Watered Down Hercules

Rating: 7/10 (29 December 2016)

I was a little disappointed that Disney studios didn't look a little more closely at the Greek myth of Hercules. I know it's for kids, but there was so much that could have been added to the legend. He had the 12 labors, you know. Instead, it gets down to having a battle with Hades. Once again we have a terrifying villain (most are interchangeable) who actually serves a real purpose in the underworld. The confrontations are well done. As usual, the animation is spot on, but the sophistication of the story just isn't there. It ends up big lunk versus bad guy. We've seen it all a hundred times. Actually just about every movie, including those Sword and Sandal things in the sixties have the same basic plot. They used to give jobs to big time weight lifters.