But Flounder moves in to defend her, accidentally letting slip the encounter with Scuttle, which quickly angers Triton. The film then moves to the royal palace, where Triton and Sebastian are scorning Ariel for missing the concert. The moment Ariel caught her eye, Ursula commanded her cronies to watch her, hoping to use her to get to the king. Ursula hates Triton with a passion for his atrocities towards her, and constantly schemes of ways to exact revenge. The two are spies under the employ of Ursula the Sea Witch, a member of King Triton's court before being banished. However, Ariel fails to realize she is being watched by two suspicious eels by the names of Flotsam and Jetsam. Upon hearing the word "music", Ariel is quickly reminded of the concert she missed and makes haste back home. He describes the fork as a dinglehopper, an item humans use to style hair and the pipe as a snarfblat, an object for making music. Ariel asks Scuttle to tell her what the items she collected are. They then make their way to the surface, where their friend, a seagull named Scuttle, lives. The shark bursts into the room Ariel and Flounder are in and gives chase to them, all across the graveyard, until the two manage to get the shark ensnared in an anchor ring. Inside one wreck, she finds a pipe and a fork, which fascinates her curiosity, all the while unaware of a shark watching her and Flounder from outside. In truth, Ariel was out excavating a ship graveyard with her best friend, Flounder the Fish. The concert goes as planned until it is discovered that Triton's youngest daughter, Ariel, is not there, much to his chagrin. The castle is the domain of King Triton and is where he was holding a concert in his name, performed by his seven daughters and the crab court composer, Sebastian.
They then make their way through the ocean towards a shining underwater castle. The opening credits play as the fish crosses the deep ocean until at last, we see merfolk. The fish breathes a sigh of relief before swimming away from the ship. While distracted by Grimsby, a fish the sailor was holding slips from him and falls into the ocean. (" Fathoms Below") Aboard that ship is a young prince, named Eric, his dog Max, and his advisor Grimsby, who denounces the merfolk as, "nautical nonsense," but one sailor insists them to be real. A ship then comes from the fog, filled with sailors singing stories of the legendary merfolk. The film begins on a foggy morning out on the open sea. A live-action reimagining based on the 1989 animation, and featuring the music of Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda, is currently in the works.
In 2007, a stage adaptation of the film made its Broadway debut. A decade after the film's release, Ariel would be inaugurated into the Disney Princess media line, while Ursula would appear as a staple character in the Disney Villains franchise.
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It is credited as the film to have started the historic Disney Renaissance, an era that had breathed life back into the animated feature film medium after a string of competent, but only inexpensive successful animated films such as The Aristocats, The Rescuers, and The Great Mouse Detective.įollowing The Little Mermaid were two direct-to-video sequels ( The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea and The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning) and an animated television series that ran from 1992 to 1994. The movie grossed over $100 million at the US box office upon its initial release, and won two Academy Awards for Best Song (" Under the Sea") and Best Original Music Score. The Little Mermaid was an unmitigated success for the studio, being praised for its animation, storytelling, and music by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. When she falls in love with a human prince, she makes a deal with a villainous sea witch to become human, herself, and earn his love before the agreed time runs out.
The story centers a young mermaid named Ariel, who is captivated by the world upon the surface. It also marked the Disneyland's 35th anniversary one year after it was released The 28th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon and the first to be released during the Disney Renaissance, the film is loosely based upon the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name. It was first released on Novemby Walt Disney Pictures, but returned to theaters on November 14, 1997. The Little Mermaid is a 1989 musical comedy fantasy animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. “ Somewhere under the sea and beyond your imagination is an adventure in fantasy.” ―Tagline
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