Good Idea, but...

Rating: 3/10 (21 July 2016)

Well as your read in the summary of the review, the concept of this movie is actually not bad, however there is one very big flaw in my opinion.I cannot stress this enough the flaw I have with the movie is completely subjective and also not one that most people seem to have, since this movie has a good rating of 7.6 as of now.
Now the flaw is: Ariel. Yes that is right I really haven no idea exactly what it is that makes me dislike her character. Probably since she goes completely against her fathers instructions, especially since he has a point. Humans tend to fear the unknown, and her existence would cause a riot and would not only endanger her life but also the life of everyone in that city( I don't know the name, because I just couldn't sit through this movie), which makes her completely selfish. Finally it is funny to me that she wants to live in our world, which is hell compared to hers. I know that she eventually marries the prince, which makes this point invalid, but she wanted to live in our world before she even met Eric.
Now lets talk about the positive the concept of a mermaid falling in love with a human is definitely interesting and the execution in my opinion is also good. For this reason I would award around seven to ten stars, and I tend to be rather lenient on animations, so it would get 10 stars, next there is the animation itself, which was really good as expected from Disney, and finally the music was superb, which was also expected back in those days from Disney.
However this does not change the fact that characters are more important than any element, since a good story, such as this was spoiled, because of Ariel's character, while a bad story can still be saved by good characters. In this case that bad character also happened to be the one that got most screen time considering she was the story's main protagonist. Which is why my final review is 3/10 stars.