It cant possibly be from your childhood. It was released in 1932. Lol If you watched this cartoon as a 5 year old, you would be long dead by now or very lucky to be alive at 96 years old.
Yes, watching a mermaid get sexually assaulted before being placed in a coffin was REAL fun for REAL people. At least the kids today understands how horrendous such a situation is since it also happens in real life with girls and ladies every single day. Get real dude.
These cartoons are like fever dreams. We use to have a VHS tape that contains a lot of these cartoons and I’ve always wanted to watch them again. Thank god for the internet 😂.
Actually, their last hand drawn film was Winnie the Pooh (2011), but not even you knew about it. And people wonder why Disney stopped doing these films.
I thought it was the The Lion King... even then they used cgi technology to do the one scene with the wildebeest stampede... it was why it took animators over 5 years to complete The Lion King. After that, nothing, but computer stuff.
By the way, for those with negative comments and narrow minds; back then these cartoons weren't created just for children. The audience were more adults than children because at the time these cartoons were more entertaining than movies. They are equivalent to our awesome CGI movies today.
Cartoons were for adults back in the day... they were often shown before feature films you'd go to see. I love how most are assuming these were being shown to kids XD
The Little Mermaid is an old Danish folk tale from Hans Christian Andersen (as were many other Disney thieveries, but also from La Fontaine and Grimm brothers), who inspired the Disney spin-off. There is an old statue of her in Copenhagen
I'm 18 and dad says that I shouldn't watch cartoons since I'm grown now but no one can stop me from watching my favourite shows right now I'm watching a new series called lego monkie kid and I'm loving it.
Finally a cartoon which has comments. RU-vid need to understand that comments are a way for older generation to tell us their experience as kids of a begone era.
+Cassandra Winchester true that it may be disturbing. However, it showed truth and there was no Politically Correct nor censoring things so that people could actually understand things for what they were. It taught good verses evil in a more realistic old tale way. You hardly get that anymore as it's not so Direct.
Aludeni I agree with that too. Rape is a very ugly, disturbing, horrible thing, and that's exactly how it was portrayed here. It wasn't glamorized or made to look harmless, it shown for what it was.
it's why I don't have a problem with it. Why shelter? why be politically correct? what good is all of that going to do? what did it do? create selfish spoiled brats that get offended at anything they see.
boi's or boy's it's because it's not like the real king Neptune that's muscular and great and last of all not fat, in the real movie with ariel think sometime's hehe joking. bah-bai [ =.= ] - just my face when I sed this comment and again bhabai' ' '
+Wael Ali People were just as perverted back then. They were simply just better at hiding it plus there were hundreds of blue laws left over from the Victorian era that forced it to be more hidden! One thing that was technically illegal but quite popular round the time with men were Tijuana bibles. They were comic books with doodles of all sorts of sleazy sex acts that would be shocking even now.
i think it was very common for modern disney to use old ideas originally made by Disney himself. If you pay attention in Tinker Bell Third Movie, Tinker Bell's sister "Periwinkle" is in Fantasia from the 1950s! Its really cool and I love animators who pay attention to Disneys old works. :)
You are doing a great job of keeping the original disney classics alive. Continue to keep it up, so that future generations will marvel at these masterpieces!
This is why my mom warned me that I better not even think of running away and becoming a pirate! She is a smart woman. I should have listened to her more when I was growing up. But it's too late for me to be a ninja now so I'm stuck
>ship drops anchor >it's large enough to completely entangle Neptune for several minutes >Neptune breaks free, swims to surface >he's twice the size of the entire ship Anchors that grow to forty times normal size must've been handy
There is no "social limits". That's what you've been told by random internet strangers who spews the most ridiculous takes to get your money. You're being duped with fear to give random people power over you.
You know what's funny, when I was little, my dad taped this cartoon off of TV on a VHS tape (I can't believe how old school VHS tapes are now LOL), but before this on the tape was How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This cartoon starts on the tape just about at 0:46 at the tail end of King Neptune's opening song. So I tend to associate this cartoon with Christmas, to a degree, because we saw it right after the Grinch. XD
Poor gay pirate didn't even get to SEE the mermaids and drowned anyway. Would have made sense to show him getting a lifeboat to himself and escaping, or to stick a fishtail and a string of pearls on him during the end bit to show he wasn't punished just for being an innocent bystander...
Mary Freebed I mean....he was a pirate so gay or not he got what he deserved. As a pirate, he is far from innocent. While the regular pirates were off raping the women of a town, he was probably off raping the men. Who knows, really? My point is, regardless of whether or not he saw the mermaids or did anything, he still deserved to drown because as a pirate he is a criminal who's committed who knows how many heinous crimes. Being gay doesn't make you nice. Trust me.
Neptune seemed as evil as Ursula when he made the whirlpool with his trident. But of course, the pirates were messing with his mermaid in the first place.