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Film · 1989 · Animated
The Little Mermaid
Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker
1989
★ 6.1 editorial score
Disney's renaissance starts here: Howard Ashman and Alan Menken wrote the songs like Broadway numbers, and the studio remembered how to make an animated musical that adults would sit through.
“What's best about "The Little Mermaid" is the visual invention with which the adventures are drawn. There is a lightness and a freedom about the settings - from Triton's underwater throne room to storms at sea to Ursula's garden of captured souls...The songs are good, too. "The Little Mermaid" contains some of the best Disney music since the glory days.”
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