The Little Mermaid 3
 

That's right... 3. Altho the plot isn't really well known what IS known is that this is a prequel to the previous films. It's dubbed as what happened before her adventures...so I guess it's a prequel to the tv series as well.

But...what is extremely important is... WE FINALLY FIND OUT WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO HER MOM!!! WOOT!

Finally Disney has gotten their butts in gear and will show Ariel's mom.

The original cast is of course back (Rob Paulsen as Eric, Cam Clarke as Flounder, Jodi Benson as Ariel, Kenneth Mars as Triton)... but joining the cast is:

Sally Field as Ariel's mom! Dude! :o

Here are 2 previews:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7IRlcLp624
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft4WomGFyQs&NR

Now the release date is supposadly late 2007/early 2008.

Kill me softly please.

This makes baby [Insert religious deity here] cry tears of blood.



...and makes me want to choke. Disney sequels are bad enough, but now prequels? Heaven help us.

couldn't have said it better myself.

I saw this on Gaia a while ago. :| It looks like Ariel has a very immoral crush on Sebastion.

Even though I HATED The Little Mermaid 2, I do want to see this one!

It sounds decent to me, and the animation looks great!

If Disney is so compelled to make sequels to their classics, they should at least do sequels to ones that don't have an extensive continuity thanks to TV shows and earlier sequels.

I might actually get on board for a Black Chauldren sequel, which is unlikely to ever happen since Disney only *recently* decided to admit the movie ever existed.

Maybe a Sword in the Stone sequel with more squirrel-rape.

The prequel to a series that has'nt ran for nearly ten years?

Yeah. I'm so invested.

And is it me, or was Ariel...turned on by Sebastiabn?

Rob Pausen as Eric? O....k.... Love the guy, but I don't really see him as a prince.

Okay, just braved the teaser...

As much as I like that song (hooray Beetlejuice!) Ariel getting all hot and bothered with Sebastian's performance is really unsettling.

And Cam Clarke is the voice of Flounder? Man, they must pitch his voice up real high; doesn't sound like him at all.

I've never even seen the second one and I'm prefectly okay with that.

um the animation flows so very very well but the dialog is um a bit sexual does anyone else agree?:lol: :|
I also agree with Zarius about Arial and Sabastian lol it's quite funny how she always dissrespected him in all the other movies and shows yet in this she's pretty much in love with him...just a bit odd.
ok and one last thing that ahhhhh ahhh thing Ariel does gives me the chills seriously :|

Oh no.... *facepalms* Not another sequel/prequel. I love Disney, but come on. Do they really need to keep milking classics like this? There are some movies that are best left at the original.

However, I did like the first teaser to this. Maybe it won't be like the second one. I really didn't get into that one all that great. :ohwell: It was kind of stupid.

And yeah, they had to have had Cam's voice jacked up to sound young/kid-like. Like when the Turtles' VAs did for the Toddler eps.

The Little Mermaid... 2 movies, 2 cartoon shows (counting Sebastian's recurring cartoon in Raw Toonage). A third one... well, I do admit that whatever happened to her mom may be interresting.

But otherwise, I'm not a huge Mermaid fan. I like Sebastian and that Seagull, but that's pretty much it.

Now, the one sequal I'm ABSOLUTLEY P****ED Disney never made was a Tarzan in which they discovered he was Lord Greystroke or whatever. They made 2 more movies and a cartoon series. NONE of it did that. That's why I felt Tarzan was so disappointing. Too much Rosie O'Donnel, nothing else.

But, the WORST sequal I have heard of so far is the sequal to Air Bud...

Air Buddies... and the worst part is THEY BLOODY TALK!!!!

Air Bud was a shizz movie to begin with, but make them talk? I am SOOOO sick of these talking dog movies that preschoolers are dumb enough to eat up.

Air Buddies is actually the 6th sequel to Air Bud and the 2nd to feature the puppies. I didn't know they talked... ugh.

Apperantly Air Buddies is considered to be a spin-off and is the first movie in this new series.

The other movies in the series are:
Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998 ) (football)
Air Bud: World Pup (2000) (soccer)
Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002) (baseball)
Air Bud: Spikes Back (2003) (volleyball)

World Pup was the only one to feature the puppies (who apperantly also play soccer)

In 2008 the next movie in the series is Air Bud: Aussie Rules. This will deal with Australian Football (not Soccer but Football)

Unfortunatly (or is it fortunatly? ) the original dog died after filming the first movie. He died of cancer and was more known for his role as Comet on "Full House"

Speaking of dogs tho... I was actually looking forward to getting "Fox and the Hound 2" till I found out that it's a bloody mid-quel and has absolutly no continuity from the original. When the frak did they ever mention going to a fair in the original?! I have it on tape and I have the comic book adaption. They never mentioned in passing going to a fair! I mean come on! Bambi II made sense because of the missing time between his mom dying and him becoming an adult. But the only missing time in Fox and the Hound is set in winter when the animals were hibernating.

...I thought it was the fact the entire movie was a Genesis album...:lol:

Well aware of his "cinematography"..ugh. I mean, a dog playing sports is dumb enough, but now more TALKING DOGS? In animated form, that would be cute, but really... It's scarey that thee's a market for them.

So, technically, shouldn't that be "Little Mermaid 1/2" or something?

Apparently, yeah. That can happen if you live on the bottom of the sea.

holy shiznit!!!! I had no idea that the sarcastic Rob Paulsen voiced Prince Eric!!! Or that Cam Clarke voiced that cowardly fish. Now I'm going to have to check out my old videos to listen to their performances.

And isn't it interesting that woman who voices Melody, Ariel's daughter, is also the same woman who voices Princess Clara on Comedy Centrals Drawn Together , who happens to be a spoof/rip off of Ariel! :lol:

WTF I thought Christopher Daniel Barnes (Peter Parker/Spider-Man on the 90s cartoon by John Semper) was the original voice of Eric???

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The Tarzan prequl was bad enough. Cute, but bad. Now we have this?! Oh boy... *sighs* There'd better be no "Ursala is Ariel's mom" junk going on, or I'm going to give up all hope in Disney. Even though I think I gave up all hope after the first ****** sequal...

I'm guessing that, she's suprised to see sebastian singing, because they seem pretty appalled by his appearance out there, so, I'm guessing it's more, she's suprised to see him, and some people just think the idea of a mermaid being turned on by a crab is funnier than it actually is.

That being said, and moving on, I've never really considered Disney sequels to be anything other than lame attempts to collect as much of our money as possible. The only disney sequels that seemed worth anything IMHO were the Aladdin movies, and of course, Toy Story 2. Can't really think of any others that were that great. Maybe all the Lilo and Stitch spin-offs. Maybe.

Rescuers Down Under was their first sequel and one of their better attempts. It was released theatrically (one of the first movies I ever saw in a theater) and had pretty good production values. Bringing back the original voice actors after a 20 year hiatus was also a plus.

Ah yes, the Rescuers down under! I forgot about that one. Good call.

Down under was good, but it, in no way, out did the original.

"Penny dear, Aunti Madusa wants to talk with you."

The only decent 2 movies out there are Aliens and episodes 5 & 6 of the Starwars Empire. #s one through three could have never been made and everyone would have been just happy. At the least they could have burned Jarjar at the stake and things would have gone much smoother.

As far as Disney sequals go, I have to agree, Rescuers: Down Under was by far on of the best, it and the sole Disney/Pixar sequal Toy Story 2. What doomes the other sequals is they don't (in most cases can't) get the original voice cast and even the animation seems sub-par by comparison, and that's weird considering the advances in technology. Disney has lost the magic it had under the guiding hand of Walt himself, rumors of anti-semitism aside.

the only decent sequals made by Disney that i thought where kept the orginal feel of the previous move was Bambie 2 (honest to God Thumper was a show stealer!!) and Peter Pan: Return to Never Land, I thought it was pretty cool that th sequal was set during the World war two, because it gave more soldility and justification of a child learning how to stay child like during a era where children couldn't be children. Kudos!!

The only thing that I thought was a little weird is the fact that I thought the orginal Peter Pan movie was set in the 19th century, not early 20th century, if it was set in the 19th century, should Wendy be Grandmother age during World War 2, instead of a woman still in her child bearing years?

Bambi 2 isn't a sequel...it's a midquel because it depicts the events between the mother's death and Bambi growing up. I love Bambi 2 tho...it's awesome.

The Aladdin sequals are all pretty good (especially King of Thieves).

Lady and the Tramp II I liked as well.

I actually didn't like Return of Jafar to much except that Eago (the laud mouthed bird) was turned over into one of the good guys, which was handled well.

And the Lady and the Tramp 2 made me cringe :x

And Iago left with Aladdin's father in "King of Theives"....and the monkey was gone by the time of "Kid in Aladdin's Palace" (which introduced Aladdin's eeeeeevil Jafar wannabe brother and Aladdin and Jasmin's daughter, Sheherezad).

The major annoying thing about Lady and the Tramp II is that they establish em as being American. Yet the town they live in is based on the German city of Landstuhl. I lived there for a couple years and have even eaten in the italian restauraunt depicted in the Lady and the Tramp films. :evilgrin:

Could it be that Abu...:gulp: DIED!!! :tcry:

Perhaps. There's a 20 year gap between King of Thieves and Kid in Aladdin's Palace. Jasmin's father was long dead and Aladdin was the Sultan, Aladdin had a brother who basically took Jafar's place (even going as far as to live in Jafar's tower) and for some strange reason Genie was living in the Cave of Wonders....never did figure that part out. :ohwell:

We are talking about the live action sequel to "A Kid in King Arthur's Court" right?

I never saw King of Thieves all the way through. I was wondering why Iago wasn't included in the crossover with Hercules which took place afterward (I just figured Gilbert Godfried wasn't available to do the voice).

Update:

Ariel's mom now has a name! Her name is Athena!

Now the question's are:
1: Is she THE Athena?!
2: If so....do owl's like water? :lol:

Ok so Athena and Triton are technically cousins (Triton is the son of Poseiden)....but in mythology they had a daughter called Tritonis so it does all fit.

Im guessing Tritonis = Ariel?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tritonis

Seems to work, I guess. At least Disney is taking the liberty of trying to get the mythology right :P

After quite a bit of whining about Disney sequels, I'm starting to think that I might look into this movie. It's a prequel, not a sequel. What could possibly go wrong? *sits back and waits for the lists of things that could go wrong* :evilgrin:

Ariel*to Erik*: "Did I ever tell you my parents are cousins?"
Erik:....

or

Ariel: "Owls...ugh...I hate owls..."

Funny tho how Sebastian constantly said in the first film that Ariel wasn't right in the head....yet...her mother is the goddess of wisdom... :lol:

I wonder tho... Athena is a bird goddess in general having taken the forms of owls and Sea Eagles.... Did Ursula change her to Scuttle?

It would make sense in a way. Scuttle is somewhat wise and knowledgable and has always been there for Ariel....

Well, Disney pulling ideas from the mythology is a nice gesture, I guess.
Still, nothing they do will ever make up for Hercules the Series and its absolute butchering of every myth ever written.

Oops.. I misread the myth. Athena is the daughter of Tritonis and Poseiden in some myths.


http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NympheTritonis.html

But still...

I'm getting more and more intolarant of Disney and its movies in general. Honestly I don't think they hold the same flavor as the ones made during the nineties, and before that.

the last Disney movie I enjoyed and saw in the movie theater was Mulan, and I was heart broken at the mess the sequel turned out to be. So cliche and uneventful. I watched the whole movie going "ok this has to get better, this has to get better, this has to get--oh its done!" :-? :|

Man Mulan had so much potenticial but they screwed it up, damn! Was any one else disapointed?

Also i've been curious about the Cinderella sequel A Twist in Time they claim that it is worthy of its orginal. Has any one seen this? Is it worth looking into?