Talk:The Little Mermaid (live-action film)/@comment-33267077-20180822231955/@comment-1442831-20180826231541

I agree! She's a HORRIBLE actress and has a mediocre voice, which are two things that make her unqualified to play Ariel. They need a strong actress that can carry a film even when the character can't speak, so the audience finds her charming and continues to want her to succeed in the end. Zendaya's acting is FAR from being up to the task. She has only two facial expressions that are both wooden, her movements and physicality are stiff and robotic, and the way she delivers her lines is hammy and fake.

Ariel is also supposed to have an amazing voice that is described as the most beautiful voice there is. It's a major part of the plot and Zendaya's voice DOESN'T cut it. Her voice has a weak and limited range, poor diction, bad breath support, sings wild every other note, her tone is generic and unmemorable, she needs a lot of autotune to sound good or decent, and she sounds like your average middle school girl trying to sing like Alicia Keys or Aaliyah and FAILING at it HARD!

This is not a voice that would amaze an entire population and drive a handsome young man to obsession because of the beauty of that voice. The only people it would be blown away by her voice are either her diehard fans that think she's amazing at everything or among a population of terrible singers because her mediocre voice is a huge improvement to what they normally hear. Either way, she is a HORRIBLE choice for Ariel and I hope and pray she DOESN'T get cast as Ariel. I will REFUSE to see it if she is because a terrible casting choice of the main character destroys the film.