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...more satisfying (and less flaky) than "Pocahontas," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is reminiscent of "Aladdin," with its spectacular cartoon architecture and lively medieval street scenes. Directors Gary Truesdale and Kirk Wise (collaborators on "Beauty and the Beast") tap into the visual power of the Notre Dame cathedral, and the film's most compelling scenes are set therein...
Unfortunately, the score is not Menken's greatest. Musical highlights besides "Hellfire" include the opening "Bells of Notre Dame" and "Heaven's Light," but none of these match "Circle of Life" from "The Lion King" or "A Whole New World" from "Aladdin...
They could keep making zippy comedies, Xeroxing successes like Aladdin for a predictable billion-dollar gross in the theatrical and video markets. But the artists at Disney's animation unit--it should be called the ambition unit--have bigger eyes. They figure that where they go, into melodrama or political sagas, the audience will follow. With The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise (who made Beauty and the Beast) have splashed the broody emotions of Victor Hugo's epic novel with a bold, dazzling palette. Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas) have written the largest, most...
...sign over a manhole reads mon sewer; one song rhymes Quasi with "was he" and "bourgeoisie." At times the cathedral is a theme park, with cute characters, dark scary spots and a drain pipe that Quasi uses as a giant water slide. The movie may not soar like Aladdin or roar like The Lion King, and it demands plenty of parental guidance; but it fulfills the Disney animators' dream. From a blank sheet of paper, monsters and magic emerge...
Katzenberg, who reanimated Disney by honchoing such megahits as Aladdin and The Lion King, says Disney stiffed him out of $250 million in unpaid bonuses. The high drama is Hollywood's favorite feud--between Katzenberg and Disney chairman Michael Eisner. Katzenberg stormed out in 1994 when Eisner refused to promote him to president. Last week a feisty Katzenberg was calling himself "the $250 million...