The Little Mermaid.

 

                                             The Little Mermaid.

 The film tells the story of a mermaid Princess named Ariel, who dreams of becoming human and falls in love with a human prince named Eric, which leads her to make a magic deal with an evil sea witch to become human and be with him. The Little Mermaid is given credit for breathing life back into the art of Disney animated feature films after some films produced by Disney were struggling. It also marked the start of the era known as the Disney Renaissance. The Little Mermaid was originally planned as part of one of Walt Disney's earliest feature films, a proposed package film featuring vignettes of Hans Christian Andersen tales. Development started soon after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the late 1930s, but was delayed due to various circumstances. More money and resources were dedicated to The Little Mermaid than any other Disney animated film in decades. The underwater setting required the most special effects animation for a Disney animated feature since Fantasia in 1940. Effects animation supervisor Mark Dindal estimated that over a million bubbles were drawn for this film, in addition to the use of other processes such as airbrushing, backlighting, superimposition, and some computer animation. The artistic manpower needed for The Little Mermaid required Disney to farm out most of the underwater bubble effects animation in the film. Computer generated imagery was used to create some of the wrecked ships in the final battle, a staircase behind a shot of Ariel in Eric's castle, and the carriage Eric and Ariel are riding in when she bounces it over a ravine. These objects were animated using 3D wireframe models, which were plotted as line art to cels and painted traditionally. Controversy arose regarding the artwork for the film's original VHS release when consumers noticed an oddly shaped structure on the castle, closely resembling a human penis. Disney and the cover designer insist it was an accident, resulting from a late night rush job to finish the cover artwork. The object does not appear on the cover of the second release of the movie. From what I have heard it was a employee who got fired that put it on the cover to get back at Disney for his firing. 

Another allegation is that the clergyman presiding over the wedding between Eric and Ursula the latter disguised as Vanessa is seen to have an erection. So, with that, lets get to the story shall we: 

Ariel is a 16-year-old mermaid princess unsatisfied with underwater life in the underwater kingdom of Atlantica. She is fascinated by the human world, wanting desperately to become a human and live on the land. With her best friend Flounder, Ariel collects and keeps random human artifacts in her grotto and consults a seagull named Scuttle for inaccurate knowledge about human culture and the items she finds. Ariel's father, King Triton, frequently warns Ariel that contact between merpeople and humans is forbidden. He decides to hire a crab named Sebastian, who serves as his advisor/court composer, to give Ariel constant supervision.

One night, Ariel, Flounder, and an unwilling Sebastian travel to the ocean surface to watch a celebration for Prince Eric's birthday on a ship. Ariel falls in love with the prince instantly. Soon a violent storm arrives, wrecking the ship. Ariel rescues Eric from drowning and brings him to shore. She sings to him but returns to the sea just as he regains consciousness to avoid being discovered. Fascinated by the memory of her mesmerizing voice, Eric vows to find and marry the girl who saved his life, and Ariel vows to find a way to join him as a human being. Discovering Ariel's new behavior, Triton questions Sebastian, who accidentally exposes that Ariel has gone back to the surface, come in contact with humans and fallen in love with Eric. An outraged Triton confronts Ariel, uncovers her grotto, and destroys her collection of items she collected from the surface. After Triton leaves, two eels named Flotsam and Jetsam convince the crying Ariel to visit Ursula, the evil sea witch.

Ursula makes a deal with Ariel to transform her into a human for three days in exchange for her voice, which Ursula puts in a nautilus shell she keeps around her neck. Within these three days, Ariel must cause the prince to fall in love with her and give her the "kiss of true love." If Ariel gets Eric to kiss her, she will remain human permanently. If she does not kiss him, Ariel will turn back into a mermaid and belong to Ursula. Ariel accepts and is then given human legs and taken to the surface by Flounder and Sebastian. Eric finds Ariel alone on the beach and takes her to his castle, but is still unaware that she is the one who saved him before due to her silence. Ariel spends time with Eric, and at the end of the second day, they almost kiss on a boat but Flotsam and Jetsam thwart them. That night, to ensure Ariel's failure, Ursula disguises herself as a beautiful young woman named Vanessa and appears on the shore in front of Eric's castle, singing with Ariel's voice. Eric recognizes the song immediately, and the incognito Ursula casts an enchantment on Eric, which causes him to become entranced with Vanessa.

The next morning, Ariel discovers that Eric will be married to Vanessa later in the day, and is heartbroken. Scuttle then discovers Vanessa's true identity and informs Ariel, who immediately plunges into the sea to pursue the wedding barge upon receiving the news. Sebastian informs Triton what's happened, and Scuttle is sent alongside other marine creatures to intercept the wedding. In the chaos, the nautilus shell around Ursula's neck is destroyed, and Ariel's voice is returned, breaking the enchantment Ursula has placed over Eric. Realizing that Ariel is the girl who saved him from the shipwreck, Eric rushes to embrace her, but the sun sets and she transforms back into a mermaid. Ursula returns to her true form and drags Ariel into the ocean with her. Triton confronts Ursula and demands that she release his daughter, but the deal is inviolable, even against the king. When Ursula offers to free Ariel in exchange for his trident, Triton agrees to take her place and is transformed into a polyp, losing his authority over Atlantica. Ariel is then released, and Ursula declares herself the new ruler. But before she can use the trident, Eric stops her with a harpoon. She tries to kill Eric, but when Ariel intervenes, Ursula inadvertently kills Flotsam and Jetsam; this enrages Ursula, and she uses the trident to grow to a monstrous size.

Ariel and Eric reunite on the surface just before Ursula emerges from the water, towering over them. She then creates a storm and pulls huge, sunken ships from the ocean's bottom to the surface. Before she can kill Ariel, Eric steers one of the wrecked ships towards Ursula and impales her with its splintered bowsprit, killing her instantly. With Ursula dead, Triton and the other polyps in Ursula's garden revert to their original state. Realizing that Ariel truly loves Eric, Triton willingly changes her from a mermaid into a human permanently and accepts their marriage. Ariel and Eric marry on a ship and depart.