Ariel rescues Eric and brings him to shore. A violent storm arrives, wrecking the ship, and knocking Eric overboard.
One night, Ariel, Flounder, and Sebastian, a crab who serves as Triton's adviser and court composer, travel to the ocean surface to watch a birthday celebration for Prince Eric. She ignores the warnings of her father King Triton, the ruler of Atlantica, that contact between merpeople and humans is forbidden. With her best friend Flounder, Ariel collects human artifacts in her grotto.
Sixteen year old mermaid Ariel is dissatisfied with underwater life in the kingdom of Atlantica, a fantasy kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean. Other derived works and material inspired by the movie, include a live-action film adaptation, directed by Rob Marshall, currently scheduled for release in 2023, and a 2019 live musical presentation of the film airing on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney. The film's success led to a stage adaptation with a book by Doug Wright and additional songs by Alan Menken and new lyricist Glenn Slater opened in Denver in July 2007 and began performances on Broadway Janu starring Sierra Boggess. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song (" Under the Sea"). It also marked the start of the era known as the Disney Renaissance.
After the major success of both the 1986 Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective and the 1988 Disney/ Amblin live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid is given credit for breathing life back into the art of Disney animated feature films after some films produced by Disney were struggling. It was also a commercial success, garnering $84 million at the domestic box office during its initial release, and $233 million in total lifetime gross worldwide. The Little Mermaid was released to theaters on Novemto critical acclaim, earning praise for the animation, music, and characters. Katzenberg warned that the film would earn less since it appealed to females, but he eventually became convinced that it would be Disney's first blockbuster hit. With supervision from Katzenberg, they made a Broadway-style structure with musical numbers as the staff was working on Oliver & Company (1988). Ashman became involved and brought in Menken. In 1985, while working on The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Clements and Musker decided to adapt the fairy tale and proposed it to Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, who initially declined due to its similarities to a proposed sequel to the 1984 film Splash, but ultimately approved of it. Walt Disney planned to put the story in a proposed package film containing Andersen's stories, but scrapped the project. Wright, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars, and Buddy Hackett. The film features the voices of Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Pat Carroll, Samuel E. The original songs were written by Ashman and Alan Menken. The Little Mermaid was written and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker and produced by Musker and Howard Ashman. The film tells the story of a mermaid named Ariel, who dreams of becoming human and falls in love with a human prince named Eric, which leads her to make a magic deal with the sea witch, Ursula, to become human and be with him. The 28th Disney animated feature film, it is based on the 1837 Danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Pictures.