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I imagine that he was powerfully moved by Daryl Hannah's punky, kick-boxing android in Blade Runner as well as her lissome, childlike mermaid in Splash ; he has created a role for the Ukrainian-born model Jovovich, who has an urchin's face atop a willowy body, that's a strange fusion of both.
The New York Times ' Ben Brantley calls Disney's musical version of the biblical story, with a score by Alan Menken ( The Little Mermaid ) and lyrics by Tim Rice ( Evita ), "a Goliath of a yawn."
It is very touching to see the home movies of Tiffany York, born with mermaid syndrome, or sirenomelia (in which the legs are fused together), taking her first tottery steps after corrective surgery, and to listen to her talking philosophically about her life as she floats in a Florida swimming pool.
and "Mermaid Caught: Fisherman Nets Half-Human, Half-Fish in Jungle River!"
Critics are quick to note that despite being distributed by an arm of the Disney empire, the film is about as different from The Little Mermaid as you can get, and it "makes Hollywood's homiletic, follow-your-dream fables look even more solipsistic" (David Edelstein, Slate ). Most impressive is the "exotically beautiful" artwork (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ); the director is reported to have personally retouched some 80,000 of the film's 1.4 million cells.