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The Little Mermaid (1989): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
The Little Mermaid is a 1989 animation, fantasy film directed by John Musker. It scores 7.6 on IMDb, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, 88 on Metacritic, 7.4 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 76 while Metacritic critics give it 88, a gap of 12 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 8 of 97 films from 1989 in our catalog and number 73 of 897 animation films.
Billed cast: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Pat Carroll, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Kenneth Mars, Buddy Hackett.
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