This is really one of my main concerns about the uneven tone. As much as I love Hunchback, it's hampered by that huge flaw. The problem isn't just the unevenness, but also that the comedy and controversial drama comes at expense at each other. And the scene with Frollo and Esmeralda in the Cathedral is the prime example of that. Having a cute, little comedy scene just before Frollo grabs Esmeralda and expresses his lust for her (and not only that, but he does it in a church, of all places). A user ranted about this issue on a website, that "putting a cute, little goat in the movie didn't made it family friendly". But hey, neither does the controversial stuff (and he/she's clearly oblivious about Djali being an actual creation from the novel itself).thedisneyspirit wrote:Hunchback: Loose the uneven tone- either make it closer to the book and allow all the misery and drama of it, or turn into something more watered down for the kiddies allowing the comedy. The film's too uneven for me, one minute we have cute burping goats and the next there's an old guy harassing a woman. The film just comes off odd in its execution and it doesn't seem to know what it wants to be: or another feel good funny Disney film or something new and dark more akin to the book.
For all how people rant about the unevenness, people seem to praise the darkness more than the comedy. Though I can see that. Most of the comedy is juvenile slapstick (but people rarely rants about how that's, in my opinion, one of the weaknesses of Beauty and the Beast, which was made by the same directing team). But fortunately there are some segments where the darkness is just pure darkness (as in Bells of Notre Dame, Hellfire, the burning of the miller's house) and vise versa. However, there are some times were even the darkness is going too far in this movie and people rarely rants about that.
Agreed about the former. But I've ranted about it a million times, already. But I disagree that Kristoff should've been downplayed. Kristoff just served as the archetype of the silent eremite, but wasn't particularly well-developed when he clearly should've been so.Frozen: Keep the focus on Elsa and her relationship with Anna (sooo downplay Anna's story:..). Hans as a bad guy works with the message but i feel we should've needed more scenes of him interacting with others. Cut down the trolls though and downplay Kristoff, I feel the message of not marrying the first guy you meet goes out the window the moment him and Anna kiss. It would've been better had they stayed friends.
