What about Ariel? You just gonna abandon her, leave her to deal wit all dat we tangled her up in? You tink that small, weak, helpless little girl can do anything by herself? [Ariel smashes open door] Ariel?
Ariel Come on Sebastian, let's go.
As you can see, I - [raises chair to Triton's level] I'm a self starter, Your Majesty. Here to anticipate your every need! Not like that last guy, what was his name? Sooner we forget about him, the better. In fact! Let's make a vow, never to mention his name again. Here, I'll start! [claps hands over mouth] There! Wasn't that easy?
[Marina Del Ray and Benjamin came in the princesses' room] [first words]
Uppy-uppy, my darlings.
[first words]
It's us. [The princesses groan]
Ariel [groans]
Governess! [Then Marina takes the pillow from under Aquata]
Oh, I was dreaming about a boy.
A Alana
But I need my beauty sleep.
A Alana
Easy for you. No one cares what you look...
Can't we meet Father later?
Unfortanily, I don't get to make those kinds of decisions. [laughs] Any decisions kingdom, really. [Sees the girls go back to sleep again and anger] GET UP! [The girls rushed up and go to the mirrors] All right, all right, all right. Move your tails. This is our special time with your father.
Ariel Special? It's the same every morning.
That's what your father cares about. Predictability, presentation, punctuality.
Ariel That's all Dad cares about.
A Aquata
You've got your own mirror!
STOP PRIMPING! [They get ready as they talk, as Attina goes to Ariel]
Ariel Why can't he let us do something different? Just once.
Give him a break. He's the king, remember? You try running a kingdom.
Ariel I wouldn't run it like this.
Ariel Just because you're the oldest, Attina, doesn't mean you get to boss us around.
Benjamin, if we're late again, I'll never get a promotion.
Not that I want a promotion. No, no, no, I love this job. Looking after you is what I live for. Really. [the girls leave and anger again] I hate this job!
The less said the better.
[At the throne room, Sebastian arrives, and his chariot is going crazy] [panting]
WHOA! WHOA! Good morning, Your Highness.
[clears throat]
Unfortunately, the sprat and the... smelt were still... [shrieks] squabbling. No worries. I told them I'd sic the salmon on them. [chuckles]
Sebastian, what would I do without you?
You'd be negotiatin' with the sprat and the smelt, that's what.
[The princesses arrive before their father]
Good morning, girls.
G Girls
Good morning, Father.
Good morning, Your Majesty.
I... uh... [chuckles, groans]
Well, I presume you've all been attending to your royal duties this week.
Yes, Father. We've been working diligently.
Ariel But, we're always done early.
Ariel And the coral is in bloom.
Ariel [swims to her father]
So I thought maybe we could go for a swim on the reef?
Ariel But it only happens once a year. It could be fun.
Ariel I was thinking we could just skip the morning walk.
[sternly]
Ariel! Your father said "No."
Ariel Yes, sir. [swims back to her sisters]
[They begin to swim out]
Be on time tomorrow.
Great.
[They swim to go on their walk with their father]
That will be all, Sebastian. Marina. Good day, girls.
[They begin to swim until...]
Ariel.
Ariel [groans]
Oh! Yes, Daddy?
[whispering]
He sounds grumpier than yesterday.
Time to go to bed. [With Triton and Ariel]
[sternly]
A princess does not tickle another princess with seaweed.
Ariel [smiling nervously]
You saw that? I was just trying to have some fun.
You disrupted your sisters.
Ariel Well, they laughed
Ariel But Daddy, why can't...
[interrupts]
Is it too much to ask that you simply walk with your family?
Ariel [frustrated]
That's all we ever do.
Ariel Can't we do something different?
[yelling at Ariel]
ENOUGH! [Ariel is shocked at her father's behavior] You have to learn to respect the way I run this kingdom. [pulls out a seashell-shaped tool] Barnacles.
Ariel [shocked]
What? That'll take all day.
[hands her the tool]
Well, then you'd better get started, young lady. [Ariel is angry at her father as he swims inside the building]
Ariel [to herself]
I hate this place. [She swims off to where she will get all the barnacles off]
Ariel Oh, My name is Ariel. [Sees something] Oh, no! [That was Sebastian as he stopped until her land on Sebastian]
Princess Ariel! What is the meaning of this?!
Ariel Um... We weren't doing anything.
No? Then why were you trying to get away?
SG Swordfish Guards
[both growing]
Um... 'Cause they were chasing us?
SG Swordfish Guard
We heard music, chief.
[shrieks]
Music! The princess was making music?!
SG Swordfish Guard
The princess wasn't making music. He was.
Music is against the law! Take him to the dungeon!
I can't make it in the slammer!
Ariel Wait! This is all a big misunderstanding. Huge. You are gonna laugh when I explain. Which I'm about to do.
Ariel Right. You see, I was just cleaning the coral tubes, and my friend here [chuckles] were helping me.
That's right. Best friends helpin' out. Makin' it happen.
Ariel But not making music. [He make nervous smile] See?
Guards! Escort the princess back to the palace.
Ariel But Sebastian...
Consider this your first and only warning, mon. [The two guard goes on to escort the princess back to the palace, but not before she glares at them]
Ariel Humph! [Sebastian sees that Flounder is still here and he give him the angry look that scares and he swims off]
Oh! Intolerable, I tell you. That girl is working on my last!
Ariel [Meanwhile, we go to Ariel humming "I Remember" in her sleep, but then she wake up to see her sister staring at her]
What? [looks at her sisters being suspicious] What?
Ariel [gasps]
I was?
Ariel Don't worry. [swims to her mirror] It was just a dream.
A Alana
I'll tell you what wasn't a dream. We woke up at midnight.
A Aquata
And your bed was still empty.
Ariel Really?
Yeah. That is two hours past curfew.
Ariel Oh.
If it's a boy, I'm gonna die!
I mean, I'm happy for you, Ariel. It's just that I'm two years older than you, and the only one I've come even close to kissing is Stevie.
Girls, let's stick to the subject.
Ariel Well, it wasn't a boy, OK? I was just helping a friend. Out past the kelp forest.
A Aquata
Ooh! Past the kelp forest. It wasn't a boy. It was a bad boy.
A Aquata
Simmer down there, sister.
So you were just helping a friend?
Ariel Um... Yep.
Then, where'd you get... this?
Ariel's Sisters: [all gasp]
Can you imagine what'd happen if Dad found it?
Ariel He's never here.
Don't get cute with me. This is serious. Where were you? [Andrina looks at her, Alana, Aquata, and Arista both looked at Ariel]
Ariel I was just... listening to music in an underground club.
OK, where were you really? [Ariel gives them the look]
S Sisters
[gasping]
Listening to music?
Ariel [laughs]
Oh, it was amazing. The energy, the dancing, the music... Just makes you feel like...
Ariel Like when Mom was here.
Ariel, I wanna hear it, too.
Ariel You do?
A Alana
Me, too! Me, too!
Yeah. Everybody does. Please, Ariel. Please?
Ariel Well...
Ariel We'll go tonight.
A Alana
What should I wear?
So you think there'll be boys?
This is not happening! You go again and I...
Ariel Come on. [all...]
OK. [The girls cheer as Marina and Benjamin arrives]
Yes. [grabs Benjamin] But why?! [Leave at princesses' room]
[After King Triton and his Royal Guards storm the club] [angrily]
This is how you watch over my daughter?!
Sire. [Marina looks at this in pleasure]
Ariel What? No!
But, Your Majesty, please!
SG Swordfish guard
Come on. Let's move it. [The guards escort the band, pushes Flounder] Hey.
SG Swordfish guard
Sure you are, kid. [As they take them away]
Marina, you will take over Sebastian's duties immediately.
Attina. Take your sisters home.
Ariel Father, you can't do this!
It's already DONE!
[Attina and Aquata drag Ariel out. As the princesses exit the club, King Triton, in far more rage than before, uses his trident to blast the rocks to block the entrance to the club]
[After the club is destroyed, the princesses in the throne room at the palace]
You are all confined to the palace.
Ariel [bitterly]
Why don't you just lock us in jail?
Ariel, you are confined to the palace until you understand what you've done.
Ariel [angrily]
What did we do? Tell me, Daddy.
Ariel No! [swims up to Triton so she can try to reason with him] We haven't done anything wrong. All we did was listen to music.
[outraged]
Which you know is forbidden!
Ariel But why? Why can't we have music?
Ariel Just tell me!
I do not have to explain myself to you.
Ariel I don't understand. We love music!
[losing control of his rage and yelling at Ariel]
I WILL NOT HAVE MUSIC IN MY KINGDOM!!!!!
Ariel [Hearing this, Ariel becomes heartbroken and devastated by this.]
I may not remember much about my mother, but I know she wouldn't have wanted this.
[Ariel leaves the throne room, as the king and her sisters watch her leave. Triton becomes saddened while watching Ariel swim away]
Ariel [Ariel entering her and her sisters' room, and sitting while crying] [sobbing]
Ariel [Ariel watches her sisters enter the room as Attina is now 2 feet away from them]
Attina? [tries to comfort Attina, but...]
You just don't know when to quit. [glares at her and swims away from her]
Ariel What? [Her sisters did the same]
Ariel But... we were finally happy.
Look around, Ariel. No one's happy.
[Meanwhile, at the dungeon. Ray-Ray throws the ball against the wall with Flounder, as Sebastian, Cheeks and Shelbow are sad being in the dungeon, as Ink Spot panics]
I got to get out of here. I got to get out. The walls, they're closing in. There's no space! No Air! [grunting] I got it! We'll start a riot! Follow my lead. ATLANTICA! ATLANTICA! Join me, guys. ATLANTICA!
Yeah? [Ray-Ray throws the ball to Ink Spot as he squeezes the ball while breathing]
This ain't living. You know what I'm saying?
S Sheldon
And the acoustics are non-good-ular. Listen. ♪ Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do ♪
Come on, at least we're hanging out. Can I get a "hoo-yah?"
Come on, guys. This looks a lot worse than it is. I'll just get an audience with the king and I'll fix it.
Now, no offense, man, but you had ten years to fix it, and this is where we end up?
In jail. [The band gathered around to discuss the plan]
Well, I... [And the band are done discussing the plan]
The band has talked it up, see, and we want you to...
Use your claws to pick the lock, man.
And open that door! [They have each other about that being a good plan]
Liquid! [the gang looked at him] Just kidding.
No! Bad Plan! If we break out of this jail, there ain't no coming back here, mon! We'll be fugitives! [The pause at that, but they agree on being fugitives]
What's a fugitive? [Ariel arrives and heads to their cell]
What about Ariel? You just gonna abandon her, leave her to deal wit all dat we tangled her up in? You tink that small, weak, helpless little girl can do anything by herself? [Ariel smashes the cell door with the rock] Ariel?
Ariel [opens the cell door]
Come on Sebastian, let's go.
If we run away from Atlantica, it will break your father's heart.
She got to do what she got to do.
Ariel I'm sorry. I just can't live here.
[closes the cell door]
Listen, I will not be responsible for taking you away from your family.
Ariel [opens the cell door again]
I'm leaving! With or without you.
[closes the cell door again, but this time he is out of the cell]
NOBODY'S LEAVING! [gasps]
Ariel Look, Sebastian, without music, this place just isn't home.
You know she ain't lying.
Ain't no comeback to that!
[Tries to think]
Ha! Oh, no, no, no. [gasps, grumbles] Never mind. [screams]
Ariel Are you OK?
Ariel, you're right! Without music, this place just isn't home. I know just where to go!
FREEDOM! [They go through the cell door ramming Sebastian against the wall]
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
Flounder, shh! Move it, move it, move it, mon.
Move it, move it, move it.
[scatting loudly]
YEAH! HIT ME!
Hey, small fry, I think you could use some lessons in fugitivity.
Oh, yeah. Right. Got it. [conutining scatting]
You're gonna blow it for all of us.
Blow, good. [continues scatting]
Hey, kid, ixnay on the soundtrack.
Music is against the law, you dig?
Come on. We ran away so we could sing. And I'm singing. Sing it with me. [scatting]
You know, the kid's striking a major chord.
Look at him go with his bad little self.
G Gang
[singing]
♪ Sha-na-na, na, na, na, an Na, na, na, na, na, an Shake, shake, shake, Senora Shake your body line ♪
Ariel [singing]
♪ Shake your body line ♪
G Gang
[singing]
♪ Shake, shake, shake, Senora Shake it all the time ♪
[singing]
♪ Shake it all the time ♪
G Gang
Work, work, work, Senora Work your body line ♪
Ariel [singing]
♪ Work your body ♪
G Gang
Work, work, work, Senora Work it all the time ♪
[singing]
♪ Let's break it down Jump-J-J-Jump in the line Rock your body on time ♪
[singing]
♪ J-J-Jump in the line ♪
[singing]
♪ Jump-J-J-Jump in the line - Rock your body on time - ♪
G Gang
[singing]
♪ Jump-J-J-Jump J- J-Jump Jump Whoo! Jump in the line ♪
G Gang
[singing]
♪ Jump in the line Rock your body in time ♪
G Gang
[singing]
♪ Jump in the line Rock your body on time ♪
Where are we going exactly?
[To Flounder]
Don't worry, mon.
'Cause I got to go to the bathroom.
Ariel Oh, Flounder.
Are you sure?
Sebastian Yes.
Ariel Are you s-?
[losing control of his rage and yelling at Ariel]
YES!!!
Oh, man. We can't live here!
Yeah, this place is all "Oom-pa-pa." We need some... [drumbeats]
Nonsense. It's perfect. Just listen to them acoustics: [singing] ♪ Do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti, do ♪ [It echoes three times] Solid.
Well, it beats the dungeon.
It'll do for the time being. Excuse me.
[He goes inside his shell and, Ink Spot goes on a boulder and sleeps upside down, and Ray-Ray buries himself in the sand]
Ooh... [Flounder tries to do the same thing that Ray Ray but fail and spits out the sand]
Ariel Sebastian, be honest. Are we lost?
No, this is fine. There's more to this place than meets the eye.
[The gang went to sleep until...] [Once again, scatting]
E Everyone
[angrily]
KNOCK IT OFF!
Ariel [In the morning, Then Ariel wakes up as well and hears something and see something flashing in the distance, Sebastian snoring]
Sebastian.
Ariel Sebastian, did you hear that sound?
Leave me alone. I'm Sleeping.
Ariel But there's something out there. Come on, help us find it.
I'm tired. You go check it out.
Ariel [Ariel swim out to follow the sound, Sebastian watches her leave as Ariel swim to follow the sound, and she stopped near the kelp forest, She swim through the kelp forest, and she's amazed of what she seeing, A shiny cave is what she's entered, as she look through the walls] [chuckles]
[Ariel looks around and sees a reflection of herself and then she sees something, Ariel picks up the box and opens it and King Triton dancing with Queen Athena.]
It was an anniversary present. Your father had the music box made for your mother. Athena was more than his queen, you know. She was his best friend.
Ariel [Flashback of her and her sisters young, and Triton dances with Athena. And they play with each other, and young Ariel playing the piano for the first time. And her bandaged hand being kissed by King Triton] [VO]
The family together. Music playing all the time.
The palace always echoing with laughter.
[The two girls hide and then they tackled their father, and they laugh in joy, and fades to Triton and Athena being on the rock at the surface world. And we fade back to the present.]
When your mother died, the whole kingdom was heartbroken. The heart that never healed was your father's. [Ariel are sad about this]
Ariel It's so sad. He's forgotten what it feels like to be happy. I... I have to bring this back to him.
Ariel This is why we came here, isn't it? [Sebastian smiles and we cut to the gang]
Whoa, whoa, let me get this straight. You led us out here...
To the armpit of nowhere, man.
In the hope that Red might find the music box. And now you wanna go back to the palace...
To return the music box to the king...
On the chance that maybe it'll...
Remind him to remember how to be happy...
And then he'll bring music back?
Couldn't we just strap it to a dolphin? He'd get it eventually.
[The band gathered around again, to discuss it. And the band are done discussing it and say.]
Listen, the band talked it over, and...
We just can't take that chance.
Ariel It's OK. Maybe someday it'll be different. You'll come home and play music all you want.
Sure, Red. Someday. Someday.
Ariel Bye. [They swim different as Flounder is distaught by this]
What? No, no, wait. Ray-Ray! Guys! We can't just let them go back alone.
But we took an oath! To jump, jive, wail, groove, rock steady, and at all times lend a helping hand to your fellow music lovers!
The Catfish Club is history. That oath don't mean a thing.
Well, it still means something to me. Hey, Ariel! Wait up! Ariel! [Flounder swims up to Ariel's direction as the band watch him go]
[Sebastian facing against Marina]
I've tasted power, Sebastian. And I'm never letting go.
Bring it on! [gathers the starfish] Come to daddy.
[Marina tries to attack him, but he throws starfish at her, and her face is covered with them]
Oh, my! [chuckling]
[Marina gets angry and whacks him with her tail, Go back to Ariel and Flounder being chased by eels and comes across a dead end. Then Tentacles appear out of nowhere grabs them and pull them up and it turns out to be Ink Spot]
NOW!
[He slingshits Cheeks into the pillars and they fall down and traps the eels inside]
Yeah! Awesome!
Ooh, they hurtin' for certain.
Yup, yup, yup. [chuckles]
Ariel Sebastian's in trouble!
Follow me!
[They swim to where Sebastian is facing Marina]
Ariel [At the final battle is over, Marina, still stick in a tube, decides to swim up and run over Sebastian] [gasps]
SEBASTIAN!
[As Ariel swims forward, King Triton arrives and watches] [horrified]
ARIEL! NO!
[Marina starts to go after to hit Sebastian, but Ariel blocked the attack, knocking her out of the way to save Sebastian, but rendered her unconscious. Ariel falls down, As King Triton swims toward her as the others watch in sadness. Then, the music box falls down from Ariel's arms and it opens and plays the song, as King Triton listens to it and realizes what has become of him] [devastated]
What have I done? [singing] ♪ Endless sky. Waves try to measure. The days that we treasure.
Ariel [Then suddenly, Ariel wakes up]
Daddy?
I'm... I'm so sorry I didn't listen.
Ariel [hugs him]
Daddy. Let's go home.
[King Triton swims off with Ariel in his arms]
Guys, you came back.
Sure did, small fry. Like you said, we took an oath.
Come here, you little knucklehead. Group hug!
[They group hug around Flounder, squeezing him.]
Guys... can't breathe.
[Then Sebastian closes the music box and smiles at the audience]
