Cinderella, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and Mulan have all gotten the live-action treatment in the last several years we’ll be getting Moana, Lilo & Stitch, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs soon. Live-action remakes are a business strategy for Disney: When you have a prolific intellectual property library and an animated sequel doesn’t make sense, live-action comes to the rescue and resuscitates classic films for a younger audience. The music was unparalleled, I was entranced by Ursula’s makeup, and perhaps I related just a little to the line “the human world is a mess.” Now, 24 years after the original animated classic hit theaters, we’re getting the live-action version with stars Halle Bailey (Ariel), Melissa McCarthy (Ursula), Daveed Diggs (Sebastian), Awkwafina (Scuttle), Javier Bardem (Triton), and more. Growing up, The Little Mermaid was my favorite Disney movie.