When people talk about Disney’s back catalog of animated feature films, most think of the films like ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Aladdin’, and ‘The Lion King’. But for every great, and critically renowned film the animation division releases, it seems there’s always two or three that fall by the wayside, never quite getting the following that they deserve out the gate. But over time, many of them gain a following, and one that seems to finally getting appreciation is the severely underrated film, ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame‘, Walt Disney Animation’s 34th animated feature.

The film features some of the studio’s best animated work, featuring some incredibly beautiful and majestic art that is nothing short of breathtaking, as well as some of Disney’s most sweeping music, and an all star cast, ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ proves that Walt Disney Animation is still the best at what they do. Its movies like this that always deserve some of the best treatment, and its good to see that Disney has given ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ done just that.

‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’, which is loosely based on Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel of the same name, follows the film’s namesake, Quasimodo , who starts life as an deformed child. He’s confined to the bell tower of the Notre Dame Cathedral, where he spends his entire life, believing he should hide from the world, thanks to how he was raised by the Master of Justice Frollo (Tony Jay). When Quasimodo finally steps outside the walls of the Cathedral, his life is changed forever. When a gypsy named Esmerelda (Demi Moore) befriends him, it starts to break down the walls of his world, and it begins to show Quasi that the man he once to be a saint may be more of a cruel and terrible person. As revolt and unrest begin stirring in Paris, Quasi is forced to look at his life and make the ultimate decision between the man who raised him, or the woman he loves.

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