Word: quasimodo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing. You haven't read the book. I haven't read it. No one you know has read it. Far more Americans know the true story of Pocahontas (she returned to England with her husband John Rolfe--not John Smith--and shortly thereafter died of smallpox) than of Quasimodo (a fictional character, he in fact has no true story...
...voice of the hero Quasimodo, Tom Hulce ("Amadeus," Broadway's "A Few Good Men"), brings to his part the sensitivity and youthful enthusiasm that are essential to the Disney hero formula...
...This Quasimodo (voiced and sung by Tom Hulce) is a young man with the most intense growing pains--Beauty's Beast, but without the majesty. Imprisoned in the Notre Dame bell tower by his master, the imperious Judge Frollo (Tony Jay), Quasi pines to be among the people he sees from above. His one furlough has him crowned King of Fools and leads to his lovestruck meeting with the Gypsy Esmeralda (the indomitably spunky Demi Moore). Frollo, to his surprise and shame, loves...
...amused. If the comedy, represented by three gargoyle pals of Quasimodo's, seems grafted onto an essentially solemn story, it still has an infectious giddiness. A 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...
...HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (June 21), the Disney animated feature that recasts Quasimodo as a semi-cute young fellow who learns the T. M. of F., also promises the vaulting swank of Alan Menken at his most pop-eratic and the saving japery of three witty gargoyles...