There’s not much to talk about in this introduction. I have Disney+ for a while, but still feel bad for the traditional movie rental stores. While I’m not currently able to see this through a video rental store that I would know of nearby or go to often, I’m still trying to make sure that I go to one of those an equal number of times that I use Disney+. Now since I’ve reviewed The Little Mermaid in this blog, let’s get to a review of its sequel.
We begin with a bird flying around. Ariel is singing to her newborn daughter. She named her Melody. There is a song already in the first moments. They are sailing away from the world they know. News of this reaches the sea world below them who tells them that Ariel is coming for them. The merpeople go up to the boat to greet this person, introducing her child to these people. King Triton even looks at his granddaughter in question. He tells her that she will always belong to the sea.
Suddenly, Ursula’s crazy sister, Morgana, takes the baby with her tentacles. She wants the trident and it seems like the king is agreeing to her demands, but Ariel and Eric quickly turn the tables, getting Melody back, turning her shark into a weak fish, and getting her to run away. But they find Morgana. Ariel thinks that it is best for Melody to stay away from the ocean and not learn of any of the merpeople, not even her own grandfather. He drops a shell that was supposed to be a memento in the ocean.
Later, when Melody is older, she is missing in the ocean while preparations are being prepared for her. Sebastian talks about the rules that she has to obey while she ignores him and spends time underwater, able to breathe there or at least hold her breath for a really long time.
Meanwhile, Morgana keeps trying to turn her helper back into a shark. No spell she tries works and they butt heads for a bit. But then they notice Melody taking the shell from the ocean. Melody knows that she can talk to fish. Scuttle inadvertently reminds her of the party that is going on.
Ariel misses her father and the ocean. She doesn’t realize that her daughter is spending all this time out at the sea, wanting her freedom there. Melody is mocked by other kids due to her eccentric behavior. While she gets ready, Sebastian tries to help, but gets caught in the dress she’s wearing. Later in the ballroom, she dances with a man, but Sebastian has to break out of her dress and this causes a disaster with the cook from the last movie chasing after the crab.
Sad at this embarrassment, Melody talks to her mother while opening the shell. Realizing that it has her name on it, it talks a lot about Atlantica, which Ariel told her was a myth. Melody is convinced that her mother is hiding something from her as she goes back to the sea. Ariel wants to reveal the truth. But Melody has already run away. Getting a ride from Undertow and other underlings of Morgana, she winds up in this villain’s lair.
Morgana reveals that she has some of Ursula’s magic, much to the chagrin of Undertow who doesn’t know why it wasn’t used on himself. Melody is turned into a mermaid while Ariel turns to her father for help, also being turned into a mermaid again herself. Morgana wants to reel Melody in by making it seem like Triton’s trident was once hers and has Melody going to get it.
While looking for it, Melody gets lost on her way to Atlantica. On her way there, she finds a walrus named Dash and a penguin named Tip. They are outcasts in their community, not being well liked. They lead her to this place where she finds Triton and what they are looking for.
Morgana dispatches two more of her underlings, Cloak and Dagger, to make sure plans of hers are not messed with. Ariel gets reunited with an older and bigger Flounder who had kids. Sebastian sees that the trident is missing from where it is stored at. He points out that only a descendant of Triton, if not himself, could remove it from where it was. They have to double the search party.
Ariel finds Morgana’s lair and asks Scuttle to find help, much to the worry of Flounder. Right before Melody meets up with Morgana, she notices her mother is there. They are both shocked that the other one is a mermaid. Morgana tells some about how Ariel deceived Melody, leading to Melody giving the trident to Morgana. Morgana then reveals her deception, trapping Melody and founder in the cave beneath them before taking Ariel to the surface.
Different confrontations happen. Tip and Dash are able to somehow rescue Melody who turned back into a human after sunset. With her back on the surface, she is able to gets behind Morgana and then gets the trident back to the rightful king. Morgana winds up frozen beneath the service of the ocean with the others revealed to be fine.
While given a choice between staying in the land above or the ocean above, Melody instead decides to remove the wall around the ocean to reunite these places and worlds. That appears to be all of this movie since I can’t tell if anything else will happen.
That was the movie. I think that it seems fine on a rewatch with no major issues. Parts of it can seem to be predictable at times, but the rest of it makes sense and works as a whole. I think that it is good, even though I might not watch it as often as I do the original. With not much else to say, I will end the post here. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
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