Who doesn't remember the days when studios would copy and paste from other famous studios. Well in 2023 we had not one but two Little Mermaid films. One with up and rising star Halle Bailey and Jonah Hauer King,and the other being Asylum's mockbuster The Little Mermaid.
This version features the voice talents of Sonya Krueger,Courage,Alex Lizotte,Steve Guttenberg (yeah that Steve Guttenberg from Police Academy fame),Dee Wallace,Myrom Kingery and Maria Eliades.
Serina(Krueger) is a naive mermaid who's best friends with a turtle named Sheldon(Lizotte). She loves going to the surface as she is in love with a prince named Lucas(Courage). So she does the unthinkable and goes to Revina the sea witch(Wallace)and trades her voice for legs. So Serina has a year(yeah not 3 days this time folks)to get the prince to fall for her or she will be banished for all eternity. Will Lucas marry Princess Dhara (Eliades)or will he discover that it was Serina who saved him from the shipwreck?
Overall it wasn't a bad film. The animation is a hit and miss(there's even an animated Jason Momoa in this as King Maris voiced by Myrom Kingery). The real surprise was Steve Guttenberg who voices Lucas's overbearing father King Jasper and he was the only voice actor I knew in this film.
What makes this film different to the Halle Bailey and Jodi Benson version is it adds the original origins of the Han Christian Anderson version (where there is no sea witch turning into a beautiful woman named Vanessa only instead it's another Princess who the prince thinks was the one to save him and not the mermaid.
Give it a watch as it's on YouTube now and Amazon Prime.
Animation 0/5 Story 3.5/5.
This version features the voice talents of Sonya Krueger,Courage,Alex Lizotte,Steve Guttenberg (yeah that Steve Guttenberg from Police Academy fame),Dee Wallace,Myrom Kingery and Maria Eliades.
Serina(Krueger) is a naive mermaid who's best friends with a turtle named Sheldon(Lizotte). She loves going to the surface as she is in love with a prince named Lucas(Courage). So she does the unthinkable and goes to Revina the sea witch(Wallace)and trades her voice for legs. So Serina has a year(yeah not 3 days this time folks)to get the prince to fall for her or she will be banished for all eternity. Will Lucas marry Princess Dhara (Eliades)or will he discover that it was Serina who saved him from the shipwreck?
Overall it wasn't a bad film. The animation is a hit and miss(there's even an animated Jason Momoa in this as King Maris voiced by Myrom Kingery). The real surprise was Steve Guttenberg who voices Lucas's overbearing father King Jasper and he was the only voice actor I knew in this film.
What makes this film different to the Halle Bailey and Jodi Benson version is it adds the original origins of the Han Christian Anderson version (where there is no sea witch turning into a beautiful woman named Vanessa only instead it's another Princess who the prince thinks was the one to save him and not the mermaid.
Give it a watch as it's on YouTube now and Amazon Prime.
Animation 0/5 Story 3.5/5.