Genre: Animation, Family, Musical, Romance
Release date: 13 September 2013(3D/2D theaters)
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Production Co: Walt Disney Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV
Budget: $40,000,000 (estimated)
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Writer: John Musker, Ron Clements, Hans Christian Andersen, Howard Ashman,
Gerrit Graham, Sam Graham, Chris Hubbell
Starring: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois,
Pat Carroll, Buddy Hackett
Screenwriter: Ron Clements, John Musker
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Rating: 95%
Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes
Box Office: $111,500,000
Official website: Disney.com
Story line:
Ariel, the fun-loving mermaid and youngest daughter of King Triton, is enchanted by all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world of the humans, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Eric, the prince of her dreams.
Determined to be human and live happily ever after with her prince, she strikes a bargain with her father's nemesis -- Ursula, the sea witch -- and trades her fins (and her beautiful voice) for legs. With her friends at her side, Ariel must win the prince's love and save her father's kingdom -- all in a heart-pounding three days.
Resurfacing at theaters for the first time in eight years, Walt Disney Pictures' enchanting animated musical fantasy, "The Little Mermaid," has been impeccably restored to look and sound better than it did at the time of its initial release as it returns to the big screen to delight moviegoers of all ages. The film, which is the Studio's 28th full-length animated feature, originally made its debut in 1989 and swam off with a pair of Academy Awards" -- a Best Song Oscar" for "Under the Sea" and another statuette for its richly entertaining underscore. Audiences around the world and critics alike embraced this fun and fanciful adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, which represented the Disney animation team's first adaptation of a fairy tale since "Sleeping Beauty," thirty years prior.
Adding to the excitement of this reissue of "The Little Mermaid" is an extensive restoration that used the latest innovations in digital technology to make the film look and sound better than ever before. To improve the visual content, the entire film was digitized so that cel dirt, paint crawl and other imperfections on the original camera negative could be electronically painted out. All of the film's original soundtrack elements were also overhauled and digitally premastered to allow a much broader range of stereo sound. As a result, the film will be available for the first time in four different sound formats including six-track digital stereo as compared to the four-track analog limitations of the original release.
Complete Cast:
Rene Auberjonois.
Christopher Daniel Barnes.
Jodi Benson.
Pat Carroll.
Paddi Edwards.
Buddy Hackett.
Kenneth Mars.
Edie McClurg.
Charles Adler.
Jack Angel.
Samuel E. Wright.
Will Ryan.
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