The Little Mermaid on DVD

Anyone else get it? or plan to get it? I got it yesterday and I

learned interesting things about that movie. (also, there’s a Cars trailer on it. Nothing different though)

They’re planning on making a Little Mermaid 3. At first it was assumed that Ariel was gonna be blonde. Sebastian

was going to be a stuffy British crab. Ursula is Triton’s sister. Just some random fun fact there. :stuck_out_tongue:

[b]I?m not going

to get it.[/b]

[b]Is it the same trailer that is on

Disney.com under DVD & video?[/b]

There’s a

Cars trailer on it?! I’m getting it!

Yeah, I was thinking of getting it (eventually)…

The Little Mermaid is one of my favorite old Disney movies… we had to throw away

our old ancient VHS of it, so I definitely want to own it again.

The special features seem pretty

sweet…

I pre-ordered it on Saturday, but I can’t go out and pick it up until

Friday.

The Little Mermaid is one of Disney’s greatest achievements. I think it’s my mom’s favorite

Disney movie (if you don’t count The Nightmare Before Christmas). She still thinks that the songs from TLM are

the best.

Slightly off-topic, Ariel was the only Disney “Barbie doll” I cared for. She was so

cool because she had beautiful red hair and her mermaid tail could slip off of her legs and make her a human.

sniff I miss those days.

~~=oP

I love the Little Mermaid. Shame about the Little Mermaid 2. shakes head

I’ll get it. It’s such a stunning and beautiful movie. (Alan Menken is soooooo awesome :sunglasses: )

I just got The Little Mermaid on DVD and I

must say it’s even better then before . The best 2-d Disney film besides Lion King . :wink:

I WILL NOT

be buying Little Mermaid 3 … it looks horrible . :angry:

I’ve never really

liked it much - when I was little I only liked it as far as Ariel getting her legs, and then I thought the ending

was lacking - and I still rather think the same.

Heh – my dad worked on that. :stuck_out_tongue:

PixarVixen: Haha. I used to have one of those old Ariel dolls. I think I

gave it away, though. You can image how I feel about that now. :frowning:

ANY animation should get it really. I got it, it’s amazing! The little machgirl was so

unexpected though, I cant beleve she… well guess youll have to buy it to find out! heh.

(ehem) Any Animation FAN should get it.

And…why

not…? It’s a great film! Heh. :laughing: No, it’s not that the film itself is terrible- it’s just that I never

really liked the idea of Ariel having a daughter and all of that. It just seems strange.

I’d get it if I have the cash . . . I always did like this Movie.

Lol. You actually think it’s that good, huh? I’m sure my

dad would love to hear that. :wink:

Yeah. Every Disney sequel is weird…with the exception of

The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride: that one was cool! My

sister and I call ourselves “Kiara” and “Kovu” constantly. :stuck_out_tongue:

True: Lion King II had a lot of things working

in it’s favor - Pratically a complete Cast Return plus some amazing songs. Not to mention a decent (may not

have been as good as the first, obviously, but decent)

Lion King seems to be the only Disney film besides

Aladdin to have two decent sequels (and I honestly say that with some hesitation, because I’ve never had the

chance to see LK 1/2 fully . . .)

Phoenician: Mmm…yes. It’s hard to find a moderately

good Disney sequel now-a-days, with the exception of the [i]Lion

King[/i] and Aladdin predecesors.

[i]The Lion King 1

1/2[/i] – which has been christened with one of the crummiest titles in movie history – wasn’t all

that bad, actually. It was actually quite comical, which was probably due to the fact that Disney "ripped

off" alot of jokes from very popular films (ie., The Fiddler on the Roof,

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, etc.). My dad worked on it, as a matter of fact.

That’s the only reason I bought and watched the film: so that I could see dad’s name in the credits. (Turns

out, they didn’t give him credit anyway. :stuck_out_tongue: )

Still, it’s interesting to see what kind of pathetic

films Disney will come out with next. The company has such a long history of successful films, that it’s hard

for me to not want to know what features Disney will think up/release next…

I liked The Lion King 1/2 for the fact that I got to see more Timon and Pumbaa, my

favourite characters from the original. They were hilarious in this one, and I thought it was creative how they

ended up connecting with many scenes from the original film, haha.

"Digga-tunnah digga

digga-tunnah!" I love that! :smiley:

So, I bought The Little Mermaid last night, and sat down

and watched it tonight. It was so great to see one of my favorite Disney classics again, and hear the songs that

were so much a part of my childhood, though now “Poor Unfortunate Souls” has replaced "Kiss the

Girl" as my favorite song from this movie.

The special features are pretty good. It was cool to learn

about the real “The Little Mermaid,” the original story by Hans Christian Andersen, and to see some

deleted scenes and songs. (Yes, there was a song that was written and then pretty much promptly replaced by

“Poor Unfortunate Souls.”) The making-of featurette was almost more of a story of the revival of Disney

animation, which this movie pretty much was. And then you get to - thanks to CGI - ride the ride that almost got

built. It’s not bad of a ride, and they take you into how the ride works and such things.

All in all,

it’s not much more expensive than a one-disc release, so the bonus stuff is practically free. I totally

recommend it.

I’m not sure if I should get it. It was an excellent

movie and I love the songs. But I am happy with the video I have.