As Disney brings back The Little Mermaid for a new audience via a live-action remake, it’s worth going back and looking at the films that came before it.
In 2010, Disney kicked off a new era of regular live-action adaptations, films that either reimagine or completely trace over the timeless animated classics from where they come from.
While we only deal with films that have come out post-Alice in Wonderland (all apologies to the 1990s 101 Dalmatians) and don’t include sequels or spinoffs (2021’s Cruella won’t count), we do have 13 films to take a look at that hem pretty close to the films that they’re adapted from.
Let’s take a look at these live-action remakes. Some of them are quite good (Pete’s Dragon), while others are quite bad (The Lion King).