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The songs in Disney's Hunchback , by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, are a mishmash of the ersatz--sometimes imitating the old-fashioned Broadway cleverness of George Gershwin's brother Ira, the lyricist (as in Hunchback 's "A Guy Like You," sung by stone gargoyles, which you can listen to briefly by clicking , though I don't advise it), other times imitating the modern Broadway cleverness of Les Mis (as in Hunchback 's opening number, which you can also listen to with a click , though why?)
I should say that the book is entertaining, even amusing; but it is rarely funny: if you enjoy her performances, Rita Rudner is funny on stage saying The closest I've gotten to a ménage-à-trois was dating a schizophrenic, but it is not funny to see its concocted cleverness in print.
But there's no way to do the "It's so simple it's baffling" ads cleverly, because the whole point of the ads is that cleverness itself is bad.
The Wall Street Journal 's Jim Fusilli writes that it's "the kind of disk you replay when it rolls to a close, just to delight in all that cleverness once again."
And so "Lola takes off, trucking along with a muscular R. Crumb look and distinctive flaming-cranberry hair," and from that point on, the film is full if "smashing bravado" and "sheer cleverness" (Maslin, the New York Times ). The film crackles with little tricks--at times Lola morphs into an animated figure, and her trip starts over three times, each version ending differently.