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Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus!
Theatrical
Jun 27, 1997
Box Office
$252.7M
Budget
$85.0M
Return
3.0x
DVD / Blu-ray
Feb 3, 1998
Theaters
4
Directors
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Walt Disney Feature Animation
Quotes
See all →Hades Expresses Frustration Over Being Ignored
Hades
What do you say? It's happy ending time. Everybody's got a little taste of something but me. I've got nothing. I'm here with nothing. Anybody listening?! It's like I'm- what am I? An echo or something? Hello! Hello! Am I talking to what, hyperspace? Hello, it's me! Nobody listens.
[last lines, as the film closes]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Hades Faces the Impossible Situation
Hades
This is... This is impossible! You, you, you can't be alive! You'd have to be a, a... (Pain and Panic: A god?) Hercules, stop! You can’t do this to me! You can’t- Fine. Okay. Listen. Ha! Okay. Well, I deserved that. Herc, Herc, Herc. Can we talk? You're dad; he's the fun guy, right? So maybe you could put in a word with him, and he'd kinda... blow this whole thing off, you know? Meg. Meg, talk to him. Have a little smoochze, and... GAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!! Get away from me! Don't touch me! Get your slimy souls off me! Ooh, ah— (Panic: He's not gonna be happy when he gets outta there!; Pain: You mean, if he gets outta there!) Taxi! TAXI! (Panic: If. If is good.) I don't feel so good. I—I'm feeling a little... FLUSHED!
[Hercules punches Hades; Hercules punches him into the river of death; souls go to grab him]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →T
Tate Donovan
Hercules (voice)
J
Josh Keaton
Young Hercules (voice)
R
Roger Bart
Young Hercules (singing voice)
D
Danny DeVito
Philoctetes (voice)
J
James Woods
Hades (voice)
S
Susan Egan
Meg (voice)
B
Bobcat Goldthwait
Pain (voice)
M
Matt Frewer
Panic (voice)
R
Rip Torn
Zeus (voice)
S
Samantha Eggar
Hera (voice)
B
Barbara Barrie
Alcmene (voice)
H
Hal Holbrook
Amphitryon (voice)
P
Paul Shaffer
Hermes (voice)
A
Amanda Plummer
Clotho (voice)
C
Carole Shelley
Lachesis (voice)
P
Paddi Edwards
Atropos (voice)
C
Charlton Heston
Narrator (voice)
L
Lillias White
Calliope the Muse of Epics (voice)
C
Cheryl Freeman
Melpomene the Muse of Tragedy (voice)
L
LaChanze
Terpsichore the Muse of Dance (voice)
