The Little Mermaid II - Return to the Sea
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Movie Reviews of The Little Mermaid II - Return to the Sea
Movie Review: A WORTHY SEQUEL !
Summary: 4 Stars
Great animation, great plot, great songs, great new characters! A cute introduction of Ariel's daughter Melody. Worth seeing and owning!Movie Review: What have they done to Ariel
Summary: 1 Stars
Oh my goodness what have they done to the little mermaid.
They sucked the soul out of her and made an obnoxious clone aka her daughter.
This movie is very terrible. I believe the original isn't on sale anymore because if that were the case this movie would have been sent back to the vault in a hurry.
Movie Review: I wish I could give this one a billion stars!
Summary: 5 Stars
I for one loved this movie and didn't compare it to the original. I loved the Lion King 2 (Simba's Pride) and didn't compare that one to the first one. I adore the Rescuers Down Under, but its not the same as the first one. And the sequel to Lady and the Tramp? I liked that one too. Yes, there are going to be changes when one waits years to make a sequel. I love the sequels for being movies in their own right. By the way, I am almost 22 years old and remember the first Little Mermaid very well. I've grown up on Disney, and out of the forty dvds I own, 80% of them are Disney.
Anyway, the Little Mermaid 2 is a great movie. The animation is even clearer and more beautiful than the first one, due to the changes in technology over the last decade, and the songs are just as catchy and fun. In fact, I watched it a few days ago and still have "Tip and Dash" stuck in my head. In my opinion, Disney did a great job with the story itself, making it believable and moving. The actors and actresses all give their best and it shows in the emotion the characters display. Melody is exactly what you would expect a lonely preteen princess to be--tortured by her secret desires and her need to fit in, yet her seeming inability to do so. And like all kids that age, she is convinced that she is the only one who could possibly feel this way and brushes off her mother's attempts to cheer her up with edited stories of her own childhood. She creates a situation and has to deal with the repercussions, and does so very well.
Jodi Benson proves once again that she is the only woman who could play the part of Ariel. Reprising her role from so many years ago, she now plays the part of the older, wiser, more mature mermaid-turned human, and does it perfectly. In addition to dealing with Melody's preteen anxieties, Ariel has to contend with her own feelings of loneliness and helplessness, as her years as a human and the wall that separates the castle from the sea also separates her from her family. There is a very poignant scene in which Ariel wades in the water behind the wall, just to feel the water again and to remember her life before. It moves me every time.
Eric gets a lot of screen time in this one, but he doesn't speak as much and really just stands off to the side, silently offering encouragement. He doesn't act as a prince, but a father concerned with the well-being of his only daughter and a husband worried about his wife's happiness. I don't think his voice actor is the same as in the first one. Triton's either.
I've rambled on long enough. I just want everyone to watch this movie and decide for yourselves if you like it or not. But please, don't compare it to the original. Just as younger siblings hate being compared to their older brothers and sisters, and children dislike being forced to follow in the path of their parents, so too are sequels not meant to be the exact replicas of the original films. Give the Little Mermaid 2 a chance to stand on its own.
Movie Review: Disney Trades Integrity for Easy Money.
Summary: 2 Stars
O Disney, what's happened to you? You used to produce enchanting, heart-warming animated films that were loved by both children AND adults. They had beautiful musical scores, wonderful songs, great characters, and the best animation quality and style in the world. And then something strange happened. You started to make less impressive animated films that still had brilliant animation, but lacked both interesting characters and good music, and possessed storylines of a more politically correct nature. I'm talking about films like Mulan, Lilo and Stitch, and Brother Bear. None of these films are bad by any means, but this is not the same "Disney Magic" I saw in movies like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. Disney's last few animated movies seem more like big apologies for putting so many white people in their fairy tales, rather than good stories that deserve to be told.
Then there's stuff like Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea, which is a cash grab by Disney and nothing more (just like the sequels to Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, etc). There is absolutely no reason for this movie to have been made other than to make parents part with some of their hard-earned money because their kids succumbed to the advertising. The animation is straight-to-video quality, the songs are uninspired, and the story is almost a complete copy of the original! Please, please, DON'T buy this movie! Turning out sequel after sequel to a beloved movie to make some easy money is a terrible way for a studio to operate, and the fact that the studio is Disney in this case just goes to prove that somebody in a high-level position at Disney has no idea what made their company so loved and admired in the first place!
A few months ago Disney announced that they were closing their feature-length animation studios. This is truly sad. If Disney had ignored the shrill naysayers of the world and kept on making high-quality animated films that people actually wanted to see and could care about, instead of pouring money into lame, preachy movies like Brother Bear, this wouldn't have happened. Poor Walt must be turning over in his grave...
Movie Review: Return is a typical fairy tale
Summary: 3 Stars
This was a gift for my 7-year-old daughter. She really enjoys watching it but it is not her favorite. I watched it with her once and it wasn't bad but it didn't have the appeal that the first one displayed. The story centers around Arial's daughter going to the sea. Same idea as the first movie's plot, only reversed. Don't purchase this video expecting magic, but it is good entertainment for a young child. Our neighbor has two boys, ages 5 and 2, who also enjoy it.