Stop motion doesn't just animate this story, it suffers through it. Every frame costs time and material and repetition, and you watch a mermaid made of clay and wire give up her voice while the medium itself refuses to look away. This isn't the Disney version where sacrifice ends in happiness. This is Andersen's actual ending, told in a form that moves one cell at a time, making you sit with what it costs to want a human life so badly you'll accept eternal pain as the price of trying.

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid is retold here as a stop-motion feature film. The single-episode movie brings the classic fantasy story to the screen through stop-motion animation.