"The Little Mermaid," starring Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy and more, is now available on digital Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about ...

Disney has long understood that its villains need to be incredibly compelling, and that's certainly the case in 1989's The Little Mermaid. Ursula is a scheming, scary force of nature, but one with ...

“Although [having been] inspired by drag queens, I didn't want her to look like a drag queen,” said Peter Smith King of transforming Melissa McCarthy into Ursula Valerie Macon/Getty ; Walt ...