The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea

Plot synopsis:
A year has passed since the events of the first film. In that time, Ariel has given birth to a daughter, named Melody. Ariel and Eric set sail for deeper ocean waters, to have Melody meet her extended family, as well as the residents of Atlantica. King Triton greets his granddaughter with a large smile, and a special locket.Suddenly, the festivities are put on hold as Ursula's sister Morgana arrives, with a shark named Undertow. Morgana claims she's here to exact revenge for the death of her sister, threatening to feed Melody to Undertow. Eric and Ariel manage to rescue Melody, while Triton uses his powers to turn Undertow into a small fish. Morgana and her servant escape, but not before vowing to get Melody.Upon returning to land, Ariel decides that they must keep Melody away from the ocean, to keep her safe from Morgana. Triton sadly agrees, and leaves Sebastian to watch over Melody. As Triton swims away, he drops the locket he had given Melody into a small sea trench near Eric's castle.12 years pass, and in that time, a large wall has been built around the castle. Melody in that time has grown into a young girl with black hair like her Father, and her Mother's spunky attitude. Unknown to her parents, Melody has been swimming under the wall, and out in the ocean in secret. While diving down into a small crevice, Melody uncovers the locket with her name on it, that had been meant for her 12 years ago.Meanwhile, Morgana and Undertow have retreated to an Antarctic region, where they have been in hiding from Triton for some time. Morgana attempts to reverse Undertow's shrunken state, but her magic cannot overcome Triton's. Using her magic to scan the ocean, Morgana sees Melody discover the locket, and figures the young girl can help her get revenge on Triton.Melody has since returned to the castle to prepare for her 12th birthday. However, the party does not go as planned, and through a mishap with Sebastian, Melody feels that she's ruined her own birthday party. Ariel goes to console her, but then finds the locket. Up until now, Ariel and Eric have kept secret from Melody about her heritage, and Ariel continues to deny this as Melody feels that her Mother is keeping secrets from her.Later that evening, Melody takes the locket and a row boat, and heads out for open water, figuring that the answer lies out in the ocean. Some ways away, she encounters Undertow, who explains that Morgana can help her. Melody follows Undertow to Morgana's lair, where the sea witch convinces Melody of her true heritage, and offers to turn the girl into a mermaid. Melody eagerly accepts, and excitedly tries out her new fins!Meanwhile, Ariel and Eric have informed Triton of Melody's disappearance. Triton has sent out his own search parties, but Eric recommends that Ariel should also search for Melody in the ocean, while he continues the search above-water. Triton then gives Ariel back her fins, and she returns to the ocean.However, Morgana tells Melody that the magic she used isn't enough to keep her a mermaid permanently. When Melody asks what she can do to stay a mermaid even longer, Morgana claims that a magic trident in Atlantica holds the key to her wish.Morgana provides Melody with a map, but it ends up being broken along the way. She then encounters a penguin named Tip and a walrus named Dash. The two see themselves as adventurers/explorers, and at Melody's request, help guide her to Atlantica.Meanwhile, Ariel has returned to Atlantica as well to speak with her father. She also encounters Flounder, now older and with his own children. Flounder agrees to help his friend, with everyone not realizing that Melody has come to the city.After talking with some other mer-children, Melody manages to take Triton's trident, but accidentally leaves behind the locket she had previously. Triton and the others find his trident stolen, but Ariel notices two sting-rays like the kind she saw when Morgana first appeared all those years ago, and follows them.Meanwhile, Melody has neared Morgana's residence along with Tip and Dash, but the two are scared off by Undertow who quickly leads Melody to Morgana. However, before Melody can hand over the trident, Ariel appears. The two are both shocked to see the other turned into a mermaid, but Morgana plays 'devil's advocate' by convincing Melody that Ariel did a terrible thing by never telling her of her true heritage. This causes Melody to give Morgana the trident. Getting what she wanted, Morgana throws Melody in an underwater ice cave along with Flounder, sealing it off.Morgana then goes to the surface, where Scuttle has led Eric, Triton and the others to Morgana's lair. However, her wielding of the trident makes her unable to be dealt with properly. She also uses the trident's power to restore Undertow to his original size. Undertow then pursues Tip and Dash, before they send him crashing into the ice cavern, freeing Melody, just as she regains her legs.Coming to the surface, she manages to confront Morgana and get the trident back, returning it to her 'Grandfather.' Triton then freezes Morgana in a block of ice, and she sinks to the bottom of the nearby ocean.Triton is finally able to see his Granddaughter for the first time in many years, and offers her a choice to either be human or a mermaid. However, Melody proposes a compromise.Using the trident, she destroys the sea wall around her parent's castle, so that both sides of her family can co-exist in harmony.

Tags: good versus evil, revenge, psychedelic

Review:
It just reminded me of all the annoying characters on the Disney channel-everyone is hyperactive and the story jumps from action to embarrassing scenes without any really connection.The most disappointing part was the horrible songs-not catchy, not amazing.
I loved The Little Mermaid, it's one of my all time favorite Disney movies, I grew up with it and I still watch it every once in a while.
While I wasn't that impressed, it was better than most Disney sequels that are normally lame and predictable.Ariel and Eric have had a daughter, Melody.
So after a 9 year old review, it's time to give this movie a much better review.First of all, This is a direct sequel to the 1989 classic that revitalized Disney as a serious movie making company.
The sequel is a mirror image, with a young girl who dreams of life in the sea.So the story begins a year or so after the events of the first movie.
they didn't say anything and didn't really have the same demonic effect as their predecessors, Flotsam & Jetsam did.As for the returning characters, Ariel is a bit more mature and mother-like, but lacks the strength she had in the original movie.
The  story  is  beautiful, although  I  thought  all  the  time  that  Ariel  and  Eric  had  made  a mistake  in  not  telling  little  Melody  that  her  mother  had originally  been  a  mermaid.
The  animation  was  also  very good.I  liked  Ariel  and  little  Melody,  but  Morgana  and  Triton  were  the best  of  the  characters.
I  even  paid  attention  to  that  neither in  the  first  film  nor  in  the  sequel  have  Ariel  or  Melody  any pains  while  walking  on  their  feet - namely,  Andersen  tells  that every  step  the  little  mermaid  takes  is  hurting  her  as  if  she  was stepping  on  an  edge  of  a  knife..
Completely isolated from her family, in order to protect Melody from Ursula the Sea Witch's sister Morgana, Ariel now longs to pull down the castle walls and return to the twinkling blue.
Very good songs, interesting character progression, awesome movie for your own little water babies!.
The story is okay, but the characters are boring, and you learn to hate Melody after a few really, really stupid moves on her part.It's not as bad as The Return of the Jafar, but not close to as good as The Lion King II: Simba's Pride or Aladdin and the King of Thieves or even Pocahontas II.
The movie is better then what people have said about it, and as an Ariel lover, it's great to see our favourite mermaid back and loving life!.
The songs weren't bad but nowhere near as good as the original, and I love Jodi Benson's voice, though "For a moment" sounded a little like the song featured in the episode "wish upon a starfish" or the beginning of it did anyway.
I was shocked and surprised by the negative reviews I saw on the web, I thought "The Little Mermaid II" is a very cute and funny sequel for everyone - kids and adults like me, though I still love the original film.
I also love Melody Ariel and Eric's little girl, she's cute as a button and I like that headstrong, rebellious spirit in her.
Like mother, like daughter huh?I have notice that the sort-of prologue sequence, (the beginning) is like the "Sleeping Beauty" story : Everyone from land and sea was invited to little Melody's presentation,until someone wicked (Morgana) intruded in on the celebration; only there's no sleeping curse.
So over all I think this film is artistically and story-wise true to the original film, and should join other great Disney sequels like: · The Lion King II, · Cinderella II and III, · Mulan II, · Lady and The Tamp II : Scamp's Adventure, · Bambi II (more like a mid-quel actually), and...
Having loved the original Little Mermaid, and having been obsessed with mermaids as a child could be, I decided I'd take the time to sit down and watch the sequel.Disney, I've got a little message for you.
If you don't have the original director and actors handy...you're just looking to get your butt whooped.In the sequel, our story begins with a slightly older Ariel and her daughter, Melody.
I'm sure she would have done a better job than Little Miss Tish over there.King Triton held none of the respect he'd earned from me in the first movie, and don't even get me started on Scuttle, Sebastian and Flounder.
I love how Disney made a sequel for the Little Mermaid by making her a mom!
The problem with "Made for home video sequel" movies is that it doesn't put too much effort into creating a new and original story.
You have the new henchmen (a shark voiced by Clancy Brown and a couple of devil rays that I guess are suppose to imitate the Flotsam & Jetsam characters) for the villain (Morgana), and your new comedic sidekicks (Tip & Dash) for Ariel's daughter (Melody).
Still I give this movie a (B-) because if you loved the original "The Little Mermaid," you still enjoy watching the old characters in this sequel.6 out of 10.
They've made so many great movies over the years that it's really sad that they've sunk to point of making sequels that aren't even good enough to put in theatres.I hope this movie is not an indication of things to come for the Walt Disney Corporation..
The movie that made you believe in Disney again every time you saw it (no matter how awful their current movies were?) If you liked the Little Mermaid in the least bit, do not walk within viewing distance of this movie.
The original had a sort of mature feel that also appealed to kids that not a lot of Disney movies generally have, and this movie ended up as a drop in a sea of terrible Disney sequels..
The old characters are back: Ariel and Eric are gifted absolutely no characterization; Triton, at least, is granted a bit of a soft spot for his granddaughter; Sebastian and Flounder retain a bit of their original charm; Scuttle is disappointingly ditzy.
The new characters include Melody, who grows pretty damn irritating as soon as, "what's shaking?" is emitted from her lips; Morgana, the loveless creature spawned from a mother who constantly idolized her older sister, Ursula (it's part of Disney's wonderful "characterization" to have Morgana relate to Melody in that sense); Undertow, Morgana's shark-turned-anchovy sidekick, along with two manta rays who gloss through various scenes without any lines; and Tip and Dash, who have already been recognized as Pumbaa and Timon incarnations, minus the humour element.ANIMATION.
"Toy Story 2" and "The Lion King II" were rare exceptions, but with crap like "Pocahontas II" and now "The Little Mermaid II," I shudder to think how Disney will ruin Quasimodo in the sequel to "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," not to mention the sheer horror revealed in the preview for "Lady and the Tramp II." In this case, it's definitely a matter of quality versus quantity..
2. Prince Eric- While he didn't have a lot of personality in the first movie, like all Disney princes, somehow his new voice and his very few lines made him even more robotic.
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000) * 1/2 (out of 4)Ariel and Eric return to the sea with their baby daughter Melody to show her off but an evil sea witch tries to destroy the child.
The parents agree that it's best to stay away from the sea but on her 12th birthday Melody decides to go on her own and before long she is turned into a mermaid but with bad results.THE LITTLE MERMAID was a very important film for Disney as it was really their first classic in a very long time and it kick-started them into one of the best periods of their career with titles such as BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN and of course THE LION KING.
Along the way they also decided it was a good idea to make direct-to-video sequels to some of their most loved classics and it should go without saying that THE LITTLE MERMAID II just didn't cut it.It seems that fan reaction has been quite split over these films but I must say that I found this to be very boring from the start and there wasn't too much life to it.
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea is in my opinion, one of the worst direct to video sequels ever made.The Bad: 1.
I think she is an infantilised version of Ariel, in terms of both personality and appearance, also very annoying and unlikable, Ariel plays as a boring and generic mother figure, Morgana is a pale imitation of Ursula, and Eric goes from a fairly likable character to a boring character, Flounder plays as a boring and generic father figure, King Triton served no purpose in the film and Tip and Dash are a blatant rip-off of Timon and Pumbaa, the list goes on.
Ariel is still very beautiful, just like in the much superior original and prequel and television series, her character design has always got a good balance of youth and maturity, and that is the reason why I think she is gorgeous.
This is a sequel to Disney's The Little Mermaid, where Ariel's daughter, Melody, yearns to be part of the ocean world.
Ariel must turn back into a mermaid to return to the sea to find Melody and also stop Morgana, sister of Ursula, from taking over the ocean.Released directly to video, this movie was probably not meant to be a masterpiece and was probably made to capitalize on the success of the original movie.
The plot is very rushed through, leaving little room for suspense and character development, and the songs were forgettable.The newer characters, especially that of the walrus and the penguin, were quite annoying and Ariel doesn't have a very large role in the story.
And, I understand that you have to stretch your imagination a bit in animated movies, but this story treated like that it is common for humans to interact with talking animals; there needed to be some intrigue, like Melody showing some astonishment when running into talking walruses, crabs and penguins.The animation was OK and I liked the fact that the filmmakers brought back a lot of the original actors to voice the characters.
Some of the action scenes were a little riveting, but the overall movie was just too rushed-through especially for such a large cast, which results in difficulty for emphasis to be placed on each one.Overall, not one of the better Disney sequels out there.
The only problem I have with this movie is that, like all other disney sequels that has came out they seem to have the same plot line.
You'd think that Disney could come with something better for a sequel than the same one for every movie.
I have watched The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, and Peter Pan plus their sequels with my 4 year old daughter.
So this brings me to the conclusion that if Disney is going to do a sequel to a movie then they could come up with a better plot line.
I believe that this movie was like most sequels and didn't surpass their original.
Disney's sequel to the popular movie The Little Mermaid is very well-done, introducing a fair balance of new characters while keeping the magic of some of the originals.Melody, Ariel's 12-year-old daughter, dreams of being a mermaid more than anything else in the world.
And she arranges for Melody to meet her in her lair, where she makes her into a mermaid, under one condition-- she has to get Triton's trident for Morgana.The Little Mermaid II is a great story about just how far parents will go to protect their children, even if it means concealing the truth to them.
Ariel's daughter, Melody, was sympathetic and I liked her companions, Tip and Dash (An amusing penguin & walrus combination)The villain is Ursula's skinny sister, Morganna, who has more depth than the former.
I thought this movie was a good effort to follow up on the Little Mermaid movie, but I just found too much hard to accept from Ursula's sister to Melody not being allowed in the water.
Sebastian!).Ariel and Eric are just placeholders, as is Triton and Grimsby.Only Melody gets her proper story, confronting Morgana and Undertow as her aide, but that does not save the day.And I do not even mention all the extraneous animal actors in the later part of the movie - atrocious and completely unnecessary!
But it's like Ariel is all grown up, she's got a child, Eric still sounds cute, Sebastian still so comical, Melody is much like her mother, King Triton has a gentle side.
don't get me wrong, i ABSOLUTELY love Disney films, especial the classics like the little mermaid and aladdin.
Disney should at least make the sequel look like it only came out a year after the original.
im not saying that its a bad thing, but you know that you have a problem when the characters of a sequel look younger than in the original...and then with the voices and personalities.
Yet, I do too, so if you don't like, along with the other people who have said positive things about The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea, well...SOL(Sorry outta luck) for you.I'm sure Disney appreciated hearing its creations suck.
I mean, "The Little Mermaid" was a good movie, but this is sooooo bad!
The songs were bad, and there was no point for having that stupid penguin and walrus, and Melody sounds like a 3-year old.
The Little Mermaid II is just another Disney sequel, following An Extremely Goofy Movie, The Return of Jafar, Pocahontas II and The Lion King II, with the lower quality of animation than the originals.
Disney's undersea adventure resurfaces in this all new story.After rejoicing over the birth of their daughter Melody, Ariel and Eric must face a new threat from Ursula's revengeful sister Morgana- forcing them to hide Melody's true mermaid heritage.
If you take the first movie, and reverse the plot (ariel wants to leave the sea, her daughter wants to go to the sea), take the same characters and give them new animals and new names, and then throw in crappy animation and the biggest suck factor, possible, you get the little mermaid 2.
Melody, Ariel's new baby daughter is threatened by Ursula's sister, Morgana.
The Little Mermaid II:Return To The Sea is a 2000 sequel to the 1989 classic The Little Mermaid only this time she is a mother to a beautiful girl named Melody who doesn't know that Ariel was a mermaid herself but got transformed into a human thanks to her father in the end of the first film to be with Eric.
Later on in the film Melody escapes the castle and decides to go to Ursula's sister Morgana(who happens to be voiced by the same woman who voiced Ursula in the first movie) to change her into a mermaid.
Like the seagull in the beginning of the film,the rainbow,Melody copying Ariel's Part Of Your World routine with the spinning around in the water etc.Having said that its not as good as the first movie as the 1st one is my 3rd favourite movie of all time,but still check it out if you loved the first movie.
Ariel and Eric celebrate the birth of their daughter Melody, but then Morgana, the crazy sister of Ursula (yes, it happened), threatened her in order to get the trident of king Triton.
Thy are there because Disney has an reputation of great comedic side characters (in their classic film made by people who know how to make a movie).
Love 'em or hate 'em, most of the Disney direct to video films which are often sequels are worse than the originals.
The story seems similar to the first movie on the surface - Ariel's daughter Melody wants to be a mermaid, like Ariel wanted to be human, but Ariel fears the dangers of the sea, like her father feared humans; particularly Morgana, sister of Ursula, the octopus witch of the original.
Ariel tries to comfort Melody, making what to the audience is just a bad joke but when you actually think about it is actually incredibly cruel - "I was a regular fish out of water," she says, and follows up by saying, "you can tell me anything" which we know simply isn't true, and she should too, having hidden that statue etc from her father 12 years previously.So it's understandable and actually a little exciting when Melody not only runs away, like Ariel did in the first movie, makes a deal with Ursula's sister and becomes a mermaid, but also then steals her grandfather's trident for the new witch.
The plot is extremely similar to the original, except that Melody wants to be a mermaid whereas Ariel wanted to be a human.
The day after I watched this, I watched the original to remind myself that The Little Mermaid is, in fact, a great Disney movie with great characters, memorable music, and beautiful animation, unlike the travesty I've just lambasted.Naturally, the girls I babysat for loved it..
The Little Mermaid is one of my absolute favorite Disney movies.
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea. When I was younger, I thought the first film was really good in childhood, so I decided to see the sequel.
Basically it's about Ariel's daughter, Melody, who wants to become a mermaid.The story could have had great potential, but they spoiled it.
She tries to keep her out of the sea because it's dangerous, and of course it's so not like the original film.The new characters stink as well!
I loved the characters much more in this movie than the original!