Cesar Castro One of the best and most underrated Disney movies ever. Very well executed and the soundtrack is amazing! I loved it when I was a kid and I love it now. Rewatch it so many years later was so good and made me understand some things that I couldn't as a child.

PubHound 8 +Although silly comic reliefs are expected ( like the childish gargoyle and so on) this movie is perfectly able to please both youngsters and adults, mixing to a lively animation and some funny characters, also heavier themes like religious hypocrisy and emargination. Only complaint regards the use, even if little, of some CGI puppets ( for example during crowd scenes ) which can clash with the gorgeous, traditional animation.

studioAT While looking like a standard Disney film this is actually surprisingly dark (despite making many changes to the source material to make it suitable for kids), but that doesn't stop it from being a good film that fully deserves to be included in the list of 'Classics'.With good songs, and a 'I know that voice' voice cast, this was an enjoyable film I hadn't seen as a kid. Seeing how dark it is I know why! It's well worth a look.

Jesper Brun Let me just start off by saying WOW! This is easily the most mature work by Disney ever to be put to the big screen. Where do I start! Frollo is simply one of the most cruel and frightening Disney villains ever. And his motivations are still so painfully realistic! A personal experience of mine was early in the movie when the interaction between Frollo and Quasimodo really scared me. It does not happen that often, but here it was intense. Just like, let's say, when Mufasa was found by Simba. Esmeralda, voiced by the feisty Demi Moore, is also a really underrated female character in the Disney catalog. She is truly an independent woman with a great heart and a mission to complete and she perfectly teams up with Quasimodo who is also a great character with a great and tender voice performance by Tom Hulce from Amadeus. The music is also a wonderful mix of bombastic orchestral musical numbers with immense choirs and fine sensitive ballads. Nothing more to say than just fantastic (exept one, but more of that later). The visual aspect of the movie is also astonishing to watch. Especially the Cathedral of Notre Dame, both inside and outside and during most of the majestic climax with swooping angles and gigantic epic scope. And the one major problem I have with this movie: those gargoyles are a pain in the butt throughout the whole movie. They could be justified and even add a little bit to the overall tone of the movie if they were truly a figment of Quasimodo's imagination. It could be a great addition to his tragic backstory of being isolated in the belltower for so long. But several times during the movie they reveal themselves as living creatures which ruins the otherwise justifiable perspective of them. Their musical number is not of equal greatness of the musical numbers and was awkwardly placed in the movie. But there is enough great stuff in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame to make up for those annoying attempts at comic sidekicks. I simply can't give less than 10/10 for Disney to make such a dark and serious movie adressing such heavy subject matters.