Good, but not great

Rating: 8/10 (23 February 2002)

Hercules is Disney's approach on this ancient Greek tale. If you want accuracy, you better look elsewhere. Just like a "based on a true story" movie they've made quite some changes. Are they bad? No. The movie's very enjoyable. In fact, the best Hercules movie I've seen this far.
Singing? Yes, some few songs are in there. Now, don't roll with your eyes! They're really good and are used to tell the story in a clever way, not to add some meaningless minutes. Whoever had the idea to make gospel singers out of the muses... well done. That's just brilliant.
Disney has done nothing wrong with this movie, still.. something is just not working. I don't know what it is. But it's just a good movie, not great. If you like animated features and haven't seen it yet, go and see it. You won't regret. Just, don't see it with young kids.... they might get nightmares, because the movie has a kinda dark theme. Ugly monsters, violence and Hades looks just horrifying.
My rating: 7.5 out of ten.