Burbank's version of this story almost forgets about Quasimodo but at least there's lots of doofy Frollo. Also Esmeralda might be a witch. phelous.com / phelous
*Every other adaptation of Esmeralda* : Meets/narrowly avoids a grizzly end for false accusations of witchcraft and murder at the hands of a corrupt, lust-filled individual and a society who will adore her or persecute her as it suits them. *Burbank Esmeralda* : Nearly gets arrested for knocking on a door and is threatened with the death penalty for praying in church by Lord Weiner, Guardian of an Ass. Burbank is so tone deaf, I love it so much.
Man, Frollo really is good at holding down multiple jobs He's been: A Judge in the Disney version A sheriff in the UAV version A son of a Baron/Captain in the Golden Films version An abbé of Notre-Dame in the Dingo version An Archdeacon in the Goodtimes version and the original novel And now, he's also a Lord of Notre-Dame
Fun fact: the Italian DVD case of Dingo's Notre Dame steals the Burbank art for its cover, I just realized that while re-watching my Italian Dingo DVD collection.
Shitpost It's easier to make someone angry all the time to show that they're "bad" than to give nuance and personality to his design, mannerisms and character.
Shitpost Because instead of giving him a distinctive character, which takes even more effort, they're just trying to make you feel bad for him and angry at Frollo. Making someone stereotypically "slow" is a quick way to evoke emotion from the audience. ^_^
And besides not being a religious man, Frollo in this version is unnecessarily backwards in other ways. In the book, Frollo was fascinated with the sciences and wanted to spend a lot of his pastimes gaining more vastly accumulated knowledge from many sources, to the point where he can speak various languages and it even leads him to experiment with concepts of alchemy and heretical teachings like predestination. He was pretty much written as a common renaissance intellectual. Did 90's Burbank really need to have Frollo believe the Earth is flat and all that, just to show how "prejudiced and ignorant" our villain is. Making your villain look like a silly moron whose intellectually behind the times is how they make him charismatic and threatening?! Plus, why would Frollo openly admit Esmeralda is not a witch. They could not even get that part right, since Frollo is so prideful and blind to his flaws that he would always try to convince even himself that it is Esmeralda's fault and not his own. My only guess is that they are ripping off the scene in the 1939 movie, where Frollo tells the archdeacon that he killed Phoebus (and the priest later responds by subtly manipulating Frollo into saying it to the King using similar strategies), but even then, he still maintained that Esmeralda's "witchcraft" caused him to become lustful infatuated and "tempted" him to attack Phoebus in a jealous rage.
Also Quasimodo isn't deformed in any way in this adaptation either, just a burly Fred Flintstone looking guy, but I guess it's still a step above Goldenfilms`s the Handsome of Notre Dame.
I really liked the RU-vid bits you added in. You guys should go back and see the details Phelous put into the fake RU-vid pages. "6 views, 2112 downvotes." That's actually pretty accurate to how RU-vid displays its numbers. XD
I love the ferocity (or the closest thing to it) in Quasimodo’s voice when he says “Quasimodo not your friend!” I feel like that line should become a meme
DinosaurFan88 All knock-off 90' hunchbacks copyed Disney, but Disney copyed Burbank Australia..........Dose it make Disney comletely useless now?Noooooooo(yes)
If Victor Hugo could've seen into the future and he saw all these poor adaptations of his novel, do you think he would have changed his mind about writing it?
I can at least give the movie this, it's the first animated Hunchback adaptation I've ever seen that actually bothered to give these French people French accents
Vote now for the best Quasimodo! 1. Angel boy 2. Handsome of Notre Dame 3. Best bell friend 4. That one Goodtimes Quasi 5. What is Speaking Properly? Quasi
Does... does this movie think that the Romani were some mystical fairy people that don't exist anymore? King Henry showed literal disbelief when Lord Frollo said Esmerelda was a "gypsy" and compared her existance to the world being flat. But the Romani are kind of like, real? And back in the day, a pretty hot button political issue. And it's not like they no longer exist either; a friend of mine growing up was one, along with the principal of my elementary school.
Nurse Valentine 6. We have UAV's Secret of the Hunchlous, Golden Films' Handsome of Notre Dame, Dingo Pictures' Hunchback of Notre Damn Hell, GoodTimes and Jetlag's Hunchback, and both Burbank adaptations of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
I just realized that Frollo's birthmark is an evil laughing face. Y'know it's also funny that "Lord" Frollo's "birthmark" is more detailed than him.... dafuq?
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FOREVER, HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FOR A HUNDRED YEARS, A HUNDRED YEARS HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FOR ALL TIME, 10 SEASONS HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Their earlier Hunchback movie was actually pretty good.Told the story rather well and it didn't dumb down things for kids.Always respected it for that.
I thought it was a million times better than the ones Phelous reviewed so far. My only wishes were that it did not have Gringoire completely vanish from the narrative halfway through, Frollo was a bit more developed and three-dimensional, we got to see more of Quasimodo struggling with his unrequited desire, and the happy ending with Quasimodo/Esmeralda both surviving and Esmeralda getting together with Phoebus did not come completely out of nowhere. Phoebus pretty much acted like his book counterpart until then, even ignoring Esmeralda while she was about to be burned, but then barges in like the cops from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" to suddenly end the battle. I thought Disney made the necessary changes to its story to make that happy ending feel earned, by making Phoebus a composite of the book Phoebus and Gringoire, having Phoebus and Esmeralda go through a developing relationship to make them worthy of falling in love, and allowing a lot of the same tragedy/persecution/genocide/religious themes/heartbreak/sexual themes/evil to prominently take place in its story.
@@markcobuzzi826 the other prob was some bits like the chase to the court was to long but the important stuff like the stabbing the whipping and the trail were to rushed
I actually kind of liked the '86 version when I was a kid. It was shown on Nickelodeon at some point and I remember feeling really sad for Quasimodo when he was begging for water, and when everyone laughed at him for being deaf.
Finally a cartoon from my childhood. I remeber seeing this in Finnish when I was a kid. I loved the young priest because his Finnish dupper was famous Pauli Virta. His voice made him sound bit Aragon like and hot. Meh. I feel like my childhood has been hurt since the original voices are horrible. But I m glad you made this. And yes the doves and the priest were my fave charachters as a kid. And yes when I was a kid I tought Esmeralda was pretty. But I never understood Frollos's mark on his hand. I was like wtf why did he play with stamper ink? XD
2:20 Wow, Phelous! Way to step up the budget on your in-between segments. I didn't even recognize you in that wizard get-up. ...Wait, that wasn't one of your skits? ...This movie's gonna be a hell of a sit, isn't it?
Hi Phelous. I've been watching your videos for a couple years, but I've been going through a lot of emotional issues lately, and your videos are the perfect distraction from everything that feels like it's crushing me in real life. Thank you.
handsomebrick Funny thing about that. After LittleKuriboh and TFS started with their respective series, lots of people attempted to make their own Abridged Series... and well some died off and others hardly even got off the ground. Those guys just happened to stick with their projects while also being pretty decent.
From what I understand, Team Fourstar survived because Funimation supported them. For LittleKuriboh it was pretty much the exact opposite story, even though without him Yugioh wouldn't be nearly as relevant.
Are these adaptations (including the Disney one) afraid of insulting Catholics or something, and that's why they keep making Frollo something other than a member of the church? I can't think of any other reason to keep changing it.
KyosBallerina probably the case. Even to this day, religion is a sort of hands off situation for family entertainment. Unless of course its glorifying it the entire run time. Then of course, ironically, the worry of pissing people off goes out the window.
That's what I thought, which goes along with why there are often priest characters who are extra friendly and sympathetic, just to double up on "SEE? THE CHURCH ISN'T BAD!". Frankly, I think this would've been a slap in the face to Hugo at the time, who was not a fan of the church. He eventually warmed up to clergymen who were also good people (see various characters in _Les Miserables_), but he was still in favour of free thought and is quoted with saying "There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest". And, aside from issues with Hugo, the Catholic church REALLY does not need the extra metaphorical fellating if the way the mainstream media covers anything the Pope does, now matter how absolutely insignificant (and these days, it usually is insignificant) is any evidence.
He _is_, but the addition of the "nice priest" sort of softens the blow so that Christians could more readily assume "he's a bad Christian" rather than "taking religion super seriously and treating people poorly based on superstition is a bad thing".
He's a judge and a minister in the Disney verision. And of course they have the perfect-person Archbishop to balance it out, but Frollo's whole character and conflict is very heavily religion based. I mean, all you have to do is look at Hellfire.
disney did it so the film wouldnt garner controversy for attacking religion. the film was made around 20 years ago, so i imagine attitudes to criticism of christianity was very different to how it is now, where its very common.
Historical note: there were 3 ages of Burbank: the two you mentioned (pre '90's, and the '97 onward) , and the middle one from 1992 - 1997 which involved Australian startup Energee Entertainment as one of the first Apple-powered digital animation production facilities in Australia. That era began with FRANK ENSTEIN and ended with HANS AND THE SILVER SKATES (the latter animated in China and the last of the Energee Burbank's). Budgets were small, schedules were two weeks per show, staff went through major changes around EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES, lowest cel count show was COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (knife wounds rather graphic).
missed opportunity joke when Quasimodo is choking the guard: "What the hell are you doing?!" "The...Vulcan neck pinch?" "No no no, stupid, you've got it much too high!"
This was one of your funniest yet! Due mostly to the perfect freeze-frames on the characters' stupid expressions, and your voice work (the pigeons in particular). Also, the fact that the thug who attacks Quasi in the dungeon looks like Tor Johnson. (If you're a Phelous fan, I assume you're a fan of so-bad-it's-good movies in general and thus know who Tor Johnson is.)
Lizzy Chrome the voice acting was great, as well as that bell yt review. I actually hope the doves return, maybe get into a threeway fight with the useless blue birds and annoying bats.
Lizzy Chrome I honestly don't know how Phelous' RU-vid channel doesn't have more subcribers than it should... Other than the obvious reason. But seriously, Phelous has been keeping me entertained since blip crashed and burned... I like his reviews of bad horror movies, cheap animated films and both bootleg and obscure official merchandise!
Interesting how the 80s Burbank adaptation of Hunchback still looks like more effort & style was put into their take on the story, whereas here it's so obvious how rushed this was to get that sweet knockoff disney money
If this version is set around New years in Paris why isn't it winter? There's no snow. No one's even wearing a coat. That one gypsy had no shirt at all.
Why are there so many animated adaptations of this goddamn adult Victor Hugo novel!??! EDIT: Seriously! It's like finding out there are six different religious versions of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Or six different musical versions of Isaac Asimov's Foundation!
And let's not forget all the animated Anastasia movies, set during the Russian revolution. I wonder which adult novel or historical is next in line to get a bunch of poorly animated children's movies. It'd be pretty funny to see a cartoon adaptation of Wolf among Wolves with all characters re-imagined as actual anthropomorphic wolves! :)
Lady Marmalade SNL made a short animated sketch making fun of kids movies with inappropriate source material, and they joked about making a crossover between Anne Frank and the Titanic. Just to prove truth is stranger than fiction, there have actually been two animated Titanic movies for kids, and one of them even got a sequel!
How could anyone forget the rapping dog? XD And that animated Titanic movie managed to be less historically inaccurate than the other one, where a giant octopus saves everybody on board!
OMG I REMEMBER THAT FIRST HUNCHBACK MOVIE! I caught a brief glimpse of it in the early 1990s and wondered why a cartoon was so depressing! I hope you tear that one apart someday, Phelous! Also your Darkwing Duck shirt is glorious!! Your review was amazing and hilarious, you were on fire with the riffs! Wonderful job! Also, I'm sorry for the overuse of exclamation points.
The Bats in the belfry joke again? Burbank must have been like hey we're stealing one of your stupid jokes and using as even less point than you golden films!
17:20 Judging by the recommendations, you made videos back in 1600? Considering the fact that you die in so many videos and are still around today, that makes sense.
Great video! Having recently seen the Disney version, I find it very entertaining to watch all these cash-in attempts afterwards. It makes me appreciate the Disney one even more.
bill sykes I actually liked magical adventures of quasimodo..Atleast he stayed deformed and he has character development while f*** mondo did magic bs turning quasimodo handsome and making frollo a good guy! WTF.
Peace in a story written by Victor Hugo, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhhahahahahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahhahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahahahahajhahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahsjjajsjahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahhhahahahajhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahhaaa.... ha!
The voice work is so poorly done in this version that I have legitimate trouble telling what's a real line and what's one of your parody dub lines. That's impressive. Also, La Petition is actually correct, granted there should be an accent over the e.
No, he's correct pétition is a feminine word, now why we give genders to genderless words is something I'll never fully understand, aka la langue de Molière.
Phelous wasn't making fun of "La Petition" for it being incorrect grammar, but because no one has a petition just called "The Petition". It'd be like "Petition to Release Esmerelda" or something. It's a dumb generic placeholder name that the animators put on it.
Filmation years ago made an unofficial sequel to Disney's Snow White called Happily Ever After. Disney actually sued over it. I think that would be interesting to look at.
I think I watched this version in school once. I distinctly remember a scene with Quasimodo ringing the bells out of despair for Esmeralda's fate. Though I seem to remember him crying, rather than just shouting "NO!"
