One of the best, but underrated.

Rating: 8/10 (30 August 2012)

I just had to sign in to write up a review. And after a year or so, I had to come back and edit it after another thought.
Overall: I find it great! It's a fun watch and you shouldn't toss too many thoughts into it or it'll make everything go sour. This is the same for a lot of shows and movies. And that's the same for The Walking Dead, which I analyzed in details and found lots of parts that didn't make a whole lot of sense either. So details are not important.
Originality/Creativity: It's a pretty neat and original story as compared to others of the time (1997). It gave a total twist to the female roles in typical Disney movies. The humour of Meg and Hades was really different too.
Artwork: I really don't know. When I was a kid, I found it gorgeous with those random swirlies. Looking at it now, it's a little weird but I don't dislike it. The artwork is very fantasy-like, which really works for this.
Music: I really love the Muses and the insert singing of Hercules and Meg. The lyrics also really suit the movie instead of taking insert songs, where the lyrics doesn't really "fit in". Of course there are also really good music/songs by other Disney movies too. They got really awesome music most the time, like Little Mermaid.
Parts that doesn't make a lot of sense: I think there are a few around but I just want to point out like three. At the beginning Zeus says that Hercules got his strength. So Zeus should be pretty should too. But when the Titans fought with Zeus, he acted like he has no strength and only got thunderbolts. So he threw thunderbolts one at a time and did nothing to the mountain/rock titan. As a result, Zeus lost his part of the fight. When Hercules came, he basically flew around in circles to annoy Hades and then release Zeus. And this time, by throwing two-three thunderbolts at the same time, it blasted the mountain/rock titan's head off and scared them off. The tornado titan also did nothing during the whole fight other than helping Hercules kill the other titans. In conclusion, to make this whole scenario make any sense, Hercules' role in this whole battle is only for morale purposes and using the tornado titan to kill the rest is just extra to fulfill the part where he wins the battle. When Hercules lost his strength, apparently he still kept his God-like durability. He was flung half way across the city within a second and smacked into a concrete wall. I don't know about you, but I'll be pretty dead. But let's just say that he did retain his God-like durability. Then Meg's sacrifice was for nothing other than getting Hercules' strength back since Hercules wouldn't even felt that pillar dropping on him. And isn't the deal that Meg will be safe from any harm? So even self inflicted harm like stabbing her own leg would be just fine. For some reason, both Hades, Meg, and Hercules thought it had to be lethal. Third point, when Hercules saves Meg by jumping into the river of death, we can clearly see that the 'river' part is fairly far down from the ledge, where Hercules jumped off from. But for some reason, he was able to reach all the way to almost touch Meg, when he first arrived. Okay, let's just say that was an illusion created by the angles. But when he stuck his hands into the river, it virtually instantly 'dried up'. However, for some reason, he was able to maintain his body's health and fluid while swimming towards Meg. Somehow, he prolonged his death.
Educational Purposes/Authenticity to Source: I basically threw a random low score that makes me "feel" right. Hera isn't Hercules' mother. The "step-mother" was the real mother, at least according to Wikipedia. Hercules isn't a God, just a demi-god, which he stayed true to (in the end, sort of). Hercules had all those adventures, or "trials", which is "sort of" what Hercules in this movie did to become the "true hero". Basically, some facts are somewhat right but not for the right reasons. So it's pretty bad.
Cautious Note for "Reviewers": It's really bad to put false information in a kid's movie. It's giving kids false info. But at the same time, it's a kid's movie. It's suppose to be childish, silly, not real and fantasy-like. This should be an element put aside. And to top it off, reviewing a kid's movie should be done with a kid's perspective in mind.