Disney films heavily mined fairy tales throughout the history of the studio but it wasn’t until the late nineties and Hercules that they tackled Greek mythology for a feature film - the segment of Fantasia notwithstanding - and with some fantastic art design by Gerald Scarfe and great songs by Alan Menken and David Zippel we are treated to a fun bubbly and completely bastardized version of the Hercules story. Now, when I went to see Disney’s Hercules I didn’t expect it to include such elements as our hero murdering his own family but they barely used anything from the mythology other than his name - which they even used the Roman pronunciation - and that he is the son of Zeus and is a really strong guy.