I owned The Little Mermaid on VHS and it was one of my favorite Disney films.
Its a great movie, it also started the era of Disney Renaissance.
Do you have any examples of other movies from the Disney Renaissance era?
Yeah Frozen is one of those movies. It was Disney 53rd animated film inspired by Hans Andersen fairy tale know as the Snow Queen.
That's interesting.  I didn't know it was based on a fairy tale.  What other fairy tales would make good films?
tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicit moral tales, including beast fables. The term is mainly used for stories with origins in European tradition and, at least in recent centuries, mostly relates to children's literature.
In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy-tale ending" (a happy ending) or "fairy-tale romance".
its initial release, and in total lifetime gross worldwide. After the success of the 1988 Disney/Amblin film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "The Little Mermaid" is given credit for breathing life back into the art of Disney animated feature films after a string of critical or commercial failures produced by Disney that dated back to the early 1970s. It also marked the start of the era known as the Disney Renaissance. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song (“Under the Sea