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Rating:  - Who put the glad in gladiator?
i love greek mythology , and I don't care how "inaccurate" the story line is!! Its a kids movie!!! Everyone seems to go haywire if anything is inaccurate, please save it for the people who are snobs like you. This movie has an awesome score and is hilarious. I think it's a great adaption of the Hercules Legend, why are you even reading this?!!? go see it!! make your own opinion!! "Whose daring deeds are great theater?"
Rating: - Witty Disney
An unusually clever and satisfying movie, suitable for both children and literate adults. The plot is a Disney template: Hercules must discover his identity, learn the true nature of heroism, do his parents proud, and win the girl, all of which he achieves by an act of self sacrifice.
A run of the mill coming of age story, then, but several things make the film more than a boring rip-off of ancient themes. First, the drawing has an elegantly fresh look to it, with many witty visual references to Greek vase paintings, sculpture, architectural lines and so forth. There are also quite a few quips and puns for grownups (Thebes is the Big Olive, for example, its residents speaking in New York accents) including plenty of cute jokes about the classics. Pedants can enjoy cataloguing the allusions and "mistakes".
The music is pleasant, a lot of it sung by an updated "chorus" of gospel singers. Finally, the characters are vividly sketched, with Hades really stealing the show. Some of the animated figures amusingly caricature their real life voice actors. (See The Making Of supplement.) The rich background of the myths gives the story more depth and darkness than it would otherwise have.
Bottom line: appeals to a different audience than some Disney favorites, but a very smart production with many original aspects. Too much neglected.
Rating:  - Funny
I really enjoyed this movie and so did my pre-teens and toddlers. The toddlers are watching it right now. It's funny and bright. You have to watch it at least twice to catch all the funny stuff.
Rating: - A Walt Disney Masterpiece HERCULES
Disney's 35th animated flick which isn't the best but its but it's pretty good.@ x's funny & it can be boring but it has a great score with great songs.I think Alan Menken is one of the best composers ever.Buy this Limited Issue!
Rating:  - good but not great
It is not easy to actually come to a conclusion about this movie. It does lack the enchantment that it could have had, given the material it was dealing with.
But the first movie in the Disney series to substitute enchantment for cheap humor, peppering in jokes and modern references, was The Sword In The Stone (1963).
The complaints about Hercules are similar to what can be said about The Sword The Stone.
This was not Disney's best offering, but the kids do love it, and they do laugh a lot wile watching it.
The music is good, if not quite like classics such as The Lion King, Prince of Egypt and Anastasia.
The scenes of the battle against the hydra and the Titans, and the singing gospel girls on the vases, where superb. Hercules (Tate Donovan) and Megara (Susan Egan) and Philoctetes (Danny De Vito) where not bad. Zeus, Hera and Hades where portrayed badly. Though that is not the fault of those who read their parts, Rip Torn, Samantha Eggar and James Woods respectively but rather the script and animation.
And I did like the way those three witches with the one eye between them (Hades' minions) where done.
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