First Time Watching The Little Mermaid - An absolute classic, iconic and brilliant movie
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Ursula was actually based on the drag queen "Divine", she has so much charisma lol
If I remember correctly they even wanted Divine to voice Ursula, but they died before that could happen.
@@Savannah_Simpson That would have been epic
According to The Little Mermaid Character Designer Philo Barnhart, that's actually a myth
@@alcarbo8613 I don't give a fuck what they say. She looks EXACTLY like Divine.
@@alcarbo8613 also, I'm not sure Disney would even let him admit it publicly. In the past, it was common to make villains have queer traits because they couldn't put representation on main characters.
Nice seeing you laughing and enjoying the movie 😊
Happy birthday, Sarah! ❤
Your review was epic, love the laugh 👍🏻 you’ll like the live action, looking forward to your review on it and Happy Birthday Sarah
Ursula is the best character here and they did NOT do her justice in the live action. They should have hired an older, fatter woman. Melissa is too pretty. She looks like she could be Ursula's daughter.
Ursula did not look that old nor did she look ugly. I think Melissa was not a bad choice but the makeup they did for her was absolutely ridiculous.
@@pinkiepiereincarnate2291 Ursula's look is rougher I think. She has a huge mouth, she's so fat that her back has rolls. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I think it's awesome! I always loved how she looked more realistic, in the sense that I've seen people with those imperfections in real life.
Happy Birthday Sara!
Hello, i enjoyed your reaction! I do hope you watch the live action, it's so good and was very nostalgic haha. Happy birthday to Sarah!
10:30 "Typical I want song" TYPICAL?! Dude this STARTED that trend Disney made. It wasn't as popular before but it certainly was with this movie! Howard Ashman and Alan Menken are talented! (RIP Howard)
This song is BEAUTIFUL!
(No hate btw this is just a comment I like you videos!)
Yes!
Howard Ashman introduced the idea to Disney from Broadway.
There's a great video on the making of the movie that goes into more detail!
Triton is a good dad. Though he had his issues with humans (can we blame him?), even Ursula knew he would give everything for his daughter. With his disturbing temper and simultaneous endless love for his child, he's a great character.
He didn't have to destroy her Grotto, though.
@Monster Hanna The temper, protectivness, and he regretted it the moment he did it. Just to make it clear, not a good parenting moment IN REALITY!!! But the story needed that extreme to push Ariel towards Ursula. To add, the live action Triton doesn't even have the look of remorse when she's crushed. Anyways, big dramatic conflict was a necessity for the plot, not the example of perfect parenting moment.
Flawed characters are the best characters. Which doesn't mean they need to have only flaws, otherwise that would be just dumb...or straight up villains, but then boring villains.
In a cut scene it was revealed that Ursula is Triton's sister and Ariel's aunt, but they decided to not pursue Ursula's motivations very far. I love the idea that she is a kicked out concubine, though!
They also actually made her Tritons sister explicitly in the stage musical version.
@@Savannah_Simpson and in the live action.
And it the prequel Ariel’s beginning
So most people believe that Ursula is king triton sister that turned evil because she couldn't be Queen. She got tentacles when she turned to dark magic.
even if i'm in my 40s and i haven't seen this in a long time, i'm 80% sure i can recite the script alongside the movie. Ariel was my first animated crush when i was a kid.
Mine too and I'm into men! but Prince Eric is my boy crush then prince Philip from sleeping beauty.
That was a fun trip down memory lane. As someone else said, guppy = baby fish. And when Louis was singing, "Les poissons" is French for "the fish".
Yes. I came here to mention the poisson vs poison. In French they are pronounced very similiarly. The double s is for fish and the single is for poison.
"You deserve all the amphibious women you can handle" 😆
HISHE just put out their Little Mermaid video: it even addresses how Flounder moved that frickin statue
Oh that sounds amazing, that'll be coming on the channel soon
He asked for Sora's help.
Ursula is the most charismatic Disney villainess!
3:11 Well... kind of? In Greek mythology, Triton was the *son* of Poseidon (the latter of which was renamed Neptune by the Romans), and this was alluded to in a later _SpongeBob_ episode, where Triton is the rebellious teenage son of King Neptune.
For all those saying Triton is a good dad, keep in mind his arch. To start, he definitely has a temper. Not saying he was abusive, to his daughters as a whole, but he had an entire musical totting praise upon him, and everytime someone has bad news to give him, or he gets upset everyone is immediately looking at him to see how angry he is getting. He probably caused the hurricane that sunk Eric’s boat just bc his daughter didn’t remember to go to the performance and thus
Embarrassed him. So the crab’s fear is leget. However, after the grotto scene, and Ariel disappearing, and the whole , thing with Ursela, I think he finally learned some chill and temper regulation. Still fear for the shotgun talk with any potential bf of his other daughters. He might not be overprotective anymore, but he’s still going to be protective I bet. Yay character growth!
Pat Carroll did a great job as Ursula.
She actually returned for the sequel, a direct to video production and did an equally great job with that one.
Of course I won't spoil how that works, but if you ever watch that movie you will understand it quite easily, I guess.
She’s also on the show tv based on the Movie
Small live bearing fish = guppie. But I think Ariel means scaredy cat when using term sometimes
She was calling him a baby
@@sirensong237 I know. Scaredy cat, baby, it can mean same thing sometimes but the real definition is small fish. Thx for help though
@@lilybethkuhn9650 true lol my bad
Happy birthday, Sarah!! This was my first favorite Disney movie, saw it when it came out in theatres when I was a kid. I had a little mermaid lunchbox and thermos set and an Ariel watch. Excited to see you watching this for the first time! You’re right, it’s a classic! 🧜🏼♀️🐙🔱
In the scene in the beginning where Ariel’s father is coming in for the performance you can see Mickey, Goofy, and Donald in the audience. Happy Birthday Sarah!
King Triton is a god, related to the greek ones. So no, SpongeBob is not copying disney haha
The Classic Version EVERY scene compliments each other....i dont need the remake unless Disney did a mirror version(but they didn't)....not alot of changes...if it aint broke, dont fix it
I don't agree that "if it aint broke, dont fix it" when it comes to remaking movies. I'm all for remakes, sure they dont always work, but it doesnt replace the original.
I'd be happy for a thousand remakes to exist, even if I choose not to watch them
I do agree but they Always break them.
I would be better if they said, "We love the original. But we are terribly lazy but not shoot me now to put me out of my misery lazy.
We want to start with the same basic premise or in the same world and go in a completely different direction in every way. And we won't name the characters the same thing but maybe you will see them passing by in the background!"
Otherwise they just break everything they retouch.
This will always be the best Little Mermaid movie of all time. The remake can't compare to the original. I love the classic it's nothing personal, I just love the classics.
Same... I'm sure people who start out with the live action will love it just as much... but for me, this is the OG.
Lmao “the black fish she sings” the collective forehead smack 😅
Jodie Benson plays Ariel!! She also did the voice for Vanessa, so when she was singing in the mirror before the wedding, it was Jodie Benson !
Loved the reaction, glad you liked it!! ❤️
Personally, I really like how Benson changes her voice for Vanessa, making her more of a mezzo-soprano rather than a soprano like Ariel.
Oh, and for those wondering, soprano is the high female voice, contralto is the low female voice (like Ursula), and mezzo-soprano is smack-dab in the middle. And their male counterparts are respectively tenor, bass and baritone, each roughly an octave lower than the female versions.
The Little Mermaid was the first movie in the Disney renaissance, it helped reinvigorate the company and re-established more interest in the fan base again with its popular songs. It was like the Frozen of the 90s. Ariels “Part of Your World” was really the blueprint to every future Disney film where the character expresses their goals and desires at the start of the movie. It truly is one of the most iconic films ever!
39:30 Bro I can tell Modern Movies have tainted people's views on older ones. They didn't use big names in most of Disney's projects and they didn't have "Multiverse" after credits.
A shame but thank God we have the classics
This is the best Little mermaid.
I know you said in the past you said you're not gonna go for the straight to video sequels but I think the sequel to this is fantastic. it also signifies Ariel as the first and i believe only Disney princess to *SPOILER*
Well lots of people in the comments echo your words so it may happen one day
Triton is so ripped because he's supposed to be like the God Neptune. 🧜♂️🔱
More like Pec-tune, am I right?
This is an icon and spawned a new era of Disney animation when many were questioning its future, so fun to see you review it! Also, Happy Birthday Sarah!
King Triton is built that way because he is part of Greek mythology in fact he is the son of Poseidon a Grekk God and of course Disney animation magic back then was very touchy so they make like a literally Dady xd hahaha lol...
It is also said that Ursula is Triton's Sister but Disney removed that script from the movie at the end because according to it was unnecessary... at the same time but it seems that in the new live action movie that is going to be released..They are going to bring that plot again... in fact the character design of urusla is based on a Drag Queen called Divine Disney had a lot of complication designing the character of Ursula because they didn't know how to animate her... in fact Divine was going to be the voice of Ursula but he had passed away before thw flim was released so They chose Pat Carroll for the role instead ... It's amazing how this classic revolutionized the industry at ist time.
Damn straight Eric deserves all the amphibious women.
Lucky for he found his other half in Ariel. Also handy her Daddy could give her legs. Would have made the relationship a bit more complicated otherwise.😂
This movie is wonderful at every beat. They tell you so much more about who the characters are in just a few scenes, fantastic animation, and a little dialogue.
It just takes a little bit of attention to whats going on and understanding of emotions and human motivations to understand it.
So many people only look at the surface and miss so much.
Halfway thru and it thankfully doesn't seem like you are one of those dense people.😊
Especially with your appreciation of Ursula!
Jodi Benson also voiced Ariel and Vanessa, she’s the only one to voice a Princess and a villain. I didn’t know that before
And Barbie in Toy Story.
@@mycroft16yes, Barbie as well!!!
The voice from Ursula is Pat Carroll, she died 30 July 2022
Curse the live action.
Your wife is obviously highly intelligent to not want to watch them tear apart this great movie.
6:59 ... " I'd call it a chaswazzer."
I sure hope someone else gets that!!! Best reference quote in a generation 😅
If you like the Chef Louie chasing Sabastian scene in this movie, you will definitely want to check out The Little Mermaid 2. Happy Birthday Sarah. Hope you have a great day and time on your special day. :) The Little Mermaid is my favorite princess movie. :)
I think in the prequel why Triton doesn’t like humans is because Ariel’s mom was killed by a human
Correction: she was crushed by a pirate ship.
Triton is the Son of Poseidon (so Percy's big bro ;) )
Ariel was my favorite disney princess when I was little and I am highly excited for the live action version. Sidekicks are almost always my favorite characters besides the villains lol they're the most entertaining and villains usually get the best songs. Also, I know most people don't like the other 2 movies in the series but I actually enjoyed them - more so the second one than the third. You probably wouldn't like it though knowing your taste in movies lol Happy birthday, Sarah!!
My sister used to sing chef Louie’s theme song all the time when we were kids
Thats King Neptune 😂 who is the Roman counterpart of Poseidon who is Tritons father. So fun fact Ariel and Heracles(Hercules) are related!
7:06 Admittedly, the name "snarfblatt" is quite fitting, as _Blatt_ means "leaf" in German.
I've always loved this movie and if the wife hasn't already yelled at you to watch the prequel and the sequel I will do that. There's a lot of stuff that that sort of fills in the prequel tells you what happened to the mom which kind of gives legs to why the king is so anti-human and the sequel basically shows Ariel and Eric as parents dealing with a daughter who's obsessed with the sea like Ariel was with humans
she wasn't suppose to get back her voice after kiss, only can keep her legs ang stay on surface. the VOICE was one way payment.
I'm late, but Happy Birthday from Spain, Sarah! 🤗
Ursula is one of my favorite Disney villains. She made a deal with Ariel and she kept to it, faithfully. Not only that but she was completely upfront with all the terms, costs, and consequences. She didn't hide anything. And her interference by stealing Eric away wasn't against the deal they made. She played, completely by the rules she set and Ariel agreed to. That makes her kind of unique.
That's why I like her... she doesn't trick or lie at all. But she is very good at understanding what people are willing to give up to get what they want. And she's good at outsmarting them at it completely fairly.
okay just for the record this movie is the blueprint
In the original story there is no relation and Ariel becomes sea foam. I liked it best. Also when she walked it was like walking on glass and she could have been a mermaid again but she would have to stab the prince so she chose to die.
It is fantastic seeing so many people enjoy this classic masterpiece for the first time.
I've been watching it since I was a kid. I am 36 now, and still love it.
Ariel is my favorite Disney princess with Rapunzel being the second.
Make sure you dont miss my reaction to Tangled :D
Its still my second favourite Disney movie behind Encanto
Same here. And there's a legitimate reason why a lot of people who love Ariel also love Rapunzel. Glen Keane animated Ariel, and he was the supervising animator for Tangled and he did Rapunzel's animation. So they both have a LOT of similarities in movement, eye movement, flirtatious behavior, feistiness, etc.
2:32 "We sail the ocean blue, and our saucy ships' a..."
Wait, that was *another* classic musical about forbidden love.
the ORIGINAL is AMAZING, the new one SUCKS they changed everything around took so much away and the characters are nothing like the original, such a disapointmet so sad
It sucks for you, i love the live action more than the original and i grew up with the classic one
Happy birthday Sarah! I am once again begging for you to start Succession after Ted Lasso- you will love it!!!!!!!
So Taskmaster will more or less replace Lasso, but I am VERY keen to start Succession. Probably when Brooklyn comes to a close in a few months.
@@AdamfromFWCI YES!!!
"Poisson" is French for fish, my dude lol!
Jodi Benson plays Ariel
here's the thing about the cast and you not hearing about them. It is a modern thing, putting already famous people in animation roles. In most of these older ones they very rarely did that with like the most notable exception being robin williams lol
As a kid, I used to think voice actors like Tom Kenny or Tara Strong were just as famous as regular Hollywood actors like Will Smith or Robin Williams. It was literally only when I was a teenager and watched the Nostalgia Critic review of the second _Care Bears_ movie, where he referred to Cree Summer like she was some random nobody, that I realised otherwise.
I think calling Flouder a "Guppy" is equal to humans saying "Chicken" or maybe even "baby"
in the french edit of this film they changed the chef to an italian:D
Ursula is and always will be my favorite Disney Villain... Pat Carrol's voice work was epic! She just passed away last year....
Ariel could very well have tried to do some gestures after Eric goes 'then you can be who I thought you'd be'... that part always irked me, as in she could literally just have nodded eagerly and tried a bit harder in letting him know she cannot speak NOW, rather than never were able to speak.
Also Les Poissons means 'The Fishes', not the poison XD
Beauty and the beast had the best songs!
The guy who voiced prince Eric in this movie also voiced Spider-man in the Spider-man cartoon from the 90's
King Triton is a little hypocritical vilifying us for being fish eaters because unless he's a vegetarian, what is he eating? Anything above the very bottom of the food chain is a fish eater so his reason for hating humans is a bit specious. Misconceptions and prejudices from an ancient human-merman war would have been a better reason for King Triton's hatred of humans.
You hate Triton like I hate Dumbledore.....
I respect that
@@AdamfromFWCI No no. I don't hate Triton as a character I just think that was the one point where the writing was a little weak. I think Triton should have had more of a deep and historical reason for his hatred like a Rome-Carthage kind of rivalry.
"They all lived happily ever after!"... until the sequel
21:43 in a way these people agreed to let ursula do that by signing the deals with.
Never sign an agreement if you can't uphold your end. 😂
1989 DISNEY MOVIE IS BETTER THAN THE AWFUL REMAKE ONLY SAW THE TRAILER FOR IT BASED ON WHAT I HEAR THEY KEPT THE ORIGINAL STORYLINE AND DIDNT ADD ON IT TOTAL FAILURE 😊
Happy birthday Sarah, you have a lovely favourite Disney film ❤
I was 6 years old when this came out and was probably aware of it at 8. I had a huge crush on Ariel. That bikini top, man. I can only imagine if I’d been that age when this new one with Halle Bailey came out. I would have been delirious. I’m pretty sure Ariel, Alyssa Milano and Hayley Mills (I saw a lot of her old movies growing up) were my first big crushes as a kid. If you want to hit up some hilarious Canadian content, Trailer Park Boys, the series, and the movie Don’t Legalize It, are well worth your time. In the movie, Ricky tries to save his weed business by trying to prevent the government from legalization. Not a joke. It’s amazing. Canadian cannabis activist Marc Emery’s wife, Jodie, makes an appearance.
Alyssa Milano was used for inspiration by Disney for Ariel's look.
21:27 Definitely a huge step above Morgana's design in the second movie, who literally just looks like Eda Clawthorne doing a bad Ursula cosplay.
“The face only survived the explosion”
Well… there is that episode of Dr Who but it was the girl who was the face and… umm… well… yes
Look up Ursula Blake
I just realized something: Jodi Benson is probably the only person to voice both a Disney Princess and (partially) a Disney villain
Happy late birthday Sarah😊💖❤️
14:28 Jodi Benson played Ariel’s voice
7:48 she used to be a mermaid. She is Tritons younger sister who got cursed for killing all of her siblings but triton just to be queen/ heir to the throne. Ursula used dark magic a lot( the one thing I don’t get is how Ursula thinks she is new ruler for defeating Triton because the new queen would be oldest daughter who is at least 18- Ariel is youngest but 16)
Where did you get this from???
@@Witheringdawn2 hard to explain. From other ppl but I also think it is in the book. Look it up it’s actually true
This was one of my favourite movies as a kid; at 3 years old when this came out I was already swimming unaided and you bet I took this to heart.
... for context, every single person in my family can swim and that's becoming a rare thing these days. All of us were introduced to water well before we started education so just the act of being in water was a natural feeling.
I kind of want to see the new live-action version just to see how badly it's screwed up. It just looks so dark and maybe too realistic? And Ariel has always been my favourite princess
Happy Solar Return!! 🎉♊️🎂🪅🥳
Now go see the live action
23:53 I CHOKED HAHAHAHA 😂😂😂
Your wife clearly has great taste; this is my favorite Disney movie, too. Also, happy belated birthday to her!!! 😍😍😍🥳🥳🥳🎁🎂🍰🎈🕯🎊🥂🍾🎉
Also, fun fact, but the "but she who holds her tongue gets her man" and Ursula throwing a tongue into the cauldron may or may not be a reference to the original story where the sea witch took the little mermaid's tongue instead of her voice. Also, the Quentin Tarantino joke. 😂
Happy Birthday, Sarah!
Well Happy Birthday to the Mrs. and thank you for having this be your fave movie so we could get this reaction!! I loved this movie as a kid and anything with mermaids. Ursula is great, love her voice and saucy lines. Eric is pretty dreamy as far as Disney princes go. King Triton is a Zaddy!!
27:05 it's french for fish
Happy birthday Sarah
Happy birthday Sarah!
Happy birthday Sarah!🥳🎉🎈🧜🏼♀️🐠🦀
Happy birthday birthday twin!!!!! Today is also my birthday and this is my favorite movie and my actual name is Ariel (not named for the mermaid, just a coincidence). Happy to watch along with you mike!🎉🎉🎉
I also love how this is supposed to be in Scandinavia and Sebastian is Jamaican 😂
Well, technically, he's Trinidadian.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster Fair. But still faaaaar from home
Honestly, I don't think that polyp that wrapped itself around Ariel's wrist was being an asshole. I think it (he? she?) was trying to stop Ariel from going any further.
Even if Ariel and Eric kissed, I don't think she would get her voice back. That was never part of the deal. Ariel's voice was the payment for being turned human.
This reaction made me appreciate Ursula more. She’s hilarious. But her being a lady doesn’t mean her motivation stems from dating Triton! You tend to like the villains and the grouches lol. Your missus’s taste reminds me of my mother’s which very much influenced me-history. XD
It’s nice that “back in the day” people used to be cast more for niche roles-like theatre or voice acting. Now it’s “the more famous you are, the better.” An over generalization of course! I just dislike how late capitalism has whittled away at niches in all aspects of marketing and production. -_-
The Little Mermaid was a book too! Written in the 1837 it was dark, sad and nothing like movie!
Ursula is so beyond extra that she's just awesome. An amazing villain. Evil to the core, but extremely talented at understanding people, what they want, what they're willing to give for it, and entrapping them with that. This movie was made at the darkest moment in Disney's history. The company was in horrific financial straits. They were literally discussing cutting the company up and selling various parts off. The animation studio had been moved into temporary trailers in the parking lot. This would be the last film they made. And they animated their absolute souls into it. This movie saved the company and launched Disney's "golden age" of films. Among their most loved and respected films to this day. And this was no easy film to animate. All those bubbles? Moving hair and plants underwater? Water. They put a ton into this and it paid off big. Decades later, the man who animated Ariel, Glen Keane, would direct the film that launched the next Disney golden age... Rapunzel. And you can see significant similarities in how both Ariel and Rapunzel move and act. Their flirtatious, feisty nature, movement, etc.
If you want a really great reimagining of a Disney happily ever after, Cinderella 3. Skip 2. Pointless. But 3 is a really well done "what if" story.
what a surprisee!!!!
And there is 2 more Little Mermaid movies you have to watch as well!!!!
Oh no you dont lol, after Kronk's New Groove, I'm VERY careful about investing time into Disney sequels lol
I also liked this classic, iconic, and brilliant Disney movie, can’t wait to see it in theaters!!!!’ I actually haven’t seen the original in several years!!!! But even though I haven’t seen it in years, I still remember the songs, like Part of Your World, Poor Unfortunate Souls, Kiss the Girl, and of course UNDER THE SEA!!!! Also remember the characters, Ariel, Flounder, Sebastian, Prince Eric, Ursula, King Triton!!!!! SCUTTLE AS WELL!!!! Plus CANT FORGET THE DINGLEHOPPER!!!!!
Prepare for a miserable time because Disney being the soul sucking vampires they are destroyed everything that is good about the original and turned it into absolute shit.
@@summerrose8110 no one asked
Happy birthday to Sarah! Make him watch the prequel and the sequel...
Fwcietc, in the first few scenes of the birthday celebration, looks out for goofy, micky, and Donald in or near the front row
I thought the movie was dumb when I watched it as a 3 year old. This huge dude thinks it’s brilliant. Lol
You'll be disappointed. The original was the best version.
Happy Birthday to Sarah! 🎂🎉