A good movie

Even though it is probably not considered as one of the best animated features delivered by Disney, in fact, it is one of my favorites. Indeed, I always had a weak spot for their movies which actually tried to deviate from their usual formula and this one was really something else, that’s for sure. First of all, the animation was simply gorgeous, especially the details on Paris and Notre Dame were just mind-blowing. Above all, it is by far their darkest movie, maybe the reason why it didn’t get much love when it was released, but certainly the reason why I thought it was so intriguing. In this darkness, I was also impressed by Frollo who was definitely a great character. Basically, he is easily one of their most sinister bad guys and he was pretty much a hateful racist with a sexual fantasy for a gypsy woman. Unfortunately, not everything did work though. Indeed, even though Quasimodo was well animated and I enjoyed the fact that he was so strong and a great climber, this character was eventually rather poorly developed. Indeed, he is not what you would call standard leading man material, it seems that they didn’t really know what to do with him so he pretty much ended up as the third wheel beside Phoebus and Esmeralda. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, I believe it is probably one of Disney's most underrated features,  I really liked the damned thing and it is definitely worth a look. 

7/10