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The newly released film scored an impressive 95 percent in the audience section of the review website.
The film hit theaters on May 26 and has already generated nearly US$200 million (A$306 million) at the box office.
Not to mention, audiences love it, as the movie garnered the highest fan rating for a Disney live-action remake yet, slashing opposite Guy Ritchie. Aladdinwhich reached 57 percent.
also defeated mulan, which has an audience score of 47 percent, Kenneth Branagh Cinderellawhich stands at 78 percent, and that of 2016 the jungle bookwhich stands at 86 percent.
It comes after the Disney movie became the target of a review blitz, mostly led by internet trolls, in countries including France, Germany and Korea.
AlloCiné in France even released a statement last week, revealing that the film had received an ‘unusual’ influx of bad reviews and urging viewers to make up their minds.
“We are currently observing an unusual distribution of scores that calls for the need for caution. We encourage you to make your own decisions about the film,” they wrote.
IMBD also issued a warning for its US, Canadian, Brazilian, and Mexican sites, stating: “Our ratings mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title.
“To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation was applied.”
He added: “While we accept and consider all user votes received, we do not all the votes have the same impact (or ‘weight’) on the final grade.
“When unusual voting activity is detected, an alternate weighting calculation may be applied to preserve the reliability of our system.”
The little Mermaid has drawn significant backlash since it was announced that Halle Bailey was voted the World’s Most Iconic Mermaid in 2019.
The casting news even had fans tweeting the hashtag #NotMyAriel, which became a trend.
But despite this, the 23-year-old has received praise for her performance, with The Guardian’s Ellen E Jones calling her “as naturally Disneyfied as actual human beings are.”
“Bailey is both the one absolute triumph of the finished film and the best storyline for this entire live-action remake enterprise in one brilliant mermaidcore package,” he added.
“If these movies are going to have any purpose beyond being nostalgia-driven cashmere, it has to be to allow all children, not just white ones, to see themselves as inhabitants of the Magic Kingdom.”
