Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID

DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID WAS RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 17TH 1989.

THE LITTLE MERMAID IS A 1989 AMERICAN ANIMATED MUSICAL FANTASY FILM PRODUCED BY WALT DISNEY FEATURE ANIMATION AND WALT DISNEY PICTURES THE 28TH DISNEY ANIMATION FEATURE FILM IT IS LOOSELY BASED ON 1837 DANISH FAIRY TALE OF THE SAME NAME HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON . THE FILM TELLS A STORY OF MERMAID NAMED ARIEL WHO DREAMS OF BECOMING A HUMAN AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH A HUMAN PRINCE NAMED ERIC WHICH LEADS HER TO MAKE A MAGIC DEAL WITH THE SEA WITCH URSULA TO BECOME A HUMAN AND BE WITH HIM. THE LITTLE MERMAID WAS WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY RON CLEMENTS AND JOHN MUSCKER AND PRODUCED BY MUSKER AND HOWARD ASHMAN THE ORGANAL SONGS WERE WRITTEN BY ASHMAN AND ALAN MECKIN THE FLIM FEATURES JODI BENSON AS ARIEL , CHRISTOPHER DANNELL BARNS, PAT CARROLL AS URSUALA , SAMUEL E WRIGHT, JASON MARTIN, KENNITH MARS AND BUDDY HATCHET WALT DISNEY PLANNED TO PUT THE STORY IN A PROPOSED PACKAGE FILM CONTAINING ANDERSON’S STORIES BUT SCRAPPED THE PROJECT. IN 1985 WHILE WORKING ON THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE AND 1986 CLEMENTS AND MUSKER DECIDED TO ADAPT THE FAIRY TALE AND PROPOSE IT TO DISNEY STUDIO CHAIRMAN JEFFERY KATZENBURG WHO INITIALLY DECLINED DUE TO ITS SIMILARITIES TO THE 1984 FILM SPLASH BUT ULTIMATELY APPROVED OF IT ASHMAN BECAME INVOLVED AND BROUGHT N MECKIN WITH SUPERVISION FRO KATZENBURG THEY MADE A BRODWAY STYLE STRUCTURE WITH MUSICAL NUMBERS AS THE STAFF WAS WORKING ON OLIVER AND COMPANY KATZENBURG WARNED THAT THE FILM WOULD EARN LESS SINCE IT WOULD APPEAL TO FEMALES BUT HE BECAME CONVINCED THAT IT WOULD BE DISNEY’S BLOCKBUSTER HIT THE LITTLE MERMAID RELEASED TO THEATERS ON NOVEMBER 17 TH 1989 TO ACCLAIM EARNING PRAISE FOR THE ANIMATION, MUSIC AND CHARACTERS IT WAS A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS GARNERING $84 MILLION DOLLARS AT THE DOMSITC BOX OFFICE DURING ITS DOMESTIC DURING ITS INITIAL REALSE AND $ 235 MILLION IN TOTAL LIFETIME GROSS WORLDWIDE AFTER THE MAJOR SUCCESS OF BOTH THE 1986 DISNEY ANIMATED THE GREAT MOUSE AND 1988 WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT THE LITTLE MERMAID MARKED THE ERA KNOWN AS THE DISNEY RENAISSANCE THE FILM WON TWO ACADEMY AWARDS FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE AND BEST ORGINAL SONG UNDER THE SEA THE FILMS SUCCESS LEAD TO THE SEQAL THE LITTLE MERMAID SERIES IN THE 90’S ,THE LITTLE MERMAID BRODWAY MUSICAL, THE LITTLE MERMAID 3 ARIEL’S BEGINNING NOW THERE'[S GOING TO BE A DISNEY’S LITTLE MERMAID LIVE ACTION MOVIE COMING NEXT YEAR IN 2023. I POSITIVELY LOVE THIS MAGICAL AMAZING FANTASTIC DISNEY MOVIE I LOVE THE SONGS, ANIMATION CHARACTERS AND THE MUSIC I DEFINITELY POSITIVELY HIGHLY RECCOMED THIS DISNEY MOVIE FOR THOSE WHO LOVE DISNEY PRINCESS, INCREADBLE SONGS , ANIMATION AND CHARTERS WHO ARE SO SPECTACULAR AND EVERYONE IS THE GOOD GUYS EXCEPT URSULA AND HER MINIONS FLOSTOM AND JESOM I GIVE DISNEY’S LITTLE MERMAID 5 GOLDEN STARS