The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
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The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea is a 2000 Disney animated feature film and direct-to-video sequel to the 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid. Directed by Jim Kammerud and Brian Smith, the story takes place over a decade after the original film, and focuses on Ariel's and Eric's daughter Melody, a human princess who longs to swim in the ocean despite her parents' law that the sea is forbidden to her. This sequel stars the voices of Jodi Benson as Ariel, Tara Strong as Melody and Pat Carroll as Morgana, the film's new villain.
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Morgana [edit]
- One minute you're on top, the next you're sushi. Now is that fair, I ask you?
- STOP CRITICIZING ME! That's all my mother ever did was criticize me. It was always "Ursula this", or "Ursula that", or "Morgana, why can't you be more like your sister... URSULA!!" (She throws a starfish at a picture of Ursula. It stabs the picture in the middle of Ursula's hair.)
- Hungry? Afraid all I have is a cold plate.
- (to Melody) You're not the only one with a mother who doesn't understand you. BELIEVE me.
- Oh, wishes do come true. (to sky) SEE THAT, MA? WHO'S YOUR FAVOURITE NOW?!
Sebastian [edit]
- "Sebastian, you watch over her," he said. I'M TOO OLD FOR THIS! A crab my age should be retired! Getting a tan! Playing sea golf! SIPPING A TUNA COLADA!! Not babysitting another teenager.
- [after Scuttle suggests that Melody tell Ariel how she really feels] Oh yes, by all means. Just waltz right in and tell her you been out here... SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN!!!
- (In another chase with Louis) C'mon, now. No, Louis! Ya don't wanna do dis, mon! I'm OLD! I'm not tender anymore!!
- You know, when I was a teenager, you couldn't get me out of my shell for nothin'. I had this high squeaky voice and these itty-bitty liddle pinchers! Then one day, Boom! I sound like Caruso, and these whoppers pop out!
- Alright, Sebastian. You must remain calm. Dis is NOT your fault. All you have to do is go in there and calmly explain that Melody has run away. No reason to lose your head. Whatever you do, you abso-tively, posi-tutely, must. Not. Panic. [Hears Ariel call Melody] WAH!!! MELODY'S GONE, MELODY'S GONE, MELODY'S GONE!!!!
Undertow [edit]
- Make way, little mershrimp! I'm comin' through!
- (After being shrunk) What have you done to me?! Look at me! I'm an anchovy!!
Other [edit]
- Louis: [chasing Sebastian] You're going in ze bouillabaise!
- Ariel: I miss you, Daddy. I wish you could be right here with us.
- Eric: [to Ariel] You know these waters, and you know our daughter.
- Melody: Grandfather, I think this belongs to you. [tosses the trident to King Triton, who catches it]
Dialogue [edit]
- Triton: We shall not rest until that mad woman is vanquished. Find her!! Find her!! [Lightning is strucked in the sky as an order and Morgana is nowhere to be found. Flounder and Sebastian are with Triton at the castle about Morgana's disappearence with terrible news] I'm sorry. There is, no sign of her, she's vanished. [Ariel is worried and Melody crawls to the sea] We'll keep trying, we'll--
- Ariel: Sweetie no. [Melody giggles from touching the sea water] Oh, we've got to keep Melody away from her. [A solution comes up] Until Morgana is found, Melody can't go into sea. [A 2nd thought comes up] And neither will I.
- Flounder: But, Ariel.
- Ariel: I'm sorry, Flounder. [Knowingly] But if Morgana is anything like Ursula, she'll never give up. This is the only way; Melody can't know about Merpeople or Atlantica, [Triton is hoping as he takes back the locket.] or even you, Daddy.
- Triton: [Hoping] Very well, Ariel, you're right. [Ariel's solution is to keep Melody away from the sea] Sebastian, you will watch over her.
- Sebastian: Me? Aww! [A gigantic flops comes out and Triton leaves back to the sea. Flounder watches sadly and also leaves. Ariel and Eric go back home keeping Melody away from the sea and Morgana.]
- [Morgana's lair is hidden outside the Polar Region and a Shiny Green glow flashes like a spell with Cloak and Dagger watching]
- Morgana: Ooh-Ooh-Hoo-Hoo, Trust me. [The spell is ready] This time I'm sure I've got it right.
- Undertow: Yeah, that's what you said last time, and I was sore for a week.
- Morgana: Oh stop your carping and stand still.
- Undertow: Oh, this is gonna hurt.
- [Morgana casts a spell and Shiny Green Lightning is shot out of the pot on Undertow]
- Morgana: Yes. Yes. Yes!!!
- Undertow: Uh-Oh. [The spell backfires] Uh.
- Morgana: [Frustrated] Huh. [Another bottle is thrown in relentlessly and Undertow is turned into another grayish thing].
- Undertow: Uh. [Morgana gets frustrated and relentlessly throws in 7 more bottles and Undertow is still small and grayish] Ulp.
- [Cloak and Dagger laugh and snicker at Undertow]
- Morgana: Oh. It's just no use. The power of the trident is just too strong for me to overcome.
- Undertow: [Criticizing] I bet Ursula could've done it.
- Morgana: What, was that, you said?
- Undertow: Nothing, I'm just saying. [A glass jar is thrown to the wall]
- Morgana: Stop, criticizing me! [Undertow listens in] That's all my mother ever did was criticize me. It was always, "Ursula this" or, "Ursula that" or, "Morgana, why can't you be more like your sister Ursula!?"
- [A 9th star lands on Ursula's forehead]
- Undertow: [Points out] Well, it's not Ursula's fault I got miniturized. It's yours!
- Morgana: Is Not.
- Undertow: Your fault we had to hide out here for twelve frost-bitten YEARS!
- Morgana: Is Not!
- Undertow: YOUR FAULT WE CAN NEVER SHOW OUR FACES IN POLITE SOCIETY AGAIN!!!
- Morgana: You're really pushing it, Small-Fry.
- Melody: Hey, Scuttle! Hey, Sebastian! What's kickin'?
- Scuttle: Uh, what's kickin'? Hmm... let me see. [knocks himself on the head] Don't rush me!
- Sebastian: Ha! You know perfectly well what's kicking!
- Sebastian: Melody, child, how many times do I have to tell you?
- Melody and Sebastian: It is expressly forbidden for you to be swimming beyond the safety of the sea wall.
- Melody: Any such swimmin' is a reckless disregard of da rules. Don't you know?
- [They are silent for a moment.]
- Sebastian: Stop dat.
- Melody: Oh, Sebastian, I can't help it. I just love the sea!
- Eric: So, we're having a bad hair day.
- Ariel: If we were, you wouldn't be helping, would you?
- Eric: Well I'm just here to let you know, there are a lot of people downstairs.
- Ariel: Oh we'll be right down. Give us 2 minutes.
- Eric: Right, 2-- Where have I heard that before?
- Melody: [crying] What's wrong with me?
- Ariel: Oh, nothing's wrong with you.
- Melody: Mom, I'm the princess of disaster!
- Ariel: Being a teenager is hard, and, uh, all kids your age feel... awkward, and...
- Melody: [looking at her locket] "Melody?" What is this? My name's on here. [The song plays] That song. Where have I heard it? It's Atlantica, with merpeople and everything. Mother, you always said it was just an old fish tale!
- Ariel: [snaps the locket shut] Where did you get this?
- Melody: I-- I found it.
- Ariel: You went over the wall, didn't you?
- Melody: Actually, I went under it. I HATE that stupid wall.
- Ariel: Melody, you know you're not allowed in the sea!
- Melody: But why? And why does that necklace have my name on it?
- Ariel: Melody, listen to me.
- Melody: You're hiding something from me.
- Ariel: You deliberately disobeyed me! I never want you going out there again. Do you hear me? It's dangerous in the sea!
- Melody: How would you know? You've never even been in it! [rushes out in tears]
- Tip: C'mon, Miss Popularity. We have a previous engagement, remember? [drags Melody away]
- Merboy: Was that a... penguin?
- Undertow: Grr.
- Flounder: "Grr" yourself, pipsqueak.
- Melody: Hi. I'm Melody.
- Dash: This here's Tip, and I'm Dash.
- Tip: Excuse me, Mr. I-Spill-My-Guts-To-Total-Strangers. You just blew our cover!
- Dash: I was just tryin' to be friendly.
- Melody: Guys, I really have to get going, so if you could...
- Dash: Aww, see? Now she's gonna leave, and it's all your fault.
- Tip: My fault?! She's... she's... she's probably allergic to blubber!
- Dash: Oh, yeah? Well... maybe she doesn't like BIRDS THAT CAN'T FLY!!!
- [Tip gasps dramatically]
- Melody: Guys...
- Tip: Well, you can't fly, either!
- Dash: And... you walk funny.
- Melody: Guys!
- Tip: Oh, YEAH?! Well... um... YOU CAN'T FLY EITHER!!!
- Melody: GUYS!! [The bickering duo finally stop] Do either of you know how to get to Atlantica? I don't have much time.
- Dash: Why do you want to go to Atlantica?
- Melody: I have to get something that was stolen from a friend. [shows them her tail] If not... I'll turn back into a...
- Dash: A what? Turn back into a what?
- Melody: A human.
- Tip: [startled gasp] I knew there was something UN-fishy about you! [turns to leave] Tough break, sister. Drop us a line. Let us know how it all turns out.
- Dash: [Stops Tip with a fore-flipper and turns him around] We'll take you!
- Melody: You will?
- Tip: We WILL?!
- Dash: She's a damsel in distess. It's our BIG chance.
- Tip: We're guppies, man. Jellyfish.
- Dash: The great Tip and Dash; cowards-slash-losers.
- Tip: [Has an idea] Ok, on the one hand, we can live a long, healthy life; albeit as disgusting, pathetic, cowardly...uh...
- Dash: Worms?
- Tip: That's good! Good. Cowardly worms. On the other hand, we could gather our courage, if we had any, and storm the fortress and be heroes!
- Dash: Yeah. Until they hack us up into fish bait!
- Tip: You're right.
[Strange green lights begin to flash from Morgana's iceburg lair]
- Dash: [gasps] Melody's in there. She might be in big trouble! She might really need our help!
- Tip: So what's it gonna be? A lifetime as worms...or two minutes as heroes?!?
