The Town of Odyssey

I'm not a big Little Mermaid fan to begin with, so talk of this production wasn't overly exciting for me. The teaser trailer does make it look beautifully done, with a great score. I'll wait to reserve further judgement.

From a production design standpoint, this is probably the best-looking live-action Disney adaptation so far. That said, they don't really show any of the talking animals in this trailer. Those haven't looked good in a single movie yet. If they can nail those, this will be a visually stunning movie!

This definitely gets into the plot a lot more. i haven't seen the original in so long that I'm not the most reliable source, but it looks like there will be more stuff with Prince Eric and his castle/home in this version. I could be wrong.

I noticed it mentioned "New lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda" so there's at least a new song somewhere, I would guess there's some additional story content as well to go with it.

I think I heard the Beauty and the Beast remake did that too. I never ended up seeing that one.

Yes, the Beauty and the Beast one did add a new song. I had thought they might use some of the Broadway version songs, which are awesome, so I ended up disappointed on that front, but the new song they added was pretty good.

i don't know what i expected sebastian to look like, but it wasn't that.

Why is the bird underwater?

I'm not a bird expert - is this some kind of underwater bird? Like ducks - they'll put their head underwater to get food...though that's quite different than being fully submerged for a long period of time... #DisneyMagic

This movie is going to look sick in HDR, any of those really colorful joints like Spiderverse or Blade Runner 2049 look spectacular in 4K HDR, especially with the newer hdr10 and Dolby vision standards.