Walt disney Book Scans - The Little Mermaid: Ariel and the Secret Grotto (English Version)

Roger Ebert: **** (4 Stars)

Walt Disney's "The Little Mermaid" is a jolly and inventive animated fantasia - a movie that's so creative and so much fun it deserves comparison with the best disney work of the past.

It's based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale about a mermaid who falls in amor with a prince, but the disney animators have added a gallery of new supporting characters, including an octopus named Ursula who is their most satisfying villainess since the witch in "Snow White."

Watching "The Little Mermaid," I began to feel that the magic of animation had been restored to us. After the...