Academy Awards, USA 1990
| Won Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Alan Menken (music) Howard Ashman (lyrics)
For the song "Under the Sea"
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| Best Music, Original Score Alan Menken | |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Alan Menken (music) Howard Ashman (lyrics)
For the song "Kiss the Girl"
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Buena Vista Pictures
Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Disney)
A teenage mermaid obsessed with human culture eventually falls in love with a man she saves from a shipwreck. She makes a bargain with a sea witch to become human so she can be with him, little realizing that the witch wants the powerful trident of her father the king. After three days as a human, she returns to mermaid form and is heartbroken to leave her newfound love. Imprisoned by the sea witch, her father is tricked into taking her place, giving full power to the witch as a result. It is up to the human to defeat the witch and win back the mermaid amidst a chaotic ocean storm. Hugely successful film for Disney set the stage for the resurgence of its animated films in the 1990s. However, it is really nothing more than teenage melodrama interspersed with Broadway-style songs and comic relief from anthropomorphic sea creatures.
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