What has happened to Disney when they give us an animated feature like “Hercules”? This is a movie where the fun of a Disney film is gone as although “Hercules” looks great, it certainly fails to capture the beauty of a Disney film. Sure, Disney may have gone beyond its glory days with such titles as “Pinocchio” and the animated version of “Alice In Wonderland” but this doesn’t even come close to “Mulan” or “The Little Mermaid”.

In “Hercules”, we meet the demi-god Hercules (Tate Donovan “Shooter”) as we discover his quest to be accepted into the world of the gods. Hades (James Woods “Casino”) has other ideas though and sets out to stop Hercules from reaching his goal. Hercules must triumph over various monsters from mythology and find the true meaning of a hero.

The acting in the film really kills this picture along with the sloppy dialog. Hercules is an uninteresting hero and is given a bland performance throughout. Hades is probably the most interesting character in the film but his dialog is awful. Danny DeVito (“Twins”) doesn’t salvage anything in this picture either and his efforts only hinder the film further. Nobody else impressed me either and the best part of any of the characters has to be the animation.

“Hercules” is a bad Disney movie and a generally weak movie. I think the reason why this movie is bad is because the dialog and the acting are so very weak. The animation is splendid and very young children may enjoy it but I’m sure they’d enjoy “Toy Story” or old treasures like “Sleeping Beauty” a heck of a lot more and for the reasons I have mentioned I feel obliged to deem “Hercules” a bad movie. I believe Disney owes to their audience to offer something much better than this one.