New "Little Mermaid" Pics (Flounder, Sebastian, Scuttle and more!) — Page 2

The seagull costumes actually don't look too bad, but the Flounder costume.....what were they thinking?

I wonder how the show's going to be received by the critics. It probably won't matter since it'll run for years anyway.

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This show is going to be legendary for it's utter lack of any artistic taste.
It's not ill conceived and amatuerish.

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i dont think the costume is that bad, what else would his character wear
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in the picture with the seagulls, is eddie korbich the one on the far right?

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I really despise the whole look of this show. I'm still going to give it a chance and see it (eventually) but it just looks ridiculous and WAY WAY WAY WAY overstuffed and cheesy.

I actually don't mind the Flounder costume, I can't really think of anything better for the young actors to wear. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what they think Flounder should be dressed in? The Sebastian costume is decent also, with the exception of the googling eyes on the hat. They just seem weird and out of place.

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The more I think about it, the more I think that what was created for the show is fine.

We run into some dilemmas with our expectations:

Do we go with the movie look? It would look too theme-parkish.

Do we go with a new look? Interpretations could look odd and not work out for everyone.

The story takes place in an imaginative world. We can't fill the stage with water and have people sing and act for us in tails (as interesting as that would be). So what's the next best thing we can do?

I like the way the waves look... and Scuttle's rock. The costumes give you an idea of what they are supposed to be. I know there are some things I would change because I visualized them differently, but I still feel that they serve their purpose.

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it looks like the embodiment of the phrase "disney musical" - it has no imagination and intelligence and no theatricality to it.

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"Everything else looks like fine though."

Really? EVERYTHING?!?!

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Besides the forced elements of creativity, consistency is also a major problem with the design of this show. It can't decide whether or not it wants to be literal or not.

While Flounder, Flotsam, Jetsam, and Scuttle wear representational costumes of what they are, the merpeople literally have tails sticking out of their asses, and Ursula is literally a squid-like merperson (as in the film), with working tentacles - there's no element of consistency to the design.

The ship looks literal, but the pile of garbage looks like the Blob from the 1980's film. and then there's the stuff that is caught between literal and representational, like the giant bongs, and Sebastian's costume.

There's no specific color palate, everything just looks thrown together wildly. It's really all just a misguided, overstuffed mess as far as design goes.

And from what's been said, the show itself is not good enough to rise above that little problem. (Hopefully people are wrong, but the more I see, the more I seriously doubt this show will be a success, both critically and financially.)

Wow... Flounders costume is pathetic. Come on Disney, this is broadway....

It still looks bad and unforgiveable !!!

Lord ! What happened to creativity & imagination ?????

I'm sorry but this picture is just plain gross ! Ariel does not look like a mermaid... a fiji mermaid.. probably !!! she looks like a missing link between the evolutionary primordial soup ... when fish came to to the land and starts developing limbs & lungs & the flounder's costume is unforgiveable!!!- i could have made that ..myself !!! CHILDREN WILL HAVE NIGHTMARES WITH THIS COSTUMES !! OMG !!


J*

Updated On: 12/24/07 at 01:32 PM