This is probably Goodtimes/Golden Films most blatant Disney rip off as far as the plots in these cash in flicks go.
The Little Mermaid (GoodTimes)
This is probably Goodtimes/Golden Films most blatant Disney rip off as far as the plots in these cash in flicks go.
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12:55 AAAAAAHHHHHHH! Kill it with underwater fire!
An entire Goodtimes/Golden films review without a single cameo from Old Man? I can’t believe that! Even his stupid son showed up as husband for evil Bell (23:20, seriously Goodtimes, was it so hard to make a new character design?)
Please tell me he was there somewhere, hiding under the rocks and crying about how completely useless this entire ripoff is!
An entire Goodtimes/Golden films review without a single cameo from the Old Man? I can’t believe that! Even his stupid son showed up as husband for evil Bell (23:20, seriously Goodtimes, was it so hard to make a new character design?)
Please, tell me that he was there somewhere. Hiding under the rocks and crying about how completely useless this entire ripoff is!
The Dolphin is actually a previous reincarnation of the Old Man. That is why they have the same voice.
Speaking of mermaids and love, Phelous should check out the music videos of access’s Mermaid Trilogy where one of the members of the duo falls in love with a mermaid (SPOILERS for 3 music videos from the 90’s) made up in their head. The J-Pop duo who sings the songs (access) are both boys so the relationship is pretty homoerotic. Fun Fact: the keyboardist of access (Daisuke Asakura) has been the main composer for various J-Pop groups/idols such as T.M. Revolution (a very famous artist who mixes J-Pop and J-Rock at the same time) and May’n (a J-Pop star who has done lots of songs for Macross Frontier).
Another Fun Fact: According to Japanese mythology, eating a mermaid makes you immortal. If mermaids were real, I would eat one!
I imagine that mermaids/mermen taste like sushi. :}
(gets out stainless steel chopsticks)
But wouldn’t that be half-cannibalism?
That’s just racist towards mer-people.
In Petshop of Horrors, D said a side effect was that you’d spend the rest of your life craving the meatflesh of mermaids, like a hunger that can never be satisfied.
What a good reason to catch and cook a bunch of mermaids to live forever!
Mermaid meat wrapped in seaweed sounds good.
Which reminds me: Hiro (the lead singer of access) should’ve cooked and eaten that mermaid. That would have been a much different story.
I imagine Daisuke and Hiro eating sushi made from the flesh and meat of the mermaid. They would have a big homoerotic gay feast together! LOL! 😉
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Artist representation:
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Another Artistic Representation:
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access has to be the most homoerotic music group I’ve ever heard of. Puffy AmiYumi have got nothing on them.
No wonder that one of their songs is literally called Closet and Daisuke Asakura has a (mostly) gay harem of his own (the DA family). access’s homoerotic undertones put certain hip hop stars to shame.
You put homoerotic undertones in anything & fujoshi will be on it like a homeless dog on a thanksgiving turkey.
So this Daisuke Asakura is connected to both TMR & Kinya Kotani & the Mad Soldiers. I can totally hear it.
I can’t believe you know about J-pop/rock! You know what else Dai-chan worked on? A song very familiar for those who have played DDR X
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjyFrznuHuU
Apparently, he also produced most of the soundtrack of Chrome Shelled Regios.
The Sea King in this movie kind of reminds me of King Neptune from SpongeBob SquarePants.
They’re using Spongebob phisycs. Water within water.
Because something else did it later doesn’t make it make sense.
You can see this sort of thing kind of work in some hot springs in Yellowstone where layers of the spring are at different pressures.
But they don’t look like a cauldron inside a cauldron so who knows at this point.
The characters in this movie are all wet. I wonder if this says something about them.
If only there was someone, I don’t know, maybe someone with life experience, who has been around for a while,
if you know what I mean, who could give us his opinion on that…
Disney’s The Little Mermaid was the very first movie I remember seeing in theaters, and I’m not surprised that Goodtimes did their own mockbuster.
Blariel’s head size makes her look like a rejected Bratz character. Also, she’s not as brain dead as Beauty in both versions of Goodtimes’ Beauty and the Beast movies, but she’s up there.
Speaking as someone also named Eric, I can calmly state that the animators of this film weren’t even mother fuckin’ trying to make the prince look any goddamn different.
10:03- At least Golden Films didn’t do their own version of Fantasia.
14:20- You’re about as useless as Dundee from Lion and the King.
I think this movie is running on SpongeBob logic with the pot of boiling liquid and the glass of liquid.
20:38- “In the dream, it took me to the light. A beautiful lie.”
Movie, in the words of Killdozer, “You stink.”
I grew up with the 1975 anime version, which like this one, has a blonde mermaid with a dolphin companion, & kept the depressing ending. Having been exposed to that one first by about 10 years, I actually disliked the Disney version because Ariel, a girl of 16, ran away from home & abandoned her entire family for a CHANCE at marrying a complete stranger (who looks like an adult) & learned no moral lessons about not trying to be something you aren’t or not trying to steal another woman’s man, though Disney cut out that subplot entirely. I suppose I could look on it now as “the path to success is cobbled from sacrifice, & determination” but I can’t really get behind that sappy sentiment. Had Ariel been nearing her 18th birthday & wondering what she wanted to do with the rest of her life, I would feel differently.
Here’s the thing about Disney’s Little Mermaid: Ariel is a twit.
She’s a princess who has everything, and it’s not enough. She wants to be human and live on land with a guy she hardly knows. So she makes a deal with Ursula, and there’s no fine print, no deception. Ursula is completely honest about the deal: voice for legs. Ariel accepts the deal of her own free will, and Ursula delivers the goods. So now Ariel is human and living on land, and guess what? She’s still not happy. So she wants to renege on the deal, and tries to get her daddy to fix things for her. “Daddeeeee, I don’t like this! Fix it for meeeeee!”
Basically, Ariel is every bratty, greedy, stupid, shallow, selfish, self-absorbed, irresponsible little teenage twat you’ve ever met.
Rich white fish privileges lol
#SeaAnimalLivesMatter
Except that isn’t what happened. Ariel does indeed accept the deal willingly, and Ursula does indeed make her human in exchange for her voice, but that’s just part of a larger game Ursula is playing. That’s why she keeps sabotaging Ariel’s attempts to romance Eric. Not because she gives a rat’s ass about ruining Ariel’s happiness, but because she knows that once she’s got Ariel entrapped, she’ll be able to force Triton to surrender his power to her, which is what she wanted in the first place. Not that this excuses Ariel from making a deal with someone as obviously evil as Ursula, but there was no attempt by Ariel to renege.
I actually agree, some of the Disney princesses are brats. Take Belle for example. She literally does nothing but read all day, while her father works hard to earn a living to provide for her, she is the most attractive girl in the town, and the most popular guy (albeit, kind of an ass) in the town wants to marry her. But, of course, she ‘wants more than this provincial life’? What will be good enough for her? Apparently living in a castle with countless servants who want nothing more than to wait on her.
Lol, that castle looks like a ceramic aquarium toy.
She’s a fully grown bobblehead? You mean she turned into Giada De’Larentiis?
Eel, octopus, squid…They all taste good.
I dunno why…But that dolphin reminds me of Woody Allen.
Cassandra’s house looks like a giant rotted baby sweet pepper. Her voice is also super familiar sounding.
Damn, where’d you get that Crystal Pepsi? I haven’t been able to find a store carrying it since they announced it was back.
lol. Maybe if they’d spent more time showing them spending time together, it wouldn’t feel like a shotgun romance.
I saw a few bottles of Crystal Pepsi at a Target in the state I live in (.Virginia)
You referenced the lyric “The Dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had” and I couldn’t remember the song that was from. When I looked it up, the first few entries were for Gary Jules’ “Mad World” and it made me sad because it’s actually a song by Tears for Fears, and their original version is much better IMO. Maybe I’m just a sucker for good 80’s synth pop.
Also, the story version of the Little Mermaid I was first exposed to was pretty dark also, but the mermaid lives in dire pain instead of dying.
A lot of this seems to be ripping off the 1975 anime version of the story as well. Especially the blonde mermaid, the dolphin companion, The presenting a pearl on her birthday. but I don’t know if Golden Films ever bothered to look at anything beyond the Disney version so who knows. Because you know… the anime version is good.
Also was that line in the intro song seriously “I’ll be much more than foam on the sea”??? SERIOUSLY???
And yes. According to JUNKO MIZUNO ;D Mermaids have sex with human men and then lay eggs. (I… I don’t know how. She didn’t erm… detail the specifics) you know.. before they ate them.
Also, I’m pretty sure in the original story the prince was NEVER in love with the little mermaid. That was kind of the tragedy in the first place. Also, the sea-witch was never outright evil. She was just a witch who traded magic for whatever she needed.
My favorite character is the mermaid’s father! He’s smart and super helpful to everyone!!!
HHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prince Eric Threepwood
Apparently, the makers of this movie didn’t know or didn’t care that dolphins can’t breathe underwater. Vink would have drowned in about half an hour.
Also, not all fish lay eggs. Some, like guppies, mollies, platys, and swordtails, are live-bearers. The males copulate with the females, who retain the eggs in their bodies until they hatch and then give birth to live young.
Last I heard (I’m too lazy to double check) about 40% of sharks also give live birth 🙂
I’ve heard that as well. Can confirm as maybe sorta true, probably.
True, most sharks are ovoviviparous, meaning the mother retains the eggs in her body until they hatch and gives birth to live young. Other sharks are oviparous, meaning they lay eggs that hatch externally. Sharks and rays are closely related, and many rays do this, too. And some sharks are actually viviparous, meaning the baby forms a placental link to its mother as humans do.
However, the fish parts of mer-people aren’t typically shark-like in appearance. Usually they are portrayed as having the same kind of fins and scales bony fish (teleosts) do, because those are the kinds of fish most people are familiar with. So sharks would seem not to be a good model for mer-people reproduction.
Well, thank you for that.
Don’t forget the fun of the reproductive system of the Seahorse and similar species. The female lays the eggs inside the male and the male gives birth. Sometime in nature things just get weird.
Between the thumbnail and singing, Phelous is the best Little Mermaid ever!
Once again, pointing out the stuff never noticed in a fairy tales, especially the writing…Mernazis, gee…
Though Cassandra only showing up once is more in keeping with the origional story so…eh?
And I got all the song references! Woo!!
I remember this now; it played on TV once on KidsCo where Goodtimes and such companies made ALL their money, playing all thier movies, the most recent being this, the one to cash in on Anastasia and the other to cash in on…the Prince of Eygpt…yeeeeaah, believ it or not, the Exodus is a popular subject for cheap animated films. Go firgure; have you bumped into any?
This was hilarious! Also great T shirt!