Talk:The Little Mermaid (1989 film)/Archive 1

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release date confusion

The beginning of the article lists the release date as November 15, but the infobox lists it as the 17th; imdb as well as other sources list it as the 17th. The article lists the Brazil release date as the 15th, so I'm guessing why its listed as the 15th. This is all just confusing --Dood77 16:24, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

extensive plot information

Do we really need all of this extensive plot information? RickK 02:18, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I don't see what's wrong with it. It is useful content about a well-known movie. The more detailed, the better.Vancouverguy 02:25, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I trimmed some of the extraneous details and odd and/or awkward idioms Cbradshaw 19:26, 24 July 2007 (UTC)



Popularity

This film had no low successes, it is SUPER-POPULAR, like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin, and Cinderella, although this film is a LOT more popular than Alice in Wonderland that had reactions and criticisms. --PJ Pete

The Little Mermaid II

Someone created a page for The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, I've cleaned up a little bit, but haven't seen it nor do I intend to. Anyone know more about the film and care to take a stab? Elde 01:48, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I don't want to trash talk Disney, but that movie really stunk big time.It totally crushed the image one had of The Little Mermaid and "happily ever after". Totally stupid.My 10 year old sister, after watching it, said: "I want to watch the 1st movie again so I can forget this".

It gave the story an ending typical "new" Disney (i.e. when they have to give it an ending or "what happened afterwards"). --- Hackeru

Is it just me or is it Disney sequels aren't all that good?

It isn't that disney sequals aren't that good, it's that some films (like this one) have no loose ends to tie up,therefore when Disney attempts to engineer a 2nd film out of it what they end up doing is killing the 1st film entirely. Take Toy Story for example,in that film the ending (christmas at the house) left room for a sequal because they introduced new toys and had a whole new setting,there for the 2nd film didn't stink.If Disney could just learn which films can have 2's and 3's and which ones were finished when they were finished we would all be better off I think. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:31, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Images to be allowed or forbidden in this article or on Wikipedia

The 1989 poster with a large cast of characters and the palace, and the 1990 VHS cover are both NOT allowed in this article or on Wikipedia, because it contains obscene content. --PJ Pete

  • Uh-huh. And you'll decide that all on your own, will you? There is no censorship on Wikipedia. Every other Disney animated feature includes the image of the original release poster (with the exception of Fantasia 2000, which uses the IMAX version). This title should be no exception. PacificBoy 15:10, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

You do understand that it was not intentional right? It was an accident and most the spires on the palace look that way anyways. The minister in the movie is supposed to have a boner but if you really look at it it's his knees. You are blowing this one way out of proportion. Mermaidmia 01:24, 14 May 2007 (UTC)MermaidMia

How dare you try and censor wikipedia articles to suit your own agenda. A penis is just a body part, it is not offensive. If it was someone involved in a sexual act, I might understand. But you are not to bring your agenda into this!

Limited Issue DVD Cover

For the 1999 Limited Issue DVD cover, that means that they make as many until they no longer make copies of these, and in this article, you should put a date of when it went out of print or when The Walt Disney Company quit making copies of it. --PJ Pete

Red Links

I'm inclined to unlink some of the characters with red links. Many of them are unimportant except in the context of this article. Would anyone think this unreasonable? -rasd

I took care of it. PacificBoy 17:46, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

An edit war has erupted

...with a vandal by the IP number of 24.92.46.16. (See history now for evidence.) I feel this page should be semi-protected for a day or two. --Slgrandson 21:05, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Article contradiction

I noticed a contradiction in the article from the. following two lines. The first is from the "Production" part of the article:

"In 1985, "The Great Mouse Detective" co-director Ron Clements discovered a collection of Hans C. Anderson's fairy tales while browsing a bookstore. He presented a two-page draft of a movie based on "The Little Mermaid" to CEO Michael Eisner and Walt Disney Pictures boss Jeffrey Katzenberg, who green-lighted the idea for possible development, along with "Oliver & Company".

Howeverm later in the article, in the trivia section, it states:

"The film was originally planned as one of Disney's earliest films. Production started soon after Snow White, but was put on hold due to several circumstances."

Which is correct? Mouse Nightshirt 21:44, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

They don't contradict one another. Just because a Little Mermaid film was planned in the 1940s doesn't mean that it was in any way related to the project that began in the 80s. - Debuskjt 01:56, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

To tell the truth, it's NOT true that it was originally planned as one of the earliest films, otherwise if they put it on hold, they would have cancelled it, because the year it was released is a lot of years away from the year the earliest films were first released, and for real, The Walt Disney Company company actually started producing this film in either 1985, 1986, OR 1987. --PJ Pete


Also the article mentions that this film was the first to be animated using CAPS, then later says it was the last film to be traditionally animated before the introduction of CAPS 220.235.96.169 (talk) 00:27, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

2006 Singles

I removed the entire section. A web search of major retailers and a general Google reveals no evidence that either song was ever released for sale as a separate single. - Debuskjt 14:45, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Maybe they can be listed as promotional covers? Annie D 04:22, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Should This Be Included?

I'm almost positive in the scene where Ariel is getting married the priest has an erection. Wasn't sure if something like that should be included in the article.

It's his knee, which is clear in the faraway shots and just animated wrongly in the close-up. That shot has also been "fixed" for the oncoming Platinum DVD release. Annie D 04:21, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Trivia?

Many of the items in the trivia section are uncited, so why are they included? Is there any reason to believe that any of them are factual or just made up? 70.91.35.30 19:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Tim

What's going on?!

Yesterday, a group of links to a porn site were removed. Why are they back?! I don't see any more edits listed in the history!

P.S.IS SEBASTIEN A CRAB OR A LOBSTER????????!!!!!!!!!!! Crab.--SUIT-n-tie 07:50, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

ALL RIGHT.......WHO DID THIS???????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All right, some editor basically vandalized the main plot section.Here is what (s)he added:

"While the spell gets into Ariel's body, Ariel falls for a moment in a kind of jucnture when the spell's taking out her voice. After that, Ursula's spell traps Ariel in a bubble and splits Ariel's tail into two legs and changing her into a human. Ariel's seashell bra breaks apart exposing her breasts. When the bubble plops, Ariel can't swim to the surface. She trashes around, kicks her legs, shakes her hips, and jiggles her boobs.So Sebastian and Flounder drag Ariel to the surface in the iconic scene where she breaks into the sky and takes her 1st breath of air as a human. She lays in the shallow shoreline naked.In a matter of minutes, Eric comes along and sees Ariel sitting on a rock, naked. His initial hopes that Ariel is the one he is looking for are dashed when he learns that she can't speak. But, he is happy to find a beautiful naked woman, so he helps her up, shows her to a cave, and they make out."

Not only is that a very bad thing to mention in a plot for a CHILDREN'S FILM, but that is not even close to what had happened at all. The only thing that is true about the statement is Flounder and Sebastian helping Ariel to break the surface to breathe and Prince Eric's initial hopes of Ariel being the one who saved him are dashed when he finds out she cannot speak.Her seashell bra never broke,she never was naked, and obviously Eric never took her to a cave. So someone please edit out this obviously false garbage from this article. It was just some vandalism. It seems to have been removed--$UIT 21:47, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Your right that it was vandalism and your mostly right about it not being true because Ariel was shortly "naked", her seashell bra obviously didn't break, but her tail was gone and her legs and crotch were bare. But we didn't see anything, nor did Eric because before he got there, Scuttle put an odd dress on her. 68.165.173.12 21:23, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Rewrite tag

What's up with the rewrite tag on the top of the article? What issues are there that the article needs to be re-written? If nothing comes up, I'm going to remove it. Annie D 02:14, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

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