While you watch the film, you’ll mostly notice connections to Disney’s The Little Mermaid (though here the sea nymphs are controversially topless), but you could also view it with the idea that it’s a Dead Men Tell No Tales prequel. There are no mermaids in Dead Men Tell No Tales, unlike the last POTC installment, but the treasure being sought this time around is the trident of Poseidon, aka Neptune.
With a running time of only seven minutes, the animated short is about the titular god of the sea rescuing a kidnapped mermaid from pirates with help from various oceanic creatures. While not Walt Disney’s first film to involve pirates - that’d be the lost 1927 “Alice Comedy” installment Alice Foils the Pirates - this 30th entry in the Silly Symphony series (the second produced in Technicolor) seems to be the oldest surviving piece in a long tradition continuing through the POTC franchise. But if you enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, then you should enjoy these eight picks and appreciate them for what guilty pleasure or, in a few cases, genuine storytelling craft they have to offer. None of them are essential masterpieces, and none of them are certainly considered classics. But this week a lot of the recommendations are indeed for people to see because they like the new release in question. It’s not supposed to be an “if you like that, then you’ll like this” sort of thing. These lists are about us recommending movies to see because you saw the new releases they’re tied to.
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