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Scheduling conflicts with Star Trek: The Next Generation forced Patrick Stewart to turn down the role of King Triton.
+Originally, Sebastian was to have an English accent. It was lyricist/producer Howard Ashman who suggested he be Jamaican. This opened the door to calypso style numbers like “Under the Sea”, which won the Academy Award.
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Ursula has six tentacles, plus two human arms, making eight limbs which qualify her as an octopus.
+Jodi Benson sang ‘Part of Your World’ in the dark to get that ‘under the sea’ feeling.
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During the scene Kiss the girl, the fish swim up from a depth, but later when Ariel and Eric fall they are shown in Ursula’s ball standing in shallow water.
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Castle Thunder: Heard a few times during the storm that wrecks Eric’s ship in the beginning. It’s also briefly heard for a second during the middle of the second storm when Ursula becomes gigantic and powerful, and is the last Disney movie to use the sound.
Ehem … doesn’t Eric look HOT in these caps ? *faints*
+Ursula’s look was based off of actor and self-proclaimed “Drag Queen” Divine.
I kinda wish Ursula herself was a Drag Queen. That’d increase her fierce factor tenfold.
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In the opening scene when King Triton arrives at the arena, you can briefly see Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck and Kermit the Frog in the crowd of sea-people as mermen when he passes over them.
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“Part of Your World” was nearly cut; Jeffery Katzenberg felt that it was “boring”, as well as being too far over the heads of the children for whom it was intended. At a test screening children were restless during the song which did not have finished animation - in particular one child that sat in front of Katzenberg and spilled his popcorn and was more interested in picking it up than watching the sequence.
DAMN YOU JEFFERY !!
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During the fireworks scene, the fireworks originate from the boat, but moments later, the boat has moved on but the fireworks are still erupting from the space where the boat had been.
