IMDb changed the way it reports audience scores for the new live-action version of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” according to its website. 

The film currently has a 7.0/10 rating out of 43,000 votes on the popular movie database. This rating comes with a small disclaimer that says, “Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied.”

The note appeared on the US, Canadian, U.K., Brazilian, and Mexican “Little Mermaid” pages.

“Although we accept and consider all votes received by users, not all votes have the same impact (or ‘weight’) on the final rating,” it says on the IMDb FAQ page. “When unusual voting activity is detected, an alternate weighting calculation may be applied in order to preserve the reliability of our system. To ensure that our rating mechanism remains effective, we do not disclose the exact method used to generate the rating.”

Despite mixed reviews from critics, some industry insiders believe “The Little Mermaid” is being “review bombed,” which happens when a large number of people or a few people with multiple accounts post negative user reviews online even if they haven’t seen the work in question.

Even with negative reviews, “The Little Mermaid” cleared more than $117 million at the box office over Memorial Day weekend. Viewers praised lead actress Halle Bailey’s performance but said several parts of the film felt unnecessary, especially the unsettling live-action versions of Ariel’s sidekicks Scuttle, Sebastian, and Flounder.

The film has a 68% critic score and a 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

“Halle Bailey and Melissa McCarthy save an otherwise BLAND Disney retread,” one reviewer wrote.

“Meh. I was SO looking forward to this and while it brought moments of laughter and joy, it fell a little flat. Loved Ursula though, thought she was awesome!” another person wrote.

“Overall it didn’t stray from the original story line, but there were moments I would’ve savored more and others that felt too slow for what was going on. I’m glad I saw it, but won’t care to own it or probably ever watch it again.”

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A Massachusetts middle school student who sued his school and his town after he was sent home for wearing a shirt emblazoned with the message, “There are only two genders” hit a roadblock in his attempt to express his views on the school campus.

On Wednesday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston denied Liam Morrison’s attorneys’ request to suspend the school from barring the boy from expressing his views about gender before a final decision was made by the court.

“We were asking for an immediate order so that he could express himself for the rest of the school year,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) legal counsel Logan Spena stated. “Liam’s suing for the right to do what every other student in his school currently has the right to do, which is respectfully express their own view on a matter of enormous public concern. What is the relationship between sex and gender?”

Morrison, 12, had informed the Middleborough School Council in late April that his father had to pick him up from John T. Nichols Jr. Middle School on March 21 because he refused to change his t-shirt.

“I never thought that the shirt I wore to school on March 21 would lead me to speak with you today,” Liam began. “On that Tuesday morning, I was taken out of gym class to sit down with two adults for what turned out to be a very uncomfortable talk. I was told that people were complaining about the words on my shirt and the shirt was making some students feel unsafe.”

“I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return to class,” he said. “When I nicely told them that I didn’t want to do that, they called my father. Thankfully, my dad, supportive of my decisions, came to pick me up.”

“What did my shirt say?” he asked. “Five simple words: ‘There are only two genders.’ Nothing harmful. Nothing threatening. Just a statement I believe to be a fact.”

“I have been told that my shirt was targeting a protected class,” he said. “Who is this protected class? Are their feelings more important than my rights? I don’t complain when I see Pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs just as I do.”

In an email, Middleborough Public Schools Superintendent Carolyn Lyons said Liam violated the school dress code because the “content of Liam’s shirt targeted students of a protected class; namely in the area of gender identity.”

Liam came back to school wearing another shirt that read, “There are censored genders,” but school personnel told him to remove that shirt as well, he said.

“The school has other rules on what students can wear that it is allowed to enforce,” Spena said. “Liam’s not asking to literally wear whatever he wants, but he is asking to do what other students are already allowed to do, which is express their view on this topic in a non-disruptive manner. No matter what you think about the gender issue, it’s pretty remarkable that a school can punish a student for protesting censorship in America today.”

Mairead Elordi contributed to this article.

Related: WATCH: Boy, 12, Tells School Board He Was Sent Home Over T-Shirt Saying ‘There Are Only 2 Genders’