| Buena Vista Distribution Company | Release Date: November 17, 1989 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
The animation is dazzling (two-thirds of the movie is set underwater). The love story between mermaid Ariel (the sweet voice of Jodi Benson) and mortal Prince Eric (Christopher Daniel Barnes) is fairy-tale wonderful. And there is a slew of terrific side characters that make the movie as entertaining for adults as it is for children.
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The Little Mermaid is magic and joy for everyone, and teaches us all to never lose sight of dreams and hope. [06 Nov 1989]
The Little Mermaid, or Hans Christian Andersen Goes Hip, is the most thoroughly socko kiddie cartoon feature in decades. [15 Nov 1989, p.1D]
The Little Mermaid is teeming with life, and best of all, it may show the young ones that the oceans are, too. [17 Nov 1989, p.G4]
An absolute masterpiece in the Disney tradition. [17 Nov 1989, p.11]
The Little Mermaid is more than Disney Lite, as so many of the studio's animations of the last couple of decades have been. It offers a strong link to the classic Disney tradition while generating freshly hatched delights. And it puts Disney back in the animation game in a big way. [17 Nov 1989, p.85p]
Though it’s a good movie in and of itself, The Little Mermaid is even more fascinating as a Rosetta Stone of Disney history, representing the classic animation techniques that the studio revived for this film, the cheap shortcuts that had prevailed for much of the previous two decades, and the sophisticated modern storytelling that soon became the standard.
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Disney-style kitsch. It's technologically sophisticated, but with just about all the simpering old Disney values in place.
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