When it come to sheer quality of animation, no one holds a candle to Disney. The "Topsy Turvy" number in the town square has so many individual characters doing so many different things that I'd bet a movie-goer could see the flick four times and still miss some of the action. The confetti in this scene must be computer genned--it has a wonderful 3-D swirling to its motion.
Or when Esmerelda says to the guards, "Let's see, there's ten of you and one of me...." I would say the animators put her face thru fifteen distinct expressions during this short speech. Only Disney would do that kind of quality--that amazing attention to detail--thru the entire movie.
Hunchback is full of sweeping camera movements about the cathedral as the hunchback does his Batman-like thing of bounding about. At times they are so exhilaratingly wild that you wonder how the aimators diagrammed the movements.

Movie has terrif' dialogue delivered by actors who have their stuff totally together. All three stars are right on the money. The dialogue has a fine droll quality to enliven the adult movie-goers' interest.

Hunchback does not suffer the misstep of Pocohontas, which was so politically correct that it choked the life out of the story. This movie has "can't we all be friends?" theme, but at least it isn't being shoved down your throat.

Movie's suitability for:

• Action Jackson: 30%
• Joe Fratboy (date movie): 20%
• Cinephile (pretentious movie lover): 30%
• animation fans: 100%
• all around movie-goer: 80%