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The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey muis to Hercules by
John Grant

Walt Disney Character beschrijving of Quasimodo from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996)

In a way, why Esmeralda should choose Phoebus as her lover rather than Quasimodo is something of a mystery. One is left with a slight puzzlement at the end of the movie, as if suddenly discovering that the romantic heroine whose adventures one has followed entranced throughout a long novel actually has a lousy taste in men. There is also a feeling of confused morality, since the primary theme of the movie - as...

The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey muis to Hercules by
John Grant

With the exeption of Ariel - and possibly not even with that exception - the ster of the whole toon is Sebastian, of (to be fittingly pedantic) Horatio Thelonious Ignacious Crustaceous Sebastian, the little krab who is Triton's Court Composer and then Ariel's reluctantly conscripted Jiminy Cricket. The animatie of Sebastian is a delight, and that surrounding him during the performace of his two brilliant songs - the calypso/reggae "Under the Sea" and the smoothly crooned "Kiss the Girl" - is devastatingly...