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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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ANTI Reviews
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| None of this is kid-friendly, and little of it will be of interest to adults. The animation is generally fine (especially the backgrounds and cityscapes), but the story is so boilerplate and the songs so unbearable that Hunchback is hardly a worthwhile film. The studio would learn to trim down the music with unsung stories like Tarzan and focus more on broad comedy instead of ridiculous historical/classics adaptations with movies like The Emperor's New Groove. And just when you thought they had it right, they went and made Atlantis. |
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| (Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com) |
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| Mickey Mouse is reading beyond his comprehension level... The Disney trademarks - lavish animation, inanimate objects (gargoyles) transformed into vaudeville sidekicks, busy musical numbers - have been slopped between the grim, granite story blocks like weak mortar. The film succeeds in wringing tears, but, not surprisingly given its construction, seems constantly on the verge of collapse. This Quasimodo, a sweet, simple realization, has large, expressive eyes and boyish energy. He looks like Nathan Lane crushed by a vise. Frollo, on the other hand, is richly complex and perverse. (He sniffs Esmeralda's hair with a fetishistic hunger.) But who wants dark, psychological realism in a Disney cartoon? The cathedral, with its rose windows and big bells, is a marvel and will make an excellent attraction at the theme parks. |
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| (Tom Gliatto, People Weekly) |
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| The movie is more open to criticism for soft-pedalling than hard-hitting: the drawing of the hunchback, in particular, strays too close to comeliness. He is not so much hideous as bearish, almost cuddly, his walk is less a limp than a lope, more engaging than gruesome. |
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| (Quentin Curtis, Daily Telegraph) |
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