Hercules: Zero to Hero is a 1999 American animated fantasy television film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Walt Disney Video Premiere. The film is a direct-to-video followup to 1997 animated feature Hercules. It was released on August 17, 1999. The film serves as a package film combining three episodes of Hercules: The Animated Series as flashback segments.
Plot[edit]
Aug 17, 1999 Directed by Bob Kline. With Tate Donovan, Diedrich Bader, Barbara Barrie, Jodi Benson. After the events of Disney's Hercules (1997), Herc reminiscences about his teenage years which he mostly spent at the Prometheus Academy for gods and men where he was sent during his hero training by his mentor, satyr Philoctetes. This spin-off of Disney's Hercules (1997) follows Hercules' many labors during the years he spent training how to be a hero under the tutelage of satyr Philoctetes. Olympian Gods and Goddesses, as well as Hades and Pegasus, often visit him. Stars: Tate Donovan, French Stewart, Sandra Bernhard, Robert Costanzo. Disney Hercules Zero To Hero Lyrics; About VidMate Vidmate provide latest Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999) to watch and download for free. Besides providing Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999) download, we also care the Quality of Movies, we provide a wide range of quality Movies, ranging from quality CAM, HDCAM, HDTS, HDRip to BluRay 720p 1080p.
Feb 11, 2013 In this film-by-film wallow in the depths of Disney’s direct-to-video sequels and spinoffs of their more respectable theatrical animated features, I had initially been compelled to skip right over 1999’s Hercules: Zero to Hero. Happily – for an extremely specific sense of the word “happy” – reader Todd Draper had my back, and has been.
Hercules: Zero to Hero is a 1999 American animated fantasy television film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Walt Disney Video Premiere. The film is a direct-to-video followup to 1997 animated feature Hercules. It was released on August 17, 1999.
The film briefly gives Hercules' history after defeating Hades (which out-screen succeeded into getting out from the River Styx and gave up his search for the rule of the Olympus), in which he marries Meg and revisits his teenage years. In particular, it shows an adolescent Hercules's enrollment and the beginning of his adventures at the Prometheus Academy, a school for gods and mortals, which Hercules supposedly attended during the time when he was training to be a hero with his mentor, the satyr Philoctetes.
Voice cast[edit]
The following characters appear as they did in the corresponding episodes that the film packaged.
Tate Donovan as Hercules
Susan Egan as Megara
James Woods as Hades
Corey Burton as Zeus
Robert Costanzo as Philoctetes
Frank Welker as Pegasus
Bobcat Goldthwait as Pain
Matt Frewer as Panic
Paul Shaffer as Hermes
Eric Stoltz as Theseus
Richard Simmons as Physedipus
Eric Idle as Parenthesis
Sandra Bernhard as Cassandra
French Stewart as Icarus
Diedrich Bader as Adonis
Jodi Benson as Helen of Troy
Michael Dorn as Minotaur
Paddi Edwards as Atropos
Brad Garrett as Cyclops Head #1
Wayne Knight as Cyclops Head #2
Cheryl Freeman as Melpomene
Bill Fagerbakke as Orthus
Kathie Lee Gifford as Echidna
Releases[edit]
Hercules Zero To Hero 1999
Hercules: Zero to Hero was first released on home video on August 17, 1999.
Reception[edit]
Michelle Erica Green of LittleReview gave the film a rating of B+, writing that while the film 'lacks the dazzling visuals of the feature film upon which it is based...it's hard not to be charmed', adding 'the characters are all clever and original despite their mythic origins'.[3] Conversely, Antagony & Ecstasy gave a scathing review, writing that as the film 'was assembled of four episodes of the Hercules cartoon that had already aired in 1998 and 1999', it was 'perhaps the single grubbiest cash-in of [all the direct-to-video released]', adding 'Zero to Hero was already going to be at such a low level of accomplishment even relative to other DTV projects'.[4]
In a review, Vern Perry of the Orange County Register described the Disney formula as 'Just give 'em what they like. And keep it up.', noting that's what the company has done with these two 1998/1999 releases. He added that this film benefited greatly from the return of some of the original voice cast including Tate Donovan and James Woods.[5]
References[edit]
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^McCormick, Moira (1999-06-12). Buena Vista to Roll Out Promotions for End-Of-'99 Releases. Billboard. p. 67. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
^ ab'Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999)'. Allmovie. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^'Hercules: Zero To Hero'. Littlereview.com. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
^'Antagony & Ecstasy: DISNEY SEQUELS: NO CHANCE, NO WAY'. Antagonie.blogspot.com.au. 2013-02-10. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
^Perry, Vern (August 27, 1999). 'New on Video: Belle's Tales of Friendship, Hercules: Zero to Hero'. Gainesville Sun. Retrieved October 17, 2018 – via Google News Archive.
^Animation outsourced to Walt Disney Animation Japan, Walt Disney Animation Australia and Toon City Animation.
External links[edit]
Hercules: Zero to Hero on IMDb
Hercules: Zero to Hero at The Big Cartoon DataBase
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