3.6
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...
Leans Progressive
Political: Center
Diversity: High
Race Swap: Yes
Viewer Rating
3.6
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...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The series is designed for preschool audiences, focusing on universal values and positive social-emotional lessons, with diversity and inclusion presented in an educational and age-appropriate manner rather than as political messaging.
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.
The Disney Junior series does not explicitly depict LGBTQ+ characters or storylines. While it promotes general themes of diversity, inclusion, and acceptance, these are not presented as identifiable LGBTQ+ themes within the show's narrative. Therefore, the net impact on LGBTQ+ portrayal is N/A.
The film does not depict transsexual characters or themes. The narrative centers on Ariel's musical adventures and friendships in the Crystal Cavern, with no elements related to transgender or transsexual identities present in the plot or character arcs.
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
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3.6
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