The movie begins with a little backstory sung by the Greek Muses who in this movie are a gospel chorus and easily one of the best elements of the movie, they sing of how Zeus ( Rip Torn) defeated the Titans and trapped them in a prison beneath the ocean. Now when I went to see Disney’s Hercules I didn’t expect it to include such elements as our hero murdering his own family but they barely used anything from the mythology other than his name (which they even used the Roman pronunciation) and that he is the son of Zeus and a really strong guy. Disney films heavily mined fairy tales throughout the history of the studio but it wasn’t until the late nineties that they tackled Greek mythology for a feature film – that one segment of Fantasia notwithstanding – and with some fantastic art design by Gerald Scarfe and great songs by Alan Menken and David Zippel we are treated to a fun bubbly and completely bastardized version of the Hercules story.
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