As you all know if you follow this blog, Girl is a huge fan of the Disney classics. So from time to time we have a run of different cartoons at the house. This time we decided to watch “The Little Mermaid” again. For me it was years since I saw it and the first time in its original language. It’s pretty awesome though that these movies translate into any language and still works like a charm.
I kinda wish I was younger when I saw this movie. I figure it would have been a little bit scary but I would’ve learned a important lesson. A lesson I haven’t really learned to this day, the importance of growing up. If Ariel didn’t go out on her own to find her calling and true love the movie would have been very boring. If I was a merman I would just stay in daddy Triton’s castle and play underwater playstation and hung out with all the hot mermaids. Who would have watched that movie?
I’m not that good of a singer either so I would have been an ou
tcast in the Disney universe. Everybody has original songs and great voices, me not so much. I hated the fact that everybody just started to sing when I was a kid. Now as an “adult” I actually don’t mind it anymore.
Guy’s Rating: It’s good. Never say you’re too old to watch it.
Yay! This movie is awesome. If not only for singing along, or for the priest’s erection during Ursula’s wedding attempt, but for the simple brilliance of the story. It’s clean, it’s fun and it’s unique! Or at least it was unique at the time. They’ve tried to recreate the mermaid thing in a bunch of other films, but nothing I’ve ever seen has lived up to this classic.
Why do I love this so much? Well, for one, Flounder and Sebastian are pretty great characters. Time and again, Disney has tried to recreate the Sebastian affect. Take the most recent example, Princess and the Frog. That firefly guy? Not even close to the cool French crab. The big alligator? Try again. Another classic feature is the evil Ursula. Other bad guys cannot live up to the hype of this octopussy. She makes people into disgusting slave kelp. Disney has gotten weak with their villains in comparison.
From the soundtrack to the charming characters, The Little Mermaid delivers for Disney lovers.
Girl’s Rating: Classic!
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