‘Little Mermaid’ prequel gets a storyline — if you can call it that
Disney is slowly releasing more info. about “The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning” — and I’m kind of getting less and less excited about it. (Not that I should have ever been excited about it. Sometimes I forget I’m 20 years old).
Here’s the “official” storyline, as listed on the DVD’s Amazon.com page:
Long ago, in a kingdom where music is outlawed, King Triton?s youngest daughter, Ariel, discovers her love for music in a secret, underground music club. Torn with the choice of whether to hide her passion or share it with her father and risk losing everything, Ariel sets off on a daring adventure to restore music to Atlantica.
On top of the next-to-worthless plot, they decided to cut Ursula out of the movie. In her place will be a new villain, Marina Del Ray, voiced by Sally Field. I wish they had kept that big mess of a drag queen Ursula, but I guess Sally Field still makes a formidable enemy. All that Boniva she’s taking has made her strong!
It’s due out on DVD on August 26th. Click here to watch the official trailer. (And prepare to be bored).
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I thought they were killing direct-to-DVD movies?
This is the last one.
They promised.
Calling it Ariel’s Beginning makes me think that it should be about King Triton shacking up with Ariel’s mysteriously missing mom.
It wouldn’t be so boring then.
She is strangely M.I.A., isn’t she?
According to IMDB, the mom is going to be in it but there wasn’t any footage of her in the trailer…
So what is with that Mermaid behind Ariel? The one with the shell on her head? She’s a sneaking b*tch. She always has been- right? She’s always craning her neck over Ariel’s shoulder. That mermaid should mind her own crap. haha. I guess I’ve just seen her a few times like that before… OK, I’m crazy. Please justify this, Spoon.
You totally don’t have to publish that- just laugh at it.
If by “justify,” you mean “clarify,” I’m pretty sure it’s one of Ariel’s sisters.
As for your other allegations, I checked with my sources and, yes, she is indeed a sneaky bitch.
Ariel probably has a bunch of sisters- she’s 1/2 fish, isn’t she? Are mermaids born like, in fish eggs? Or is it more of a manatee sort of deal… Clarity that, Disney genius.
So….It’s the Little Mermaid meets Footloose? WTF! Ariel was always my favorite princess, and I /always/ wondered what life was like before she got all bored with the ocean. So I’m seriously bummed they couldn’t give this a real shot. Also, since freaking when was it called Atlantica? Way to pull out the magic by the spine, ball it up and stuff it under the sea couch. Hmph.
Nice SAG coverage by the way, you lucky duck!
A great way to shock little Ariel fans into sobbing their hearts out. All the hype about Ariel having a mom just so a dreamy little 5 year old who adores Ariel can believe there is a Queen of the mermaids with magic and what do they do? They have to kill her off in an ugly shocking way in the first 5 minutes of the dam- movie. Music is outlawed because that’s why his wife was killed. A little girl shattered with sobbing for 5 minutes. Way to go Frickin Disney! Who thought this was a good idea? Jerks and then some! Why not have her captured by humans and rescued in a #4 or something? Dumb.
bitch i smell funny