Walt Disney Pictures' The Little Mermaid (1989) Trailer

Trailer for the 1989 musical fairy tale based on the 1837 story by Hans Christian Andersen.

Plot: A mermaid dreams of marrying a prince.

This film is really when the Walt Disney Company successfully returned to their roots with animated musical fantasies. In the 1940's Walt had developed a sequence based on this story for a proposed co-production with MGM that was abandoned. Storyboards from that early adaptation of the story were used as inspiration in the development of this film. Everything about the marketing tied the film into the studio's roots with Walt. The film was the first in a string of blockbuster animated features.

Starring

Jodi Benson as Ariel & Vanessa
Christopher Daniel Barnes as Prince Eric
Pat Carroll as Ursula
Kenneth Mars as King Triton
Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian
Paddi Edwards as Flotsam & Jetsam
Ben Wright as Grimsby
René Auberjonois as Chef Louis
Edie McClurg as Carlotta
Will Ryan as Harold

Songs be Alan Menken & Howard Ashman

Screenplay by John Musker & Ron Clements

Directed by John Musker & Ron Clements

Release date November 17, 1989

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