Talk:The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea/@comment-4165687-20150322172714/@comment-1672596-20150404033339

There's definitely no way it would beat the original Disney film, but compared to some other sequels, and especially that sorry excuse of a prequel Ariel's Beginning, it's decent. I don't even like the movie, so this is actually something I've come to objectively.

Besides, they could have done far worse: Imagine if the Disney executives did to Return to the Sea what The WB did to the Baby Blues animated series (ie, basically make it a clone of both the then-recently airing Family Guy and/or the Mike Scully-era of The Simpsons, complete with extremely crass humor). To give you a good idea of what I mean by that, The WB executives decided to have the animated series adaptation for a family friendly comic strip, and loaded it with a lot of crass humor and sexual references that were clearly geared towards older audiences, all to compete with The Simpsons during the time of Mike Scully's time as showrunner (which was a whole mess by itself) and especially Family Guy (which at the time had just recently aired), which not only alienated long-time fans of the comic strip, but even the actual writers. In fact, The WB's bungling of that series was the reason why Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman absolutely refused to have an animated series adaptation of their sister comic strip Zits, preferring instead to have a live action film version specifically to avoid having it tie in to the cartoon.