One of the best!

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2020)

My now grown-up daughters wore out only 2 VHS movies when they were children: This movie and the original movie version of "Annie". (It takes between 60 to 100+ "runs" through a typical good-quality VCR to do this.) Their favorite song was "Part of Your World" which my (at the time) 11 year-old daughter sang on stage in full costume, at school. I still have this on a VHS "home movie". Truly amazing in every respect: Animation, adaptation. original story, songs and orchestration. Great voice actors. Still a favorite to this day; now with my grandkids. Is it a "girl's movie"? Yes and no. As a (male) adult I thoroughly enjoy viewing it, even today. Their grandmother enjoys it as well. It was somewhat controversial in 1989, with the exaggerated-impossible "teen-age figure" of Ariel. Buddy Hackett as the seagull and Sebastian the Crab (Samuel E. Wright) steal every scene they appear in. Pat Carroll is deliriously evil as Ursula the Sea-Witch who comes to an explosive end (which some critics deemed too violent.) Entertaining and fun with a beautiful, happy "Disney Ending", which is far superior to the Hans Christian Anderson tale, which doesn't end well at all.