Voice of hades hercules disney movie#

Voice of hades hercules disney movie#

One Disney movie that used the references in a fantastic way was Aladdin, where only Genie made references or fourth wall breaks. Yes it’s a kid’s movie, but why did it have to date itself by making pop culture references? This is now a 90’s movie, and the jokes will inevitably get less and less funny because the references are less and less relevant. And this leads to what I thought was the biggest problem with the movie: all the pop culture and references and modern themes. Not to mention, the Greek names are so much better sounding. I understand that the Greek names are hard to say, but I just took it as obnoxious every time a character was referred to with a modern name. That’s another issue I have with the movie, all the abbreviated names like Phil and Meg. The training montage was fine and worked well to age him up and skip his bonding with Phil, but I would have wanted a little more time to see them bond and to see him train. The message was clearly stated, but you can easily miss something if you blink. I would have loved to see him growing up around little kids with his human parents taking care of him, or see him training a little more as a teenager. Not that I wanted a three hour movie, but it really rushes through big moments just to get us to Hercules as an adult. My first problem with the movie was how fast paced it was. So many Disney movies have small animal sidekicks and henchmen, many of which are dumb and sometimes quite annoying, so I thought it was very smart to use the henchman’s incompetence as a major plot device.

I thought it was very clever how Hercules managed to avoid death and have Hades not be informed of his survival based on the incompetence of Pain and Panic, Hades’ minions. Hades, God of the Underworld, learns from The Fates (amazingly designed as old women who share one eye between them all that becomes a gateway to see one’s death) that Hercules will be the one to stop Hades from overthrowing Mount Olympus. The movie opens to a song by the Muses, which is cleverly done in a gospel church choir style. The plot is great, telling the story of Hercules starting when he is a baby was a great beginning. There were plenty of things I liked or loved about the movie, but there’s plenty that I did not enjoy as well. Hercules was one of those movies that kept pushing me away and then pulling me back in. The film was directed by Ron Clements and John Musket and stars Tate Donovan as Hercules, Danny DeVito as Philoctetes, James Woods as Hades, Susan Egan as Megara, and Rip Torn as Zeus. Hercules is an animated Disney adaptation of the story of Hercules in Greek Mythology. Does it just suck so bad no one talks about it, or is it a hidden gem? Let’s find out. Of course I’ve heard of it before, but I never hear anyone talk about it and it has practically zero representation in the Disney Store or parks as far as I can tell. I decided to watch this on a random whim, just finding it as I scrolled through Netflix trying to find Hunchback of Notre Dame (why the heck did Netflix remove it?).