Disney has been revived!

The Little Mermaid became the start of the 10 Disney Renaissances (others are The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan and Tarzan) and what a great success and breakthrough it became! It was the first animated musical from Disney since The Jungle Book. I think the message of this film is that it shows how much people can fall in love no matter how different one is from the other (like Beauty And The Beast).


Set at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean of a young mermaid named Ariel who is unhappy with her life down under the sea and she seeks to become a human much to the dismay of her father King Triton. One night, she saves the young Prince Eric from drowning and then falls in love with him. She sings to him on the beach and he falls in love with her but he doesn't know her name or where she is so he ends up searching for her. When her father discovers the secret grotto of Ariel's that is filled with human artefacts including a statue of Eric that was given to him for his birthday, Ariel goes to the sea-witch Ursula and is forced to make a choice between her family under the sea or the man she loves on the land.


The Little Mermaid was originally planned as a part of one of Walt Disney's earliest feature films so development started in the late 1930s just after Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs was released and it has taken them around 50 years to make. This was the last Disney animated feature to use hand-painted cels and analog camera and film work. 1,000 different colors were used on 1,100 backgrounds. Over one million drawings were done in total. This film was the most effects-animation heavy Disney animated feature since Fantasia (1940). The two minute storm sequence alone took 10 special effects animators over a year to finish. Effects animation supervisor Mark Dindal estimated that over a million bubbles were drawn for this film, in addition to the use of other processes such as airbrushing, back lighting, superimposition, and some flat-shaded computer animation. The Little Mermaid was nominated for 3 Academy Awards and won 2 of them. It won Best Original Score and Best Original Song ("Under The Sea") and another song in the film was nominated for Best Original Song which was called "Kiss The Girl".


Overall, The Little Mermaid is a magical, funny and inspiring Disney Classic that Walt Disney himself would be proud of. Disney has been revived once again.

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