Talk:The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea/@comment-4098886-20150218215736/@comment-1672596-20150218221030

Yeah, and Ariel's Beginning was even worse than Return to the Sea (even though AB was technically a prequel than a sequel, the point still stands). Sure, RTTS retreaded the original film and had fairly bad songs, but at least it actually paid respect to the continuity of the original film, while with Ariel's Beginning it looked like none of the people who made that sorry excuse of a prequel even looked at the original film.

And in all fairness, there were some differences between the original film and the sequel anyways, that aren't just retreads: We have a villain who has severe mother issues, Melody actually remains human rather than becoming a mermaid permanently, and Ariel and Eric actually DO have a very good reason for wanting to keep Melody away from the sea (Let's face it, Triton didn't exactly have that good of a reason as his main angst against Ariel's desire for becoming human effectively amounted to racism).

Now, I will say it wasn't a very good movie, and I personally don't exactly have many fond memories of it (it was thanks to Return to the Sea as well as Kids WB's sock party ad that I have a trauma-induced hatred of songs), but it's definitely not that bad. Besides, the Special Edition actually improved on some things.