The Little Mermaid returns to your home theater again, this time in Blu-ray format and it’s a must-have for families, Disneyphiles, animation-lovers, music-lovers, and romantics with a soft spot for fairy tales and happy endings. It’s understandable that the good folks at Disney wanted to that ending to be a happy one. After all, in the Hans Christian Anderson source tale, the mermaid not only trades her voice for legs by having her tongue cut out… ouch!, but also loses the prince to another woman, so throws herself into the sea and dies (but at least she goes to heaven!).
With The Little Mermaid, released in the fall of 1989, a new wave of Disney films hit America both on the big screen nearly each year and in households on VHS (this was before DVD’s). This new generation of Disney movies was far from the old-fashioned Disney films of yesteryear – Snow White,...
With The Little Mermaid, released in the fall of 1989, a new wave of Disney films hit America both on the big screen nearly each year and in households on VHS (this was before DVD’s). This new generation of Disney movies was far from the old-fashioned Disney films of yesteryear – Snow White,...
- 10/7/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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