The trailer of "The Little Mermaid" has been watched by over 100 million people in 24 hours, but there are 1 million dislikes

According to a recent report by foreign media Variety, the first trailer of the live-action version of The Little Mermaid has been viewed by 104 million people on multiple platforms around the world within 24 hours. However, the trailer has 450,000 likes and 1.43 million dislikes on YouTube, surpassing the 1.21 million dislikes of the 2016 female version of The Ghostbusters trailer, setting a record for the most dislikes for a Hollywood movie. It seems that foreign netizens are not buying it either!

The live-action trailer of The Little Mermaid became the top trending topic on Reddit and the top trending video on YouTube's movie channel on the day of its release. It received praise on Twitter from Zendaya Coleman, Halle Berry, Ben Platt, Nicki Minaj and Amanda Gorman.

It is worth mentioning that the first trailer of the Disney Princess series still had the highest 24-hour viewing volume of "Mulan", with 175.1 million views.

The live-action version of "The Little Mermaid" is adapted from the classic Disney animation of the same name and will be released in North America on May 26, 2023. The film tells the story of a young mermaid who falls in love with a prince. In order to join the ranks of humans, she makes a deal with the sea witch and exchanges her voice for a pair of legs. Halle Bailey plays the mermaid Ariel, Jonah Hauer-King plays Prince Eric, Javier Bardem plays Ariel's father King Triton, Melissa McCarthy plays the villain Ursula, Jacob Tremblay and Awkwafina play Ariel's friends Flounder and Scuttle, and Daveed Diggs plays the red crab Sebastian.