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Originally Posted by some guy you dont know
Hunchback of Notre Dame
You know, I've only seen this movie once before, back around ten years ago. Back then I didn't think it was all that good.
Today, however, I watched it. I gotta say it is much better than I thought it was. Frollo was a much better villain, and the story was great. I find it odd that this got a G rating, though.
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Cool, I'm glad that you thought so. I was eleven years old when I first saw
Hunchback at the cinema, and back then, I too was a little uncertain what to make of it. I think that audiences in general were rather thrown off by it, its tone and content being so much darker and more extreme than they'd come to expect from a typical Disney outing, and I'm really not surprised that Disney felt the need to follow it up with the highly colourful, all-out comedic
Hercules. But several years later, I rediscovered it, and suddenly found myself extremely taken with it. True, it makes some compromises here and there (I know that at least
some form of comic relief was required, but that threesome of wisecracking gargoyles just don't feel like they belong in this particular movie) and it's far from faithful to the Victor Hugo novel in many regards (particularly the conclusion), but, given the circumstances, I think that it's about as faithful as you could reasonably expect, and that, by Disney standards (post-Walt, anyhow), it's still very brave and daring, and all the more fascinating for it. I think that Frollo is the real stand-out element here - he's simply amazing, both as a villain and as a Disney character, period. As I've said elsewhere, he's definitely the kind of bad guy that the House of Mouse will only ever do once in a lifetime. He's callous, conceited, a hypocritical bigot and
much more besides that, and I totally love the guy.
