The Little Mermaid

Movie • 1989 • Animation  

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This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.
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Does the dog die?
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Anonymous
No DOG was killed during the movie. While yes there are dead FISH being shown no DOG died.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is there audience participation?
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Is there smoke or haze?
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Abandonment
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Ariel trades her voice for legs.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Anonymous
Father says he will disown her.
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Abuse
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Weatherfish
Can be interpreted this way, seeing as Triton's angry outbursts at his daughter and destruction of her precious collection are never really addressed, and they are on good terms at the end.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Ursula was banished from the palace.
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Is someone stalked?
24 supporters
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Ursula spies on Ariel.
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Is a child abused?
117 supporters
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cassandrasaurus
Arguable but a father’s behavior towards his teenage daughter might be considered controlling, manipulative and threatening.
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cassandrasaurus
Triton doesn’t strike Ariel but he is physically threatening and destroys her prized possessions in anger.
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“Vanessa” (Ursula in disguise) is attacked in an attempt to stall the wedding.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Weatherfish
Triton yells at his daughter, is very controlling (hires his own composer to spy on her), and destroys her beloved collection. While he's far from the worst Disney parent, his actions are framed more as a caring and overprotective father rather than an angry and violent man.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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cassandrasaurus
Near the beginning of the film, Ursula eats a struggling, terrified shrimp alive. Disturbed me as a child. Later, her pets (two sentient eels) are killed.
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Are animals abused?
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zement
Ursula also kicks a dog in the face
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LauraMcG
Lots of dead fish and other sea creatures in the Les Poissons scene
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
191 supporters
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Draczard
Ursula’s pet eels are killed
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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cassandrasaurus
Eels
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Are there sharks?
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SiRenfield
Ariel and Flounder are chased by one near the start of the movie
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Are there bugs?
42 supporters
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LightJest
Various insects and molluscs in some of the musical numbers but they are not creepy
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Assault
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LightJest
Both heroes are restrained under water by eels
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Blondebeauty23
Eric gets dragged under water by Ursula’s eels and is held there by the eels but he frees himself
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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LightJest
A starfish covers the villain's mouth during the wedding scene
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Is rape mentioned?
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Bodily Harm
Is someone crushed to death?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Draczard
Ursula is impaled and killed by a ship
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Is someone choked?
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Is there cannibalism?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
Sebastian the crab witnesses a chef butchering and cooking other sea creatures, including crabs. He is disturbed and sickened by it.
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Is there body horror?
69 supporters
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Ariel’s tail turns into legs; Vanessa turns back into Ursula.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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LightJest
Yes! The chef puts his hand directly into a flame on an oven and is shown to be in great pain.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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LauraMcG
A couple of scenes of people struggling underwater, but they all end up fine.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Is someone tortured?
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RoyalLouds
A dead fish gets it’s head chopped off by a chef. No blood is shown.
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Is there amputation?
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LauraMcG
There's chopped up fish shown during Les Poissons, which in the context of the film is gruesome, but it's not exactly amputation in the normal sense. Viewer's interpretation.
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cassandrasaurus
In a cartoonish way. An unlikeable character is hit in the face with a frying pan and some teeth fall out. Not graphic, done for comedy.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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br14rr0s3
Ursula is grazed on the arm by a spear from which Eric throws at her. What is presumed to be blood appears from the cut on her arm, though it is black and inky.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there a hanging?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
117 supporters
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Anonymous
Ariel is young.
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Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
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Triton gets turned into a polyp to save Ariel.
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Ursula.
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Does someone die?
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The villain
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A villain
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Does someone cheat?
22 supporters
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LightJest
No but a heart is broken when the person the protagonist is in love with suddenly decides to marry someone else.
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cassandrasaurus
Teenage main character’s father destroys her prized possessions.
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0
Not on screen, but the prequel confirms that Ariel’s mother died
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Is someone kidnapped?
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runasoul
Several plant looking creatures (later revealed to be merpeople) and the main character (temporarily) are captured by the villain.
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Fear
Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there mannequins?
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Considering it’s a movie about sea creatures, obviously.
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Are there razors?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Ursula hypnotizes Eric.
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EthanColes
There's a bath scene
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
No people are eaten, but we see shots of a kitchen where fish (who have only been anthropomorphic characters thus far) are being cut up and cooked. It sickens the crab who sees them.
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Does someone vomit?
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The butler guy gets seasick in the opening scene and retches over the boat (no visual or audio).
Sebastian also gags when he sees the chef cooking crab.
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Is there audio gore?
51 supporters
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LauraMcG
During Les Poissons, we can hear the fish being chopped and squished and deboned.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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LightJest
Fish create water fountains with their mouths during Kiss The Girl. Dolphins spit seawater in the villain's face during the wedding scene.
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Large-scale Violence
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The movie came out in 1989.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Is there bisexual cheating?
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12
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5
Are there transphobic slurs?
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9
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
41 supporters
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9
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
26 supporters
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5
Loss
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Objects treated as priceless artifacts to the owner, but not to broader society
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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18
Are needles/syringes used?
40 supporters
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20
Is there a hospital scene?
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20
Is there menstruation?
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5
Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Is there autism specific abuse?
59 supporters
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Yes
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Anonymous
During Ursula’s “poor unfortunate souls” song there is a couple shown who both turned to the sea witch to change their bodies
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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LightJest
No but the hero is hypnotized towards the end of the film.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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6
Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Yes
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Yes
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Is there ABA therapy?
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8
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
33 supporters
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12
Is there misophonia?
1 supporters
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14
Does someone self harm?
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85 supporters
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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LightJest
Not really but A sidekick is in a constant state of anxiety, shown trembling and another sidekick also gets extremely nervous when speaking to the king
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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LauraMcG
Flounder gets stuck in a shipwreck porthole, while a shark stalks him. He gets unstuck in time.
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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1
Is there shakey cam?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Yes
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Yes, considering the main character is a mermaid.
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Is there screaming?
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JessieFoster
There are flashing lights during a storm around 22min, at around 35 min, in poor unfortunate soul- I don't know why people have said no
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Ursula spies on Ariel.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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13
Are there abortions?
21 supporters
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17
Is there childbirth?
1 supporters
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15
Does a pregnant person die?
28 supporters
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16
Are there babies or unborn children?
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12
Does someone miscarry?
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17
Prejudice
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14
Is there aphobia?
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8
Does the black guy die first?
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14
Is a minority is misrepresented?
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12
Are there fat jokes?
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Fayy
No, just comments done by Ursula about her own body. But nothing negative.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
53 supporters
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Does an LGBT person die?
35 supporters
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1
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cassandrasaurus
Some comments/attitudes might be considered ableist towards the hearing and/or speech impaired.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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14
Are there usages of the n-word?
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17
Is there hate speech?
35 supporters
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7
No
10
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Triton hates humans and calls them “barbarians”.
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Race
Is there blackface?
41 supporters
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3
No
6
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BuzzyMcGee
The blackfish is a caricature of performers from minstrel shows. It only appears briefly during "Under the Sea."
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Relationships
Yes
2
No
10
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Ariel and Eric are both 16. Ursula is elderly but she dies before she can officially marry Eric.
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Religious
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Sebastian calls Ursula a demon.
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6
0
A priest officiates Vanessa’s and Eric’s wedding.
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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8
Is there BDSM?
31 supporters
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6
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Yes
6
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8
3
Ariel is naked from the waist down when she is given legs, but we only ever see her silhouette
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Anonymous
Specifically in the song by Ursula.
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Is there bestiality?
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10
Sexism
Yes
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12
Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
11 supporters
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11
Does someone have a chronic illness?
11 supporters
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10
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
28 supporters
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10
Is someone terminally ill?
20 supporters
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7
Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
34 supporters
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9
Is existentialism debated?
16 supporters
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6
Are there fat suits?
32 supporters
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10
Yes
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-1
Ariel has to live in Eric’s castle when she becomes human.
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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15
Are there end credit scenes?
51 supporters
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5
Does it have a sad ending?
69 supporters
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
22 supporters
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Does a car crash?
21 supporters
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1
No
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cassandrasaurus
Shipwreck is the closest thing.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
8 supporters
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10
Does a plane crash?
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17
Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
13 supporters
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Does someone drown?
30 supporters
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18
No
6
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cassandrasaurus
No drowning deaths are shown but a ship does capsize and we don’t know if there are other survivors besides Eric.
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Is there blood/gore?
61 supporters
Yes
6
No
13
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LauraMcG
no blood, but we do see a lot of chopped up seafood, which in the context of the film is pretty horrific. Also, Ursula gets impaled, but it is not graphic at all.
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Is there gun violence?
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