MERMAID MAGIC: Episodes 1.1 to 1.3

Name: MERMAID MAGIC: Episodes 1.1 to 1.3
Item: MERMAID MAGIC: Episodes 1.1 to 1.3
Author: Review

"“Together, We Can Do Anything”"

Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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What You Need To Know:

MERMAID MAGIC is an animated fantasy series on Netflix. The first three episodes follow Princess Merlinda, her personal guard, Nerissa, and their friend, Sasha. They secretly journey to the human world to look for some magic pearls. Merlinda needs the pearls to save her father’s life and protect the kingdom of Mertropia. The kingdom is under attack by an evil immortal pirate. He wants to steal the kingdom’s mermaid magic. The mermaids make friends with Tyler and his sister, Celia. In tracking down the pearls, they learn about humanity while fighting off the pirate’s sea monsters.

The first three episodes of MERMAID MAGIC tell a compelling story that leaves viewers wanting to know more. The animation is simple but colorful. The first three episodes have a strong moral, pro-family worldview promoting helping others, taking responsibility, protecting the environment, sacrifice, and good defeating evil. However, MERMAID MAGIC has many magical elements. The mermaids have powers and special rings that make them powerful. There are also some scary scenes with action violence and a scary skeleton pirate villain. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children.

Content:

(BB, C, O, EE, FR, VV, N, MM):
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Strong moral, pro-family worldview with redemptive elements where the mermaids frequently talk about helping others and working together, as well as the responsibility a Princess feels to help her father, the King, and the mer people of their secret kingdom, Episode Three shares the flashback story of the disappearance of the King’s wife, where she sacrificed herself for her husband, her daughter and the good of their kingdom, giving the mer people time to close a portal and keep hordes of sea monsters out of the kingdom, plus mermaids are magical and wield fantasy magic and magical tridents and the King uses his “life-force” to keep magical Pears of Neptune running that protect the Kingdom somehow and there’s some environmentalism in the series and in the first three episodes of Season One MOVIEGUIDE® watched, and there are mentions of the Roman sea god Neptune who has something to do with the magic pearls in the series;
Foul Language:
No foul language;
Violence:
Strong cartoon action violence includes three fighting scenes between the mermaids using magic and the scary sea monsters, the sea monsters get turned into goop when the mermaids blow them up, teenage boy saves unconscious mermaid on his boat when she’s attacked by a sea monster coming out of the sea that tries to pull her under the water, sea monsters come through a hatch at the bottom of a large swim tank built for a mermaid show, human actress playing a mermaid in the tank almost drowns when a monster grabs her leg, teenage boy and his sister help three mermaids fight off the scary monsters, the glass tank starts to crack, and people have to flee, scary immortal pirate villain who’s just a skeleton with scary eyes threatens a man;
Sex:
No sex;
Nudity:
Upper male nudity in a beach sequence, and female characters with bikinis and bikini tops and short shorts;
Alcohol Use:
No alcohol use;
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or drugs; and,
Miscellaneous Immorality:
Immortal pirate villain in the form of a living skeleton with scary magical eyes wants to steal the mermaid’s magic, mermaids try to trick guards into letting them through the portal, and one uses her powers to knock them out, one mermaid ignores her father’s command to return to their kingdom, one girl lies to her father and tells him the mermaids are exchange students that he gave them permission to live in the home, human students are mean to the mermaids when they join the school, immortal pirate villain and a human villain are dumping toxic waste in the ocean for profit.

More Detail:

MERMAID MAGIC is an animated fantasy series for older children on Netflix. It follows Merlinda, the princess of Mertropia, and her friends, Nerissa and Sasha, as they venture into the human world to find magic pearls and save their kingdom. The first three episodes follow the mermaids as they make friends with siblings Tyler and Celia, learn more about humanity and fight off the sea monsters who attack them at every turn.

Episode 1 introduces viewers to Princess Merlinda, her friends Nerissa and Sasha, and her father, King Seaford, who lives in Mertropia with the rest of the mermaids. The kingdom is hidden form the surface world by a magical portal and has dry land and ocean. The mer people walk on the land with two legs and swim in the water with mermaid fins.

As the mermaids head to school, the sky suddenly grows dark. Merlinda learns her father has been using his life force to power the magic pearls that protect the kingdom. The pearls are running out of power, and King Seaford’s life force won’t last forever.

Merlinda finds a map made by her missing mother showing the location of more magic pearls. They sneak through the magical portal to the outside world to find more magical pearls with the map. The mermaids are separated and lose the map after a dangerous encounter with scary sea monsters. Merlinda washes up on siblings Tyler and Celia’s boat while the sea monsters bring the map to the evil pirate Barbarossa, who wants to steal the mermaids’ powers.

In Episode 2, Merlinda wakes up on land and is initially scared of Tyler and Celia. They convince her they want to help, and she shares her quest for the magic pearls. She also realizes that her magic trident ring has broken, reducing her power. The siblings decide to help her, taking her to the town’s pirate museum to go through the archives in search of answers. Meanwhile, Nerissa and Sasha wash up on shore and look for Merlinda, making their way to the pirate museum.

The mermaids’ use of their powers alerts the sea monsters to their location, and they attack the museum. Merlinda, Nerissa and Sasha team up and fight them off with the help of Tyler and Celia. They capture one of the sea monsters and plan to use it to find the monster’s lair. Meanwhile, Barbarossa, the immortal pirate villain, struggles to unlock the map’s secrets. After learning of the mermaids’ presence on land, he vows to find and capture them.

Episode 3 follows the mermaids as they go to school with Tyler and Celia to find out if anyone has seen the monsters or knows from where they come. One student reveals he saw the monsters in the school basement. When the group investigates, they find an underground river explaining how the sea monsters have been popping up around town.

While the mermaids fight them off, the monsters attack, and Celia recalls a special ring in the museum’s archives. She gets the ring to Merlinda, who uses it to defeat the monsters. She also realizes that the ring belonged to her mother, who disappeared when she was a baby after sacrificing herself to fight off the monsters. Tyler and Celia offer to help Merlinda find the magic pearls.

The animation in the first three episodes of MERMAID MAGIC is simple, but colorful. The voicework helps bring the story and characters to life. The first three episodes feature engaging stories that leave viewers wanting to know more. The first three episodes have a strong moral, pro-family worldview. They promote helping others, taking responsibility, protecting the environment, and sacrificing oneself for the greater good. However, MERMAID MAGIC contains many fantasy magical elements. The mermaids have magical powers and special rings that make them more powerful. There are also some scary scenes with action violence and a scary skeleton villain. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children.