Watching THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME For The FIRST Time! (Movie Reaction and Movie Commentary) 

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"So he's the Karen of this universe" I'm DYING I have never heard a more accurate read on Frollo

Hellfire is one of the best Disney villain songs ever. It also goes well with his death, falling from the church holding onto a 'demon' and into literal fire. Poetic.

I wouldn't say Frollo "fell for" her. that implies some level of affection or a crush. He lusted for her and became obsessed. Lust is a sin, he was strongly religious so he blamed the sin within him on her. The only way that sin would be purified and him forgiven would be if she became his truly or if he eradicated the "witch" causing him to sin. His motivation was literally him trying to appease God. It's why he's one of the worst disney villains in my book. People like him have and still do, exist.

i am actually pretty happy that quasimodo and esmeralda didn't end up together. quasi is quite literally the nice guy, in its actual literal meaning. he loves esmeralda and does everything for her, but instead of resenting her for not returning his feelings and feeling entitled to her love, he accepts that she loves phoebus and is clearly happy for them at the end, which was probably made easier because he actually befriends phoebus who is literally a knight in shining armor. quasi accepting esmeralda's "rejection" (he never actually made his romantic love for her known to her so she didn't even outright reject him) provides a model, especially for young boys, on how to go deal with romantic rejection in a healthy way. since quasi clearly loves esmeralda, he's able to be happy for her happiness instead of letting his jealousy consume him and make him bitter and spiteful, which is an all too common trope in media. also, side note, i love that you acknowledge phoebus as the truly great guy that he is. all that he does for the entire movie is just helping people out left and right. his and quasi's friendship is very cute too, i can see them going off on all sorts of adventures together and generally being best buds

The disney movie came first is loosely based on the book (by Victor Hugo, the guy who wrote Les Miserables) with some elements changed because it's still a movie for kids. The stage musical is more accurately based on the book, BUT it has music from the disney movie with some additional songs and lyric changes. Yes, that is Patrick's voice actor.

I think it’s important to highlight that Frollo felt no positive emotion towards Esmeralda. He fetishized & lusted after her & hated himself more for feeling sexually attracted to someone he truly sees as subhuman. There are so many sociological aspects to this film that are relevant no matter what century you’re in & this is certainly one of them. Enjoyed your reaction!

There's an interesting psychological element to this film. Quasi, idealises Esmeralda, and Frollo sees her as a temptation, or desire to have, neither really see's her complete personality, but Phobus does. In fact he even gives Quasi the same respect, seeing him as a person, not something to be pitied or revolted by.

"She can't die it's a Disney movie." Meanwhile in the musical Disney made...

"She can't die, it's a Disney movie. " *cough Mufasa cough*

"Frollo is the Javert of this story." I mean, "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" were both written by Victor Hugo, so . ..

"What did the bread do to you?" Frollo wont accept that *gypsy bread*

Frollo is literally the disney villain incarnation of gaslighting.

HellFire was such an amazing villian song that they hadn't made another one until years later with Princess and the frog.

Why did I not know that you’re a musical theater actor?!

*Esmeralda's Outcast song is underappreciated!!!*

"AND I'M JAVERT! Do not forget my name! Do not forget me, 24601" You forgot 🙃

I think you're the only reactor on here to actually liked the Gargoyles.

I always loved this movie as a kid I even had an Esmeralda bedspread with matching pillows

This is probably my favorite Disney musical ever. Also yes, that is the same actor that plays Patrick in SpongeBob

"They're sheep, not popcorn." Why did that make me laugh more than anything else?

Great reaction, honestly I've never seen someone throw that much shade on Frollo, it's absolutely hilarious 🤣.

Can we please get the full clip of you singing along to ‘out there’

I remember that I used to love Quasi when I was a kid and when they were mean to him I cried so much :( Still love him

I love the darker Disney movies! And this movie had one of the best soundtracks!

If you look extremely close when Quasimodo pours the lava, you can see the details of it going through the water drains and out of the gargoyles mouths. I have watched this movie way too much and I love it!

My dad took me to see this in the theater when it came out. It was spectacular on the big screen. Easily one of my favorites. I'm so glad you watched it.

The question is; was Louis I (the King) just chilling at his palace, sipping on some wine while Paris was literally going through a witchhunt?

7:56 I just did a Google search and it actually is the same voice actor as Patrick. Good call lol

Why does nobody talk about that line from the gargoyles? “After all, we’re only made of stone.” “We just thought you were made of something stronger.” GOLDEN! BEST LINE IN THE MOVIE!

Ohhhh poor Notre Dame. I’m so glad I got to see it before the fire. I love this movie. God Help The Outcasts is one of my favourite songs.

The coolest thing is the gobin/demon statue that smiled at frollo when his death was happening.

To this day the scene where he climbs up with Esmeralda and yells Sanctuary gives me chills

If you think HOND is an unDisney type of movie, watch "The Emperor's New Groove". It's like nothing Disney has ever done before (BOOM BABY!)

My fav Disney movie. JUST IN TIME FOR LUNCH

"Were You once an outcast, too?" -Esmerelda asking God I think the better question is when wasn't He? -Evan PREACH, MY MAN!!!! - Me

I just looked it up, and YES! It's him!!!! Patrick star is the guard!!!!

YEEEEES! I was waiting for this moment... one of the most dark, realistic, tragic, sad and beautiful disney movies, everyone should know this MASTERPIECE, or at least hear the amazing soundtrack.

I saw this in theaters the weekend it originally opened, and seeing the animation on the big screen was incredible, especially the opening, Out There, and and burning is Paris at the end. And the music is incredible. This is my favorite Disney movie

Protip to everyone who watches the movie in general, be reminded that "g*psy" is a slur, Romani is the term you should be using.

I feel like you would love the movie Labyrinth with David Bowie. Musical numbers to die for from a rock legend. It's one of my favorites and a lot of people don't know about it. ❤️

i agree this movie is great with great messages and interesting character development from the characters and the story. great review.

So glad you finally watched this one! Such a fantastic soundtrack and an underrated movie. You mentioned listening to the musical cast recording, but there is also a French musical called 'Notre Dame de Paris' which follows the original novel much more closely than the Disney movie/musical. It has some beautiful songs and the staging is pretty interesting.

You would recognize The voice of Quasimodo as the actor who played Mozart in the Best Picture winner, 'Amadeus' for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor

"Out There" is one of my favorite Disney songs. It pops into my head once in a while at random. lol

In the original book, Ezmeralda was afraid of Quasimodo cause the way he looked but he loved her. Frollo managed to kill her and years later when someone dug up her grave, the person saw another skeletton holding Ezmeralda and it was Quasimodo. When she died, he could not live without her, so he crawl himself into her grave and hugged her until he died. I was around 13-14 years old when i read the book at school and 15 years later i still remember it. Its very dark compare to Disney version :) Also that guard has the same voice actor as Patrik, so yes it is indeed Patrik Star.

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The music in this man... as you obviously know... is top tier. God it's good. Watching Frollo self-destruct as his lust and what it means that he has lust, tear apart his professed righteousness and beliefs... and he knows it. The Hell Fire song is just a masterpiece. Insane animation. This was a solid out of the park hit for Disney.

17:25 My favorite part out of the WHOLE movie!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Actually, in the novel Frollo named the baby Quasimodo because he found him on Quasimodo's Day, a religious day that I've only known from the novel. But yeah, it's sounds like half-formed and fits movie Frollo's character ^^ .

Frollo and Mother Gothel would’ve gotten along so much. I AM NOT JOKING

grew up watching this movie and love the bells

The movie came first. The stage production came second.

Hi, I know you probably didn’t intend to come off as offensive but the G word is in fact a slur! The best way to refer to this group of people is romani, at least that’s what most of them prefer. I know in America this slur isn’t really known so often americans don’t even know when watching this movie, and they are throwing it around a lot in the movie too, but still, just a heads up.

This Movie came before the muscal, which also explains why that has a few more songs in it, but the musical also draws more closely from the original Novel by Victor Hugo, hence it's even darker tone

Missed opportunity to thrown in the line: Guard: You think he's ugly now? (Throws tomato at Quasi...) Now that's ugly! TELL ME YOU COULDN'T HEAR PATRICK SAY THAT!

This is so crazy I just rewatched this movie myself yesterday and come to find out this video was posted yesterday too!

This is one of my favorite Disney movies, but it's *really* important to point out that "gypsy" is a slur for the Romani people, and the creators was not aware of this fact when they made this film.

Thank you so much for reacting to this, it belongs to my top 3 Disney movies and it also has my favorite Disney-soundtrack too. I love "God Help The Outcasts" and all the other songs in this movie ("A Guy Like You" being my least favorite) but I also would've wanted to see "Someday" and "Made of Stone" in the actual movie as well. But I understand they might have been a little too dark for the "family movie" (even though this is one of the most darkest Disney-movies altogether). I'm kinda glad that Quasimodo didn't end up with Esmeralda in the end. Someone on YT has commented it this way: Quasimodo saw her as an angel and Frollo saw her as a devil. Phoebus was the only one who saw her as who she truly was. I agree with it. Esmeralda and Phoebus are one of my favorite Disney-couples and I'm glad all of them became friends in the end. Like you said, Quasimodo found love within himself and by the fact that without Frollo's influence, people finally accepted him. I love how the child from the beginning of the movie is the one who takes the first step, because it reminds us how genuinely and in a good way curious and openhearted children can be compared to some of the adults.

I remember there was an old animated HoND where instead of tomatoes being throw at Quasi. They held him down and were whipping him instead. I balled my eyes out. I don’t remember the movie but it was heartbreaking.

Judge Frollo He's My Favorite Disney Villain Ever ❤🖤💜🔥

"She can't die, this is a Disney movie!" That Disney movie earlier: *talks about the murder of a mother, genocide, lust and eternal damnation*

6:20 The story of Frollo and Quasimodo is far more tragic in the novel. In the book, Frollo is the archdeacon, not the judge, and names Quasimodo out of genuine love and care, having found him abandoned at the steps of the cathedral. Quasimodo is an actual ecclesiastical name. It was common for people to be baptized according to the day they were born, and Frollo found the baby on Quasimodo Sunday (the following one to Easter Sunday), a festivity dedicated to all non-baptized babies. This is because, according to medieval Catholic Church's teachings, non-baptized babies are just "half formed" as they are not part of the Church.

To this day I struggle to watch the scene where they tie him down and start throwing things at him. I never understood why they were treating him like that just because he looks different.

Javier literally said , and I quote, “DO NOT FORGET MY NAME…”🤣

If you speak italian or french you could also watch the european musical "Notre Dame de Paris" here on youtube, it's absolutely incredible, so powerful! Also, the story is faithful to the book and the music is original too

“What a woman” MY FAVORITE QUOTE IN DISNEY HISTORY!

You should also watch The Triplets of Belleville, whenever you get the chance. Quite a spectacle. :)

This is my favourite Disney Movie. I still remember thos bells when the movie started, this amazing opening, i was 12 love it till this day.

this was one of my favorite disney movies growing up! (yes i was a dramatic little child) and i was so excited when they came out with the musical a few years ago. the musical is a bit darker and closer to the novel although both are far less messed up than the novel.

Movie secret; in this Disney version the real villain is Clopin who is a shape shifting demon and is also the Archdeacon. He manipulates everyone.

Why do I always get the notification like 3 minutes later Anyway love this movie and ur videos real excited

This film came first, then the stage musical added songs and changed some lyrics. And made the ending and backstory more accurate to the novel aka DEPRESSING lol

Lol I was the exact same when I heard that note coming at the end of the first song :') I was like he's not about to hit that... And then I went nuts, it was great :'))

You finally watched it. Good job 👍

Love this film, the songs are great, especially Hellfire, amazing song.

Loved your reaction! Also side note is that Miku from quintessential quintuplets in your background?

You scored a like just by calling Frollo a "turd muffin"🤣🤣🤣

I think it was The Musical first. 7:12 Man, I can’t Sing. 7:34 Patrick Star. 7:46 Phoebus is voiced By Kevin Kline, who voiced Tulio in dreamworks “Road to El dorado”.

To be fair after i read the book,i rewatched the animation and had some flashback of the book😅 I wasnt ready at all for the book.😅

The stage musical was based off of this film, though the musical follows the book more closely (Made of Stone, the tragic ending). Also, probably the reason Frollo reminds you of Javert is that Les Miserables and Hunchback were both written by Victor Hugo.

Ok now I NEED to see the musical!! I've seen clips and heard one song from it. Quasi is my child and I love him. One of my fav oldies.😱🥰

5:30 that's my favourite rendition of the stage play, their version of "Out There" is my all time favourite!

Paul Kandel the person who does the voice of clopin (the main male gypsy) has an awesome vocal range

THANK YOU FOR COMMENTING ON CLOPIN HITTING THAT NOTE IN BELLS OF NOTRE DAME

I played Javert when I graduated from high school. Was a challenge to learn how to do it but I was trained by a opera teacher

I’m so glad Quasimodo doesn’t end up with Esmeralda. The whole point is that even though she’s not attracted to him he still legitimately cares about her as a person, as a friend. The opposite of Frollo.

Hellfire is the contrasting aria of this story ! My beloved hell aria ! I love Tony J . as Frollo !

Well, this went nothing like the book. In the original story Esmeralda does take pity on Quasimodo but she also makes it VERY clear she does not like him, it's just that she has this pathological thing with helping others which actually lands her in a loveless marriage with a man named Gringoire whom she only married so the Court of Miracles wouldn't kill him for trespassing, she very quickly decides to cheat on him with Phoebus, who himself is engaged to a woman called Fleur-De-Lys, when Frollo pushes himself on her and she rejects him he stabs Phoebus and frames her, Phoebus immediately turns against her and she is captured and hanged, during her execution Frollo makes an off-hand comment about her and Quasimodo kills him in a rage, then dies of starvation while holding onto her corpse which was thrown under a bridge near the whorehouse while Phoebus marries Fleur. It is also discovered that Esmeralda was not born a gypsy but rather she was taken from a catholic woman as payback for Frollo taking Quasimodo, and she reconnects with her mother right before her execution.

I really like how you kept comparing frollo to another Victor Hugo character 🙂

The novel was written by Victor Hugo in 1831, Animated film came out in 1996, In 1999 it went to the stage in Germany under the title "Der Glöckner von Notre Dame", and in 2014 it came to the US stage in English. I do believe though it will never make it to Broadway due to the cast size, all the main characters, as well as singers and dancers (which are typical) however the show also calls for a full choir as well which would make the cast size too large to make any profit, Menken refused to compromise the integrity of the show and cut the additional full choir so it won't go to Broadway. Also, the stage version stays more accurate to the end of the novel.

There actually was an opera that adapted Hunchback back in 1836 called La Esmeralda. It was composed by Louise Bertin and the Libretto was written by Victor Hugo himself. The premiere was a colossal failure though. There have also been multiple film adaptations before Disney's. A silent film in the 20s, a sound film in the 30s, and a french film in 50s. The latter being known to be the most faithful.

Esmeralda is still my #1 most beautiful Disney female lead. Is she an official Disney princess?

7:09 Can we talk about Evan's voice? He didn't showcase it as freely as I believe he should've, but he's good!

First thing to know about frollo he doesn't love Esmeralda he lusts after her this show taught me the difference better than the definition it's self

R.I.P. Tony Jay (1933-2006) Voice of Judge Frollo from Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame an amazing and chilling performance singing Hellfire Judge Frollo He's Evil One of the best and most Darkest Disney Villains ever Judge Frollo He's really special and Tony Jay's voice was a part of it.❤🖤💜🔥😭😭😢😭😭😢😢😭😭😢😢😭😭😢😢😢😭😭😭

This movie was my entire childhood and is the reason I love theater and am who I am

QUAZI HAS THE VOICE OF AN ANGEL !! 😇

i love The Hunchback of Notre Dame i have seen it with my friend joss he likes it

8:57 that scene literally makes me cry even if i'm not watching