THE LITTLE MERMAID STILL HOLDS UP! (Movie Commentary)
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The Little Mermaid is a classic animated movie that is still really enjoyable! Sure, we poked a few holes for this movie commentary but it's all just shits and giggles. Hope you enjoyed our commentary for it!
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In Ariel’s defense, she’s not doing all this for a guy like so many thought. She has been enamored with the human world prior to meeting Eric. This was obvious when they were spending time together. Triton’s actions led her to doing this and Ursula took advantage of her vulnerability. Doesn’t change the fact that what Ariel did was stupid tho hahahaha
I don’t know how people make that mistake so easily. Plus, her father was violent and who wouldn’t want to leave someone like that?
her dad was so overprotective she was a naive tho...it happens all the time. not entirely her fault.
@@tototats16 yes, and I’m 100% sure the animators purposely made that scene so intense as to give reason to Ariel later actions. Also she’s basically a kid.
Also, Eric might seal the deal, so to speak, with Ariel’s desire to be human, but it often does work out that way. We might have an interest in something or feel something about ourselves, but it might take meeting similar or like-minded people for us to fully embrace it. That’s when it ceases to be just theory.
And let’s be honest she’s like a teenager. Of course she’s gonna be a lil rebellious and/or “boy crazy” I know I was 😉
The theory about the giving the voice away blew my mind. I’ve watched this movie at least 100 times and not once have thought about that. I’m so happy I found this channel I literally binge watch like nobodies business 😂💕
*Sam:* it’s a fork!
*Me:* IT’S 👏🏽 A 👏🏽 DINGLEHOPPER 👏🏽 !
ALSO, was praying y'all wouldn't show the part where Ursula starts crawling on the boat
literally scarred me for life and every time I see someone crawl now I freak out
So yea, I SCREAMED when I saw it again lol. Scared the shit out of my dog who was sleeping. Thanks guys. Fun stuff lmfao 😘❤️
feels like this commentary kinda ignores the existence of irl mute people :,D
Penelope definitely needs to be added to the list!
I've already suggested it once but I would love for y'all to react to Stick It. Especially with the olympics coming up, you could get a better idea of how elite gymnastics works! Plus there are some actual Olympians featured in the movie!
yaaasss! so excited :) there's something very nostalgic and comforting about old disney classics. thanks for another great reaction guys
I love your videos your the only people who do longer videos keep the videos coming there's a few I recommend you watch
"Hush" and I was gonna ask if you are gonna do the "Friday the13th series or the " Halloween" series or "A Nightmare On Elm St" series it would be cool if you did well if you read this and maybe answer my comment that be great see ya.
This movie saved Disney from going into bankruptcy. This was a last ditch effort to save the company. The lyrics were written by Howard Ashman who also wrote the lyrics to Beauty and the Beast. He was working on Aladdin before he died of AIDS. He saved the entire company.
Well I would say he saved the animation department to be more exact. Michael Eisner rebounded Disney from bankruptcy by overhauling other aspects of the company like the parks and purchasing ESPN and overhauling the television branch as well.
Also the music was done by Alan Menken, who also did Beauty and the beast and Aladdin and tangled and hunchback of Notre dame and enchanted and Pocahontas and Hercules. Honestly, Howard and Alan were so amazing together
In Eric's defense, I'm pretty sure mermaid's singing voices have similar effects to siren songs. So actually it makes a lot more sense why he's so obsessed with this voice he heard. Also, for him to fall in love with Ariel without her voice means he'd be falling in love with her and not just her magical mermaid voice. Ariel is kind and curious. This shows despite being incapable of speech. It's not wrong for Eric to fall in love with those qualities in her. He also really does put in the effort to try and communicate with her. He also refuses to marry her just for her beauty. Eric is genuinely a very good guy.
I haven't watched this movie in ages but the romance is actually a lot better than I remember.
Ariel is a much more proactive protagonist than many other Disney princesses. She's got a goal and she really goes for it. She's not a damsel in distress. She's a bold and messy teen.
Yes thank you
Yes I'm the same...I totally forgot about Eric. The animators did a really good job with Eric and Ariel...they fell in love super fast but the way they interact is just so darn cute :)
yessss 💕💕
Also people who are deaf and mute falling in love with people all the time the thing that I find impossible is that it would be real love in 3 days.
@@abbyk.6410 Yeah the timeline is the most questionable part of the romance in this movie.
"If only I'd learned to write..." THAT THE THING! SHE DOES! She signed her name onto the contract, in beautiful penmanship no less! Its a legitimately huge plot hole
I never clicked onto this😂perhaps because she was signing a magical contract that gave her the ability to write her own name
I just realized this I-
Maybe it wasn't a plothole. Maybe the merfolk language is different to the human language and the only reason it looked like English, was for the audience
Listen, realism doesn’t exist in Disney okay let the kids enjoy 😂😂
Bah i bet the bird told her quills were for inserting suppositories or something. Writing implements probably never came up in her hoard of a collection
"He's like the water equivalent to Zeus."
So...Poseidon?
It's definitely not as dark as the original story. Walking on her new legs causes her to have stabbing pains constantly, she doesn't marry the prince, he marries someone else, and she dies and turns into sea foam because she doesn't have a soul. I think I'm remembering that right, it's been awhile. I prefer the Disney version of this one at least.
Basically the witch isn’t evil, but the price was feeling as though she’s walking on glass. Which hurts when she later dances.
Basically, the prince wanted to marry who saved him. Ariel brought him to the shore but a princess from another kingdom had taken him from the shore to help him/found him on the shore. So he thinks she did. If she doesn’t make the prince fall in love w/ her, she would turn into sea foam. But her sisters found this out and went to the witch asking for a better way, and the witch said that if she kills the prince with a special knife and puts the blood on her legs, her legs will be changed to fins again.
But Ariel (I’ve been using Ariel this whole time but idr if that’s her name, might be just TLM. I’ll stick with Ariel for consistency) couldn’t kill him so she throws herself into the sea while they get married, where she’s meant to become sea foam. But I think either cuz her soul was full of love or cuz her sisters did something, she was changed into an air spirit. Kinda like death but there r other air spirits too.
Essentially, she was of the sea. Wanted to be of land. Became of the air.
In Greek Mythology, Triton is actually the son of Poseidon.
@@ma.2089 From what I remember, the payment was actually her cutting out her tongue (hence losing her voice in the Disney version). The pain was a side effect from splitting her tail, though she would be more graceful than other humans. The mermaids had a life span of 300 years, but had no immortal soul. So when they died they turned into sea foam. Because of her sacrifice (not killing the prince) she was able to join the wind spirits that went around doing good deeds. After 300 years of this, she would be able to go to Heaven. :)
If we're gong to bring the gods into this Triton is a legitimate son of Poseidon - which begs the question 'And just what are you doing with your fathers trident'/
In the version of the story I heard she becomes an air spirit who like the others are beginning to earn a soul through good deeds so that they too may reach heaven one day. She sees the prince and his bride looking sadly into the sea as if they knew that she'd jumped off the boat and as a spirit she smiles and the princess and kisses the prince which I guess was her way of telling them 'be happy'.
@@kristabunney5436 The air spirits get a soul sooner if children are nice, and it takes longer if children are wicked. As PL Travers (author of Mary Poppins) put it: "Andersen, this is blackmail. And the children know it and say nothing. There's magnanimity for you."
Part Of Your World literally happens before she ever sees Eric but everyone loves to think she did it all for a man. I see a strong, adventurous, determined young woman (with some childish tendencies) with a passionate interest who feels outcast and misunderstood by everyone around her. The adults in the movie are the characters who form the catalyst to the issues; Triton refuses to listen to or communicate respectfully with her, and Ursula manipulates her.
She also preys on Ariel, using her lackeys to stalk her and manipulate her into a deal for a guy - and that isn't what she really wanted, she wanted to leave and explore the world
It's like people didn't watch the movie at all if they think Ariel took the deal for Eric.
I kinda wonder if the concert at the start of the movie was supposed to be for Ariel. Like the sisters were singing about introducing Ariel. Likely everyone already knows Ariel. So then I realized they must mean Ariel is being presented, as an adult, ready for marriage. Like in the old days when women reached a certain age they would be presented to society as now an adult and needing to be married.
Might be why Ariel threw her age out as no longer being a child, and Triton not really caring that Ariel was in love at 16 when he thought it was a merman.
In the "old days?" They *still* do that. Debutante, Quinceanera, Bar or Bat Mitzvah, etc, etc.
It was her musical debut. That's why it was focused on her.
Wasn't music outlawed in the kingdom before? I thought in Ariels beginning, where they explain her mother and how she died, sailors heard the mermaids music and killed the mom (via smushing her between a rock and a hard place) so triton banned music forever cause its what allowed surface dwellers to find them and kill his wife in the first place.
So maybe Ariel not being there for her musical debute was actually a big political faux pas since she's the one who convinced triton to lift the ban in the first place.
@Shinigamis_Like_Apples that movie wasn't originally planned. It was a money grab.
The original fairytale which the movie is based on is actually super dark. Not only does the sea witch take the mermaid’s voice, she actually has to cut out her tongue, and walking will feel like stepping on sharp knives to her (but since the prince likes to watch her dance, she endures it to make him happy). In the end, the Prince falls in love with and marries another girl. The other mermaids trade their long hair for a knife, and tell the mermaid she can get her tail back by stabbing the prince while he’s sleeping beside his new wife. When she refuses, she turns into sea foam.
yesss! and Hans Christian Andersen wrote it as a love letter to his male friend since he was a bisexual. he expressed how he had “feminine” desires for his friend, but at the time, being in the LGBTQ+ community was a big no no to society. his friend married a woman and it broke Andersen’s heart. i think a mermaid represents his sexuality. you know, the phrase “fish out of water.” the Little Mermaid and Andersen parallel to each other on how they feel like they don’t fit in anywhere or seemed different and wanting to belong somewhere, somehow.
She does eventually die and turn into sea foam.
But she first spend years sitting on a rock by the palace, just to catch a glimpse of the prince every now and then.
It's really a warning against the exaggerated ideas of romance.
Come to think of it. At least half of HCA's original fairy tales does not have a happy ending. - But the thing is, that the original translator into English didn't think that was right for a fairy tale, so he "fixed" them.
Holy crap
@@siiiiiuu7 Don't you mean holy carp? Ehe hahahha
I like the original
Before watching: I have always hated how people like to shit on princess movies, especially the little mermaid. They say that she gave everything up for a boy, like have you even seen the movie/heard the music? She literally gives so many reasons for wanting to leave home, adventure, getting to stand on her own two feet, being independent etc! Prince Eric is just the catalyst for her to do it. I'll get back to watching the vid now :P
Exactly. Ariel is first and foremost an anthropologist, she wanted to get up there and learn about people at any cost before knowing Eric even existed.
i agree. there’s certain messages in the movie i feel kind ehh about but i also definitely think ppl are way too hard on her
I hate it when these days when people list their favorite princesses they ALWAYS skip Ariel, instead of trying so hard to be woke people should have their own opinion. Ariel is only 16 and people expect every disney princess to be perfect and independent...
god forbid a fictive character has flaws. People have way too high standards for these characters who are supposed to be teens!
Also can we just appreciate it as what it is? A cartoon? And by that I don’t mean to diminish it, in fact I entirely love this movie for its gorgeous animation, interesting characterizations, almost perfect pace with one scene leading fluidly to the next. And that’s not even mentioning the iconic songs, each one of them. People just need to pause on the over analyzing stuff sometimes, like it’s really not that deep. Especially a Disney movie from 1989.
That’s why all the Disney live action remakes are so bland, they focus on fixing non existent mistakes instead of focusing on pace, fun and good storytelling. Just my opinion.
Also everybody assumes that they got married the same day after the battle and it's like...no?? They never show us if they got married a week, a month or a year later but everyone just assumes that they did and are like "they've only known each other for two days"
me at 16: I have a good idea of how the world works, no need for supervision
me at 26: looking around the room for the adult supervision and realising *I am the adult*
If ain't that a freaking mood. One time my brothers asked me to do an interview to an adult on "how to garden" for their project. I told them to wait for mum for an adult and they pointed out, "aren't you an adult?". I have never felt so old in my life.
@@Ashley-Lopez at 16, you’re still young and you have plenty of time still. Just go at your own pace and don’t compare yourself to your peers 😊 Doing something for the first time can be scary, but there are many benefits that you won’t realise unless you give it a try. I will say, learning how to drive gave me a lot more freedom (I had a fear of driving too and only got my license after 25 because public transport is pretty convenient for me). From from getting my first job, I gained a bit more confidence and got more comfortable interacting with new people. College is a costly and big decision though, if you can…wait on that one until you figure it out. There are other ways to further your education without taking on a huge debt. Lastly, unless you’re getting told to move out, stay at home = save rent money 😛
I haven't watched this in such a long time and I really did forget how much of a good guy Eric was! Like I originally didn't liked him because I remembered him being shallow for his feelings about Ariel and him ditching her for Ursula over the voice but no, I remembered that ENTIRELY wrong. He actually really seemed to like Ariel's fun personality and was, obviously, under the influence of magic the entire time he was with Ursula. Even during the wedding fiasco when Ursula is getting attacked, he just stands there staring off into space because he's still under a trance. I definitely see him in a new light now! He's in the top 5 for Disney Princes for sure.
He’s also shown as being uncomfortable being the centre of attention ( getting the massive statue made of him makes him visibly uncomfortable), he’s slightly funny/snarky in his replies to Grimsby, likes animals ( Max). My first cartoon crush and I still have a preference for dark-haired, blue-eyed men!
Yeah I feel because he's not as fleshed out as Ariel and they didn't appear to know each other for long before getting married, etc., he doesn't get much respect but he's really sweet with her. She can't talk but he appreciates her for her beauty, quirkiness, sweetness, and sense of fun and adventure. You can see it in their interactions.
“Destroy the things she loves the most- that’ll make her obey me” honestly re-watching this movie as an adult makes my heart hurt as some one with collecting/hoarding tendencies when her dad wrecks her entire trove of treasures, imagine burning your artistic child’s paintings and drawings, it feels the same way- the interests and joy being torn up damn
That's bad.
Awesome. Eric is my favourite Disney prince cuz he went back to save Max when the ship went down and he seems a bit awkward which I love lol
Totally fair. Forget Disney prince, Eric is a straight up king for going back to save Max 😆 - Stef
@@themoviebudz1988 dang right!!!! Lol
@@themoviebudz1988 Watch the sequel you guys. Meet Ariel and Eric's daughter, Melody.
I mean, mermaids are mammals, and Seals and dolphins eat fish, so it wouldn't be thaaat weird for her to eat one, I guess?? even if your best friend is a fish???? 😄
I’m ignoring my friends at this brunch to watch this. I’ll save you guys some steak and eggs. Lol
Oooh yes please! 🤤 - Stef
Ariel: "Betcha on land, they understand, they don't reprimand their daughters."
Me: I wouldn't count on it honey.
“Have I ever been wrong?!”
“Yes.”
“I mean when it’s important!”
“Yes.”
The animators based Ariel’s face on Alyssa Milano. Imagine being Alyssa Milano and getting to say that. I’ve always been jealous of it.
Omg now that you mention it, Alyssa Milano and Ariel have the same exact face shape
As I tend to do, I will use this opportunity to tell you my favourite poem by W.B. Yeats!
A mermaid found a swimming lad,
picked him for her own.
Pressed her body to his body
laughed; and plunging down,
forgot in cruel happiness
that even lovers drown.
Dam.
Y’all are lowkey being so mean towards mute/deaf girls 😭😭 Ariel is carrying whole conversations with him. There’s just more ways to communicate than just verbal!!
I haven't seen this in years but I like to sing Part of Your World like a bratty entitled teen.
Sounds like a good time lol 😆 - Stef
same girl lmfao
It's not bratty or entitled :( it's beautiful.
I hope ur saying ur the entitled bratty one and not Ariel. I don’t see a problem with wanting to learn more about the world
@@ma.2089 It ain't that deep
the extended version of that beginning scene continues the song and discusses that King Triton and Ursula the sea witch are both siblings (the children of Poseidon) and that Triton usurped her reign (but you get most of that information besides them being siblings from when Ursula is first introduced because she speaks of her days of living in the palace and ruling) Almost makes you wonder what the days of old were like...kinda figuring the vibe would be similar to that castle that was created in the Duck Tales movie by the bad guy after he got the lamp back...
the original story by Hans Christian Andersen was metaphorically about his love for another man that could not love him back, and the mermaid was given a choice to kill the prince when he did not love her back and then she would be able to return to her sisters in the sea...but instead, she saw he was happy with his beloved and sacrificed her own life, turning to sea foam...the prince then finds out that she was the girl that had saved him at sea and grieves her death...(Toei Animation made a movie closer to the original...but I think she ascended to the heavens instead if I remember correctly)
And Princess Eilonwhy is 12 in the Black Cauldron, Snow White is 14 in her movie (although she's like 7 in the fairy tale) and Princess Jasmine was 15 in Aladdin, Ariel, Mulan and Aurora are all 16...Belle is one of the older princesses coming in at 20
I remember the Toei Animation one I loved it even though it was terrifying and I cried for days after haha
Since it’s still June and therefore pride, we gotta send love to Howard Ashman, the genius behind the music and scores of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. He was such a talent who died far too soon. Rest in power, Mr. Ashman, thank you for the unforgettable songs!
Much respect to a legend ❤️ - Stef
Well said! Rest in power Howard!
and also to the original writer, hans christian anderson, who wrote this for a man he was in love with!
I send my admiration and respect to Howard Ashman on July 1st. Don't need no artificial idiot month to articulate his genius.
I hate people that think her motivation was Eric. He was just the last straw. Her motivation was always that she wanted to explore and see beyond her home, and she was never allowed to even ask questions.
The soundtrack for this movie is God-tier; plus it's crazy that the animation still holds up after all these year
You don’t need a voice for someone to fall in love with you. Your personality isn’t only confined to your voice. A lot of people watch this movie and say, “That’s so wrong. You can’t find love without a voice,” but plenty of mute people are able to do it
“ The water equivalent of Zeus” so …. Poseidon? 😂😂
When you’re little, you empathize with Ariel. When you’re an adult, you empathize with Triton and Sebastian. And you know all are idiots and making really dumb mistakes.
I think a lot of ppl shit on Ariel and this movie despite not realizing the movie is fully aware all of them r doing bad actions with good intentions. Not every Disney princess needs to be a paragon of virtue (unrealistic) and childhood is still all about making mistakes. I like to think Ariel and Eric didn’t immediately get married, she’s 16 after all and they had a very quick courting period (lol), so I like to imagine they actually all had to come to a good compromise and everyone learned a lot.
I'm 33 and I empathize a bit with everyone(except Ursula.She's a psycho bitch.)but I still get *SO ANGRY* everytime I see the scene in which Triton destroys Ariel's belongings. You don't do that. I don't care how angry or worried or protective you are...you just *do-NOT-destroy-your-children's-stuff!!!* 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬 Same thing I feel in"Coco"when Miguel's grandmother destroys his guitar.The ONLY exception I can forgive is Ralph destroying Vanellope's kart because he genuenly thought she was gonna die,HE TOLD HER and she wouldn't listen...he was litterally trying to save her life and you could *see* he was as sad and hurt as she was.He didn't wanna do it,it was heartbreaking for both of them!😭💔Merida's mother also immediately regret burning her daughter's bow,but,still..you're the adult..you _should_ be better at controlling your tantrums compared to a teenager.😒
@@Nicamon Imelda is already dead, that was Miguel's grandmother that did that.
@@summerrose8110 You're right. My bad. I've corrected it. Thank you.😊
I like how Ariel doesn’t just start singing to a dead body.. she waits until she sees him breathing. Like girl he could be struggling but no do your thing
She saved him from drowning. Eric is kinda in her debt.
@@summerrose8110that has nothing to do with the comment. OP is saying that Eric could still be dying, just because he's started breathing again doesn't it mean he's fine. And what do you mean he's in her debt? Does saving someone's life now automatically mean they owe you their life, body and love if you desire it? How charming
This story is supposed to be set in Denmark where the local folklore has Njord as king of the sea. Yet Disney went with the Greek mythology Triton son of Poseidon. Which in a way would make Ariel and Hercules related.
Yup. Seppos stealing other countries creations and claiming it as their own. The colonisation of the US is still present today, but with IP.
@@Elviladia Disney didn’t claim the story as their own though. They gave credit to Hans Christian Andersen. You act as though Disney doing a version of the little mermaid is akin to taking land and subjugating a group of people
@@Matt-kr9bo Disney owns 🌟 copyright 🌟 to their the little mermaid, as well as changing the story. You think USians taking land is the only crime they’ve ever committed? 🤣 Hooboy, your country has a lot of flaws that are happening today. Join any anti USian group and educate yourself on why everyone’s hates them.
bro did u just say USians 💀 americans really just aint a word huh
i will never get over the fact that when vanessa (ursula) is singing in the mirror it’s the same actress as ariel. jodie benson obviously sounds the same but it took me forever to realize that she’s acting as ursula in that moment. her laugh is insane!!!
21:30 onwards - The point of Poor Unfortunate Souls is that none of what Ursula is singing is true; it's deliberately ridiculous that she is telling Ariel communicating (in any form) isn't important blah blah. Ursula is trying to trick Ariel into doing what she wants (and deliberately manipulating her in a moment of frustration, sadness and loneliness) so that Ariel is guaranteed to fail and turn into a slimy little trapped soul for her creepy garden - Ursula isn't giving Ariel friendly advice guys ahaha. I watched this for the first time when I was less than six years old and I never felt confused or misled by that song - the villain is singing it. It's interesting to hear your reaction.
It was rlly Ursula who /forced/ it to be about getting the guy with the terms of the deal, Ariel is just an upset teenager whos dad just wrecked her stuff!
oh please she didnt force anything she ignited what was there. She wanted Eric and Eric was apart of the world she wanted. She was just naive and didnt think about the consequences of some random witch turning her human.
I mean she was literally acting obsessed saying she loved him when she didn't even speak 1 word to him so she wanted to go there for eric
@@JazMegan If you think about incredibly sheltered children, her behavior isn’t surprising. Think of all of the kids who grow up in a very restrictive household who go crazy when they get to college
@@devilovesdevil Ursula is her aunt, not random.
@@JazMegan SHE WANTED TO DISCOVER THE WORLD! Eric is more of a bonus.
I really disagree that it would be impossible for Eric to fall in love with Ariel if she can't speak. It's like saying that a hearing person and a non-verbal deaf person can't fall in love. Even if Ariel never got her voice back, she and Eric could still find ways to communicate, sign language exists. Ursula said it best herself: don't underestimate the power of body language
"talking" is not the same as "communicating", there are people (both women and men) who can't talk but learn to communicate in other ways (like sign language). It's not that if Ariel can't use her voice, she doesn't get to give her opinions or thoughts on anything ever again!! She'd find a way!
i agree with you but i don’t think they meant it that way. they meant it to reference ursula saying, “she who holds her tongue gets a man”. it’s more about the fact of silencing a women will attract a man, than being ableist to people who can’t speak.
Early! fun fact: did you know this is based on a Danish fairy tale of the same name by author Hans Christian Andersen? very dark yet depressing at the same time where the Little Mermaid didn’t get the prince at the end and basically died. i’m just a Disney / fairytale nerd 😂 keep up the good work, Budz!
@No, says possum precisely. also, she was given a decision to either kill the prince with a magic dagger and let his blood spill onto her feet, therefore, become a mermaid again. OR she’ll turn into sea foam and cease to exist. at least in the earlier version by Andersen before he altered it into a more bittersweet yet hopeful ending where the Little Mermaid, instead of turning into sea foam, became a daughter of the air and was given another chance to obtain an immortal soul and glide to the kingdom of heaven after 300 years of good deeds on earth. when a child is good, the daughters of the air’s 300 years are subtracted by a year. but, whenever a child is bad, the daughters of the air shed tears and for every tear, a day is added to their time of trial.
Everyone knows that babe, pretty much everyone grows up reading fairytales
@No, says possum not for eternity.. the "air spirits" find pity for her, and take her as another air spirit.. and after 300 years of "good deeds" she gets a soul... lol
@@christiannightshade5886 yeah. disney's animations arent originals they are adaptations lol. im forever waiting for other stories like the juniper tree, snow white and rose red, little red riding hood, etc etc instead of remaking their remakes
As a Dane, I honestly don’t see what’s dark or depressing about the original? I can understand USians being raised like fragile humans. I find the original beautiful and has an important message: you can’t always get what you want, especially when it comes to other people and emotions.
"And don't forget the importance of BODY LANGUAGE HA!" Very hard not to quote that Everytime
"they seem to know very little about each other" ariel and eric: *being the only ones who have a movie with a child*
Esmeralda and Phoebus have a son.
You’d think Ariel would learn from her father about being more vocal about things but naaa she makes the same mistake with her daughter in little mermaid 2.. which I kinda liked better
Nooo I really disliked the second movie, 3rd one being a prequel was a banger though!
@@elisabethn2893 Why though?
@@summerrose8110 why I didn't like the second movie which felt like ariel just repeating her father's mistakes or why I liked the third one showing them as a loving family and watching them heal after the loss of her mother?
@@elisabethn2893 That was the point. She's learning how to be a parent. In case you don't realize, girls in THAT era had children really young.
I still love the scene where Eric says “She’s out there somewhere ”and Ariel is literally right there. Is visually beautiful. And truthfully painful lol
i love fern gully! what a great movie (haha unrelated to this movie but all I could think about once y’all made that comment)
Side note, in the Broadway version, Ursula is still her aunt and I'm positive it's implied that she is in here too.
16 yr old me: Ariel and Eric are goals. They’ve only known each other for three days.
20 year old me: oh no sweetie don’t do it.
Crazy how much your perspective shifts huh? - Stef
My grandparents got married at 14. They died one week apart at ages 94. Love at first sight does happen and it's annoying.
I mean she does marry into Danish royalty with sweet ocean front property during the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries. So I don’t think she experiences anything to contradict her worldview. Just saying 🤷♀️
Me as a kid: what a mean dad!
Me now as an adult: ok he didn’t go about it the best way but Ariel let’s be realistic.
The woman who voiced Ursula loved to correct people and tell them Ursula is a squid. Saying "six tentacles are cheaper to draw, darling".
Oh man, I never noticed that lol what a legend 😆 - Stef
Fun fact: The Norweigan singer Sissel Kyrkjebø made the voice of Ariel for the Swedish, Danish, and Norweigan dub.
Man kan høre hendes accent en lille smule på dansk, men hun synger så smukt!
@@GreyCookieWeirdo Eller hur! Jag är svensk och som lite tyckte jag att Ariel ibland pratade lite ”konstigt”. 🤣
YAAASSS!!! This was my favorite movie as a kid 🧜♀️
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What a lovely surprise! Ariel is actually my favorite disney princess, like an actual daughter of a king disney princess, used to sing Part Of Your World at the top of my lungs when I was young, found her hair pretty. She does seem hard headed as the years go by lmao but still I can't help but love her and this movie. Maybe it's me relating w her and how bratty I was as well when i was young. Or maybe it's just the pisces in me, I love the water lol
Who’s going to tell them that there is a sequel where Ariel does in fact return to the sea 👀
The funny thing is that if Ursela's eels had let Eric kiss Ariel during kiss the girl, she WOULD'VE WON. Because Eric didnt let go of the girl with the voice for our mute Ariel. Ariel also actually showed alot of personality when she went to town. She's adventurous, wonderous and curious. She loves to try new things but as she was enjoying herself, her friends were focused on the kiss. I do wish that they had focused more on her personality out in the town. But I guess movie time and animation.
OH YEAH! I never noticed that! Eric only threw the flute out AFTER Kiss the girl! Not before! OMG Sebastian almost condemned Ariel to eternal damnation with his singing!
When you're about to go to sleep and you get a notification...lol. do The Hunchchback of Notre Dame!
lol sorry about that bud 😅 - Stef
I second the Hunchback!
Yes hunchback!!!
Yes, I would love to see them react to The Hunchback of Notre Dame!
Great video, it was fun seeing your reactions!
However, I don't think the movie's message is that women only need beauty to attract a guy. For one thing, Eric fell in love with Ariel's voice, and Eric doesn't fully choose her until Ariel regains it. Ursula sexist advice is obviously not meant to be the actual moral of the story, she was just trying to trick Ariel. Eric was clearly disappointed when he realised Ariel couldn't speak. However, Ursula's plan backfired because Eric ended up falling in love with Ariel's personality. Obviously her looks helped, but it's clear that Eric is endeared for her sweet, vivacious, adventurous personality as shown in their day touring the kingdom. And the butler even tries to convince Eric that Ariel is better than her dream girl because she's "of flesh and blood, warm and caring". Her physical beauty wasn't a deciding factor for Eric, which only goes to show how much of a great guy he is.
It's funny, I never thought of Ariel or the Merpeople as vegetarian. And I *am* a vegetarian. I thought of them in the same way as people on land have positive relationships with certain species of animals... but eat others. Like Farmers that have a herding dog, and cats in the barn to catch the mice, and oxen that plow the field... but they eat the chickens, pigs, and cows.
I hate when people joke about Ariel eating fish when obviously she doesn't. She definitely ate coral underwater and on land she had vegetables. If they noticed Ariel's plate DID NOT have seafood on it.
Make sure you guys watch Ariel's Beginning and the sequel to this. Meet Ariel's daughter, Melody.
The voice actor who played sebastian died the other month😭
5:45 actualy Snow White is the younger Disney Princess, she is 14 years
41:58 they marriage is going well in the sequel, good king and queen with a 12 year old daughter
I just remembered Samuel Wright the voice of Sebastian died last month 😭
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Why didn't Ariel
Why didn't Ariel just *mouth the words she wanted to say and have him read her lips*
She got the hang of walking after a few hours and In HEELS! I’m 35 years old, been walking my whole life and I can barely walk in heels and Ariel managed it in just a couple of hours 🤣
Omg please watch Aladdin and/or Tangled after She’s The Man!!
This was Pat Caroll’s (Ursula’s voice actress) first actual villain role
Also Ursula always seemed to be a more nightmarish version of those people who sell and or gift off of people’s insecurities and desires to fit in and or get their dreams
only to steal them and power herself instead.
Fun Fact: Jodie Benson, the voice of Ariel also provided the voice for Vanessa/human Ursula. The makes her the only voice over actress to have voiced both the hero and villain in the same film.
i have a couple friends whose parents both claim it was love at first sight for them. different friends, different families. while obviously not the norm, i think it can happen in certain circumstances; namely that one or both of them both are good at reading people, and know their own minds
I got to give Ursela credit tho. She is a despicable business woman who hates to lose. And would persuade her ahem 'customers' by telling them that they dont need their voices.
halle bailey is gonna kill this role, ive never been so excited for a disney live action
Very interested to see the modern interpretation. Especially after Cruella turned out to be pretty good imo - Stef
Do we know who's been chosen as Ursula yet? It's gonna dictate whether I go in with high or low expectations
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ugh I'm so sick of Disney ruining they legacy, can't wait until they run out of movies to remake, wonder what they'll do next, because they seem to be running out of ideas for good original stories
@@carmenq7339 You do realise The Little Mermaid is not an original Disney story right? Like yeah their version ends differently to the original but they didn't invent it
Triton is the son of Poseidon which makes him Zeus' nephew. That also means that Ariel is Hercules' first cousin once removed!
The sequel was the one i actually grew up with. And it's a lot of her and daughter being like "Man, Ocean would be great, wouldn't it?" And it's good character progress for her and Eric.
The more older I get the less i see Ariel as a dumb teenager who give up everything for a boy, and more like this girl who came from an abusive home, always wanted to run away and Eric was just the catalyst for her to get out of there
Ariel did know how to write, she signed the contract.
Hilariously that would be one of the plot holes in this movie.
Also, fun fact, when Ursula was posing as Vanessa (her disguise) that IS Jodi Benson playing as her.
It's almost a shame people overlook this small example of her versatility as an actress.
I was obsessed with this movie as a child! I watched it so much that it got stuck in the VCR 😂
I still have the actual copy of my VHS that my mom bought me back in 1998. ❤
When I saw this film when I was six I had a crush on a boy named Eric and I thought he was going to be my prince 🤣🤣🤣. AT AGE SIX LMAO!!!!
well done reaction budz love ya all ❤️❤️
The songs in this movie are some of Disney’s best of all time. I also really miss the over the top flamboyant Disney villain songs of the renaissance era.
"I give them two weeks."
Melody: *confused noises*
You guys should watch the sequel at some point. I actually like it. 😊
The animal community is SO tight knit 😂😂😂
I've watched this move probably 50 times. And I never realized that she did give up her voice permanently! This is why I always love your commentaries. You bring up amazing points and perspectives.
Yeah cos later the shell necklace is ripped off of Ursula and Ariel just happens to get her voice back when it breaks.
If you’re interested in villains dying in horrific ways, I recommend the animated Tarzan
***I hope the creators see this*** a lot of the lgbtq, especially people transitioning genders, love this movie for that kind of representation. choosing to transform to make yourself happy, even before she had a crush on the prince, or even met him, she LOVED the surface. she wants and feels comfortable in a body she wasn't born in and she gave everything up to become who she was supposed to be all along. happy pride month 💖 btw you guys fully earned a follow bc I've seen this movie 100x and never once realized that she gave up her voice for good. she wrote her name to sign the contract too, she could have just wrote to Eric while she was with him lol
We appreciate your thoughts and support 😊 - Sam
The movie's not really taking the side of "Silent women are preferred". Eric falls for Ariel despite her being mute. He actively rejects her when he finds out she can't talk. He originally fell in love with her voice, before anything else.
If it was pushing that viewpoint, he would have married her the day he found her.
I mean in the movies defense it never states when they got married just that they did. So the wedding could be 1 or 2 years later
At least Eric isn't like the stereo type prince. His love was the sea and then the princess of the sea fell in love with him.
what’s your band name? i’d love to give your stuff a listen!!
Triton is Poseidon's son, in Greek mythology. *Poseidon* is God of the Sea. Not Triton.
Can we talk that the "love" thing between Ariel and Eric is not interracial is downright interspecies, if you think about it is weird, just imagine: "Daddy I love him I don't care he is dog!!!"
I'm sure many people are saying this in the comments but, Ariel did not ONLY do this for a man she just met. She has been interested in the human world for years and years - you think the grotto collection happened overnight? Triton's response to yet another human-related 'problem' is what spurs her to this decision (as well as Ursula's manipulation); Ariel has long felt like the black sheep of the family - a 'regular fish out of water' for her interest and love for things that no one else understands. When her father destroys the things she has gathered over many years in a single moment, her own personal place of sanctuary and safety, that is a huge moment of grief for her.
Ahaha reading this back and my bit about the grotto collection probably sounds intense, I just clearly love this movie too much ahhhh. tldr; She nearly died getting one damn fork from a shipwreck, the grotto is a lifelong collection and a labour of love.
A beautiful girl is in your face singing and she has a glowing light behind her. What would you be confused about sweetheart??
I feel like you guys would like Enchanted. It makes fun of a lot of the princess tropes but in a fun, wholesome way!
That one is pretty high on our list. Very keen to give it a look 😋 - Stef
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Ariel was totally at fault for not reading the contract and signing it with closed eyes. I am seeing so many faults in this as an adult XD
that and everyone knows Ursula is a sea witch and not to be trust yet Ariel being upset and rebellious because her dad destroyed her stuff still goes anyway
And Ursula conned Ariel. @HearMeRoar did you not see her manipulating Ariel? Why are you blindly blaming her?
@@summerrose8110 She KNEW Ursula is evil !!! Literally, everyone in that ocean knew......blindly blaming her???? I am not blaming her for accepting the contract....but signing it with closed eyes......who tf does that??? Ursula could have written anything in that contract.... if you fail I will torture and feed you to my pet crocs....
Part of your world is and always will be one of my favorite Disney songs and song that I still sing loudly in the shower, it’s iconic!
Plus Ursula is such a great villain!
I love this movie! Also apparently Jim Carrey auditioned for the role of Prince Eric
Can you imagine Jim Carrey being the voice of Eric 😂 .
This movie still holds up today. Have either of you seen the video Lindsey Ellis made not too long ago? She took a deep dive into the story and it was very good.
If you read it just at face value, its a girl who wants a guy but if you look deeper; she's been longing to explore the land and the people for her whole life so this prince is just a catalyst that gets her there. She had her little cave of wonders full of things she found that came from civilization. Disney just loved love stories so I'm guessing thats why this was brought in. Plus, who doesn't want someone to love? I see nothing wrong with that.
Jodi Benson does the voice of Ariel and Vanessa (human form of Ursula)