Madeline and Quasimodo laugh about Dumb Topics... again
What else can I say about the sequel; it’s uninspired, mindless dibble that isn’t even good enough to baby-sit babies. It’s sole purpose way to get people to buy it, not to watch it but if people were to watch it, it was meant to show people that if you’re as ugly as Quasimodo, persistent enough and you say all the right things maybe you’ll the get the door mat who is right for you. Because this movie thinks everyone should be in pairs, even Achilles get some cheap floozy erm Filly at the end, Djali submits in to Hugo’s obsession, and there is “sexy” puppey show.
Achilles and a random filly Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney 2 sequel
Djali giving Hugo a Kiss Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Clopin's Sexy Puppet Show Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
The real problem with this movie is it’s not bad enough to be good, it just exists in this realm of mediocrity. However there is one positive thing about this movie and that is an exchange between Victor, Hugo and Quasimodo and it’s funny.
Quasimodo, Victor, Hugo Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Victor – “What does one wear to carnival event?” Quasimodo – “Nothing” Hugo – “Daring!”
That’s pretty much the highlight of the movie.
This isn’t a love story, it’s romantic superficiality wrap-up in blatant commercialism. It’s a horrible sequel and the people who made it should be ashamed that so many trees had to die for this piece of expleteive deleted.
Madeline and Quasimodo Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Esmeralda and Phoebus Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney Sequel 2
Zephyr sums up the movie "yuck" Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Next Adapation: Der Glockner Von Notre Dame
Der Glockner von Notre Dame German Musical of Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Disney is known for many things; Music, Animation etc. Conversely what Disney is known is thrown out in their sequels. So let’s tackle the music of this monstrosity of a money-making scam ( their direct to relase sequels). This first song on the list; the opening song, Le Jour D’Amour or Not Topsy Turvy – it’s the festival song.
Clopin Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Clopin and Quasimodo Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Clopin and Quasimodo Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
It’s Clopin’s one and only song. But Wait, it’s not just Clopin’s song it’s a duet with Quasimodo. Remember in the original film when Quasimodo was shoved down our throats, it’s even worst in this film. And also the Gargoyles get in on this song (eye roll).
Djali Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Phoebus and Esmeralda Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Clopin with an extra Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of of Notre Dame II Disney
This song introduces us to the fact that this movie is about love. Le Jour D’Amour is supposed to a Valentine’s Day-Love is great- and a pox on you if you don’t have love in your life Day. The premise of the day, in that people yell declarations of love while some bell rings. And for some reason yellow Roses are the flower of chose for Le Jour D’Amour. Yellow Roses are yet one of many, many, fun anachronisms in this movie. The Yellow Rose wasn’t discovered till the 18th century. Yellow Roses are a very stupid chose because according to the meaning of flowers they mean Friendship, Joy, Get Well, not very good chose for a festival of love. If only roses came in other colors, a color that denotes Love and Passion, a “Lover’s Rose” if you will. Darn if only rose came in RED! Stupid movie!
Quasimodo with Zephyr and some little girl Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Clopin and Quasimodo with Puppets Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Extras Dance Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Now compared to the actual movie, the songs are bad. I probably could have just end my music discussion of the sequel right there but that’s too easy, plus Le Jour D’Amour is the least guilty. It’s somewhat period appropriate, uplifting, and at least you can sing along to it, through why you want to is beyond me. I think the worst part musically is the Gargoyle’s part and I’m not fond of Quasimodo’s solo right before that. But this is my least hated song of the movie (I hesitate to use the word favorite). Don’t get me wrong it’s a stupid song about a stupid festival with stupid people dancing around like dumdums. And despite it being the best in my opinion, I’m always forgetting it. ( in my last article post when I said what would be next, I used a picture from Ordinary Miracle instead of a picture from Le Jour D’Amour)
Hugo and Victor Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Laverne as Esmeralda Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Quasimodo Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
And I would like to point out that the lyrics try to justify this festival (maybe even the movie) as the “best of all” over the the original and certainly over Topsy Turvy, but Topsy Turvy would win with both hands tied behind its’ back and little pieces of duct tape covering its’ eyes and Le Jour D’Amour can have a spear even. No contest. (Hey, two points go to the person who knows what I just referenced with that little battle scenario comment if you know what it it)
Quasimodo with dancing extras Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Sad Quasimodo Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Clopin Evil Smile Le Jour D’Amour Hunchback of Notre Dame Sequel Disney
Since Le Jour D’Amour is the best of the songs in this explicit deleted fest, this is only going to get worse for me.
Next Time – Ordinary Miracles (bleh)
Quasimodo with Madeline Figurine Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
One of the “selling” point of the sequel is the return of main characters with their original voice actors. Try and guess which pictures are from the sequel, I bet you’ll be shocked.
Quasimodo in new threads Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Quasimodo's Reveal Hunchback of Notre Dame Disney
Quasimodo – In this movie Quasimodo wants to be in love. He meets new character Madeline and tries to convince her that he’s awesome. It works because she’s has low self-esteem.
Clopin Evil Smile Hunchback of Notre Dame Sequel Disney
Clopin Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Clopin– Clopin is in this movie, though he does very little. He’s once again the Master of Ceremonies for the Le Jour d’Amour and that’s it.
Esmeralda Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Esmeralda Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Esmeralda– She’s a wife, mother, dancer, and fortune-teller. She retains her sassiness but other than that she doesn’t do that much. Oh and she wears shoes now.
Phoebus getting hit with a ball Hunchback of Notre Dame II Disney
Phoebus cross-eyed Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Phoebus– He’s a father and Captain of the Guards. He doesn’t trust the circus people and he’s makes kind of a jerk out of himself.
Gargoyles Hunchback of Notre Dame Sequel Disney
Gargoyles A Guy like you Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Gargoyles – They don’t do that much and don’t contribute that much to the importances of the plot and yet still they are still annoying. However they have one decent joke.
Djali Hunchback of Notre Dame Sequel Disney
Djali's reaction to Quasimodo Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Djali– Djali is still awesome
Achilles and his Filly Hunchback of Notre Dame Sequel Disney
Achilles and Phoebus Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Achilles– Achilles somehow learned how to count, I guess he’s not the dimwit any more and he gets a girlfriend. Thank you movie for making single people feel bad with your random coupling of horses
So yeah the main characters from the first film are there but other than Quasimodo they do not do that much. They’re really just side characters, just there as a selling point so you’ll watch thinking you’ll see your favorite return but no it’s mostly Quasimodo and the New Characters.
Next Time – New characters starting with Quasimodo’s main squeeze Madeline
Victor, Hugo and Laverne singing A Guy like you Disney Hunchback of Notre dame
After the intensity of Hellfire, the movie gets a little dark. Frollo goes on a tear extorting Gypsies, arresting people, attempting to kill people including Phoebus and burning a good portion of Paris. After these scenes the movie needs some levity, after all this is a children movie. The levity we’re given is “A Guy Like You.” I hate this song, there I said it, I hate “A Guy like you.”
Frollo’s Long is nose and he wears a truss/dress Disney Hunhcback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor and Laverne are the agents of forced levity in Disney’sHunchback of Notre Dame. They all have distinct personally and looks.
Hugo
Hugo Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo is the short and fat one. He has a pig nose, thin horns that point straight up, bat-like wings, hooves for hand, rounded teeth and animal-like ears. He also for some reason is the only one of the three gargoyles to have a belly button. Hugo is the most animal looking among the three. This is he is the crudest and I think Disney thinks that he’s the funniest, in the infantile sense so he has to look somewhat amusing or people are going to believe he’s the “funny” one.
Victor
Victor Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor is the tallest and largest of the three. He also the most muscular of the three. He’s the only one not to have horns, instead he has elf-like ears, large angel wings, an underbite, two fanged teeth and his hands are more like claws , almost human but a tad more beastly than human. His nose is stylized but almost human. His more human-like form is indicative of his prissy-like, prime, introverted personality.
Laverne
Victor and Laverne singing “A Guy like you” Disney Hunchback of Notre dame
Laverne is the female of the group. She has the most human-like hands. Her face looks old and she has no teeth. She has cherub wings, fatter and short horns than Hugo and there’re wider. She also have like a crown like detail that frames her horns. Her ears and nose like the most human too except her nose is a bit bulbous. Her no nonsense, tell it like it is personality is the reason why her features look more human than Victor and Hugo. The human-look enables Laverne to be take more seriously. I mean if she looked like Hugo, I doubt people who believe her “old women who tells it like it is” persona.
Concept Art
Gargoyle Concept Art Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Gargoyles Concept Art Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Gargoyle Concept Art Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Stains
Looking at the concept art, the gargoyles went through a lot of revisions. But the gargoyles went through at lot of revisions as the film progress during the course of it’s animation. It was originally convinced that these three gargoyles were the stone mason’s cast-off and they’re something of outcast which is why Quasimodo gravitated towards these three, if the imagination theory is true (which like so many other things in this movie is inconsistent in it’s execution). The film never did played this angle. Also they were going to have tiny imperfections like a chip ear, but that was never realized either in the film.
Stains on Gargoyles Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Early in the production and this can be seen on the gargoyles in their introductory scene, the gargoyles have stains on them from the elements. The studio had maps for each gargoyle in order to keep the stains consistently placed. Then the idea was abandoned as the film progress. Funny it’s it, they tried so hard to be consistent on a detail that few noticed and then abandoned it but they very inconsistent with the light in the characters eyes.
The Gargoyles; Hugo Laverne, Victor, Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Gargoyles are the most annoying characters in this movie. They’re the comic relief but they fail at it (ok there are some funny bits but they’re few and very far between).
Hugo, Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo (voiced by Jason Alexander), the short piggish one, is a load mouth and the most annoying. He also has a thing for Djali.
Victor, Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor (voiced Charles Kimbrough) is the tall prissy serious one. He is the least interesting.
Laverne Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
Laverne (voiced by Mary Wickes/ Jame Withers) is the old one who tells it like is. She is probably the most of tolerable of the gargoyles.
Victor and Hugo were named for Victor Hugo the author, the writers thought they were being clever and they really wanted to prove they had read the book. Laverne was named after Laverne Andrews, one of The Andrew Sisters. They each have their own personalities and at least they balance each other out.
Hugo and Djali Disney Hunchback of Notre DameLaverne and the birds Disney Hunchback of Notre DameGargoyles – Victor, Hugo and Laverne at the end Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
The theory goes that the Gargoyles are aspects of Quasimodo’s imagination because he is a forced shut-in who is desperate to be love. However the Directors who thought they were being all smart and junk by trying to deep and profound, forgot (actually they didn’t forget they’re just inconsistent) that Djali interacted with Hugo and they fought to defend Notre Dame. Quasimodo’s main squeeze also saw the Gargoyles in the Sequel {shudders at the thought of the sequel shudders.}
So let’s say that the directors are right and their theory that the Gargoyles are imaginary holds water; does this mean Quasimodo imagines Djali seeing Hugo? Does his means when Quasimodo is crowned King of Fools he imagines the Gargoyles cheering him on? Does he imagines the Gargoyles throwing stuff off off Notre Dame and the soldiers getting hurt especially when Quasimodo is occupied? Does this mean that Quasimodo is the source the pop culture anachronisms? And if the Gargoyles are Quasimodo’s imagination does this mean that after Quasimodo made some real life friends and was accepted by the people the Gargoyles would cease to be? Because they’re still around in the {shudders} sequel {shudders}. If Quasimodo lives in his head this much does this mean Quasimodo in the book is more functional? Plus he must be contently winded from lugging three stone statues around the place, then again maybe that’s why he can lift up Phoebus in full armor one handed.
Personally I think that the Gargoyles are Pan’s Labyrinthesque beings; only those who are innocent and pure can see them, hence why Quasimodo and Djali can see them but they can some effect on the actual world. Though in the German Musical, Der Glockner van Notre Dame, they are imaginary and they have different names.
Victor, Hugo and Laverne singing A Guy like you Disney Hunchback of Notre dameVictor, Hugo and Laverne draw pictures Disney Hunchback of Notre DameHugo in drag Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
So why are the sidekicks Gargoyles in the first place? Well the oh so smartie directors said in the commentary that Quasimodo speaks to the Gargoyles in the book. They also claim that Quasimodo has long conversations (plural) with the Gargoyles.
Looking over the book, I found that he was fond of a ‘grotesque personages sculptured on the wall,’ and to this he says “why wasn’t I made of stone like you” (Book 9 Chapter 4 Earthenware and Crystal). I’m not sure what version of the novel they read where Quasimodo had long conversations with Gargoyles ( maybe the 1939 movie version? In the 1939 version Quasimodo utters this line to a gargoyle).
If they were going to base a sidekick character off of objects that Quasimodo had a relationship with, it should have been the bells. They could’ve a sassy bell named Patti (Patti the Bell (Patti LaBelle, bad joke, sorry) that would have much better than the Gargoyles.
Hugo playing poker Disney Hunchback of Notre DameVictor and Laverne singing A Guy like you Disney Hunchback of Notre dameA Guy Like You
So what do the Gargoyles do in the film?
They’re Quasimodo’s friends and guardians. They make [try] funny quips. They also make pop culture references. Disney has a habit of doing this. They started with the Genie in Aladdin. With the Genie it makes a level of sense because Genies are a supernatural beings, but in Hunchback this doesn’t work as well. The Gargoyles are part of Notre Dame, so how can they have inferences to the future? I don’t care that they magically – they’re part of an ancient building, they should be funny without making stupid references, Djali doesn’t resort it. Plus if they’re in fact imaginary, this means Quasimodo is the one doing it, so it makes even less sense. The only thing that the Gargoyles do well is they get Quasimodo off his ass and encourage him. But they also build Quasimodo’s expectations up too high. They convince him that Esmeralda is in love with him, which leads to some of Quasimodo’s emoness when she doesn’t reciprocate.
Victor and Laverne’s drawing of Esmeralda Disney Hunchback of Notre DameHugo draws Djali Disney Hunchback of Notre DameVictor, Hugo and Laverne trying to liberate Quasimodo in emo-mode Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
So the point of the Gargoyles is to provide levity but they just distract from the movie. Disney boasts the Hunchback as being their darkest movie but the Gargoyles hinder it. Plus the movie has some good levity already, Phoebus, Esmeralda, Clopin, Djali, Achilles, those bumbling guards, the old heretic, the torturer guy etc, they all provide good comedy while keeping the flow of the movie and without making references. Disney really could have done better in the sidekick department for Quasimodo.
The Disney version starts off with Clopin (Paul Kandel) regaling small children with the tale of the mysterious bell ringer and how he came the position. Though a song (The Bells of Notre Dame) and a flashback Clopin tells of a group of Gypsies entering Paris via the Seine, the notable Gypsy is a women with a child. After docking the Romani are caught byJudge Claude Frollo (Tony Jay). Frollo doesn’t care much for gypsies and orders their arrest but when he tries to take the baby from the women (he thinks it stolen goods) she runs toward Notre Dame. After the chase Frollo kills the women on the steps of Notre Dame and Frollo tries to drown the child who is deformed. Before Frollo can do it he’s stop by the Archdeacon (David Ogden Stiers) who guilts Frollo into taking care of child but Frollo demands that the child must live in the bell-tower. Clopin then asks us to consider what the bells supposedly say “who is the monster and who is the man”
, the gargoyles went through a lot of revisions. But the gargoyles went through at lot of revisions as the film progress during the course of it’s animation. It was originally convinced that these three gargoyles were the stone mason’s cast-off and they’re something of outcast which is why Quasimodo gravitated towards these three, if the imagination theory is true (which like so many other things in this movie is inconsistent in it’s execution). The film never did played this angle. Also they were going to have tiny imperfections like a chip ear, but that was never realized either in the film.
