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Courtesy of Disney
The Little Mermaiddoesn’t appear to be receiving fair reviews on one of the Internet’s largest community movie ratings systems.
“Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title,” a note on the page reads as of Thursday. “To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied.”
The Little Mermaidhas received roughly 43,000 user ratings on IMDb since its release last Friday; 17,000 of those users have granted the movie one star out of 10, making for 39.4% of its reviews, per the website. The movie’s ‘unweighted mean’ stands at 4.7, though IMDb currently officially lists the movie at 7.0 out of a possible 10 stars.
Representatives for IMDb did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment Thursday.
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Broadwaylegend Stephanie Mills took toFacebooklast Wednesday to write Bailey an open letter supporting her as she recalled her own experience with racist backlash to her casting as Dorothy for the Broadway musicalThe Wizback in 1975.
“Halle, God put you in this place and time … So let your light shine,” Mills, 66, wrotein the open letter. “Hold your head up high, walk in your peace, and celebrate the greatness that you are.”
“I thought, ‘that’s an archaic way to see the world,’ " he said of those who opposed Bailey’s casting back in 2019. “When that controversy arose, from narrow-minded people, I thought, ‘Wow, that really feels like it’s coming from another century. Are we really still there?’ "
Marshall, whose directing credits also include,Chicago(2002),Into the Woods(2014) andMary Poppins Returns(2018), pointed out that Bailey’s casting has given children the opportunity to see themselves in one of Disney’s classic stories.
“But the bonus that came with that casting, and I wasn’t aware of it at the time, is seeing these young girls of color and young boys of color looking at her and thinking, ‘Wow, I’m represented,’ " he said. “It was very, very moving to me.”
The Little Mermaidis playing in theaters now.
source: people.com
