2. The Little Mermaid
This story features Ariel, a 16 year old mermaid princess who sees Prince Eric on the shore at his birthday party on a ship and immediatly falls in love with him. A random storm hits, and everyone is safe except Eric's dog, Max, who fell off the ship. Eric dives off the ship to rescue his dog, but almost drowns in the process. He was saved by Ariel, who sings to him as he is waking up before diving under the surface. When Eric is fully conscious, all he remembers from the incident is that he was save by a girl with a beautiful voice. Ariel makes a trade with an evil witch to become a human, but she has to give up her voice. Once on land, she finds Prince Eric, who becomes discourage because he thought Ariel was the girl who saved him, but she now has no voice, so he thinks it's impossible that it's the same girl. With the help of Sebastian, a singing crab, Ariel and Prince Eric almost kiss on a romantic outing, but the evil sea witch interferes. One of the conditions for her legs is that she must recieve true loves kiss before three days are over, or else she becomes the witch's slave. The witch then poses as a beautiful girl with Ariel's voice, who Eric falls for and almost gets married to.
I, personally, tough I love this movie, think the love is shallow and superficial. At first, Ariel loves Prince Eric on sight, without even meeting him, and Prince Eric loves Ariel just for her beautiful singing voice. Ariel is still head over heels for Eric, and he almost falls for her without knowing her personality, morals, or virtually anything about her because she can't talk. Then, as soon as the girl with the beautiful voice comes along (aka the sea witch, Ursula, in diguise) Eric totally ditches Ariel for another girl. Once he realizes his mistake in almost marrying Ursula, he rushes to kiss Ariel, but the sun has set on the third day. Eric somehow kills Ursula, who became queen after Ariel's father, King Triton, sacrifices himself for his daughter, and everyone is set free from Ursula's wrath. King Triton uses Ursula's magic to turn Ariel into a human when her realized how truly in love they are. Ariel and Eric get married, with both merpeople and humans attending the wedding.
As much as I do love this story, and "Kiss the Girl" is one of my favorite songs, I would have to say this one is Happily Never After, because the love is superficial and shallow, at least during the movie.
Tune in tomorrow for more Disney love stories analyzed!!! If I have time, of course... I have to go get attaked by my arch enemy, who happens to be a rooster named Bobo, but that, my friends, is a story for another day.
~I
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