I love this movie. I’m Christian, and it doesn’t offend me in the least. I actually love how it attacks religious arrogance. Frollo is the greatest Disney villain ever in my eyes.
Has anyone here read the book?
I do not think I would like the book. I do intend on reading it, though.
I asked it for Christmas. I hope it’s good.
Let me know how it is?
I will.
Good. 
I’m hoping it’s good. I know their are some diffrences.
Well, I’m certain it is “good”. It’s an all time classic!! But it would be very easy for me to dislike given…the story… 
Do you know the original story?
I remember reading the original novel. The ending was alot darker in the book then it was in the film.
The book is very powerful., but of course it has very different themes than the film. It’s a completely different experience.
I cann se why. It’s meant for adults.
It was my second favorite Disney film after Tangled until someone on this forum spoiled it by giving a quote about torture from it…now I can never watch it again.
The movie is very adult too. Though the book also has themes of the Gutenberg printing press (that is, new technologhy) killing architecture (that is, old technology). And there’s the “Medicine is folly” belief of Frollo and Quasimodo dying…though the worse part was when someone took out Quasi’s one eye and made him blind as well as deaf. He was deaf to begin with, supposedly twenty years of ringing bells at close range had a negative impact on his eardrums…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is good. The first time I watched it, it freaked me out for some reason, but after another viewing I started liking it. And it has a wonderful score!
Anyone have the movie on DVD or VHS?
I used to, but it was one of the VHS that was stolen from us when some thieves robbed my house.
Whoa, that sucks, Who would steal a Disney movie? I don’t have either.
Yes, I’m very familiar with it. That’s why I’m so afraid to read the book. 
I’ve read a bit of the original novel, but not all of it.
Unless I’m very mistaken someone in germany ALSO did a stage version of Hunchback based on the DISNEY adaptation… (Yup a stage adaptation based on the Disney adaptation rather than the book). It was in German.
Anyway they did have the talking gargoyles but they were more disturbing as a concept than the (terrible) comic relief gargoyles of the Disney movie (the ONE thing perhaps preventing this movie achieving near perfection really- okay so exits without getting the heroes hands dirty are sometimes cheap too and Disney does it a lot, but it was supposed to be symbolic/ironic so I give it a pass- it’s likes Claytons death in that sense- and ‘deeper’ than say when Gaston fell for instance). Viktor was okay and a father like figure to Quasi… but well the OTHER gargoyle on the stage show was female. And very disturbing. In the penultimate scene it had Frollo begging for his life as Quasimodo held him on the roof top. Frollo more or less said [spoil]“You don’t want to do this!” and the female gargoyle whispered in Quasi’s ear “Yes you do.”[/spoil]
Also she had a bizzare, disturbing relationship with Quasimodo too (think Oedipal in a sense)- but I think in general that German version REALLY played up the idea that they were indeed hallucinations, making for a much darker story- not quite as dark as the original but much darker than Disney’s (which, despite their own terrible/inferior gargoyles was pretty dark, especially for Disney).