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
Captain Phoebus passion. Esmeralda arranges to meet Phoebus and tells him of her love for him, and he convinces her that he feels the same way about her. He is in fact engaged to his cousin, Fleur-de-Lys de Gondelaurier, who is a spiteful socialite and jealous of Esmeralda's beauty. Not only that, he has agreed to let Archdeacon Claude Frollo spy on his meeting with Esmeralda. This decision proves his undoing, since as the couple prepare to have sex, the jealous Frollo attacks Phoebus by stabbing him in the back. Frollo makes a quick get-away and Phoebus is presumed dead by homicide.