speaker 1: I think it was probably.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I mean, the one that sticks out to me the
Speaker 1: most was during the shipwreck when Ariel saves Max the
Speaker 1: dog and helps him get to the boat.
Speaker 3: That to me, I was I was gad, that was
Speaker 3: really that was really beautiful. I I definitely cried during
Speaker 3: a lot of Halle Bailey songs just because her her
Speaker 3: voice is so emotional and perfect. I want to respond
Speaker 3: to a few different things you said, So Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna make.
Speaker 1: Sure I'm gonna help you respond to her, to her,
Speaker 1: to her and you.
Speaker 2: Know what, and to Vanessa.
Speaker 3: Vanessa. We'll get to you, Vanessa.
Speaker 1: If you'd like to hear this full episode in our
Speaker 1: full conversation about The Little Mermaid twenty twenty three and
Speaker 1: how it potentially exists in a shared SONMTAC universe with
Speaker 1: brand's favorite film, Shoke a Lot. You can get that
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