Fresh
The result is a grand cartoon cathedral, teeming with gargoyles and treachery, hopeless love and tortured lust.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
He dared to dream, he dared to love.
1996 · 1h 31m · G
Animation, Drama, Family
Directed by
Gary Trousdale
,
Kirk Wise
Overview
Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude Frollo, his stern guardian and Paris' strait-laced Minister of Justice. His first venture to the outside world finds him Esmeralda, a kind-hearted and fearless Romani woman who openly stands up to Frollo's tyranny.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Surely one of Disney's ugliest and least imaginative efforts.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Disney has created a movie that, like Quasimodo himself, is half formed.
John F. Kelly, Washington Post
Fresh
There is much to admire in Hunchback, not least the risk of doing such a downer of a story at all.
Jeremy Gerard, Variety
Fresh
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.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
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