When it comes right down to it, how much is there to say about Disney movies? I’ve been catching up on a lot of reviews for movies I’ve watched/re-watched in the past couple of days, and I’m not doing too well on making the reviews long today. So with the added restraint of this movie being a Disney classic, this review is probably going to be short and uninformative. The Little Mermaid, the movie that started the Disney Renaissance of the 1990s, a time when Disney released some of their most-loved modern pictures, such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Tarzan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, and probably a few others. I am a big fan of this era, I find it to be the best Disney’s been since the inception of the company, and much better than the Disney films (or better said, Disney channel films it seems) of the 2000s. The movie is based off of a legend from a long time ago, as most of these films are, here concerning a mermaid named Ariel who, after saving the life of a human, falls in love with him and sells her voice to an evil witch named Ursula for legs. I’ll let you guess the ending of the film. The movie resides with this sort of atmosphere that is just calm and sweet. And when you add the brilliant musical numbers in, written by the great Alan Menken, the movie just has that sort of simplicity that is so beautiful when it is pulled off right. The movie is just simple perfection. As with all Disney movies, we grow up with them. You play “Under the Sea” for any kid over the age of ten; they’ll know what you’re talking about. Gives you a little bit more faith in today’s youth, doesn’t it?
9/10
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