The Hunchback of Notre Dame II The Hunchback of Notre Dame II The Hunchback of Notre Dame II is a 2002 American animated romantic musical comedy-drama film and direct-to-video sequel to the 1996 Disney animated film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". It was produced by Walt Disney Animation Japan and Walt Disney Television Animation and completed in 1997. Unlike many Disney film sequels, almost the entire key cast of the first film returned. It has a 30% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is set six years after the events of the original film and the death of Judge Claude Frollo. Captain Phoebus serves as
La Esmeralda (opera) Many of the characters were eliminated including Jehan Frollo, the dissolute younger brother of the chief antagonist Claude Frollo, although some aspects of his character were incorporated into Claude's. The main protagonist of the novel, Quasimodo, has a much reduced role in the opera, which concentrates more on the love story between Esmeralda and Phoebus. At Bertin's request, the ending of the novel was also changed with Esmeralda escaping execution. In 1834, "Notre-Dame de Paris" had been placed on the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum", the list of works condemned by the Catholic Church. The opera libretto was submitted to the censors