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Hunchback Of Notre Dame
(U)
© Walt Disney Pictures - all rights reserved
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| Tookey's Rating |
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9 /10
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6.88 /10
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| Starring |
| Quasimodo .............. Tom Hulce , Esmeralda .............. Demi Moore (singing voice: Heidi Mollenhauer), Frollo ................. Tony Jay |
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Directed by: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise 
Written by: Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, Irene Mecchi, Noni White and Jonathan Roberts. Based on a story by Tab Murphy from the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame De Paris. Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Music by Alan Menken.
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| Released: |
1996 |
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MUSICAL
REMAKE
CARTOON
ROMANCE
FAMILY
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US |
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C |
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| Length: |
86 |
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MIXED Reviews
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame may score highest with adults - like the gargoyles it depicts, the film seems the least cuddly of Disney's recent animation outings. |
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| (Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle) |
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| Out of respect for the stunning visuals and family entertainment value of Disney's 34th animated feature, I can do no less than recommend The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Sadly, however, this is the least-enjoyable animated feature to come from the studio since its 1989 rebirth. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a notch below last year's Pocahontas, which, in turn, was a drop from the previous year's The Lion King. Apparently, Disney's new wave of animation peaked early; their releases have been in a slow-but-steady decline since the delightful Beauty and the Beast. |
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| (James Berardinelli, Reelviews) |
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| Paradoxically, The Hunchback of Notre Dame may illustrate both the best and worst of what we've come to associate with the Disney product over the years. The glory and the goop known as Disney are equally represented in their new, fully animated rendition of another classic of Western civilization. On the face of things, the movie is amazing, another Disney coup of cartooning magic. The pageantry and hurly-burly of the class-conscious 15th century is well re-created by the Disney animation teams. The majesty and playfulness of Notre Dame's Gothic architecture provide a feast for the eyes, a sight no less amazing when carved in celluloid than in stone. And were this a live-action retelling of Hunchback, the movie would be trumpeting its dazzling manipulation of "a cast of thousands." The numerous crowd scenes are, indeed, technical dazzlers. Yet, these visual innovations are not the things that our littlest connoisseurs of animation generally notice and appreciate. In pleasing that audience, Hunchback fails to deliver. More suitable as an early-adolescent cheaters' guide to great literature, the story is bound to pass over the heads of its younger viewers; concepts like church "sanctuary" and feudal social structure are necessary to understand it. Then too, we have the familiar Disney family distortion of the absent mother and the tyrannical guardian - always a discomfort to the youngest and most vulnerable viewers. As for the current political correctness of "hunchbacks" and the narrative accuracy of a cute and cuddly Quasimodo, the debates will probably continue until the Disney machine provides us with newer examples, just as these issues supplant the debates about the appropriateness of Pocahontas as a native babe. Some children are certain to be frightened by the dark machinations of the story line. |
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| (Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle) |
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| Very weird. |
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| (Variety) |
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| French Lite rather than French Lit, but the original novel wasn't exactly a heavy read to begin with, and such a rip-roaring story should surely be in the public domain, as source for any number of remakes and updates... My attention wandered, as it usually does, during the musical numbers - the sort of typically duff show tunes that go in one ear and out the other. |
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| (Anne Billson, Sunday Telegraph) |
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| Relatively free of the gag-inducing, moral-majority-pleasing, family values guff that blights many Disney movies. Preoccupied with tolerance and acceptance, its heart is definitely in the right place, with the only wrong note being the re-written ending: who ends up with whom is a lesson in Disney's view of the natural order of things. |
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| (Philip Thomas, Empire) |
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