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Anonymous

Omg I’ve been wanting a reaction to this for so long 😭 top 3 favorite Disney princess movies

stormakima

This was a fun watch! I actually was a little emotional at the end because it brought back so many fond memories! I last saw this as a child!

Trevor Darnell

YES! So glad you guys got to react to one of my favorite Disney movies!

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2023-05-21 12:34:20 Loved revisiting The Little Mermaid with you guys! Its just a shame the over-analysis-of-Disney-movies bug has gotten to Dawn, too, with the post-movie review at the end there. Everyone knows the quick Disney love found in all those Princess movies is unrealistic and pure fantasy usually Dawn just makes a teasing remark and leaves it at that because of course its silly, its Disney. They're just animated fairy-tales, and no major group has ever lobbied to blamed Little Red Riding hood for giving young girls the wrong impression about men, have they? A teasing remark in passing is quite appropriate in context. For some reason though, The Little Mermaid had to be the one picked out for a, “glad things have changed“ speech; I have yet to meet any adult person that grew up on and loved these movies that has ever said their approach to romance in any period of their life was heavily influenced by Disney movies, because its always been understood that they are fairy-tales. Romantic fairy tales. And yes, you can always get a message or two from a fictional story, including fairy tales, but if all you get from a Romantic Fairy tale is that its unrealistic on the subject of romance and its portrayal of male and female relationships then you're just noticing the painfully obvious. For example, what I got from The Little Mermaid wasn't that she left it all behind for some guy. She left it all behind for a whole new experience, a whole new world. To break away from old mindsets, the familiar, the usual customs and expectations. To dare for something new! And to do that, you kind of do have to leave it all behind. People seem to overlook her passion and obsession wasn't directed at some guy from the start, it was directed at the human world, its strange new, different customs. She saw possibilities and beauty in that world that she didn't find in her familiar Mer world. That's what she was after, that's what she was longing for from the beginning. It just so happened that her first close interaction with a human was a very handsome, beautiful representative of the beautiful human world she was already in love with and so badly wanted to be a part of. She already wanted out of the sea long before she met Eric, Eric, combined with her fathers oppressive refusal to allow her to pursue her passion for something new was simply what finally sealed the deal for her to take that very risky leap. Its like Romeo & Juliet: people say its a cautionary tale of two teenagers that killed themselves because they didn't know any better, as if Shakespeare wrote PSAs. They forget the adults/parents part in the story and the context of their deaths. Romeo, who wanted peace between the families, was exiled from the kingdom and far from Juliet, because his family's persistent rivalry with Juliet's family had resulted in him having to kill the man that killed his best friend and that had wanted to kill him. In those days exile was like a fate worse than death. Juliet's father, meanwhile was trying to force her into a marriage for his own benefit and status with a man she wanted no part of. When she refused, her own father threatened to cast her out into the streets. When you try to force someone to live a life other than the life they seek there will be some intense rebelling in response, that yes can come with some serious, risky and even dire permanent consequences. To me that's what Ariel's actions are all about. Even if she had never met Eric, her fathers approach was inevitably going to lead to her taking drastic actions to pursue the life she passionately wanted for herself. And I don't see why that should be viewed as a bad thin. What Ariel wanted wasn't bad and wasn't dumb, she just wanted to be free to explore that "world up above." The potential unnecessary tragedy part of it was more the result of the world around her trying to keep her mired "under the sea."
2022-09-06 01:18:07 Loved revisiting The Little Mermaid with you guys! Its just a shame the over-analysis-of-Disney-movies bug has gotten to Dawn, too, with the post-movie review at the end there. Everyone knows the quick Disney love found in all those Princess movies is unrealistic and pure fantasy usually Dawn just makes a teasing remark and leaves it at that because of course its silly, its Disney. They're just animated fairy-tales, and no major group has ever lobbied to blamed Little Red Riding hood for giving young girls the wrong impression about men, have they? A teasing remark in passing is quite appropriate in context. For some reason though, The Little Mermaid had to be the one picked out for a, “glad things have changed“ speech; I have yet to meet any adult person that grew up on and loved these movies that has ever said their approach to romance in any period of their life was heavily influenced by Disney movies, because its always been understood that they are fairy-tales. Romantic fairy tales. And yes, you can always get a message or two from a fictional story, including fairy tales, but if all you get from a Romantic Fairy tale is that its unrealistic on the subject of romance and its portrayal of male and female relationships then you're just noticing the painfully obvious. For example, what I got from The Little Mermaid wasn't that she left it all behind for some guy. She left it all behind for a whole new experience, a whole new world. To break away from old mindsets, the familiar, the usual customs and expectations. To dare for something new! And to do that, you kind of do have to leave it all behind. People seem to overlook her passion and obsession wasn't directed at some guy from the start, it was directed at the human world, its strange new, different customs. She saw possibilities and beauty in that world that she didn't find in her familiar Mer world. That's what she was after, that's what she was longing for from the beginning. It just so happened that her first close interaction with a human was a very handsome, beautiful representative of the beautiful human world she was already in love with and so badly wanted to be a part of. She already wanted out of the sea long before she met Eric, Eric, combined with her fathers oppressive refusal to allow her to pursue her passion for something new was simply what finally sealed the deal for her to take that very risky leap. Its like Romeo & Juliet: people say its a cautionary tale of two teenagers that killed themselves because they didn't know any better, as if Shakespeare wrote PSAs. They forget the adults/parents part in the story and the context of their deaths. Romeo, who wanted peace between the families, was exiled from the kingdom and far from Juliet, because his family's persistent rivalry with Juliet's family had resulted in him having to kill the man that killed his best friend and that had wanted to kill him. In those days exile was like a fate worse than death. Juliet's father, meanwhile was trying to force her into a marriage for his own benefit and status with a man she wanted no part of. When she refused, her own father threatened to cast her out into the streets. When you try to force someone to live a life other than the life they seek there will be some intense rebelling in response, that yes can come with some serious, risky and even dire permanent consequences. To me that's what Ariel's actions are all about. Even if she had never met Eric, her fathers approach was inevitably going to lead to her taking drastic actions to pursue the life she passionately wanted for herself. And I don't see why that should be viewed as a bad thin. What Ariel wanted wasn't bad and wasn't dumb, she just wanted to be free to explore that "world up above." The potential unnecessary tragedy part of it was more the result of the world around her trying to keep her mired "under the sea."

Loved revisiting The Little Mermaid with you guys! Its just a shame the over-analysis-of-Disney-movies bug has gotten to Dawn, too, with the post-movie review at the end there. Everyone knows the quick Disney love found in all those Princess movies is unrealistic and pure fantasy usually Dawn just makes a teasing remark and leaves it at that because of course its silly, its Disney. They're just animated fairy-tales, and no major group has ever lobbied to blamed Little Red Riding hood for giving young girls the wrong impression about men, have they? A teasing remark in passing is quite appropriate in context. For some reason though, The Little Mermaid had to be the one picked out for a, “glad things have changed“ speech; I have yet to meet any adult person that grew up on and loved these movies that has ever said their approach to romance in any period of their life was heavily influenced by Disney movies, because its always been understood that they are fairy-tales. Romantic fairy tales. And yes, you can always get a message or two from a fictional story, including fairy tales, but if all you get from a Romantic Fairy tale is that its unrealistic on the subject of romance and its portrayal of male and female relationships then you're just noticing the painfully obvious. For example, what I got from The Little Mermaid wasn't that she left it all behind for some guy. She left it all behind for a whole new experience, a whole new world. To break away from old mindsets, the familiar, the usual customs and expectations. To dare for something new! And to do that, you kind of do have to leave it all behind. People seem to overlook her passion and obsession wasn't directed at some guy from the start, it was directed at the human world, its strange new, different customs. She saw possibilities and beauty in that world that she didn't find in her familiar Mer world. That's what she was after, that's what she was longing for from the beginning. It just so happened that her first close interaction with a human was a very handsome, beautiful representative of the beautiful human world she was already in love with and so badly wanted to be a part of. She already wanted out of the sea long before she met Eric, Eric, combined with her fathers oppressive refusal to allow her to pursue her passion for something new was simply what finally sealed the deal for her to take that very risky leap. Its like Romeo & Juliet: people say its a cautionary tale of two teenagers that killed themselves because they didn't know any better, as if Shakespeare wrote PSAs. They forget the adults/parents part in the story and the context of their deaths. Romeo, who wanted peace between the families, was exiled from the kingdom and far from Juliet, because his family's persistent rivalry with Juliet's family had resulted in him having to kill the man that killed his best friend and that had wanted to kill him. In those days exile was like a fate worse than death. Juliet's father, meanwhile was trying to force her into a marriage for his own benefit and status with a man she wanted no part of. When she refused, her own father threatened to cast her out into the streets. When you try to force someone to live a life other than the life they seek there will be some intense rebelling in response, that yes can come with some serious, risky and even dire permanent consequences. To me that's what Ariel's actions are all about. Even if she had never met Eric, her fathers approach was inevitably going to lead to her taking drastic actions to pursue the life she passionately wanted for herself. And I don't see why that should be viewed as a bad thin. What Ariel wanted wasn't bad and wasn't dumb, she just wanted to be free to explore that "world up above." The potential unnecessary tragedy part of it was more the result of the world around her trying to keep her mired "under the sea."

WastedPo

I think a lot of the criticism of Little Mermaid is actually a misinterpretation of the plot. Everyone says she threw away her life to pursue one guy. Except she was obsessed with life on land for years, even before she saw Eric. One could even make the argument that she fell "in love" with him in part because he represented that "world up above." So in a weird way she was fetishizing him. People also somehow single out this one Disney movie for giving girls unhealthy body images by presenting them with an unobtainable ideal, affecting their self-esteem if they can't live up to it. While that might be true, I find it interesting that more recent Disney movies seem to not have this criticism leveled at them. I mean, if Ariel presented girls an impossible ideal, then what the heck are the "Frozen" movies doing?

Aaron Barlow

Yep, and boys can live up to the physique of Hercules? Look at any Superhero cartoon and the guy heroes have physiques like Arnie but with smaller waists. Fantasy shows like fantasy art utilise aspirational ideals, it always has. The idealised female form will always be narrow waist and wide hips to symbolise childbearing potential and relatively slim overall to symbolise youthful fertility, while the male ideal is narrow hips/waist and broad shoulders and muscular to exhibit strength/power. Of course the ideal is unattainable, very few of us have the genetics to even get close, it's nothing to feel insecure or depressed about we just have to maximise our own potential, be the best you you can be. No one chastises Usain Bolt for giving an unrealistic expectation to young male sprinters.