Bluebell Alcock
Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Married Baby
Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
Celia
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
TheLittleSongbird
I love Hans Christian Andersen's story, it is charming and beautiful with memorable characters. And this anime film is the closest in tone to the story to any other adaptation I've seen(not many but there are a few). I love the Disney film as well and prefer it just by a small margin, but I find this one just as beautiful and poignant if not more so.While the animation is not the best there is, it is still quite nice with fluid backgrounds, pretty colours and well drawn characters. The music is tender and gives the film its heart, while the writing is wonderfully poetic and the story still has its magic and tenderness with well-explored themes of love and loss.The characters are engaging still. Marina is a great protagonist and a beautiful one too, while the Prince, King, Fritz and the Witch are well done too and all the characters are very well voiced in both the original and dubbed versions. I love how there wasn't too much comedy to interrupt the flow or spoil the mood. Oh, and the ending has me in floods of tears every time I watch it.This anime version of The Little Mermaid isn't completely perfect, some of the sound is a little hazy and the lip synching is occasionally sloppy, but overall it is wonderful. 9/10 Bethany Cox
Synefra Geier
*Spoiler* Princess MARINA turns 15, receives a PEARL HAIRPIN for her birthday. She ventures to the surface with her dolphin friend FRITZ. Falls in love with a human prince after saving him, the prince thinks it was a woman at a temple who rescued him. Marina trades her voice to the sea witch for a potion so she will have legs. Prince finds her and believes that shes a princess because of her pearl hairpin. CAT tries to get rid of her while the prince and her is out riding. she gets attacked by wolves, prince rescues her. The princes told he has to marry a princess. He refuses then later tells marina that the only girl he wants to marry is the girl that saved him but since he cant find that girl he would like to marry her. The king and queen trick him into meeting his future bride. He is excited because it is the girl he thinks saved him. They get married and it breaks marinas heart, her sisters meet her at the boat and give her a dagger to plunge into his heart that they traded their hair for. She goes to the prince in his wedding bed but cant kill him. He wakes as she is going out to die on the deck, realizing it was her that saved him. She leaves her pearl hairpin and a scale from her tale on the edge of the boat, he reaches the deck in time to see her turn into sea foam.
jessica_dabrosca
I too was introduced to this movie when I was about 7 or 8 and instantly fell in love with this tale of love, loss and sacrifice and consequence. I have not seen this movie since I was young and have been on a quest to find if it is still available for purchase ever since (the world wide web has helped very much). I would like my children to experience this movie in its original form as Hans Christianson Anderson meant it to be told.Like other comments I've read, I too was disappointed with the Disney version of this tale, but not surprised.To all of you who loved Marina and Fritz over Ariel and Sebastein, you will love The Last Unicorn...then again, you may have already seen it way back when.
onebleedingraven
Wow! This was the best mermaid movie I have seen, although the animation, not the greatest! This was the absolute original story about the Little Mermaid. The Disney Version has a happy ending, and this one does too! Well its not Happy Happy for the viewer as much as for the main character- Marina! Well her sacrifice for him was the sweetest thing! "Her" happiness is "His" happiness. Awe! It melted my heart! Who would have thought self-sacrifice could be soo sweet and charming and soo beautiful! Romantic Suicide, but not just suicide. I loved this film soo much more than I did the Disney version. The music is so wonderful! I wish I could play the harp! and that song she plays is soo amazing. Wow! It gives me hope! Lots of it! How she could just jump like that into her own conscious mind and soul (the ocean-where she belongs)! My last words are...(speechless)
