1.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Disney Junior Ariel, The Little Mermaid: Songs from the Crystal Cavern (2025)
Disney Junior Ariel, The Little Mermaid: Songs from the Crystal Cavern (2025)
Overview
A series of musical shorts that follow Ariel and friends on their fin-tastic adventures under the sea in the Crystal Cavern.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
Race Swap: Yes
Viewer Rating
1.8
Overview
A series of musical shorts that follow Ariel and friends on their fin-tastic adventures under the sea in the Crystal Cavern.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's dominant themes of diversity, multiculturalism, and social-emotional learning for preschoolers align with progressive values, despite its gentle and age-appropriate delivery. The core subject matter itself, emphasizing these elements, is a primary preoccupation of progressive ideology in the mainstream US context.
The movie demonstrates significant DEI through the explicit racial redesign of the main character, Ariel, who is depicted as brown-skinned with dreadlocks, and features a diverse supporting cast within a Caribbean-inspired setting. The narrative promotes positive themes of curiosity, empathy, and friendship without explicitly critiquing traditional identities.
Secondary
Ariel and King Triton, established as white in the original Disney animated film, are portrayed as Black in this series. Ursula, also originally white, is voiced by an African American actress. These instances constitute race swaps.
Disney Junior Ariel, The Little Mermaid: Songs from the Crystal Cavern does not explicitly portray LGBTQ+ characters or themes. While it promotes general inclusive values like friendship and celebrating differences, and exists within a broader Disney context of evolving representation, this specific series contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ content.
The film does not explicitly depict transsexual characters or themes. While Ariel's narrative is widely interpreted as an allegory for the trans experience, focusing on identity, dysphoria, and transformation, these connections are thematic readings by audiences and critics rather than direct representation within the movie's content.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Based on the provided information, all main characters in Disney Junior's Ariel, The Little Mermaid: Songs from the Crystal Cavern maintain their original canonical genders from the source material. No characters are portrayed on screen with a different gender than their established one.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
3.6
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