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Speaking of Ariel, I really got into the Pixar's movie Luca this past summer. It has officially dethroned WALL-E as my favorite Pixar movie.

Luca and Ariel's stories are pretty similar to each other and yet they have some main differences to make them stand out from each other

I think it's probably similar in that they go to the surface out of curiosity, and perhaps an escape
and then finding out its not so great on the surface either
But I imagine thats where the similarities end

I haven't seen the movie though, just the trailers

Well at least unlike mermaids you don't have to make a magical deal with either a sea king or a sea witch 

The sea monsters in Luca just simply have to get themselves dry switching between dry human and wet sea form practically at any time