2000 · animation · adventure · family
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
Directed by Jim Kammerud1h 15m2000
Set several years after the first film, Ariel and Prince Eric are happily married with a daughter, Melody. In order to protect Melody from the Sea Witch, Morgana, they have not told her about her mermaid heritage. Melody is curious and ventures into the sea, where she meets new friends. But will she become a pawn in Morgana's quest to take control of the ocean from King Triton?
Our read: The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · adventure · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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