I didn’t think I’d like it, and I was sure I’d write a great review. But in the end, this is a perfectly normal attempt to continue a story that should not be continued. If the first part constantly raises questions about why it was so twisting the tale of Anderson and the anime of the 70s, the second is free of such comparisons. This is more or less original work, and the authors, working on it, tried (in those days it was still customary). Since certain plot cards were already played in the first part, here the authors had to work with deconstruction. Not everyone likes it, but I like it when a rabbit pulls a magician out of a hat. This is an unusual setting of the problem, and the script explains well why the parents were restrictive and the daughter rebelled and why everyone had different goals. It's a good job, actually.
I also liked that this cartoon has exactly what I was thinking when I read Anderson’s fairy tale. We have two royal families and their heirs love each other, so why wouldn’t the Danish kingdom be related to the sea? The problem was bloated. And this cartoon explored what would have been.
But there are downsides:
- The quality of the drawing has fallen. You can see a gray contour in absolutely everything. The coloring is similar to that of flash animation. On a stop frame, the characters often don't look like themselves, especially Ariel.
- The plot is repeated - the heroine was late for the holiday and ruined everything.
- Got a pocket villain out of nowhere. So in Lion King 2, Scar's wife, who wasn't there, came from somewhere. How many more relatives of villains can you get like that?
- How is it possible that the daughter of the royal family is being bullied in her own palace?
- In general, there are a number of children and teenagers, but they do not have roles.
- In the first part, the plot was loaded with three gag idiots: crab, fish and seagull. Now there are five... Moreover, the new penguin and walrus are like Timon and Pumba. And such characters ALWAYS create a stratification in cartoons – they are poured like dlc for the youngest into relatively adult stories. Here's a dramatic story about a rebel from the royal family, but the morons run like Tom and Jerry. That's pathetic.
- Why the hell do penguins and walruses breathe underwater? This is amazing, but I have noticed many times that in works about the underwater world authors simply forget or forget about it. This was for example in the animated series “Justice League”, when land heroes were invited to an underwater holiday, was in the story of Marquez “Sea of disappearing times”. I don't see how you can ignore that.
- As always, I squandered songs. After all, operetta inserts are absolutely unbearable always.
I liked the rest of it. Especially that the villain used a good scheme of manipulation, and at the same time was driven by complexes. The image of the villain-loser, who hates himself in the first place, is more mature and convincing than the same Ursula, who wanted a lot of things, but it is not quite clear why.
By the way, the cartoon made you think. If Eric is still a prince, not a king, then who is his daughter? Duchess? Infanta? I couldn't google the exact name of the daughter of the prince and princess.