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10/18/08
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:34
Rotten:13
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Disney's take on the Victor Hugo classic is dramatically uneven, but its strong visuals, dark themes, and message of tolerance make for a more-sophisticated-than-average children's film.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: The characters in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel about lonely bell-ringer Quasimodo and his adventures with the beautiful Esmerelda come vividly and musically to life--even the stone gargoyles! This... [More]
Starring: Demi Moore, Tom Hulce, Jason Alexander, Kevin Kline
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
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Reviews for The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Top CriticA solid, enjoyable, beautifully animated Disney movie, but one not quite out of the top drawer.
09/02/08
An improvement on 1995's Pocahontas, but not as good as the classics.
09/02/08
The result is a grand cartoon cathedral, teeming with gargoyles and treachery, hopeless love and tortured lust.
09/02/08
Top CriticConsidering that Disney couldn't help but trash Victor Hugo's novel in the process of reforming it for tender young sensibilities, this animated adaptation of his Notre Dame de Paris is pricklier and more disturbing than we had any right to expect.
09/02/08
Surely one of Disney's ugliest and least imaginative efforts.
09/02/08
Top CriticDisney has created a movie that, like Quasimodo himself, is half formed.
09/02/08
Top CriticThere is much to admire in Hunchback, not least the risk of doing such a downer of a story at all.
07/22/08
Top CriticDisney has rediscovered the dark magic of the psyche.
09/24/07
Though Alan Menken's music misses the big tune that would cap Stephen Schwartz's nimble lyrics, it's the thematic sophistication that brings the movie to life, making older children and adults its best audience.
06/24/06
A inevitável infantilização do clássico de Victor Hugo não compromete o núcleo dramático da história %u2013 e as belíssimas canções e o visual espetacular mais do que compensam as falhas pontuais da adaptação.
02/05/06
No review available.
07/01/05
[A] must see summer movie.
04/09/05
Pretty to look at; dramatically inert.
04/02/05
Beautifully produced Disney, although not in a league with the best
10/07/04
If you want to know what really happened to Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Frollo and Phoebus, try the library.
06/25/04
No review available.
03/12/04
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02/08/04
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11/15/03
No review available.
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