It's Eros, not cupid, Eros you fool!

Hades kinds of get an unnecessarily bad rep in the Hercules movie. It's still a great movie so I can't really complain much, but seriously, they oversimplified things big time by transforming Hades into a Judeo-Christian notion of "evil." (In other words, Hades pretty much became...Satan?)
In real Greco-Roman mythology, with maybe one or two exceptions (like Athena, and then only if you were an Athenian,) all the Gods and Goddesses were far too damned complex and "human" to really be subverted into "good" or "evil" stereotypes. Zeus had a temper and flirted with everything with a skirt, Ares wreaked havoc with his wars, Poseidon had a temper, too, and a bit of an inferiority complex in regards to his brother, Hera was jealous of other women, Aphrodite was a whore, Artemis was quite possibly a lesbian who just frankly despised men, Hephestasus was deformed and had issues yet nonetheless ended up "technically" with Aphrodite through some ludicrousity...it was crazy. Crazy as in totally awesome.

I'm frankly shocked a real Greco-Roman mythology movie hasn't been done. You could have all sorts of classic storytelling devices, usually found in soap operas that appeal to women and war epics that appeal to men, in such a movie. And Gods that actually acted like human beings but that wielded unlimited powers? It'd appeal to everybody. Crazy shit up the wazoo.

The Greek pantheon is insanely complicated. Watching two years of a cartoon about the greek mythology ( I don't remember what was it called :( ) didn't quite help me understand much about it, though.

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In a time where men also had skirts. And you forgot Zeus' apparent love of turning into a random animal to have sex with mortal women.

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Well the real problem with Greek mythology is that it started out quite simple but the gods were kind of abstract concepts- like Apollo is the god of refinement and civilisation and Zeus was the concept of Hellenism (as the Greeks saw it, not as the Roman historians saw it) but these all got terribly expanded and and played with by authors and playwrights and philosophers and by the end it became a mess and we're not sure how much of the stories we know are author embellishments and how many are canonical to Greek religion. I mean, we still don't even know lots about Greek religion, I mean what does the Athenian basileus actually do?, and all that we do know is loaded in the stories of authors. It's like studying christianity from the movies Passion of the Christ and the Ten Commandments.

We know a lot lot more about Roman religion but it is rather complicated because its an amalgamation of pretty much every religion in the regions the Romans took over and the amalgamation was confusing at times.

And if they were to make a mythology movie it had better be in the style of clash of the titans. Cause that was crazy awesome

We are talking about Disney movies here. Deviation from source is pretty much a given.

Once you've accepted that the Little Mermaid doesn't die and Aladdin doesn't happen in China you might as well just say the hell with it altogether.

I am gonna say that Hercules is my favorite Disney movie. I have always been a sucker for the Greek Mythology and although it was no where near the same as the legends, I found it a great movie.

Aladdin should've happened in China? I'm confused. Why?

It was a middle-eastern tale but set in China as a suitable far off mystical land as far as I'm aware. Though I may be totally wrong about that.

Fifth has a point that we shouldn't expect Disney to be that accurate which in most cases is acceptable as there is need to modify the story to make a better movie that's more targeted at the audience.
I mean, look at what they did with Notre Dame. They took the tremendously hilarious womaniser and turned him into a gallant prince-like character, the odd though understable priest became a nefarious villain, the brutish Quasimodo became a kind gentle lead character (and they killed off what Hugo intended to be the actual main character, the Church).
Same thing with Hercules really. A story about an extra-marital birth with a man character who is a bit comically uncouth at times and eats all day and ends up killing all his family doesn't make a great children's movie.

I totally agree with what you've said about Hunchback. A really good way to look at the difference between the book and the movie: the titles. Notre Dame de Paris and Hunchback of Notre Dame. Totally different meanings.

But yeah. You've all mentioned great movies (especially Hunchback and Aladdin) but come on, no one sees fit to mention Alice in Wonderland or the Jungle Book? What is wrong with you?

I would also like to say that the run of movies from 101 Dalmatians to Greta Mouse Detective are all pretty awesome, and I feel they don't get enough love compared to the early or more recent stuff. Stuff like Aristocats, Robin Hood, Sword in the Stone, Rescuers, Fox and the Hound... The Black Cauldron's still pretty awful though.

Also, here's a list of all the animated movies Disney has made, since I've seen some people making mistakes.

Edit: Dammit, now I feel the need to get all the movies on that list except the sucky ones and watch them back-to-back.

Also, the Hamster Dance tune? It's from Robin Hood.