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“You’re living every little girl’s dream,” the young heroine of Scales: Mermaids Are Real (2017), whose given name is literally Siren (Emmy Perry), is told. “You’re officially a mermaid, honey!” I would have thought that every little girl dreams of being, I dunno, a princess or something like that; turning into a grotesque cryptid sounds more like a nightmare. Do a lot of little girls watch The Fly and go, “Gee, I wish that happened to me but with a fish instead”? Underneath the sunny milieu, there’s some Innsmouth-type stuff going on in this film (never a good sign when there are repeat…
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