The Little Mermaid (1989 film) ""The Little Mermaid" is a jolly and inventive animated fantasy—a movie that's so creative and so much fun it deserves comparison with the best Disney work of the past." Ebert also commented positively on the character of Ariel, stating, "... Ariel is a fully realized female character who thinks and acts independently, even rebelliously, instead of hanging around passively while the fates decide her destiny." The staff of "TV Guide" wrote a positive review, praising the film's return to the traditional Disney musical as well as the film's animation. Yet they also wrote that the film is detracted from by
Sebastian (The Little Mermaid) Sebastian (The Little Mermaid) Sebastian is an animated anthropomorphic crab in "The Little Mermaid" film series from the Caribbean island of Jamaica, and is a servant of King Triton. Apart from his role in the film trilogy, Sebastian features in the animated series, in the "Kingdom Hearts" series of video games, and even has music albums based on him. The character was developed solely for the film, and is not derived from the original Hans Christian Andersen story. Early on in the writing and development of "The Little Mermaid", the character that would later become Sebastian was originally an English-butler