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Released Year: 1985
Runtime: 80 minutes
Directors: Richard Rich, Ted Berman
Casts: John Hurt, Peter Renaday, Billie Hayes, Phil Fondacaro, John Byner, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Eda Reiss Merin, Arthur Malet, John Huston, Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Lindsay Rich, Brandon Call, Gregory Levinson, Adele Malis-Morey, James Almanzar
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Slate -
But there's still a great deal to love in The Black Cauldron. The untested animators Don Bluth left behind created some amazing sequences, including a dramatic scene of Taran's oracular pig, Hen Wen, being captured by pterodactyl-like gwythaints...For all its flaws, The Black Cauldron was a movie ahead of its time.
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ReelViews -
A fun-but-uninspired swords-and-sorcery story.
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TV Guide Magazine -
Despite its drawbacks as entertainment, it remains one of the best technical cartoon features ever produced by Disney.
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Chicago Reader -
It's quite good, though by the impossible standards the film sets for itself it inevitably falls short: the character design is a little smudgy, the backgrounds are somewhat unimaginative, and the secret of Disney animation's unique depth—its impeccable perspectives and shadings—seems to have been irretrievably lost.
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Washington Post -
Technically brilliant though short on narrative, The Black Cauldron is a painless, old-fashioned way to take out the kids, and a triumph for the animation department at the Disney studio, where it has been in development for almost a dozen years.
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The Black Cauldron (1985)
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
The Black Cauldron (1985)
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...
Information
Released Year: 1985
Runtime: 80 minutes
Directors: Richard Rich, Ted Berman
Casts: John Hurt, Peter Renaday, Billie Hayes, Phil Fondacaro, John Byner, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Eda Reiss Merin, Arthur Malet, John Huston, Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Lindsay Rich, Brandon Call, Gregory Levinson, Adele Malis-Morey, James Almanzar
Storyline
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
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Reviews
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Slate -
But there's still a great deal to love in The Black Cauldron. The untested animators Don Bluth left behind created some amazing sequences, including a dramatic scene of Taran's oracular pig, Hen Wen, being captured by pterodactyl-like gwythaints...For all its flaws, The Black Cauldron was a movie ahead of its time.
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ReelViews -
A fun-but-uninspired swords-and-sorcery story.
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TV Guide Magazine -
Despite its drawbacks as entertainment, it remains one of the best technical cartoon features ever produced by Disney.
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Chicago Reader -
It's quite good, though by the impossible standards the film sets for itself it inevitably falls short: the character design is a little smudgy, the backgrounds are somewhat unimaginative, and the secret of Disney animation's unique depth—its impeccable perspectives and shadings—seems to have been irretrievably lost.
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Washington Post -
Technically brilliant though short on narrative, The Black Cauldron is a painless, old-fashioned way to take out the kids, and a triumph for the animation department at the Disney studio, where it has been in development for almost a dozen years.
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Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.