The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 50
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 13
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.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 6
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.
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Timeless Tales: The Hunchback of Notre Dame contains a family friendly animated version of the classic Victor Hugo story of a deformed man who falls in love with a gypsy girl. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
Jun 21, 1996 Wide
Dec 16, 1997
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Cast
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Tom Hulce
Quasimodo -
Demi Moore
Esmeralda -
Kevin Kline
Phoebus -
Jason Alexander
Hugo -
Jack Angel
Additional Voices -
Mary Kay Bergman
Quasimodo's Mother -
Susan Blu
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Rodger Bumpass
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Corey Burton
Brutish Guard -
Philip L. Clarke
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Jennifer Darling
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Bill Fagerbakke
Oafish Guard -
Dana Hill
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Tony Jay
Frollo -
Judy Kaye
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Charles Kimbrough
Victor -
Eddie Korbich
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Sherry Lynn
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Mickie T. McGowan
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Tim Pigott-Smith
Pierre Gringoire -
Patrick Pinney
Misc. Guards and Gypsie... -
Philip Proctor
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Kath Soucie
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David Ogden Stiers
Archdeacon -
Mary Wickes
Laverne -
Jane Withers
Laverne in additional d... -
Gary Trousdale
The Old Heretic -
Frank Welker
Baby Bird -
Jim Cummings
Misc. Guards and Gypsie... -
Mona Marshall
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Jan Rabson
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Bill Farmer
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Bob Bergen
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Howard McGillin
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Marcelo Tubert
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Jonathan Dokuchitz
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Debi Derryberry
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Mary Stout
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Michael Lindsay
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Victoria Clark
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Paul Kandel
Clopin -
Alix Korey
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Joan Barber
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Scott Barnes
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Maureen Brennan
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Laurie Faso
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Merwin Foard
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Anna McNeely
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Bruce Moore
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Denise Pickering
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Peter Samuel
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Stanley Gordon
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All Critics (50) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (14) | DVD (13)
The result is a grand cartoon cathedral, teeming with gargoyles and treachery, hopeless love and tortured lust.
Surely one of Disney's ugliest and least imaginative efforts.
Disney has created a movie that, like Quasimodo himself, is half formed.
There is much to admire in Hunchback, not least the risk of doing such a downer of a story at all.
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.
Gorgeous but dark -- not the usual Disney experience.
Unlike its lighter, child-friendly direct-to-video sequel, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is a mostly adult movie with plenty of dark and somber moments.
Touching Disney tale cheers on the outcasts.
If not for some hopelessly incompetent and wasted attempts to lighten the mood... it might well be able to compete with Beauty and the Beast as the best film of the Disney Renaissance.
A solid, enjoyable, beautifully animated Disney movie, but one not quite out of the top drawer.
An improvement on 1995's Pocahontas, but not as good as the classics.
Considering 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.
Disney has rediscovered the dark magic of the psyche.
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.
[A] must see summer movie.
Pretty to look at; dramatically inert.
Beautifully produced Disney, although not in a league with the best
the most beautifully animated full-length feature ever to emerge from the Disney studios. The colors are vibrant and the style breathtakingly realistic
If you want to know what really happened to Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Frollo and Phoebus, try the library.
Audience Reviews for The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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- Esmeralda: What are you doing?
- Frollo: I was just imagining a rope around your neck.
- Esmeralda: I know what you were imagining!
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- Archdeacon: See, there, the innocent blood you have spilt on the steps of Notre Dame.
- Frollo: I am guiltless. She ran, I pursued.
- Archdeacon: Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt on the steps of Notre Dame!
- Frollo: My conscience is clear!
- Archdeacon: You can lie to yourself and your minions, you can claim that you haven't a qualm, but you never can run from nor hide what you've done from the eyes, the very eyes of Notre Dame!
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- Frollo: I feel her. I see her. The sun caught in her raven hair is blazing in me out of all control. Like fire. Hellfire. This fire in my skin. This burning desire is turning me to sin.
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- Phoebus: Speaking of trouble, we should have run into some by now.
- Quasimodo: What do you mean?
- Phoebus: You know, a guard, a booby trap... [his torchlight promptly goes out, leaving them in darkness] ...or an ambush.
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- Frollo: And he shall smite the wicked and *plunge* them into the fiery *pit!*
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- Quasimodo: SANCTUARY!
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Foreign Titles
- Disneys Der Glöckner von Notre Dame (DE)
- Le Bossu de Notre-Dame (FR)


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