The document compares the animated films Hunchback of Notre Dame and its sequel Hunchback of Notre Dame II. While both are set in the same location of Notre Dame, the sequel features weaker characters, storylines, animation quality, and soundtrack compared to the original beloved film. Specifically, the main character Quasimodo is less fearful and conflicted, the villains are less powerful, the animation lacks detail, and the soundtrack fails to use music to enhance emotions as effectively as the first movie. Overall, the analysis concludes that sequels do not always live up to the original work and it's best to leave a good movie as is rather than risk a subpar follow up.

1. COMPARISON ESSAY
Hunchback of Notre Dame is an epic-animated Disney film which was produced
during the Disney Renaissance or specifically dated, 1996. The sequel was later
produced in 2002 as Hunchback of Notre Dame II with all the cast in the first movie
brought back, except for the villain who had died in the first movie, and a few extra
characters. Though both film are in the same settings and are related to one another,
there are some amount of changes from the movie such as the characters,
animation and also the soundtrack. Both film have received different reception from
reviews and audiences.
Despite how the story are in the same settings, the personality of the characters
have changed. In the first movie, Quasimodo, the main character, was a curious man
who seeks to know what the outside world is like. He was also a naïve, young man
who would only obey his master, Judge Frollo and fears him. In the movie, he also
shown to be rejected by the people of Paris and he himself fears the citizen of Paris.
However, in the sequel, Quasimodo was no longer curious about Paris as he have
walked Paris in day and night without the fear of being laugh at by the people. He
also no longer needed to obey anyone now that his master was gone. The citizen of
Paris accepted Quasimodo and liked him after he helped the citizen to overthrow the
cruel minister of Justice. Due to how Quasimodo was more accepted and less fear to
the outside world. There are less conflict in the sequel, making it’s story very much
weaker than the original story. The villains are also weak in the sequel in terms of
power and also the personality. The villain of the first movie, Judge Claude Frollowas

2. a minister of Justice and could easily burn down Paris for the sake of one gypsy
whom he loved. The citizen of Paris fear his power and the gypsies would tremble
just to hear his name. However, Sarousch was simply an evil-magician who plan to
steal a gigantic bell, Le Fidele. He was easily intimidated by Phoebus, a city guard,
and would put the blame on his one and only servant. To make Judge Claude Frollo
laugh, no one fears Sarousch except his servant. The difference in strength of
characters creates a difference in the quality of storyline of the movie.
The animation of the series degraded on ridiculous levels. The first movie is detailed
not only the movement of each characters but also the detail of the statues, bells,
etc. The texture of the background was painted and is beautifully presented. The
theme of series differs accordingly to their script. For example the festival scene
where everyone gather around and compare who was the ugliest of all. You can feel
the how cheerful with bits of confetti constantly falling from everywhere and the
crowd dancing. Hunchback of Notre Dame II, however, are lack of details in nearly
everything. Everything looks simplistic and slightly better than any cartoon seen on
television. The drawings or animation do not create any feeling or power to make the
audience understand what the character feels such as the scene where characters
singing “Le Jour D’Amour” which is another festival for lovers. No one was there
except for the few people who would dance with the song as if those people were
hired to dance at the outside of Notre Dame and then go back home instead of an
actual festival. There are also nothing else such as confetti or pennant flags
(although the first part of the scene shows Quasimodo hanging it in the street but I
suppose it’s not enough to tie around Notre Dame)

3. What is Hunchback of Notre Dame if not the soundtrack of the film? The soundtrack
of both movie are scripted so that story and the feelings of the character are
expressed in a musical manner. However, Hunchback of Notre Dame did it right
while the sequel did it worse. In the first movie, the good voice acting in every
characters are mixed with an orchestra and choir performed behind creating an epic
mixture. This mixture enhance the feelings the character were expressing in the
movie. One of the famous example is “Hellfire” sang by Judge Claude Frollo
expressing his love about a gypsy yet feels guilty and sinned for loving her because
of his prejudice against gypsies. The scream of Frollo shows his frustration for his
love towards her while the choir screams his inner thought, showing his real feelings
screaming “Mea Culpa!!” The movie uses this mixture a lot as the film continues till
the end to create the most epic soundtrack. Unfortunately, the composer changed for
the Hunchback of Notre Dame II and so did the entire feel for the soundtrack. What’s
left is the good voice actor from the first movie but the mixture changed entirely. The
choir are taken away and the orchestra performance were simplified to an obvious
way. So the entire soundtrack have absolute no depth and whatever that is heard will
be just that, no further analysis.
To conclude the comparison, I certainly hope there will be either improvement or
cancellation of the series. It’s better to let a good movie end with what it is than to
forcefully continue and making a mess out of it. My advice applies not only to
Hunchback of Notre Dame but also to any other movie sequels.