Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #169 in VHS
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Sound, NTSC, HiFi Sound
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 83 minutes

Customer Reviews

A remarkable family film from the HOUSE of MOUSE
While "Beauty and the Beast" may have nominated for BEST Picture, "The Lion King" may have captured the world's attention, and "Aladdin" may have soared with a Robin Williams-voiced genie, "The Little Mermaid" still stands as the landmark film that brought Disney animation to the forefront.

The first of the studio's modern-day musicals, "The Little Mermaid" has it all: a feisty heroine, a faithful mentor/protector, a slightly off-center sidekick, a hunky leading man, a Godlike father, and a villain at the peak of wickedness.

The vocal performances by Jodi Benson ("Ariel"), Kenneth Mars ("King Triton"), Samuel E. Wright ("Sebastian"), Buddy Hackett ("Scuttle") and Pat Carroll ("Ursula") are, without a doubt, the best ever heard in a Disney film. Able-bodied vocal support is given by the always-dependable Rene Auberjoinois as a set-upon French chef.

The songs ("Under the Sea", "Part of Your World", "Poor Unfortunate Soul", "Kiss the Girl") are Broadway-worthy.

It's a shame that the film is not in circulation at the moment. It is truly one in need of remastering and "special edition" status with extras.

I love this Original Edition
Disney's 1989 animated film THE LITTLE MERMAID is a very formidable movie, surpassing the combined visual and musical artistic talents of all concerned. Character development is one of the strong points of THE LITTLE MERMAID achieved through concise dialogue, music and simplistic yet effective images. However, most effective to the success of this film are the songs that advance the story line and define the characters. That was the brilliance of lyricist Howard Ashman's contribution to THE LITTLE MERMAID. He and composer Alan Menken developed songs that in several minutes clearly define Ariel's reckless but innocent curiosity about the humans above and her yearning to discover that world. Every song in THE LITTLE MERMAID bolsters the depth of the characters, advances the plot or enhances the significance of a scene in addition to being very melodic and well written. So in THE LITTLE MERMAID we are given a substantial amount of information and entertainment in a minimum amount of time. There is not a single frame of wasted footage in this film. The combined effort is one of a splendid and effortless looking perfect creation of a classical animated Disney tale. I love this original edition on VHS.

The best movie ever!
Ever since I was little I loved The Little Mermaid. The movie is about a mermaid who falls in love with a human prince after she rescues him from drowing. She decides that she wants to be a human. Since the mermaid thinks her father won't turn her into a human she visits the evil sea witch Ursula and decides to turn her into a human. But there are a few catches. The first catch is the mermaid has to kiss the prince in three days. If she doesn't she will belong to Ursula. The last catch is the mermaid has to give her voice to the sea witch. Ursula has crafty plans to try to keep the mermaid from kissing the prince, including disguising herself as the beautiful Vanessa and using the mermaid's voice into tricking the prince that she's the one who rescued him.At the end of the movie the prince kills Ursula, the memaid's father turns the mermaid into a human, and the mermaid and the prince get married. I recommend that people who love Disney movies should go rent this movie.