Yes, goofy talking gargoyles are an awful thing to add to Victor Hugo's classic. Yes, it's dishonest to radically change the ending to make this a story suitable for kids, but boy howdy did they do it for The Little Mermaid too.

Those songs by Stephen "Wicked and a ton of other amazing musicals" Schwartz aren't too shabby either.

I never watched the sequel to this one. Am I fuzzily remembering a promo for said sequel that talked about how they cast Jennifer Love-Hewitt in it as a sorta-kinda-but-not love interest girl, or did they do something moderately sane and not creepy?

Like I said, I never watched it.