The movie paints Cassandra as this evil sea witch, but in reality she gave Lina everything she asked for, and kept her end of the bargain. Sure she evilly laughs at random, but she's actually really nice if you think about it.
And despite having some elements of being an Ursula rip-off, her design isn't half-bad. If nothing else, she stands out from the usual generic GoodTimes designs.
Minmo Kitty maybe he has a really tragic and deep backstory that would explain his scary nature and fear of the surface.. Or the writers were drunk again... Not sure :3
😮I think he might've also played Prince Eric-Wannabee himself. I've seen so many of the straight-to-video Disney sequels that I'm pretty sure that's his Dashing Leading Man voice.
The little Mersexual abuser was sentenced to ten years prison today. She was quoted as saying "This is fun" as they took her away. Truly a cold hearted criminal who didn't think
in the original little mermaid, she didn't know at first a storm is dangerous. she thought it was fun until she saw the sailors and the prince in danger.
Ursula sings (in the stage musical): "I want the good times back." Phelous says "o.k." and gives her GoodTimes' "The Little Mermaid" Ursula: "The OTHER GoodTimes!"
Ok well... a few ones. One is that liquids underwater can work so long as the liquid is dense enough and doesn't immediately dissolve in water. Two is that SpongeBob Squarepant's situation is two fold... One it is "Goo Lagoon" and two the situation where there is a sea/Lake underwater? Yep real.
I saw a bunch of these GoodTimes movies (including this one) on the clearance shelf at Half Price Books. It made me think of Phelous and I was kind of tempted to buy some, ha ha.
Just watched the much older anime adaptation. It's about a blonde mermaid with a pet dolphin. I think this movie ripped off more than just the Disney version...
Yeah, that seems more like this old Japanese animated film - which BTW (and spoilers) has the mermaid bitting it in the end, just like the original tale does. I had it on VHS when I was a kid but somehow must have watched it like once and all I remember is my mom mentionning how it messed me up when I saw it and this tape sitting there and never being watched.
I just did a bit of googling and I think I can say with certainty that Ursula is based off an octopus. She might have six tentacles, but her two arms brings the total number of limbs up to eight, while squids have a total of ten. Also there's the little matter of her being the completely wrong shape to be based off a squid. No, that's not a fat joke.
Lol that captain is an idiot. He had them unfurl the sails in a storm!? You're supposed to put them up so they don't rip off or cause the ship to capsize or any number of different disasters!
I find it REALLY weird that the movie still treats Bland-Ursula as a villain. Even though in this version she basically did the high villainy that was a business deal... I mean sure one could say your voice is a unfair price, but I think becoming mute isn't such a tall price to pay for having reality bent over a knee and spanked until it coughs up legs for you.
I love how the Dolphin can Survive Breathing Under the Water when, in reality, that Dolphin would've Drowned by the time this movie Begins! You realize Dolphins are Mammals, so congrats Good Times: treating kids like they're idiots! Good one!
ironically the dolphin coming up for air often would be a good explanation for a friendship with a seagull than in the Disney version where we got none
It would also be a good setup for a friendship with the mermaid, who herself could be treated as a creature that has to go to the surface for air now and then like a dolphin.
Stefan went on to become Not-Gaston in another GoodTimes production, telling Beauty to "let him die!" Cosgrove became a general for Brand X, putting his Tim Curry impression to good use and soliciting Cheasel T. Weasel for a felching. The Sea King left the ocean and traveled to Balloon Land, where he met up with young children (and going into further detail on his activities would get me banned on every corner of the Internet). The Old Man sued Phelous for breach of contract, citing his clause to appear in any GoodTimes review from here on out. Phelous forced the Old Man to read more creepypastas. Finally, the Cheap Cash-In Coaster derailed, killing all aboard.
This video got me on a bit of a reading binge about Disney's The Little Mermaid. It's well known Ursula's character was greatly inspired by the drag queen Divine, but some of the stuff I came across seems to suggest that he might have actually ended up voicing the character had he not died while the film was early in production.
Instead of "Under the Sea" and "Kiss the Girl" we get high pitched squealing and... "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky?! Well I guess Good Times did a good job raiding the public domain for relatively obscure Russian composers. This movie and Caligula!
I remember being so betrayed when my friend played this during a sleepover. I was expecting the Disney film, but didn't say anything because I thought I was wrong. XD
10:36 Okay. The face of the guy at the bottom-middle of the screen had me laughing for about 5 minutes. This face needs to be a meme or something because honestly it's so ridiculous that I can't believe I haven't seen someone bring it up yet.
Why would Ursula being half squid or octopus be "debated"? I always figured she was part octopus because _less_ tentacles and none of them are those weird club-shaped ones.
Ursula appears to be a mythical creature known as a cecaelia. If that's the intent, then she's a different species altogether, rather than a half octopus half human, or half squid half human.
You know a "Little Mermaid" adaptation is a rip off of the Disney version when they make the Sea Witch a villain--she wasn't evil at all in the original story, in fact she never shows up again after the initial deal with the Mermaid.
She didn't, actually. What she took from the Mermaid in the original was her tongue, which rendered her unable to speak. She went on to make it so that upon transforming the human Mermaid's every step was extremely painful. I know that sounds like prime villain material, but after that she never appears again and doesn't affect the plot much further beyond the Mermaid's sisters making a deal with her to help the Mermaid. For some reason, though, all her sisters had to pay up with was some locks of their hair, which seems a teeny bit unfair of the Sea Witch. Seriously, why do they get a painless haircut when the poor Mermaid has to rip out her own tongue??
Perhaps to prove a point about how stupid and juvenile she was for making a such a life changing decision on such shaky reasoning. Kind of the whole point of the story which is lost in the Disney version by giving her what she wants. Fairy Tales did originally exist to teach lessons to children rather than just placating them before bedtime. Gotta get it in their heads early that reality is a nightmare which must be endured.
Fun fact: There was once an anime adaptation of The Little Mermaid in the 1970's. (a few years before the 1989 Disney film) The mermaid in that version also had long blonde hair so seeing the Golden Entertainment's Blariel (It's just Ariel with blone hair instead of red because this was one of the more shameless bootlegs) makes me think that blonde is a popular hair color for mermaids. (Also, I may be talking about the comedy film Splash since that mermaid also has blonde hair)
It does seem to be that way. According to an interview I heard with John Musker, him and Ron had always imagine Ariel as a redhead, but apparently Jefferey Katzenberg had thought she would be blonde and was confused when he started seeing color images because, in his words "Everyone knows mermaids are blonde".
It's possible that merpeople reproduce similar to marine mammals, though not many stories about merpeople go into such details. The King's lack of nipples could be a hint, I mean, if they reproduce like fish, nipples would be unnecessary. I should stop thinking about this. I love when these types of movies go the extra mile to rip off the Disney version. (though it's not as fun as when they just go completely off the rails with new ideas) I wonder what GoodTimes movie Phelous will review next? Apparently they did a version of Ben-Hur, with Charlton Heston actually doing the voice. I'm especially hoping to see Pocahontas or Hercules soon.
At least when men don't have nipples in fiction it is something that actually happens (Some men remove their nipples to look attractive. Doesn't require surgery)
Most of the Disney princesses are 14-16 in the source material. But don't tell me you only surmised that from her breast size - that's discrimination against flat girls! Are you an Australian or something?
You're one of those people that loves to look for things that offends them are you? It's not her flat chest that makes her look 13, it's the fact that her head is just gigantic and her body in general is smaller than the other characters, including her sisters and the fake human Ursula lady. With Disney's version, Ariel looks a lot older than this crappy knock off movie
Master Markus Australians have a history of discrimination against young looking people with small breasts in a certain branch of the film industry. Makes sense if they had the same problem with them in animation as well.
The wide hips that you see on most mermaids also points at certain anatomical features. If mermaids were completely fish, then they would not have a pelvic girdle. This also suggests that the tail of a mermaid starts not at the base of the pelvis, but rather where the legs meet the knees, so they got a virginia, it's just hidden.
Saying "the little mermaid died at the end" is misleading. In the original story, mermaids dont have souls and that was the little mermaid's motivation to marry the prince, because thru holy matrimony she would gain an immortal soul. Anyway, they don't get married and she dissolves into seafoam, but then wakes up as a "daughter of the air" (a semi-spirit thing) and she's given a second chance to earn an immortal soul. So its actually a bittersweet ending, not depressing "boo hoo, she died, the end" like so many people say.
This version steals almost as much from the Toei Animation (anime) adaptation as it does from the Disney one. Blond mermaid protagonist? Check Dolphin sidekick? Check Pearls in hair as a coming-of-age ritual? Check Extended action sequence whilst approaching the witch’s house? Check King and queen obsessed with their son getting married? Check Animals on land that can talk? Check This is basically the Toei version with a discount Disney art style.
While you can't boil a liquid quite like that under another liquid, you can drink a liquid underwater. Assuming that the liquid you are drinking is sufficiently dense and not soluble in water.
Short anwser is yes, mercury would work. Long answer: it doesn't need to be nearly that dense. Really anything that has a specific gravity (density) greater than 1.0 g/ml it should work. To err on the side of caution I'd say go with 1.2 or greater as there is natural variation in water based on temperature and what is desolved in the water. A good example is Tetrachloroethylene, better known as dry cleaning fluid which is 1.7 g/ml.
Think of it as the reverse. Oil is less dense than water so when you put water in oil the water goes to the bottom. If you had a cup in that pool of oil you could scoop up the water at the bottom and drink it.
Official Royal Pet... Official Royal Pet... ... Official Royal Pet... Oh Fish-al Royal Pet... If that was the joke, someone needs to be taken out... hard.
There was an anime version of the little mermaid made in 1975, that I feel this film also borrows from; Lena sounds like Marina, she's also blonde, also has a dolphin side-kick, and the protag has to get past a trap to get to the sea witch. Of course, it's much more visually striking (the sea witch and her lair are fantastic) because actual effort and emotion was put into it. Golden Film ripping off two movies would not surprise me. I highly recommend it (it's on YT), but it's a fair bit more melancholy than either the GF or Disney versions.
wow their company is actually called Jetlag Productions! I thought you were making that up! What the heck kind of a company name is "Jetlag"? Should've called it "Diabetes"! I would TOTALLY watch movies made by Diabetes!
Um, no, not really fire and plasma be different things mate. Green fire comes from burning Copper Sulfate or Boric Acid. You don't get green fire from burning wood no matter what the source of the heat was.
Wait, so when Lena said "he's the most handsome creature I ever seen." Added with her deep fascination of the human world and her wanting to become human, really raises a few questions. If Lana finds humans both fascinating to the point of being one and also finds them sexually attractive; that must mean that she is a furry compared to her fish species. Only, furries refer to humans wanting to be an animal of fur. So if humans aren't technically covered in fur, that can only mean they are covered in skin so we can conclude that Lana is officially a "skinny."
6:14 Biologist here. The horizontal tail fluke and breasts on the females imply mammalian reproduction, which would basically mean their lower half is more like a Dolphin. It's also important to know that around the time the tale of Mermaids were invented, the word "fish" literally meant "anything that lives in the sea", which is why sea stars have the erroneous name of Star Fish.
I think this is the first time covering a Goodtimes movie were you didn't include Old Man. I guess since he just did a Creepypasta the stupidity of School-bus extortions was too much for him.
FUCK HE IS! JEFF FIND YOURSELF A NEW AGENT! THIS AND FOOD FIGHT WAS STABBING YOUR CAREER IN THE ASS! Now you're stuck doing shitty Scooby Doo cash cows that don't work!
3:41 well that proves that mermaid is rich. She has a row of Donald Trumps greeting her on the way in. And for clarity, that was more an insult to his lips than his hair by intention.
Why are they using "Ride of the Valkyries" when presenting Cassandra's home? It's a song about psychopomps descending from the sky to lead the noble dead to Valhalla, what the hell is so threatening about that?! I know they have "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and "Night on Bald Mountain" in their library of public domain music that they toss about, just use one of those! They're pretty much COMPOSED to build tension!
21:02 so a girl coming out of the water with no clothes on IMMEDIATELY means a mermaid becoming human? Do people not go skinny dipping in this universe?
Well... at least this film didn't have Cosgrove be the butt of a bunch of lazy fat person eating jokes. Also, is he voiced by the same guy who played the perverted Brand X general?
Phelous is definitely the prettiest mermaid, merman, whatever of them all. Can't really bring myself to hate this version. It was the first one I saw and it led to me watching the differents versions. By the by, are you gonna take a look at Golden Films Aladdin? Please? I hear the ending's super hardcore.
12:30 Okay, so Belle from Beauty and the Beast is friends with a crossdressing man and Zarbon from Dragonball Z? ............... 10/10. Best adaptation.
well technically "The Little Mermaid" originally had a happy ending. But it was later changed because critics pointed out how the narrative lead to a tragic ending.
@@ghoulchan7525the mermaid, after throwing herself into the sea ready to become foam and vanish into nothingness, gained due to her goodness a second chance for an immortal soul (you know, the thing she wanted so badly she hopped into her crush thinking it would be a "win-win" but got unlucky) by becoming a wind spirit, so it's actually more a "hopeful" than "happy" ending, but still less tragic than the "cut short" version
