Vanina’s review published on Letterboxd:
I was flu-y, okay? Nothing quite like having to take care of yourself when you're ill, deciding to allow yourself a little wallow in your childhood and then being confronted with this shit. So painful.
The original Disney 'Little Mermaid' was pretty much my Disney movie growing up. Belle was my favourite princess (I think favourite Disney princesses are really down to sharing a girl's hair colour), but 'The Little Mermaid' came out when I was four and so the film completely captured my imagination.
I was a complete Mummy and Daddy's girl (still am) and I never understood why she chose Prince Eric over her family. That moment where she says goodbye to her Dad still makes me weep, and again in this film, Ariel never says goodbye to her father or Flounder or Sebastian and I dislike her for that. As for Eric, he has two lines about women being late and that's about it. Pff, what a prince.
This film spends an exorbitant amount of its running time on a really shittily-drawn penguin and walrus, which I think is Disney's problem when it comes to sequels: giving far too much attention to characters no one cares about. The film's only saving grace is that so many of the original voice actors returned.
Would still love to have hair like that, though.