Years later, Herc ( Tate Donovan) discovers his heritage and sets out to be a hero worthy of the gods.
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The film’s very loose version of the Greek myth sees baby Hercules turned mortal and adrift by the machinations of the evil Hades ( James Woods), who’s plotting to free the Titans and conquer Olympus (Hercules’ mythological origins, in which he was fathered by Zeus with a human, were changed presumably due to Disney’s aversion to gods shagging around). And we’ve always thought that was somewhat unfair: John Musker and Ron Clements’ follow-up to megahit “Aladdin” doesn’t quite hit the heights of its predecessor, but it’s a pretty successful attempt at tweaking a similar formula and somehow keeping it fresh. “Hercules” was the lowest-grossing of the 1990s second Golden Age of Disney Animation -it was crushed at the box office in a competitive summer by “ Men In Black” and some middling reviews. This is just to celebrate what we believe are, without regard to nostalgia, the best examples of Disney’s signature genre and to justify the buckets of joy-tears shed during the research for this feature. But please believe we’re not aiming to “destroy” any “childhoods” here. We know there’s little that raises controversy among cine-literate adults more than a listing of kids/family films (here’s our Miyazaki feature and our Pixar feature for comparison), and there are certainly some inclusions and exclusions that are likely to raise hackles. So to mark the release of “The Jungle Book” and to remind you just how great the originals of so many of these soon-to-be-remade stories are, here’s our own ranking of the top 20 Disney animations of all time. READ MORE: What D23 Says About The State Of Disney Feature Animationīut if we are a little wary of this live-action, CG-infused future, it’s only because we have so much love for so many of the 2D, often hand-drawn animations that Disney are now revisiting. But if the new versions can be as good as or (hopefully) even better than Favreau and Branagh’s renditions (and Disney’s trend toward hiring respected independent directors as writers is certainly an interesting unforeseen twist), perhaps we’ll be forced to eat our words.
You can either see it as a symptom of increasing creative bankruptcy or… well, it’s not entirely clear what else there is to see it as.
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