Friday, July 31, 2015

Music: Jetlag Productions' The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The music of this version is entirely midi composition. The cheesy synthesizer sound really grates on me. It reminds me of a typical 90s melodramatic TV show. There is also a lot of stock music, some of which doesn't really fit. The French national anthem is played about two or three times, and for no real reason.

But the coup de gras comes with the musical numbers. Like Pixar's Toy Story, the songs are song by a third party rather than the actual characters. Instead of Randy Newman, who preformed the songs in Toy Story. here we get a poor man's version. 

A poor man's Randy Newman. Saying that goes to show how bad the singing is. 

The songs are very out of place. I have a feeling that they were a mandatory inclusion. A Disney knockoff needs musical numbers, right? The lyrics are insipid, and nauseatingly saccharine. Here's a sample:

"Love can make a blind man see
Love can set a prisoner free
Love is all
Love is everything"

These songs are easily the worst thing about this film. The composition is on par with the lyrics. Lazy and arduous 

Next: Conclusion

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