IMDb has taken action after seeing an unusual influx of negative audience reviews, possibly due to Disney casting Halle Bailey as Ariel.
after casting Halle Bailey, a Black actress and singer, as Ariel. Despite the vitriol, the latest in Disney’s line of live-actions was a top performer in the box office since its Friday premiere. It earned $118 million domestically over Memorial Day weekend, making it the fifth-highest-grossing movie for the holiday weekend in history as the movie theater industry seeks to revive its pre-covid audience numbers.
But the highly anticipated film didn’t appear to be highly favored on some movie review websites. IMDb decided to depart from its usual ratings method to give “The Little Mermaid” a 7 out of 10 rating after site visitors noticed the film’s abnormal review patterns. About 16,000 users gave the Disney movie a one-star rating, the lowest possible score out of 10, which dropped the unweighted average rating to 4.7.
On the review website Metacritic, more than 550 of the 689 user ratings were negative, giving the movie an overall 2.1 out of 10, compared with a lukewarm 59 out of 100 rating from professional movie critics. In contrast, review aggregation sites Rotten Tomatoes and CinemaScore, websites that verify that users have watched the movie they’re rating, saw more positive scores for the new Disney movie. “The Little Mermaid” received a 95 percent audience rating out of more 5,000 verified reviews and a 68 percent “fresh” or mildly positive rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. On CinemaScore, the film received an “A.
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