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Rating: 6/10 (28 June 2005)

This movie was wonderful I watched it when I was younger in 1998 and I loved it but when I was even younger my dad bought a different earlier anime version that was so much better than the singing and dancing and happy endings in Disneys version of The Little Mermaid. This version of Hans Christian Andersen The Little Mermaid is about a young beautiful mermaid named Marina with her sisters, grandmother, father and her best friend Fritz the dolphin and she gives her voice to a sea witch to have legs so she can be with her beloved prince that she saved in a huge storm. But the cost was she had to give the sea witch her beautiful voice and if she did not marry him she would die and turn to sea foam of his wedding night. Well at sunrise she drinks the potion and painfully gets her human legs and she stays with the prince for a little bit over a month and he thinks that some other girl saved him well he cannot find her so he falls in love with Marina but his parents are forcing the prince to get married to another princess (which is the black haired girl that he thought saved him) He soon finds out that she is the princess he is forced to marry and he is happy and she realizes there is no hope for her and then her best friend Fritz the dolphin tells Marinas sisters and they went to the sea witch to help Marina and in exchange for their long beautiful hair they got a magical knife that was to be used to kill the prince in his sleep and when the blood touched Marinas feet they would turn back into fins and she could return to the sea but she stops because she says if her prince is happy she is happy and this sweet girl throws the knife into the sea and she dives over the boat into the water and drowns herself as she turns into sea foam while her prince stands there too late watching with a scale that she gave him and a pearl shell hairpiece of Marinas. At the end Marina turns into sea foam while her friend Fritz chases her while yelling Marina! But she is sea foam and in the Disney version there is a happy ending which I think is wrong that they copied this beautiful anime version of the little mermaid and made it into a happy movie instead of the original one. If you have any information about this movie please email me at sodapopbabe281@yahoo.com