Scarfe's pointed faces are smoothed out to a drab degree, yet not so they become characters as warm as Disney is capable of.
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09/01/08
Hercules (1997)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:40
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Fast-paced and packed with dozens of pop culture references, Hercules might not measure up with the true classics of the Disney pantheon, but it's still plenty of fun.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: This teenage Hercules is the goofy and lovable adopted scion of mortal parents, toiling on earth to prove himself to Zeus, his Olympian dad. His demi-god gifts score him money, fame, and product... [More]
Starring: Tate Donovan, James Woods, Susan Egan, Danny DeVito
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Reviews for Hercules
Top CriticAnother benchmark achievement for the Aladdin team of Musker and Clements.
02/09/06
Top CriticThe most flat-out childish film of the Disney Renaissance: this is both its great triumph and ultimately the reason that it's so hard to care about it all that much.
12/02/09
[An] insipid, lifeless, animated feature.
11/16/09
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10/18/08
Amusing, yes. Fluffy, definitely. But with no more staying power than those Hercules action figures that were already resigned to Odd-Lot by last Christmas.
10/18/08
Chock-full of celeb cameos, puns and contemporary camp, the movie is annoyingly hip.
10/18/08
This is a bright movie, in both senses of the word.
09/01/08
Top CriticPrepare to spend the summer stepping on plastic satyrs and winged horses.
09/01/08
It's a winning tall tale, cleverly told and wonderfully voiced...
09/01/08
Top CriticOne of the best of the modern Disney animation efforts to date.
04/09/05
Remind one of My Little Pony...mental pictures of all the plastic "Hercules" toys that soon will be littering floors and crippling barefoot adults.
06/25/04
while all the customary ingredients are at hand -- the dreamy hero, the curvaceous heroine, the comic sidekick, the smarmy villain -- the magic is missing this time out. ...a minor addition to the Disney pantheon.
07/15/03
Disney's 35th animated feature may be based on a timeless tale, but it's no classic.
05/20/03
It entertained me much more than I thought it would.
11/07/02
The animation is kinetic and witty; computer effects are integrated to good effect without overwhelming the hand-drawn figures.
10/15/02
Hercules fires off mythology in-jokes and pop culture references at a speed that would dizzy the Animaniacs.
07/03/02
Woods as the ever-exasperated Hades is the comic highlight, bringing an acrid wit to the proceedings, thereby balancing out some of the over-the-top feel-good elements indigenous to the genre.
06/25/02
What fun!
06/18/02
Man, am I glad to see John Musker and Ron Clements' work back on the screen!
04/17/02
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