VividSimon Simply Perfect

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

freakyteenager666 When Hans Chirstian Andersen wrote the "Little Mermaid" he felt proud of himself he connected his life into the Little Mermaid's life ever since the emotional story has been release there had a series of countless version of the tale.One of those was a feature animated movie directly from Japan from Toei, ANDASEN DOWA NINGYO-HIME (The Mermaid princess-or-Little Mermaid) tells you the story of a young mermaid princess who soon to fall deeply in love with a human prince in order to be with the prince she must make a horrible deal with the sea witch to become a human girl in order to do that she must give up her voice and her family as well. If the prince doesn't fall in love with her on his wedding day she will die and turn into foam. Once she got up to land she stays with the prince thinking he will be with her forever but soon to find out there are plans for him to marry another princess which he feels is the girl who saved his life. The next morning will bring the mermaid's death she did had a chance to live but it will lead up to kill the prince but the power of love is too strong she knows once she turns into foam she'll be happy as long as the prince is happy.The Little Mermaid give a strong impact when The Walt Disney Company release the film in 1989 with a more happy tone to it. There very little versions that stay true to the original tale one of them was a another animated feature in Russia which had a much more darker tone but this one how ever will remain a special place in my heart with the idea of giving up anything you got for love. One of the other strong places that holds in me is the song our mermaid sings when she comes of age it shows of what would had happen if the prince stay with her. One of the best version of the Andersen fairy tale ever presented.

roxieft-1 This is a true Hans Christian Anderson film. I grew up reading Hans Christian Anderson. Not all his stories but The Little Mermaid for sure. I grew up on this 1975 film. I don't ever remember not liking it. Then as I got older I watched it again. I always cry because it is very sad. Life is not always happy. I think whenever I needed a good cry I would watch this film just to cry. I haven't watched it in years but I do own it on video. And when my little girl is old enough I will show it to her. This is a Classic Film. I do really like Disney's version, but in a different way.

chickenchicken-1 My mum bought this for my when I was young by accident instead of the Disney version. When Marina died at the end I remember sobbing my heart out so much my mum threw the tape out! Now I really want to see it again and I've been looking for the tape everywhere, does anyone have any ideas where this can be bought from I've looked on ebay and in second hand shops but to no avail. Also it would be great to have it on DVD, is it by anychance on DVD???Does anyone have any other recommendations of other great anime older anime films? Maybe from western fairy tales like the little mermaid.Lunare

kitties-in-japan I found this version of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" to be on of the best. If you are looking for the cutsey "Disney-esque" version then please go and rent the Disney version. This story is about the little mermaid told in the original form of Hans Christian Andersen's tale. In his story the little mermaid did not live happily ever after with the prince and she doesn't in this version either. Instead she makes the ultimate sacrifice of her life to save the life and guarantee the happiness of the one she loves. When I first saw this anime as a child I cried my eyes out but even now many years later I can still appreciate that this film does not cater to the "Happily Ever After" cheesiness that most people have come to expect.