Little Girls Everywhere STILL Rejoice Over This!
The 80's were not kind to Disney, as most of their animated films during that period didn't become the classics I'm sure they were intended to be. But then along came Disney's interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid; you couldn't get away from this movie if you tried. Toys stores, McDonald's, backpacks, Jell-O...everywhere you looked, there it was. I enjoyed it mostly because those damn songs (written by the dynamic Alan Menkin and Howard Ashman) absolutely would not leave me alone, and I had thoroughly enjoyed their work on Little Shop of Horrors three years previous to this film being released. I find myself watching it every few years and, no matter how much my taste in films have changed over the years, it still brings a smile to my face. Fun for the whole family!