The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
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Critic 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.
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as Quasimodo
as Esmeralda
as Frollo
as Phoebus
as Clopin
as Hugo
as Laverne
as Victor
as Archdeacon
as Pierre Gringoire
as Quasimodo's Mother
as Brutish Guard
as Oafish Guard
as Misc. Guards and Gypsies
as The Old Heretic
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Critic Reviews for The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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These ideas are presented with effective songs and, yes, tasteful bits of humor.
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.
Audience Reviews for The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hunchback of Notre Dame is probably one of the best book adaptions I've seen in my life. While it is still is strange that Disney would do a story this dark and translate it into a semi kid film, it surprisingly worked extremely well. The animation is just massive in this film, the design of Notre Dame itself is captured to a T in terms of how well it captures the look of the church. The visuals in the song Hellfire and Belles of Notre Dame also help show how powerful these songs are and how well they move the story along and they look just amazing. Also the characters, aside from a few characters *coughgargoylescough* The characters are all well developed and very likable. Frollo being one of Disney's best villains of all time, just how tormented he is and how fantastically he is pulled off by British actor Tony Jay. Jay captures the power that this character has and what he will do to get it and it just is one of Disney's most well written villains ever. Quasimodo is also a very likable villain and with the help of Tom Hulce's voice it helps make him such a likable and innocent character along with his singing voice giving him some of the best songs in Disney history. Hands down the best thing about this movie aside from the characters is the music. This film has hands down my favorite soundtrack from any animated movie and it just makes all the epic parts of the movie sound even more epic when viewing.
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The heavy changes in the original story, like its inevitable softening to be more palatable for children, may displease some, but still it tackles serious themes with a lot of wonderful songs and spectacular visuals, among the best that Disney has ever put on screen.
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One of Disney's boldest and darkest animated films (there certainly hasn't been anything like it since), "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is surprising in both the level of thematic substance and the detail in the animation. It tries to juggle the sophisticated Victor Hugo plot with Disney conventions to far less success (those gargoyles are less comic relief and more an annoying tonal inconsistency), but like its protagonist, this film goes largely hidden within Disney's sparkling legacy -- and that's a shame.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame Quotes
| Frollo: | Bring these Gypsy vermin to the Palace of Justice. |
| Esmeralda: | What are you doing? |
| Frollo: | I was just imagining a rope around your neck |
| Frollo: | I was just imagining a rope around your neck. |
| Esmeralda: | I know what you were imagining! |
| 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! |