And with this, the last Disney Princess is eliminated.
#03
"The Little Mermaid" (1989) Final score: 8.956 Highest score: 10 (theus, borntodiethisway, Ant, Meowster, Yuzu, A Public Affair, MiMiLamb, MLD, GanjaSebert) Lowest score: 6.5 (Ivan)
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TRIVIA
- It's given credit for beginning the Disney Renaissance, an era that had breathed life back into the animated feature film genre after a string of unsuccessful films since the early 70s.
- It marked a return to the iconic musical format that made Disney films popular from the 1930s to the 1970s. The soundtrack went triple platinum, which was unheard of at the time.
- More money and resources were dedicated to Mermaid than any other Disney animated film in decades. The artistic manpower needed for Mermaid required an expansion, from about 300 artists to 2,400.
Ariel is the best Disney Princess tbh. she's an awful role model and all that boring stuff but more importantly she isn't weighed down from the boring goody two shoes of the early princesses and the faux feminist "I'm a strong woman!" mary sue characteristics of the princesses that came after.
she's just a dumb, irrational teenager, made the movie much more interesting.
Great film. I also don't stan for this one but it's amazing, of course.
That perfect bottom 3 for the princess list.
This top 3 I love it. Lion King probably got a 1 from MiMi so it could screw it over But then again, I'm sure there's 503259 1s (but apparently not more than Mulan got.) I think Nemo could possibly swipe.
The Little Mermaid deserves top 5 just by the fact that without it Disney would have disappeared in the early 90s (or be absorbed by Pixar, hell would Pixar even exist?).
Other than that it didn't deserve #1 imo. Even Nemo is better tbh.