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Sounds Like Comics Ep 286 - Hercules (Movie 1997)
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Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, Hercules is the animated musical fantasy film, loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), a son of Zeus in Greek mythology. Luke and Jae journey back to the legendary times of Ancient Greece (also known as 1997) to revist this Walt Disney Feature Animation produced film. Hercules (Tate Donovan), a son of gods, was snatched as a baby by Hades (James Woods) and forced to live among mortals as a half-man, half-god. Now a teenager, Hercules needs to perform a rite of passage on Earth to prove himself worthy of living with the gods on Mount Olympus. With his plucky satyr sidekick, Philoctetes (Danny DeVito), along for the ride, Hercules must learn how to use his strength to defeat a series of evil creatures.
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Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, Hercules is the animated musical fantasy film, loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), a son of Zeus in Greek mythology. Luke and Jae journey back to the legendary times of Ancient Greece (also known as 1997) to revist this Walt Disney Feature Animation produced film. Hercules (Tate Donovan), a son of gods, was snatched as a baby by Hades (James Woods) and forced to live among mortals as a half-man, half-god. Now a teenager, Hercules needs to perform a rite of passage on Earth to prove himself worthy of living with the gods on Mount Olympus. With his plucky satyr sidekick, Philoctetes (Danny DeVito), along for the ride, Hercules must learn how to use his strength to defeat a series of evil creatures.
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