In some circles, this one gets flack for softening elements of Victor Hugo‘s 1831 novel.
In some circles, this one gets flack for softening elements of Victor Hugo‘s 1831 novel. Look, if everything on the page made it to the screen, an entire generation of kids would still be in therapy, and this would have been Disney’s first R-rated cartoon. As it is, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is quite intense, –not to mention touching, funny, rather breathtakingly drawn, and operatic. In a four-star review, Roger Ebert called this a “high point” of the Disney Renaissance that began with The Little Mermaid and ended at the turn of the century.