That Guest Person: Exactly, one of the main points of this story was to have Turbo act more and more human the longer he lives here. I picked Gaston for a guest role because he makes for a good comparison study between the two of them...and he's also insanely fun to write for XD
TheLoser: I've seen more smut than I care to see in my life lol. I'd be happy if I never saw smutty fanart ever again to be honest. I don't mind reading/writing it (as long as it's a ship I like of course) but I don't like seeing it drawn out for some reason.
apple: Yes, Gaston is "a little" weird XD and yep, that particular restaurant is all over the place down here in the Southern USA where I live, there's at least one per town lol. I don't think there's that many (or maybe none) in the northern states though, just from what people have told me over the years.
One Turbo-Tastic Day at a Time
TURBO'S POV
So...
Anyways...
The air conditioner got fixed and I ended up having to go pick up Kitty from the kennel since Blondie was knocked out sleeping. She'd had a bad night at work, you know, plus she'd been up a long time afterwards so I don't blame her.
Kitty was NOT happy when I went to go get her, since she had been cooped up in a small cage thing for a few hours plus surrounded by complete strangers. She was crouched back in the farthest corner of the cage with her ears folded back and making herself look as small as possible, swishing her tail in an aggravated manner and growling. I didn't have much choice but to don a pair of safety gloves that they have available there and then reach in and grab her. She violently protested this, biting her little sharp fangs right into the glove and trying to dig her claws in as well, plus doing that kicking things that cats do with their back legs that make them look like rabbits.
There was no way she was going to let me carry her to the car or else she'd run away and hide in some bushes, so one of the kennel assistants got me a cardboard box thing that closed at the top and had air holes in it so I could dump her inside and then close her up. She was yowling like a mountain lion in there but hey I wasn't going to have her attack me the entire ride home and get fur all over my 'Vette's seats.
I cranked up some Bon Jovi song on the radio and began heading back for home. It wasn't too long afterwards that I heard the sound of that cardboard box being ripped apart and pushed open. I quickly glanced to the side of me and saw that Kitty had actually clawed and chewed her way out of the stupid box she was in and was currently pushing her head through the top opening.
"Hey! Get back in there!" I commanded her, having to constantly turn my head back towards the road so I wouldn't wreck.
"Mrrrowr!" She meow-growled at me, pushing herself up and out of the box with her front legs and then getting her bottom legs out.
"Dangit, Kitty, get back in that box!" I uselessly yelled at her, since of course she doesn't understand English. Well, I'm not about to stop and try to put her back in that thing NOW. She stretched herself out a bit and then looked at me with those big greenish eyes of hers and meowed loudly again before trying to get in my lap to look out the window.
I swear to Walt, I cannot concentrate on driving while having her do this. She turned her head to sniff my face and I had to shake my head to make her quit. Then she wanted to prop herself up on the steering wheel so she could see out the windshield. THEN she wanted to crawl up my arm and sit on top of my seat, her tail whopping me in the face.
I had to spit and use a hand to push her tail out of my way. "Listen, cat, you better be enjoying yourself because as soon as we get home, you ARE getting back in that box whether you like it or not."
"Meow!"
"Don't talk back to me, missy!" I thought about this whole situation and groaned. "Great, I'm turning into Blondie and becoming one of those people that talks to animals. Plus my car has fur all over it now, thank you very much."
"Meow?"
We FINALLY got home and I grabbed Kitty from the top of my seat and started trying to shove her back in the box. She kept making her legs push against my hands and meowing in protest, which sounded more sad than angry now. Dang it, I feel abusive now. I sighed and gave up, settling for just putting her back in her harness now that she was sort of calmed down and carried her in that way. I put her in it so I could have something extra to hang onto so she couldn't escape my arms. By the time I got to the door, she was ready to get down so it took some time to get the door unlocked. She leaped out of my hands the second it was open before I could even get her harness off and she high-tailed it to the bedroom to hide under the bed.
I had no idea where Gaston was at, but he wasn't here so that was fine with me. I had ended up leaving him at the pool and all these chicks in bikinis had come running out there to give him attention so he was preoccupied anyway. I had dried off (Blondie had bought me a red beach towel) and went off to go sit by the big duck pond that we have by the apartment complex for a while. Why? Well, mostly because I figured Blondie would want some space after...you know.
ANYWAYS...
I yawned a bit and put my keys back on the key hook by the door and then peeked inside Blondie's room to see if she was still asleep, which she was. All curled up under her blankets, even though she'd mentioned something to me about having to buy new ones since Gaston had been in them. I guess she was too tired to care at the time.
Well, now what?
I crashed on the couch and thought about playing a game but then I remembered Gaston broke the Wii. UGHHHH. I am so ready for him to go back to Disney World. I decided since there wasn't anything better to do (I wasn't hungry or sleepy) I might as well get my new homework done. I dug around in the cabinet for The Little Mermaid. Dang it, this had BETTER not suck. She also better not assign me a stupid princess movie for a while.
Right so we're starting off with this old-timey wooden ship sailing on the ocean blue and the crew is catching fish. Someone mentions to this young dude named Prince Eric about this other dude named King Triton who is apparently the king of the mermaid people but no one believes him. One of the fish that they caught escapes back into the ocean and we get all this pretty music and ocean scenery stuff, THEN we finally see this really awesome looking underwater castle with all the mermaids and merdudes (that's a male mermaid) swimming to it. There's a huge auditorium there that everyone's going to so I guess there's gonna be a meeting or something.
We meet this King Triton that we heard about earlier and...hahaha...he looks like Santa Claus! Santa with a crown and a big pointy stick thing he uses like a wand. So anyway, then this little red crab dude comes out and he's supposedly in charge of music stuff, so I guess that means we're here for a concert. All these mermaids show up and start doing this rather horrible musical where all they sing is THEIR NAMES. Why in the world would you want to sing your name? I mean, I'm the "most conceited villain" according to some people, and even I don't go around SINGING my name. Saying my catchphrase doesn't count because I'm not bursting into song about it.
I wonder how a turbo-tastic song would go anyway? I think I heard that I was supposed to have a villain song but they scrapped it. Good, because I can't sing. I know because I sometimes sing to the radio if I'm by myself (Blondie doesn't know that so SHHH!) and it sounds BAD.
Anyway, eventually they get to the part where they are supposed to be introducing their sister, Ariel, but lo and behold she isn't there. Everyone's absolutely horrified at this and King Santa is REALLY mad about it. He acts as if he KINDA expected it, so I guess she's done stuff like this before.
Whoa, wait, were all those chicks his KIDS? Good grief, I couldn't imagine having that many kids. I mean, I know I kinda was in control of a game full of kids but they for the most part took care of themselves. Hallejulah, because if I'd had to play "daddy" with them, then I would've bailed out right away.
So this is when we finally are introduced to our titular character, whose hair I swear is as red as the T on my helmet. It's not like an orange-red like most natural redheads in the world...it is TRUE RED.
She gets the Turbo "thumbs up" seal of approval already.
So Ariel is off exploring shipwrecks with her fishy friend who I'll just call Scaredy Fish since that's what he is. This guy's afraid of EVERYTHING! Ha, you know, this is almost like me having to drag Blondie out in public. Ariel has to drag her friend everywhere or otherwise he wouldn't do anything. Doesn't THAT sound familiar?
Okay so she's not as bad as she was when I first got here but...anyway, the reason Ariel likes exploring shipwrecks is because she likes to find items that humans use, like a fork and a pipe. Soooo...they don't use forks to eat with underwater? What do they use? Just their hands? Huh.
Things get nuts when...SHARK! Yeah there's a huge shark chasing these two now and holy crap it's EATING THE SHIP! Holy...guys, it is chomping down on this ship like it was buttered toast or something. I'd be freaking out if that thing was after me! It could rip me in half! Err, maybe the beach isn't a good vacation spot after all...nah, we're still going.
After a daring escape where they trap the shark in this big metal ring that's part of an anchor...wait, so is it just stuck there? Forever? Will it ever get out? Is this going to come back later on in the movie? If that thing stays stuck there, it'll die right? That's a little disturbing when this movie has fish in it that can talk like the mermaids. Or are sharks different and considered wild animals to them like they are to us?
So like I was saying, they escape and then they go up to the surface of the ocean where they meet up with this really annoying seagull. Apparently Ariel's visited him before since they know each other and she gives him the human artifacts that she found so he can tell her what they are used for. Unfortunately, Seagull tells her WRONG. Yeah, it's kinda funny actually, he claims he's an expert on humans and then tells her totally wrong so now she has all these misconceptions in her head about how humans do things. I'm not sure if he's lying on purpose or if he's just scatterbrained...eh, I'll go with scatterbrained. He told her that a smoking pipe was a musical instrument and that a fork was like a comb you use for your hair. I have a feeling this is going to come back later on.
Oh and the pipe being a "musical instrument" is what makes Ariel remember her concert so she goes back home only of course it's over now since her absence kinda ruined it. OOPS! So anyways, apparently Ariel has a habit of not following her dad's rules and doing things on her own, like any other stubborn-headed teenager. King Santa has her summoned to him to gripe about missing her concert and Scaredy Fish accidentally lets it slip that they went to the surface, and boy does King Santa get MAD. He goes off on a tirade about how dangerous it is to go up there because of humans and that if they see her, they'll do horrible things to her.
Gotta say, on the one hand, that makes him sound like a bigot. On the other hand, he has a point. The way he's talking, it sounds like he knows exactly what humans CAN do to mermaids so maybe he's witnessed this for himself? By the way, where his wife at? Unless merdudes give birth to kids like seahorses do, I'm pretty sure he had a wife at some point. Maybe she got killed by humans or something? If that's the case, he has legit reasons for making his kid stay where it's safe.
Then again, it's not healthy to live in fear all the time like that and also you need to let your kids grow up and do their own thing or else they'll never learn about life and be their own person. So he's a good dad but he's not perfect, like any other person in the world.
So like any other typical teenager, and we know for a fact she's sixteen because she says so which means this is the first person I've heard so far give their age in a Disney movie, she gets all upset because her dad got angry with her and she swims away with Scaredy Fish right behind her. King Santa starts lamenting to Musical Crab about her being so headstrong and Musical Crab starts talking like he knows everything there is to know about raising teenagers so King Santa commands him to babysit Ariel to make sure she stays out of trouble. I'm not sure if he actually believed what Musical Crab said or if he's just being funny...but regardless, he entrusts his right-hand man, er, crab to watch his kid.
I guess if I needed someone to spy on someone, it'd be my most trusted sidekick. Hm...I doubt Gaston is Mickey's most trusted sidekick but the big lug is dumb enough to obey orders from His Rat-ness to be useful. Still don't trust that guy.
Musical Crab follows Ariel and Scaredy Fish to their secret hideout, this really cool cavern looking thing that is where she stores her insane collection of human items. I mean, this chick has a mini-museum here! I gotta say, she's definitely got an adventurous spirit in her and inquisitive since she actually likes learning what things are for and how humans live...even if the guy that she gets her info from is an absent-minded seagull.
Anyway, after getting this pretty song about how she desires to get away from home and explore other worlds, in this case the human world, and how she wants to enhance her knowledge on things...wait, isn't that kinda like what Belle wanted to do in that other movie? Only I think this movie came out first...and Ariel's more specific in what she wants to learn about so...yeah I think I like Ariel more. So far anyway. I have more of an understanding on what she wants to go out and learn about and what her innermost desires are, while Belle just wanted to go out and do...anything else in general.
Musical Crab discovers her little treasure trove and threatens to tell her dad about it but Ariel convinces him not to because he'd get really mad and NO ONE wants to see King Santa mad. Haha, no one wants to be on King Santa's NAUGHTY LIST! Ha, I crack myself up sometimes.
A big ship passes by where the three of them can see it and despite being warned, Ariel wants to go visit it anyway. She's never been really close to a ship before or even near humans so she's curious to see it all in person. There's this big party going on for Prince Eric, the dude from the very beginning, and awwww love at first sight. She sees him and gets the biggest crush ever, but making sure that he doesn't see her. Normally I'd say that was stupid, I mean if you want to get noticed you need to a make a move of some sort, but due to all the horror stories she's probably been told all her life, she doesn't want to get caught.
Anyway, Eric gets this huge statue of himself for his birthday and he looks kinda embarrassed about it. I think it'd be turbo-tastic to have a statue of myself! His friend, who looks like a nicer version of Smiling Corpse guy from Beauty and the Beast, hints that he had hoped it would be a wedding present but Eric doesn't seem interested because he wants to fall in love with someone special and not just "anybody".
I think I like this dude. He's not under any pressure to get hitched any time soon so he's gonna take it easy and just let it happen. You know, unlike what ol' Beast Boy did.
Things get really bad when a storm hits and the ship catches fire from the lightning. All the crewman are able to get into the lifeboat but Eric goes back to save his big fluffy dog. What a good guy, he likes dogs. Anyway, the ship falls apart and Eric is knocked unconscious so Ariel takes it upon herself to save him and drags him to the closest shore.
I wonder how come SHE doesn't have a problem with humans like her dad? Maybe she didn't have a bad experience, who knows.
So the storm passes and everything's cool, Eric's alive but still out of it. Ariel thinks he's the best thing since sliced bread and gets really intrigued with him since he's the first human she's been close to. She sings a bit right when he wakes up and he catches a glimpse of her and hears her voice but that's when his friend shows up so she takes off before he can get a proper look at her or even talk to her. All he remembers is her singing voice but his friend thinks he just hallucinated her from being unconscious. He still vows to find her somehow and off in the distance Ariel is even more determined to somehow become part of the human's world. Well, they both have a good solid goal to work towards so that's something at least.
Oh yeah I forgot to mention the villain of this movie didn't I? Anyway, her name's Ursula and she's KINDA like a mermaid but instead of a fish tail, she has octopus legs. She's really creepy in real life, she used to literally try and bite me if I got too close to her and then laugh about it. Anyway, she's a sea witch and she has this bubble thing that acts like a crystal ball so she can spy on Ariel with. She thinks it's hilarious that she's in love with a human, a prince no less, and she knows that this will make King Santa angry. She seems to think that she can use Ariel somehow in order for King Santa to give up his powers, which are in the form of that big pointy stick thing they call a trident.
Anyway, so now Ariel's happy as a lark, going around singing to herself and being overly cheerful. Everyone notices this, especially her sisters and her dad. Actually, King Santa, upon getting clued in by one of the sisters that she's acting like this because she's in love, seems to actually like the idea of this. You'd think a dad would freak out and be overly protective if his daughter liked someone, but nah he's pretty cool with it.
I wonder how Blondie's dad would be? He's cool and all but I get the feeling that he'd be over-protective and suspicious about what my intentions would be with her...I mean...uh...never mind.
Musical Crab is freaked out that King Santa will kill him for letting Ariel go back to the surface and for falling in love with a human no less, so he starts gathering all these other sea creatures together to sing about how awesome the ocean is and how it's better to stay where you are, because the grass isn't always greener on the other side.
I'll admit, he has a point about that, sometimes what you want isn't REALLY what you want, but who are these people to tell her not to do what she dreams about? How is she going to learn any different if she just stays put? Scaredy Fish comes up to Ariel during this brainwashing song and whisks her away without Musical Crab seeing it, who now has to go back to King Santa.
King Santa asks him if he knows who Ariel is in love with and he gets nervous, thinking that King Santa knows that they went to the surface, and spits out by accident that she's in love with a human. He reacts just as expected...MAD. Dun dun DUNNNNN.
Scaredy Fish brings Ariel back to her secret treasure trove and shows her the Eric statue that is now there. How the heck did that little fish get that thing in there? Anyway, Ariel's overjoyed with this and practices talking to Eric by using the statue instead but unfortunately King Santa shows up to be a mood-killer. He is FURIOUS that she has all these human things and that she disobeyed him constantly, and even saved a human from drowning since according to him humans wouldn't do the same in return. Gee, what kind of humans did this guy encounter to give him that opinion...or fact, or whatever.
She gets defensive saying that she loves Eric despite being different species. Gotta hand it to her, at least she's not racist...or species-ist, or whatever you wanna call it. Talk about open-minded. I like this chick. I couldn't imagine if Blondie hated me simply because I have an unnatural skin and eye color. That wouldn't be very nice at all.
But King Santa is horrified by this confession of hers and...holy crap, he DESTROYED her stuff! He's using his magic trident thing to blast her collection to pieces! Oh my codes, that is...that is overreacting a bit, isn't it? She wasn't hurting anything by having all that stuff. That's like going in your kid's bedroom and destroying all their plush toy animals or something. Dear Walt, oh that is painful to watch. If someone went in and destroyed all my precious possessions, I'd go INSANE.
Oh what if someone hurt BLONDIE? I don't know how I'd react. What the heck is wrong with me, why am I even thinking something like that? Maybe I should I go check on her. I know she's just asleep but...you know, people die in their sleep and stuff...
I paused the movie and got up to tiptoe over by the bedroom door, peeking in the room. Yep, she's still asleep, all cuddled up. I saw her shift her leg a bit so I guess she's fine. Okay, I feel better now, let's finish this movie up.
Right, so King Santa destroys EVERYTHING, even the Eric statue. Ariel breaks down into sobs and for a moment, her dad looks like he regrets doing it. I guess no one likes to hurt their child but...I dunno, maybe he thought if he did that then she wouldn't do her treasure hunting and surface visiting anymore. I have a feeling this is going to backfire. He leaves quietly and Musical Crab apologizes to Ariel but she says for him to leave so he and Scaredy Fish go and leave her alone for a while.
Ursula sees this in her crystal ball bubble and sends her two creepy pet eels to go talk to her. Oh GOSH, these things are creepy! Ugh, they're like snakes that swim around in the water and have jaws full of teeth. I'd HATE to come across one of those! I hope I don't see any at the beach when we go to Daytona.
The eels tell Ariel about how Ursula can help her make her dreams come true. She doesn't feel too comfortable with making arrangements with a witch, but given the circumstances she doesn't feel that she has any other options. She agrees to go with them, while Musical Crab and Scaredy Fish follow at a distance after she refuses to listen to reason. They come to this really scary cavern thing and Ariel finally meets Ursula for the first time.
Ursula tells her that she is always helping out people in need as long as they can fulfill their end of a contract they must sign. Ha, so that way she has them trapped in her debt if they can't pay up. Pretty smart. She even tells her what happens when people can't withhold their end of the bargain: she turns them into these little gray withered puny plant things. Gah, and they still have eyeballs and little mouths even though they can't talk! That's friggin' nightmare-ish! No way in heck would I be making a deal with this lady!
Anyway, the deal is this: Ursula turns her into a human for three days and she has to get a "kiss of true love" from Eric before the sunset of the third day or she has to go back to the sea and become Ursula's property. Okay, first off, at least she said "kiss of true love" and not just any random kiss because that would be too easy. You can sneak up on him while he's sleeping and do it or you can just jump in his arms and surprise him with one. No, she has to get him to fall in love with her first for it to work.
Also, this isn't even bothering me even though Belle/Beast had three days to fall in love too, but at least Ariel and Eric already have some kind of attraction to each other and aren't trying to brainwash each other into something that the other doesn't want. Anyway, what's the catch on this deal? Ariel has to pay up with her VOICE. Yeah she has to give up her voice as like a down payment or something. You know, that's not fair because Eric only remembers her by her voice and so thus he won't know who she is when he meets her again. THAT'S CHEATING, URSULA.
Then again, at least Eric won't immediately fall in love with her now just because "Oh she's the girl with the awesome singing voice that saved me, I must marry her!". Now, he has no choice but to get to know her for HERSELF and then he can legitimately fall in love with her THAT way. Huh, so this all works out to where this love story makes sense. I give this a thumbs-UP.
Anyway, Ariel has to sign her name on this magical contract and all this magic stuff happens and these freaky floating ghost hands come and take Ariel's voice away while she's being forced to sing. Ursula stores it away with this insanely malicious look of glee on her face and keeps it in this shell necklace. Then she splits Ariel's fins apart and makes them into legs and...dang is she NAKED? I mean, you can't see anything of course because they did a good job hiding her bottom and her top half is covered up by a shell bra thing but...dang, is this the first naked chick in a Disney movie? WOW. And this is rated G? Huh.
So you guys probably know that humans can't breathe underwater like mermaids can so Ariel starts drowning because she has no idea how to swim with her new legs and not to mention she's on the ocean floor. Gah, that was a cheap trick Ursula. You could've killed her, you know. And dang it, I'm glad Blondie didn't let me drown today, that would've scary. Even if she did pull me out in the deep end on purpose...and then practically shoved my head under when we accidentally...never mind.
Scaredy Fish and Musical Crab thankfully are there and they quickly get Ariel to the surface so she can breathe and help her swim to shore where they run into Seagull. Ariel looks at her new toes and seems rather ecstatic about all of this. Musical Crab is freaking out and threatens to go tell King Santa about this so that Ariel can go back to her mermaid form but Ariel picks him up and gives him this really sad puppy-dog pout. Awww. Musical Crab feels like a jerk and realizes that she'll be miserable if she doesn't try this human thing out so he decides to help her with the Eric situation.
See, now THESE friends are actually going to help her out because they care about HER. Not because they want to help their own selves out but because they want her to be happy. You know, unlike stupid household object servants from that movie that I hate. So these guys are REAL friends. I wish I had devoted friends like that who could help me out with Blondie. I think I'm getting closer though. I THINK. She's still shy around me about stuff but not as bad as she was a while back. Good thing I'm not on a deadline.
So Seagull dresses Ariel up in an abandoned ship sail that was laying around so she'll be covered up and that's when Eric's dog shows up and finds her. Seagull and Scaredy Fish go away but Musical Crab stays with Ariel. Eric appears and sees Ariel and believes that she is the one that he's been looking for. Unfortunately, she cannot tell him that he is correct because she has no voice. Eric is disappointed in this and Ariel is as well. She tries to humorously do some made-up sign language stuff to tell him but he doesn't get it. Why doesn't she just WRITE it out for him? Unless mermaids and humans don't write the same way...even though they all speak English. Plot hole? Or the magic of Disney? Ehhhh...I'll just go with the latter since that seems to be the case with all these movies.
Anyway, so all the handmaidens at the castle get Ariel cleaned up and just think she's darling. Musical Crab gets separated from her and ends up in this crazy chef guy's kitchen where he plans to cook little crabs for dinner. Of course they're already dead but Musical Crab thinks he's landed in Crab Hell. I know this is supposed to be played for laughs but geez, imagine if you accidentally wound up in a place that had dead people hanging off of meat hooks and you had to stay hidden from the guy cooking them. And don't worry, Musical Crab survives.
Back to the movie, Ariel shows up for dinner with Eric and his corpse-looking friend and she gets excited when she sees a fork, one of the things that she'd had in her collection. She starts brushing her hair with it, happy that she knows what something is for, only to get insanely odd looks from the two men. HAHA oh man, I want to feel bad for her because she's embarrassed but that's just too funny. It's like when I first got here and didn't know what anything was in the Real World and Blondie had to explain everything to me.
Oh and now she's trying to use Eric's friend's pipe as a music instrument like what Seagull showed her! Ha! She just blew ash all over his face! Oh man, that poor girl but at least Eric's laughing about it and not AT her. Too funny. Eric gets suggested to show Ariel around the town so the next day they have a grand ol' time because Ariel's super excited about EVERYTHING because she's never seen any of it before. Heck, they even go dancing and go for a carriage ride which would've been more romantic if she hadn't gone nuts making the horse run faster, hahaha. Aww so they have their little bonding time. Kinda like when me and Blondie had our date-that-she-won't-call-a-date in Texas...SIGH.
Oh sorry, movie.
Um, so anyway Ariel and Eric are now paddling about in a rowboat; Musical Crab gets the idea to enhance the mood with some serenading so he gets all the local wildlife together to put on this performance in order to somehow inspire Eric to kiss her. Gee, I wish I had a bunch of singing animal friends to help me out sometime. I've never kissed anyone before so I don't know if I'd know how to even start it. I mean, do you just go ahead and do it or what? How the heck do you know what to do?
Since Eric still doesn't know her name, Musical Crab helps him out by whispering her name in his ear really fast to get the idea in his head. So I guess Eric can understand sea creatures? And does he not think it's weird that there's singing and dancing animals surrounding his boat? Maybe he's too hypnotized looking at Ariel or something. Gee, they're like staring right at each other, just kiss already! Dude, seriously, lean in and KISS her, good grief you're killing me here!
No seriously, dude, you need to kiss her NOW.
Any day now...
DO IT ALREADY.
Ohhh so close...
WHAT?
OH man that is...not fair! Ursula's stupid eels flipped the boat over right when they were about to...that's cheating! CHEATING. Ohhhh I dare someone to ruin MY first kiss. I'll "go Turbo" on THEM, that's what I'll do. OOOH that makes me mad!
So Ursula is freaking out now because she hadn't expected things to progress so quickly between Ariel and Eric and decides to cheat some more. She starts transforming herself into a human lady and is using that locket that contains Ariel's voice to make herself sound like her. I don't like where this is going...
Back at the palace, Ariel and Eric wave at each other while he is outside and she is upstairs in the tower in her bedroom. Eric's friend shows up and wisely tells him that he needs to stop focusing on finding his "dream girl" (the one that he only wants to meet because of her awesome voice and saving him) and focus on the "real girl" that he has here with him that he's been getting to know. Geez, this movie's pretty smart. He's basically being told to stop being in love with the IDEA of being in love and also with a "perfect dream girl" that may or may not exist and instead to go after the girl that he has become friends with and let something real and genuine take place.
My heart kinda hurts, guys, what's up with THAT? It feels weird and fluttery...oh and I'm shaking now. Oh crap, am I having a heart attack? I'm too young for that! Okay, calm down, just take it easy. BREATHE. Breeeeeathe...okay phew, it went away. What was THAT about? I was just sitting here talking about love and then...
You know, you guys didn't witness any of that so just SHUT UP and FORGET IT. And why the heck am I always talking to people that don't even talk back to me? You guys might not even be real for all I know.
Back to the movie.
Eric is just about to go inside when he hears Ariel's singing voice, which if you remember is the only thing about her that he remembers from when she saved him. But it's not Ariel that he sees, it's the disguised Ursula, now looking like a dark-haired beauty, and she casts a spell on Eric. Oh man, she's going to steal him for herself, isn't she? That dirty, no-good, cheating...I hate her. If someone did that to Blondie, I'd...never mind.
The next day, Seagull shows up in Ariel's room and tells her that he heard news about Eric getting married and they both assume it is to HER. Excited, she dashes down the stairs to see him but stops when she sees "Vanessa" (that's Ursula's alias) holding onto Eric's arms and they are telling his friend that they want the wedding ceremony to be by sunset. You know, because that's when Ariel's contract is up. Geez, talk about kicking her while she's down. Not only is Ursula stealing Eric from her so that her dreams can't come true but now she's making him marry her right before her deadline occurs.
We cut to the end of the day with Ariel sitting on the dock watching the wedding ship sail away and she cries silent tears...this is starting to depress me. Everything was so fun and happy and now it's SAD. Seagull however is flying along with the ship and he looks into "Vanessa's" room and sees in the mirror that her reflection is that of Ursula. How he recognizes her, I don't know, because he's never even seen her that I know of. But anyway, he flies off to tell Ariel what the deal is. She is determined to put a stop to this wedding and she jumps in the water despite not being able to swim due to her legs, but Musical Crab snaps the rope off of some barrels that are nearby so that she can float on it. Scaredy Fish wraps himself in the rope attached to the barrel itself and acts as a horse to pull her through the water.
What a great group friends, doing all this stuff for her because they care about her. That must be really nice to have.
Musical Crab decides they need reinforcements so he dives down to find King Santa while Seagull gets all the sea animals together to ruin the wedding and stall time for Ariel to get there. Right when she gets on board the ship, Ursula's shell locket flies off of her and it breaks, releasing Ariel's voice and restoring it to her. Eric's enchantment is broken and he figures out quickly that she was the one that he had been looking for the entire time anyway, not that it really matters now since they love each other already. They're about to kiss but the sunset happens and Ariel is transformed back into a mermaid while Ursula turns back into her regular ugly self. Ahhh this is bad! Where's King Santa, he can fix this!
Man, this suddenly turned into one crazy rollercoaster! Ursula grabs Ariel and takes her back to the sea, but mentions to her that she's after a "bigger fish", which means her dad. Speaking of him, King Santa shows up with Musical Crab and he tries to destroy the contract that Ariel made with Ursula. Unfortunately, it doesn't work and Ursula begins turning Ariel into one of those creepy plant people. King Santa however loves his daughter and wouldn't let anything happen to her so he agrees to take her place instead.
This movie is just full of emotions isn't it? Geez, her dad, who she probably thought hated her because of her human obsession, just gave up everything to save her life. Why can't more people be like this? Even though he doesn't agree with her hobby, he still acts like a loving parent.
Unfortunately, this means that now he can't use his magic trident anymore so now Ursula gets it plus the crown. Ariel is understandably angry about how she was used to get to her father and get actually ATTACKS Ursula. Yeah, she actually lunges for her if you can believe that despite her having all these powers and stuff. Brave chick right there. Ursula easily throws her off and is about to smite her down but all of a sudden she gets grazed in the shoulder by a harpoon.
Dude, Eric is underwater trying to help Ariel out! Even if he can't breathe down there, geez that's really impressive. He has to swim back up for air but the eels show up and try to DROWN him, but thankfully Musical Crab and Scaredy Fish beat the eels off of him. All right, way to go! Helping the guy out that they barely even know. Now Ursula tries to kill him with the trident but Ariel jumps up and grabs her hair to make her misdirect her aim and...ooooh she kills her eels instead!
Okay that's sad losing a pet and all and she DOES look very upset by this, but gee she's over here trying to kill everyone else so what does she expect?
And, HOLY CRAP, she...she just made herself grow HUGE. I mean, she's bigger than what I was when I was in cybug form! Oh man, this is going to be an insane boss battle, guys! She has all these crazy powers now because of her natural witch-ness plus that trident and she makes a storm brew, making all these shipwrecks come up out of the water and circle around in a whirlpool. Eric and Ariel get separated and he manages to eventually crawl up on one of the shipwrecks. Ariel is thrown down in the middle of the whirlpool where it's dry and she has to avoid getting killed by Ursula who is shooting these rays of energy blasts at her. HOLY COW is she insane? What good is it going to do to kill the girl? Is she just doing this for fun now?
Ow, I think I chewed a fingernail off too short from watching this.
Eric gets control of a shipwreck and...WOW he just rammed the front of that thing right into her! Like, he just impaled her with the ship, guys! Oh wow and all this lightning is coming down and electrocuting her! Haha, man that's what I call a villain battle! Oh and she just EXPLODED. I mean, EXPLODED. There's little bits of her floating down into the ocean like ash or something. Dang, that's pretty gruesome! I'm glad little parts of ME weren't floating around after I got incinerated. That would've been gross.
So now that Ursula is dead, that means all her spells and magical things are dead too. All those little plants that are actually mermaids turn back into their normal forms after who-knows-how-long...can you imagine being a little plant thingy for years? That's a nightmare to think about it. Being fully conscious but not able to move or do anything. Anyway, King Santa is included in this and he gets his crown and trident back.
So now everything is back to normal! Sadly, that means Ariel is still a mermaid and can't be with Eric, who has washed up on shore again after the battle. King Santa has a talk with Musical Crab about her feelings for Eric and realizes that Ariel will never be truly happy down under the sea. So he uses his own magic to turn her into a human. Wait, he could've done that the whole time? Well, not that he WOULD have because of his prejudices...I guess now that he thinks Eric at least is worthy of having his kid, he figures it's okay. So yay, Ariel's a human again and her and Eric FINALLY kiss!
Oh and they get MARRIED! All the mermaids show up and King Santa offers his blessing to the happy couple, so I guess that means he's truly embraced having a son-in-law that's a human and doesn't have a problem with this anymore. What a good dad. All dads should be like that. And moms, they should be like that too.
Awww. This was a good one, it had a devious villain with a smart evil scheme, a couple that I could actually believe in, and even a prejudiced dad that changes in the end. Plus cool action scenes. Very good, well rounded little movie.
Well, now what? I wonder if Blondie's still asleep?
I got up off the couch after turning the movie off and crept my way to the bedroom door again. Kitty had crawled out from under the bed at some point and was flopped over on her back on top of the bed. She turned and looked at me a second so I went over and scratched her under her chin. She likes that. I got her harness off of her since I'm sure that was bothering her now and put it up on top of Blondie's dresser for the time being.
She had rolled partially onto her back now, and still covered up in blankets. I eased my way over to the side of the bed and leaned down so I could see her face. Her head was tilted over a bit and she looked pretty peaceful. I wonder if she's dreaming anything?
My heart did this thump thing and I felt this dull pain again like I did earlier. I wish she hadn't gotten so worked up earlier in the pool. I mean, yeah, I was kind of embarrassed too because it was unexpected but it wasn't anything to have a panic attack over either. It kinda hurt my feelings that she left, even though I know that's how she acts when she gets embarrassed like that. I wonder how she would've been if...I dunno, like if I'd purposely initiated it. I guess it would've at least served as a "hint", you know?
I wish she let me take care of her like she takes care of me. It's getting harder every day to pretend like there's nothing there between us. It's kinda funny, you'd think that I would be the one that was scared of this since it's completely against my nature and also I've got zero experience with this. It's like, I get this warm feeling in me and since I'm not used to it, it feels really nice and I'd like to keep it there.
Whatever that ex-boyfriend did to her must've really done a number on her because she's like a scared rabbit with all this stuff. I wish she'd relax...it's not like I'm going to hurt her. If I did, it wouldn't be on purpose.
When did I become such an emotional sap? I feel like the longer I'm here, the more human I become. Does that even make sense? I don't know but I DO know that this love stuff really sucks sometimes.
And at the same time, it's also really turbo-tastic.
Okay guys, I'm only going to do a few more movie review things because I'm getting burned out from doing them lol. So if there was one you were wanting Turbs to watch and I don't get around to it, sorry :(
Also, if a new chapter doesn't arrive until Sunday or Monday, I apologize because I have a lot of stuff to do this week while out of town. Love all you guys! :) *mwah*
