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Summary: Little nothing.
Review: from a Disney fan
...The storyline to most Disney sequels is usually bad. The same applies to this Little Mermaid sequel. I don't mind that the drawing has less detail than the original - that is understandable, but the story is really boring and predictable.
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Summary: Another Boring Sequel!
Review: The Little Mermaid was the film that brought Disney's Animation department back into the spotlight and box office sucess. Beauty and the Beast and many other greats followed which have all had sequels and or a tv show. These sequels are a disgrace to the original. The Little Mermaid II: Return to the sea is no exception with it's corney songs(definately not oscar winners like the originials) and fast wipped up animation. Not to mention it's scrawny ugly not scary villian, no match with ursula, and rushed same old plot line. Just buy or rent the originial. It's the Best!!
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Summary: Preschooler loves this sequel
Review: This sequel to The Little Mermaid is colorful and whimsical. I wish there were a few more songs, though. My daughter, a Disney Princess fan through and through, enjoys it very much. Overall, the movie is entertaining but the remarks made by Morgana being criticized by her Mom while growing up are bothersome to me. These lines were unnecessary and of little relevance to the story, except to make the movie a downer for a few minutes.
Although not perfect, Little Mermaid II was worth looking at, and most important, my little one enjoys it enough to replay it frequently.
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Summary: What a treat to see Ariel and Eric again happily married
Review: This DVD is a treat to watch. My daughter (4 1/2) loves it. She loves Melody, Eric & Ariel. It's a fun DVD to watch and we enjoy it so very much. Yes I said we. I adore Little Mermaid II just as much as my child. And oh how cute that Ariel reunites with her one and only flounder and he has his litle flounders, but leaves them to help his buddy "Ariel" and her daughter Melody. I think that is adorable. Oh, so does my daughter.
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Summary: What the hell happened to Ariel?
Review: Will the real Ariel please stand up? You have been replaced by a bad replica. She's a rigid, irrational parent who evidently learned nothing from her own story. The first movie ended with a meeting of the "merpeople" and the humans, but we find Ariel's teenaged daughter knows NOTHING of her roots? What kind of garbage is this? It makes no sense whatever when viewed in context of what happened in the original movie. Who wrote this? Where they the same people who ruined the "Lady and the Tramp" sequel? (Fortunately, due to this sequel, I rented "Scamp's Adventure" [see my comments there], so I didn't waste my money buying it.) Fire them, before they screw up again! Then there's the otherwise re-tread of a story and the forgettable music. Yuck! Sheesh! Give me a break! Too bad I didn't rent it first; I may try sending it back to Disney and requesting a good movie to replace it, maybe when "Dumbo" comes out.
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Summary: Time to eat Flounder
Review: Like most people I loved "The Little Mermaid" when it came out and I was much younger. I still think it's a great movie which is why I feel like never buying another Disney product ever again because they completely ruined it with this sequel. If I had known how Ariel was going to turn out when she grew up, I would have been rooting for Eric to have caught her on the end of a fishing hook and had her for dinner. And if Melody wants to go to the ocean so bad I say fine. Take her out on a boat to the middle of the sea and dump her.
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Summary: Recipe-made tried and true Disney
Review: "Little Mermaid II" is not "Little Mermaid." It has many of the same voices, characters and a virtually identical plot. But technology, movie standards and changing interests from the time the first was made make this sequel different. The huge success of this film and the following Disney films caused the movie-makers at Disney to develop a system, a formula for good movies and pleasing family entertainment. All of the ingredients are there: A heroine, Melody (much in the form of the ever-popular Ariel,) A villian, Morgana (who takes after Ursula in almost every way) some conflict (over-bearing parents in the forms of lifeless Eric and equally one-sided Ariel) and a fairy tale ending (this one ends on a happier note than the first.) Add a splash of humor: two would-be heros, Tip and Dash (--- can you say Timon and Pumba from "The Lion King"? One's fat and kind, the other is cynical and small...) a wise-cracking evil henchmen, Undertoe (the shark who even resembles annoying Iago from "Aladdin") and of course the toiling (often tiny) chaperone, Sebastian (tries too hard and seems to be more of a parody of himself than a meaningful character.) Has the formula ever failed? It dosen't in "The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea." The movie is pleasant and visually pleasing with forgettable but fun songs and characters. Great taken as what it is: a children's movie. Simply entertaining... a tried-and-true recipe-made film that will please the young at hearts and the slow to judge. Try to have some fun with this one.
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Summary: Some Will Like It, Some Will Hate it
Review: I felt that this DTV in particular was an improvement over such projects as TLK 2: Simba's Pride. Which in my mind is one of Disney's worst attempts at one of their all time greatest films. Aside from under developed characters and situations with TLK 2, this DTV featured a much more likeable if you would say, storyline. I think one of the most trying parts of a DTV is a good story which I'm sorry to say, TLK 2 lacks. Little Mermaid 2 features improved animation and what I will say as one of Disney's better attempts, and will be a real crowd pleaser if given the chance, with a viewer who has an open mind. What I'm saying is, if you don't like it, don't watch it. If your curious, rent it, and then be the judge. If you like "Little Mermaid" buy it you won't be dissapointed. Now you become the real "powers that be."
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Summary: Kid Fave
Review: My two girls really liked this movie. There weren't that thrilled with the cartoon on disney, it scared them, but this movie didn't.
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Summary: Disney rapes Ariel for just a little more $
Review: I was only about 7 when the original Little Mermaid came out, so I thought it was fantastic, magical...blah, blah,blah, and it probably was, so in a pinch of nothing to watch, I decided to check out the sequel. Joseph, Mary, and the baby Jesus, this movie was far below my wildest expectations. Poor quality songs, 100% predictable and boring plot, excruciating to watch. When Melody, Ariel's daughter, goes swimming she is a full human, no mermaid traits about her, and she can hold her breath for upwards of 3 minutes, keeping her eyes wide open in the saltwater the entire time. She swims past a random fish and it says, "Hi, Melody!", and she smiles at it. UNDERWATER! This is just one of the movies 78,000 major flaws. Disney cares only about money. Artistic, quality films are the same as corporate anima-garbage as long as it turns some kind of profit. Kids are smart, they can tell the difference between a good film and a bad one. Show them "The Little Mermaid II" and "My Neighbor Totoro", and see which one they want to own and watch again. What have they done to poor Ariel?
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