All 56 Walt Disney Animated Classics: Ranked From Worst To Best

14. The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame (1996)

Despite its billing as a children's film, The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame may well be one of Disney's most sophisticated films: it deals with the particularly pertinent, particularly adult theme of tolerance and integration; it is stunningly dark at times and it isn't wrapped up with a conventional happy ending.

The animation is gorgeous, the characters richly written and disarmingly human and the story as iconic and unforgettable as you would expect. There are issues with balance, but there is much to love in the stunning animation, the soaring score and the complexity of the film that more than make up for that.

Sadly though, it suffers from that age-old Modern Disney Syndrome, in that people tend to write it off against older Classics simply because of when it came out.