BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Hermione Granger This is not one of Disney's best sequels. If you want a good sequel for once, try Simba's Pride. But this, on the other hand, was a flop. It was entertaining for a six-year-old, but the entire thing is The Little Mermaid all over again. Ariel and Eric are married and live on land with a great wall blocking the sea. Their daughter was born on a ship in the sea before the wall was built, and she was given a gift with her name on it, but it was lost to the sea. Now she's twelve and drawn to the sea, and one day she finds the gift with her name and questions her mother. It turns out Ursula has a sister, and, like Ursula, wants King Triton's trident. Ariel seems much more grown up and too mother-like, which I don't enjoy. It turns out the voice of Ursula is the voice of Ursula's sister.The plot is very similar to the first movie, and it has some pretty weird stuff in it. I recommend you skip it unless your daughter wants a bit more of The Little Mermaid, anything more. This is "anything." It's not worth being called "something."

Bonnie O'Connor Weak, inconsistent, rushed, and lazy are the words I have to describe this poorly done sequel. What's the plot? Basically it's about Ariel's daughter, Melody, who wants to become a mermaid.The story could have had great potential, but they spoiled it. Where do I start? Melody: she's got no character compared to Ariel in the first film, all we know is that she's headstrong and loves the sea, whereas Ariel was headstrong, loved the land, a hopeless romantic, determined, and had a better written character development. It's like the writers were trying to make Melody just like her mother, just without a character development - which is what they did. In fact almost nobody in this story has real character development other than from annoying to obnoxious. Sebastian, what have they done to you? He had better laughs, a truly defined personality, and a guardian protectiveness in the first film, whereas in the film he's all laughs (and when I say "all laughs" in his case I mean "smack your head with a mallet unfunny!"). Scuttle also gets a "What have you done with him, Movie?" from me. He was dumb to an extent in the first movie, but was also helpful. Here in this movie, he's a useless blithering idiot, if you cut him from the movie it wouldn't make a difference. King Triton is underwhelming, and Ariel is just...........bland...ish, motherly blandish and a hypocrite. She tries to keep her out of the sea because it's dangerous, and of course it's so not like the original film.The new characters stink as well! Tip and Dash - DON'T REMIND ME OF THEM!!! They're so obnoxious that they make Olaf from Frozen look less annoying and more lovable. It always bothers me when Disney feels like the heroes always need a bumbling sidekick - and that they ALWAYS NEED A SONG!!! But of course we have the biggest flaw of the movie is Ursula - I mean Ursula - I mean Ursula - I mean Morgana. Her motivation is a flip flop: First she wants revenge for her sister's death (you heard right), then she's tired of her late mother favoring Ursula above her, and when she gets the Trident, does she make them pay for Ursula's death? No, she makes them bow to her. What was the point of bringing Ursula into this story - period? If she just wanted power, then fine - that's part of what motivated Ursula (aside from revenge for banishment), but the writers made her character motivation so inconsistent and rushed that not only can I not enjoy her as I did Ursula, but also it makes me beg to see the first movie with Ursula in it!The only good thing I enjoyed was hearing Ariel singing - that's always a pleasure. Also I loved in the beginning before the opening title Ariel's relationship with her baby girl - I could feel the attachment between the two for that first few seconds, but their relationship never develops afterwards. I could spend hours watching that scene (along with For a Moment).The plot and the animation being a replica of the first movie is bad enough, but the writing and story developments are horribly done that it makes me wonder if the better writers were fired and replaced by monkeys who were desperate for money. It not only hurts me to see my favorite Disney Princess go down the tubes, but to see something that was beautifully written, and beautifully animated be flushed down the toilet and resurrected as crud. It could have been a great sequel about a mother daughter relationship (which Brave did a better job on), but instead the monkey writers threw that chance away for reversed plagiarism. Shame for them.

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.