Since Disney couldn’t keep bear to let any of their
renaissance films get sequels, The
Hunchback of Notre Dame II was made. And while most of the cast returns,
Jane Withers was added to replace Mary Wickes and Jim Cummings replaced David
Ogden Stiers. There were also new voices from Haley Joel Osment, Jennifer Love
Hewitt, and Michael McKean.
Six years after the original film, Quasimodo (Tom Hulce) is
an accepted part of society, but still serves at the bell ringer. A circus
troupe led by Sarousch (McKean) enters town s art of the yearly Festival of
Love. He plans to steal the bell La Fidele and sends his assistant Madellaine
(Hewitt) to discover its whereabouts. She encounters Quasimodo, setting off a chain
of events that determine the eventual fate of the bell.
With all the subtlety of a frying pan to the face, Disney
decides to tell us that true beauty is on the inside. The comparisons of
Quasimodo and the bell could not have been more obvious and for some reason,
they decide to give him a girlfriend. One of the great things about the first
film is that the hero didn’t get the girl, instead becoming a really good
friend.
The animation in this is also atrocious. It was done by
Disney’s Japanese animation studio, but that only makes it worse. I’ve seen far
better things come out of Japan. And for some reason, the population of Paris
has been reduced to somewhere between 20 and 30.
We also get the exact same moral of the first story, only
this time it’s with carnies. And Zephyr, the son of Phoebus and Esmerelda, is
quite annoying.
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