The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

Next for my straight to video Disney sequels is the third Little Mermaid movie which is actually a prequel, Ariel's Beginning. I'm sorta split in thoughts about this. I mean there are a lot of dumb things in it, but there's actually also a few good things in it too. Not as much as bad, but still, some pretty good things here. But first, what's the story? It opens up with Ariel as a girl with her sisters, dad Triton and mother named Athena. But then Athena is killed by a ship crashing into her and Triton is so angry that he decides to ban all sorts of music in Atlantica. But, of course, everyone's sad and so Ariel tires to find a way for music to be played again. Again, when I spoke about the last Little Mermaid movie, wow. Just wow. The fact they actually did this kinda story. I tell ya, there is not one single surprise in this entire movie. Not one. As soon as you start watching it for the first time, you know absolutely everything that's going to happen. Triton bans music but by the end, he realises he was wrong and so he lets them do it eventually. That entire plot is not original at all. As I said, there's not any kinda surprise in this in the least. Most of the movie is just watching them sing and dance but they're not very entertaining to watch. But, for me, the biggest disappointment is the villain named Marina Del Rey, who's a servant in the palace and looks after Ariel and her sisters. The biggest problem that I've had with this for a long time is the same that everyone else has had too, why wasn't this character Ursula? I mean, she has the same backstory as her with them both working in the palace wanting to be the ruler and doing a lot of terrible things. But it's not. Seriously, they coulda had a scene where King Triton accidently zaps her and she transforms into Ursula. She even has eels for servants, just like Ursula. But it's not her. It's a completely different character. I would have loved to have seen her become Ursula. But she's not. And her being called Ursula could be what Triton decided to call her from that moment on or that's what she decided to call herself. But no. What a let down. But, are there any good things in this? Well, the animation is really fantastic here. Every scene with this animation is so beautiful. Especially on all the characters. The sisters as well are in the movie a lot and they have quite a bit of personalities.

And at times there will be a small funny moment. But other than that, this movie is pretty bad. It's beyond predictable, it's not creative in the least and you can point out everything. So yeah, I don't know if I'd say go watch it, but if you're curious and you want to, it's not harmful. Do if you want, there' just nothing in it that's gonna surprise ya. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.