The Little Mermaid. Unh. I forgot that this is Disney and therefore ends happily
Yeah, you can't watch Disney hoping for retellings of the actual fairy tales. But this is a very good thing. Do you know how traumatized children would be if the movies ended the same way as the original stories? They'd never recover. And Walt Disney was much less concerned with accuracy than with making children happy. And adults too, of course, if they were receptive.
I love "The Little Mermaid." Sebastian, Flounder and Scuttle are funny, and Rene Auberjonois does the voice of Louis the cook ("Les Poissons" is awesome), and Ursula is so, so evil. Not even the woman who voiced Maleficent and Cinderella's stepmother had a more sinister voice. And I think Maleficent is the scariest Disney villain.
As for Buffy, or what finally became the awesome tv show but is best forgotten in the process... I liked Donald Sutherland. But the rest of it... agggh. Especially vampires levitating. *eye roll*
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Date: 2007-05-27 03:41 pm (UTC)Yeah, you can't watch Disney hoping for retellings of the actual fairy tales. But this is a very good thing. Do you know how traumatized children would be if the movies ended the same way as the original stories? They'd never recover. And Walt Disney was much less concerned with accuracy than with making children happy. And adults too, of course, if they were receptive.
I love "The Little Mermaid." Sebastian, Flounder and Scuttle are funny, and Rene Auberjonois does the voice of Louis the cook ("Les Poissons" is awesome), and Ursula is so, so evil. Not even the woman who voiced Maleficent and Cinderella's stepmother had a more sinister voice. And I think Maleficent is the scariest Disney villain.
As for Buffy, or what finally became the awesome tv show but is best forgotten in the process... I liked Donald Sutherland. But the rest of it... agggh. Especially vampires levitating. *eye roll*