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Production company | Walt Disney Television Animation[n 1] |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Home Video |
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Running time | 70 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States[2] |
| Language | English |
Hercules: Zero to Hero is a 1999 American animated fantasy television film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The film is a direct-to-video follow-up 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[]
The film briefly gives Hercules' history after defeating Hades (who off-screen succeeded in getting out of the River Styx and gave up his quest for the rule of Olympus), in which Hercules 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[]
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[]
Hercules: Zero to Hero was first released on home video on August 17, 1999.
Reception[]
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[]
- ↑ McCormick, Moira (1999-06-12). Buena Vista to Roll Out Promotions for End-Of-'99 Releases. p. 67. https://books.google.com/books?id=uw0EAAAAMBAJ&q=madeline+lost+in+paris&pg=PA67. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999)". Allmovie. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Hercules: Zero To Hero". Littlereview.com. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Antagony & Ecstasy: DISNEY SEQUELS: NO CHANCE, NO WAY". Antagonie.blogspot.com.au. 2013-02-10. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Perry, Vern (August 27, 1999). "New on Video: Belle's Tales of Friendship, Hercules: Zero to Hero". Gainesville Sun. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19990827&id=N0QzAAAAIBAJ&pg=2811,6764961.
External links[]
- Hercules: Zero to Hero at the Internet Movie Database
- Hercules: Zero to Hero at the Big Cartoon DataBase
Template:Disney direct-to-video animated features
| Disney's Hercules | ||||
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| Films | Hercules (1997) • Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999) | |||
| TV series | Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series (1998–99) (episodes) | |||
| Video games | Main | Hercules • Disney's Animated Storybook: Hercules • Disney's Hercules Print Studio | ||
| Related | Kingdom Hearts series (Kingdom Hearts • Chain of Memories • II • Coded • 358/2 Days • Birth by Sleep • χ • III) • Disney Magic Kingdoms • Disney Mirrorverse • Disney Speedstorm | |||
| Music | Film soundtrack • "Go the Distance" • "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)" • "Shooting Star" | |||
| Characters | Hercules • Megara • Hades | |||
| Related topics | Hercules musical • House of Mouse • Descendants 3 • Go the Distance: A Twisted Tale • Once Upon a Studio | |||
| Hercules | ||
|---|---|---|
| Heracles • Hercle • Ercole • Hercule • Alcide | ||
| Family | Zeus (father) • Alcmene (mother) • Deianira (wife) • Heracleidae (children) | |
| Films | Italian series | Hercules (1957) • Hercules Unchained (1959) • Goliath and the Dragon (1960) • The Loves of Hercules (1960) • Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis (1961) • Hercules in the Haunted World (1961) • Hercules in the Valley of Woe (1961) • The Fury of Hercules (1962) • Hercules, Samson and Ulysses (1963) • Hercules the Invincible (1964) • Hercules Against Rome (1964) • Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun (1964) • Samson and His Mighty Challenge (1964) • Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon (1964) • Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965) • Hercules the Avenger (1965) |
| Other films | The Warrior's Husband (1933) • Herakles (1962) • The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962) • Jason and the Argonauts (1963) • Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964) • Hercules in New York (1970) • Hercules (1983) •The Adventures of Hercules (1985) • Hercules (1997) • The Amazing Feats of Young Hercules (1997) • Hercules: Zero to Hero (1998) • Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (1998) • Jason and the Argonauts (2000) • Immortals (2011) • The Legend of Hercules (2014) • Hercules (2014) | |
| Television | The Mighty Hercules • The Sons of Hercules (Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961) • Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (1962) • Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules (1962)) • Hercules (1995) • Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995) (Hercules and the Amazon Women (1994) • Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994) • Hercules and the Circle of Fire (1994) • Hercules in the Underworld (1994) • Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur (1994)) • Hercules: The Animated Series (1998) • Young Hercules (1998) ("Hercules and the Arabian Night" (1999)) • Hercules (2005 miniseries) • Atlantis (2013) | |
| Literature | Poems | Heracles Papyrus • Shield of Heracles • Catalogue of Women • L'Atlàntida |
| Plays | Herakles • Women of Trachis | |
| Other | The Labours of Hercules • Hercules and the Wagoner | |
| Comics | Hercules (Marvel Comics) • Hercules (DC Comics) • Hercules (Radical Comics) • Spiff and Hercules | |
| Games | The Return of Heracles (1983) • Hercules (1984) • Disney's Hercules (1997) • Herc's Adventures (1997) • Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (2000) • Empire Earth (2001) • DragonFable (2006) • Rise of the Argonauts (2008) • Glory of Heracles (2008) • God of War III (2010) • God of War: Ascension (2013) | |
| Opera | Ercole amante (1662) • Alcide (1693) • Ercole su'l Termodonte (1723) • Admeto (1727) • Laßt uns sorgen, laßt uns wachen, BWV 213 (1733) • Hercules (1744) • Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe (1747) • The Choice of Hercules (1750) • Hercule mourant (1761) • Le Rouet d'Omphale (1871) • Déjanire (1911) • Hercules vs. Vampires (2010) • Atlántida | |
| Art | Hercules of the Forum Boarium (2nd century BCE) • Farnese Hercules (216) • The Choice of Hercules (1596) • Hercules the Archer (1909) | |
| Other | Hercules in popular culture • Hercules (Disney franchise) • Labours of Hercules • Pillars of Hercules • Maczuga Herkulesa • Hercules in ancient Rome • Hercules' Club • Xena: Warrior Princess • Shirt of Nessus |
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