The Little Mermaid - Ariel's Beginning (2008)

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(70%)

Starring:	Jodi Benson \| Samuel E. Wright \| Jim Cummings \| Sally Field \| Parker Goris \| Tara Strong \| Jennifer Hale \| Grey DeLisle \| Jeff Bennett \| Kari Wahlgren
Director:	Peggy Holmes
Studio:	WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time:	67 mins
Genres:	Children \| Family
Languages:	English
Released:	September 22, 2008
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Join Ariel, Sebastian and Flounder and discover how the fairytale began in the all-new Disney movie THE LITTLE MERMAID - ARIEL'S BEGINNING. Before she grew 'sick-a-swimming' Ariel had to find a way to overcome the underwater kingdom of Atlantica's strict ban on music. Filled with new songs, plenty of adventure and a wicked new villain, Marina Del Ray!

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Could have been so much better

A Customer from Bideford, 16th October, 2008

I know not to expect much from Disney sequels but this film does have the edge over the little mermaid 2, if only because the Animation quality is slightly better and the new characters are a bit more interesting. However, it does not in any way compare to the original, the 'new' songs fall flat (and not all of those supposedly new songs are new), the storyline is in no way epic and fairly predictable even by very young children and because it's a prequel when various characters are imperiled there's no tension as everyone knows they are in other little mermaid films set after this. With just a little bit of work on some real songs and a decent script writer it might have been more then just a pretty face, shame really when the original was one of Disney's best films.

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