JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Jesper Brun I vaguely remembered this sequel to the amazing The Little Mermaid from my childhood. The only thing I remembered was the new villainess, Morgana. And, you know what, that explains everything. I watched it this evening and tried hard to decide what to say about it. The end result was that apart from a few scenes everything was handled lazily. The songs are forgettable, the animation is boring, most of the characters are bland and the story is predictable. I do not hate it, it was just bland. The returnng characters of Ariel and Eric are constantly showing bad parenthood. Morgana threatens their newly born daughter, Melody, and they decide to keep her away from the sea. Does this sound like a bad rehash of the first movie? Exactly. As an adult you know almost exactly what is going to happen. The songs are forgettable, the animation is boring, most of the characters are bland and the story is predictable. I do not hate it, it was just bland. There are also these new comic relief characters whose antics we see too much. They made me smile once in a while, but I would've liked to see a more developed plot or more interesting characters.I sat with a feeling of emptiness almost all the time. Stuff just happened and was never explored. The time with Morgana was okay, perhaps because of Pat Caroll's delicious voice. It did not offend me as much as "Belle's Magical World" or "Hunchback II" and the climax of The Little Mermaid: Return to the Sea is rather decent, but overall the movie is strictly for the kids who has no sense of judgement.

Joelle Al Disney has come up with many great movies in the past. From Bambi, to The lion King, to Aladdin. Whenever Disney came out with another movie, I always would be excited to see it. Little Mermaid 2 came out whenever I was 9 years old, and even then, I hated it. I always wondered what made Melody so special? The first child from the land and sea? What? Why does she get such a magical adventure? She's nothing but a spoiled brat who doesn't know how to listen and is not appreciative of what she has and yet, she gets to have this magical adventure and meet tons of amazing friend and ends up saving everyone she loves all because she's a selfish gullible child. This movie ruined everything I love about Disney.

licedwar When I was 10, I watched this movie for the first time and loved it. This is because I was 10 and was entertained by any animated movie. You could have shown me a 90 minute cartoon solely about talking garbage cans and I would've thought it was great.The other day I was babysitting some girls, and they wanted to watch a Disney movie, so I pulled out an old box consisting of several Disney classics and this one. They picked Little Mermaid 2, so I thought that this would be a good excuse to relive some childhood memories. At the end of the movie, I realized that the sequel that I used to think was awesome was actually a nauseatingly bad piece of...ship. The old characters have no personality, and Ariel and Eric have been reduced to cardboard cutouts. Melody, their daughter, is supposed to be the lovable misfit, but she is far too sickening and and perfect to be lovable. The plot is extremely similar to the original, except that Melody wants to be a mermaid whereas Ariel wanted to be a human. The songs lack any of the first movie's charm, and it feels like the creators just stuck them in there for the sake of putting songs in. The animation is flat and boring, lacking the subtleties in the first movie (noticing a pattern here?). Flounder is not nearly as adorable, Scuttle has become so dumb that it hurts to hear him speak, and Morgana, the new villain, is like a much less intimidating version of Ursula. Morgana's sidekicks are not especially menacing either- her pet shark is more oafish than frightening. Two new characters, a penguin and walrus duo, are forced comedy relief. Their shtick is that they are cowards who aspire to be heroes, and at the end of the film they finally get to become heroes. Very original. The day after I watched this, I watched the original to remind myself that The Little Mermaid is, in fact, a great Disney movie with great characters, memorable music, and beautiful animation, unlike the travesty I've just lambasted.Naturally, the girls I babysat for loved it.

whatever_123 I loved the first Little Mermaid. I know the songs, I love the characters and I love the story. I can't say anything like that about The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea. It was terrible. Let's start with the story. The plot was a reversed copy of the first movie. Same situations, except in reverse! Ariel wanted to live on land, her daughter Melody (creative name) wants to live in the sea. Ariel was tricked by Ursula, Melody is tricked by Ursula's sister, Morgana. Ursula had a sister?? Not sure where that came from. Besides being a strange copy of the first movie, this movies plot seemed tired and was uninteresting compared to the first movie. Now the characters: 1. Ariel- What happened to her??!! No longer the spunky, headstrong teenager we all knew and loved from the first movie, she has now "grown up" and her personality went down the drain. Her singing voice wasn't as strong either, due to either Jodi Benson being a lot older, or the songs being so terrible that her talent was wasted. 2. Prince Eric- While he didn't have a lot of personality in the first movie, like all Disney princes, somehow his new voice and his very few lines made him even more robotic. To top it off, he just can't seem to defend himself, and Ariel becomes the tough one of the two. 3. Sebastian- Say goodbye to the lovable crustacean from the first movie, because a whiny, aggravating little crab just took his place. He also had no good songs in this movie. You can almost forget the glory he earned from singing the incredible "Under the Sea" and "Kiss the Girl" from the first movie, and it is very sad. 4. Flounder- They destroyed him!! He is not cute anymore, his voice is terrible, and he has kids now?? Who's the mother??? 5. Morgana- She appears to be Ursula's sister out for revenge against her mother, who always picked Ursula over her. So she plans to get King Triton's trident to become the new ruler of the sea. Sound familiar? Anyway, she's a very cliché villain and falls short of Ursula's greatness as a villain. She epically fails at witchcraft, she's not very tough, and not threatening at all. 6.Melody- Ariel and Eric's daughter. Ironic name because she, unlike Ariel, can't sing. Her voice is annoying, her friends (a walrus and a penguin?? Really?!) are not funny or likable, and she's exactly the same as Ariel, in reverse and not as likable. Skip this one. Don't watch any Disney sequel except for Lion King 2. This movie butchered the classic that lives in all our pleasant memories. I will look back at this movie and just laugh.