Customer Reviews
Awful - By: Ms. R. P. Dressel, 21 Feb 2010 
Am from the Uk & this was sent from America. So does not work in here in my dvd player.
I am very disapionted as i have not been given a refund for my product.
It sould have been made clearer it was not from a UK supplier.
A Nice DVD - By: A. Stefan, 05 Feb 2010 
Well, I can only tell you that I have bought this DVD because of the music video "Ashley Tisdale - Kiss The Girl". I haven't found it in the WWW & even not in the shops in my city. So I bought it by Amazon. I don't need the DVD-Video. So I can't tell you anything about it.
Besides you can see that I have bought an NTSC-Version. I know from other DVDs that NTSC is better than PAL when the original comes from America. The same goes when the original is PAL. Sometimes there isn't any possiblility to buy it on Amazon.com, so buying it from '.co.uk' or '.fr' is often possible.
Christmas Gift - By: Ms. L. B. Goodwin, 11 Oct 2009 Reallly good Value for money, my little girl will love it! Had a watch of it when it arrived as it is one of my fav films & quality is brilliant. Love Disney, then this film is for you!
This is where the recovery began - By: Caroline Galwey, 10 Jun 2009 
At the end of the 1980s the Disney studio at last realised that it was futile to keep tagging along three steps behind `pop' culture (The Aristocats, Oliver & Company) & decided to go back to its magical, romantic, fairy-tale roots. The flowering eventuallly petered out, as flowerings do, but not before it had produced a whole series of joyous masterpieces & communicated the imaginative renewal to popular culture in general: the Harry Potter & Lord of the Rings films are just the tip of an iceberg that might never have materialised without the Disney revival to show the way.
The finest two minutes of this film are very near the beginning: a caught fish succeeds in flapping overboard from the deck of a ship, & swims down, down into the dim depths of the ocean. To quiet, mysterious music, we see the wonders it encounters: jewelled clams, tentacled tubefish, the eye of a baby whale, & then, in silhouette through a rocky arch - no, they can't be - merpeople! After that the film goes alll loud & two-dimensional & never quite recaptures that sheer beauty. Those two minutes stand as a promise of what Disney might do if they set aside populist demands for once & reallly let themselves go.
The first time I saw the film, alll I could pay attention to was Ariel's suggestive sea-shell bra. If you can ignore the Barbie-doll aspect, it's a fine film, loaded with fun & unexpected character depth. Ariel, the little mermaid, is an airhead, but her recklessness & resilience drive the story along: who can forget how, after the trauma of being transformed into a human by the Sea Witch & almost drowning, she basks in a rock pool & delightedly wriggles her new toes? As well as a plea for parents to understand their children, there is a message for teenagers not to underestimate their parents: King Triton is an insensitive, blustering father, but he unhesitatingly sacrifices himself for Ariel when she is caught in the witch's trap, as most parents would. The human for whom Ariel risks everything, Prince Eric, is so goofy as hardly to seem worth it, yet there is a touching irony in the fact that his very loyalty to his ideal - Ariel's beautiful voice, once heard, then taken by the Sea Witch as payment - is what ensnares him. And Ursula the Sea Witch herself is one of Disney's best villains. Her song `Poor Unfortunate Souls' is a show-stopper, her tentacular bloat a great metaphor for the greedy charlatanry that likes to reduce souls to shrivelled dependence in real life.
Not forgetting the comic characters: Sebastian the Caribbean composer crab, so ineffectual except for his utter confidence in his music - & Scuttle the seagull who pretends to know everything: `When have I ever been wrong? ... I mean, when it mattered?' The ending's a bit abrupt, & I don't think the chef deserved quite such a grisly fate. On the whole, though, great, & a taste of even greater things to come. Pay no attention to the misery-guts who complain that the original Anderson tale had a sad ending. So it did, & very sick & disturbing it was. Fairy tales are supposed to have happy endings: that was the standard long, long before Disney. How else are kids supposed to grow up with the hope to make the world a better place?
Great for little girls - By: Ajda, 15 May 2009 My 4-year-old daughter just loves this DVD. She sings songs from it, could watch it every day, would like to be a mermaid...
I guess it's probably just as interesting for older girls, or maybe more as they would understand more.
