The Little Mermaid [VHS] [1990] | ![The Little Mermaid [VHS] [1990]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fV0KuWmtL._SL160_.jpg) | Actor: John Musker|Ron Clements|Jodi Benson|Christopher Daniel Barnes
Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
Category: Video
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
Format: Animated, Digital Sound, HiFi Sound, PAL
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 79 Minutes
EAN: 5017182091325
ASIN: B00004RWQR
Theatrical Release Date: November 17, 1989
Release Date: November 23, 1998
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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From the moment that Prince Eric's ship emerged from the fog in the opening credits of The Little Mermaid in 1989 it was apparent that Disney had somehow, suddenly recaptured a "magic" that had been dormant for 30 years. In the tale of a headstrong young mermaid who yearns to "spend a day, warm on the sand", Ariel trades her voice to Ursula, the Sea Witch (classically voiced by Pat Carroll), for a pair of legs. Ariel can only succeed if she receives true love's kiss in a few day's time and she needs all the help she can from a singing crab named Sebastian, a loudmouth seagull and a flounder. The lyrics and music by song-writing team Howard Ashman and Alan Menken are top form: witty and relevant, and they advance the story (go on, hum a few bars of "Under the Sea"). Mermaid put animation back on the studio's "to do" list and was responsible for ushering 1991's Beauty and the Beast into cinemas. A modern Disney classic. --Keith Simanton
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 Little Mermaid DVD July 5, 2010
E. Beer (Kent)
Its a childhood film which I have been trying to get hold of for ages ! & finally I did !! I loved it & after 20 years I still new the words !!!
 Awful February 21, 2010
Ms. R. P. Dressel (Aberdeen)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Am from the Uk and this was sent from America. So does not work in here in my dvd player.
I am very disapionted as i have not been given a refund for my product.
It sould have been made clearer it was not from a UK supplier.
A Nice DVD February 5, 2010
A. Stefan (München)
Well, I can only tell you that I have bought this DVD because of the music video "Ashley Tisdale - Kiss The Girl". I haven't found it in the WWW and even not in the shops in my city. So I bought it by Amazon. I don't need the DVD-Video. So I can't tell you anything about it.
Besides you can see that I have bought an NTSC-Version. I know from other DVDs that NTSC is better than PAL when the original comes from America. The same goes when the original is PAL. Sometimes there isn't any possiblility to buy it on Amazon.com, so buying it from '.co.uk' or '.fr' is often possible.
Christmas Gift October 11, 2009
Ms. L. B. Goodwin (Manchester)
Really good Value for money, my little girl will love it! Had a watch of it when it arrived as it is one of my fav films and quality is brilliant. Love Disney, then this film is for you!
 This is where the recovery began June 10, 2009
Caroline Galwey (Essex, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
At the end of the 1980s the Disney studio at last realised that it was futile to keep tagging along three steps behind `pop' culture (The Aristocats, Oliver and Company) and decided to go back to its magical, romantic, fairy-tale roots. The flowering eventually petered out, as flowerings do, but not before it had produced a whole series of joyous masterpieces and communicated the imaginative renewal to popular culture in general: the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings films are just the tip of an iceberg that might never have materialised without the Disney revival to show the way.
The finest two minutes of this film are very near the beginning: a caught fish succeeds in flapping overboard from the deck of a ship, and swims down, down into the dim depths of the ocean. To quiet, mysterious music, we see the wonders it encounters: jewelled clams, tentacled tubefish, the eye of a baby whale, and then, in silhouette through a rocky arch - no, they can't be - merpeople! After that the film goes all loud and two-dimensional and never quite recaptures that sheer beauty. Those two minutes stand as a promise of what Disney might do if they set aside populist demands for once and really let themselves go.
The first time I saw the film, all I could pay attention to was Ariel's suggestive sea-shell bra. If you can ignore the Barbie-doll aspect, it's a fine film, loaded with fun and unexpected character depth. Ariel, the little mermaid, is an airhead, but her recklessness and resilience drive the story along: who can forget how, after the trauma of being transformed into a human by the Sea Witch and almost drowning, she basks in a rock pool and delightedly wriggles her new toes? As well as a plea for parents to understand their children, there is a message for teenagers not to underestimate their parents: King Triton is an insensitive, blustering father, but he unhesitatingly sacrifices himself for Ariel when she is caught in the witch's trap, as most parents would. The human for whom Ariel risks everything, Prince Eric, is so goofy as hardly to seem worth it, yet there is a touching irony in the fact that his very loyalty to his ideal - Ariel's beautiful voice, once heard, then taken by the Sea Witch as payment - is what ensnares him. And Ursula the Sea Witch herself is one of Disney's best villains. Her song `Poor Unfortunate Souls' is a show-stopper, her tentacular bloat a great metaphor for the greedy charlatanry that likes to reduce souls to shrivelled dependence in real life.
Not forgetting the comic characters: Sebastian the Caribbean composer crab, so ineffectual except for his utter confidence in his music - and Scuttle the seagull who pretends to know everything: `When have I ever been wrong? ... I mean, when it mattered?' The ending's a bit abrupt, and I don't think the chef deserved quite such a grisly fate. On the whole, though, great, and a taste of even greater things to come. Pay no attention to the misery-guts who complain that the original Anderson tale had a sad ending. So it did, and very sick and disturbing it was. Fairy tales are supposed to have happy endings: that was the standard long, long before Disney. How else are kids supposed to grow up with the hope to make the world a better place?
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