An Easy Love Story?

Rating: 7/10 (12 July 2019)

It has nice musical numbers, and the music itself sounds like it belongs underwater with the rhythm and the beat. Ariel's voice actress, Jodi Benson does have a nice singing voice, and the characters are well done and funny. However, the main issue with The Little Mermaid is that the heroine, Ariel is willing to stop seeing her father and sisters and underwater friends forever just to be with an unknown man she hasn't even spoken to. Falling in love with someone on looks when you're giving up your voice for a pair of human legs when you don't even know the guy's name is pretty dumb. Now I know this takes place in that old time, but Ariel focused a whole three days to fall in love with someone and get him to kiss her because they were "handsome". It takes more than a few minutes or three days to fall in love. In the scene where she doesn't hesitate to say the famous love story line "Daddy, I love him!" when she hasn't spoken one word to him.
Now overall this is a good movie, but I wouldn't make it one if my all time Disney favorites considering that most princess movies are about love, when The Little Mermaid makes it good over the top some.