The Little Mermaid Post Outtakes

Now that I’ve done the formal film response, I have a few additional thoughts/questions/potential plot holes about the movie that I didn't include in my original post.

Ariel has a twin.  Purple seashells and everything:

This is right before the concert, when she is supposedly out collecting stuff at the shipwreck.

What’s up with Flotsam and Jetsam’s eyes?  They function as a crystal ball for Ursula.  How did that happen/what did Ursula do to them to make it happen?

Flounder is a shapeshifter:

Speaking of Flounder, how did Flounder move the statue into Ariel’s grotto?  He’s not that big, and odds are that very few people in the kingdom would be very keen on helping him do something that King Triton most certainly would not approve of.

Also, why did Grimsby commission a giant statue of Eric for his birthday? It doesn't seem like something he would be that into (especially based on his reaction to it).

In “Part of Your World,” Ariel names a whole bunch of human objects/words.  These are also words that are not used in the mermaid world (since she tends to say things like “What do you call it?” when using them).  Her only source of info about the human world is Scuttle, who actually knows nothing.  So where did she get the correct information?

Ursula’s cave looks like a creepy sea dragon:

Also, she enslaved a whole lot of merpeople:  Why does Ariel think it’s a remotely good idea to walk in there?  Or does the rest of the kingdom not know that Ursula has been systematically kidnapping people?  If so, do they just have a list of mystery disappearances?

Does Ariel not have a last name?  Also, she obviously knows how to write (and read) English. The contract wasn't in a different mermaid language.  Why didn’t she write Eric a letter explaining her whole predicament?  A lot of issues could have been avoided.

King Triton’s description of humans as “spineless, savage, harpooning, fish-eaters” reminds me a lot of the response Chief Powhatan has to the English in Pocahontas.  Now that I think about it, in both movies, the teenage daughter saves the life of and falls in love with someone from the group her father fears.  Interesting.  

It also bugged me when Triton tells the little seahorse servant to “[l]et no one in this kingdom rest until she’s safe at home!”, and then goes and sits on his throne.  If he’s so distraught, he should go help look, not just sit and do nothing.

That's about it for my thoughts on this movie. It's still a good movie, but it does leave a few questions unanswered.