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Hello, the internet and welcome to this episode of the live action Sebastian trend from the little mermaid live action remake.

I'm Jack, that's a producer beck a rumble.

Hello, happy Monday. Happy Monday, unto you as well.

So people think they have gotten the first glimpse of Sebastian from the little mermaid.

This is a danger we saw coming a mile away. This comes from a perspective of somebody who did not think the live action Lion King was good.

Yeah, agreed. I thought it was bad.

Because the animal actors are not emoting in these dang things.

It's such a weird concept to me because it's like you're basically almost watching like a livestream of some animals at the zoo.

But like Beyonce's their voice.

Yeah, and they're lips are moving.

And it's uncomfortable.

Right. And but I mean it definitely it's one of the top 10 highest grossing movies of all time.

So I think it was like a thing that a lot of people went and saw, assuming a lot of people were like there's something missing here.

But not enough that Disney would have gotten that message because it again made all the money.

They made so much money. They made so many more live action movies.

Right. So they're still coming fast and furious.

So there's a little mermaid one. We had the question, what will they do with the animals?

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