This year's Disney full-length animated installment is a good one.
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05/14/03
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
The Hunchback of Notre Dame ultimately misses its target, as it's more likely to find acceptance with an older-than-average Disney crowd.
01/01/00
This is the least-enjoyable animated feature to come from the studio since its 1989 rebirth.
01/01/00
Top CriticSong and dance numbers were probably not what Victor Hugo had in mind.
01/01/00
Makes a good case for self-esteem, tolerance, and social conscience.
03/24/02
[A] must see summer movie.
04/09/05
The result is a grand cartoon cathedral, teeming with gargoyles and treachery, hopeless love and tortured lust.
09/02/08
Top CriticMuch more than just a moving, emotionally resonant cartoon--it is a moving, emotionally resonant motion picture, period.
01/01/00
A high point in the renaissance of Disney animation.
01/01/00
Top CriticIf you want to know what really happened to Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Frollo and Phoebus, try the library.
06/25/04
There 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
It's hard not to admire what has been accomplished, despite whatever reservations one might have about the plundering of Hugo's classic source material.
01/01/00
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
Disney has created a movie that, like Quasimodo himself, is half formed.
09/02/08
Top CriticThe Hunchback's message -- that beauty is only skin deep -- goes only so far.
01/01/00
Top CriticMake your children see the movie. If they get to like the deformed main character, then you know these kids can tell the difference between right and wrong.
01/01/00
I wish Disney had stuck to a lesser-known and lesser-loved book.
01/01/00
The latest and most uncertain of Disney's animated efforts, with its manic mood swings and cloying, none-too-cuddly hero.
01/01/00
Top CriticWeak.
03/23/02
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