Fantasy, magic, and fun are all brewed together in Disney's legendary adventure The Black Cauldron. Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron's power will be invincible! The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran, who dreams of doing heroic deeds. With a motley team of the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron's evil once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed?
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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Good, but the books really are betterPeople so often say "...but the books are better," but that is truer than usual in this case. Perhaps because it tries to incorporate the plot of two out of five Prydain Chronicles books, the movie ends up convoluted and much less interesting than any one of the books on its own. Another problem with the animation is the choice to depict two minor female characters as awkwardly, bulgingly sexy, so much so that one other character actually gets lost in the cleavage. Male characters apart from Taran suffer from over-uglification. Gurgi looks like a cocker spaniel with a mustache. If you read The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander, you'll get stories that are undoubtedly for children but are still appropriately scary, adventurous, suspenseful, and rewarding. What Taran gives up for the Cauldron isn't a sword, but something far more interesting. The main characters' contact with the Horned King is limited to chases and a final clash. It is actually more effective for the story to keep the villain(s) wrapped in some mystery and menace..Score: 4/5
The Black CauldronFor Disney's first PG rated animated flick, it had some really great parts to its whole. Considering the editing done by Jeffery Katzenberg so late in production, I'm surprised it remained with some integrity. Granted, this probably wasn't the best choice for a Disney film (this could've been much better suited for Don Bluth, who was into mystical stuff in the 80s), but they did a quality job on the animation. If only that editing hadn't chopped up the story so much....Score: 4/5
2 Thumbs downI love Disney Movies, but this did not feel like a Disney movie. The plot was lacking, the characters were flat, and it was just not a fun movie. It was anti-climatic, dark, and inappropriate at times. Disney movies are meant to be enjoyed by everyone, no matter the age. I couldn’t find myself enjoying it, and couldn’t see how little kids could enjoy it at all. I just didn’t find it a very good movie. It felt like a cheap “wanna-be-Disney” movie made by an underrated movie company. It lived up to general consensus of being the worst Disney movie ever made..Score: 1/5
Great. Way underrated!Good film. I liked how it was not your typical Disney animated film for kids. But for teens/adults too. Some nice visuals. The Horned King was cool. This film is way underrated. It deserves more respect..Score: 5/5
Awsome. make it buyableThis is one of my favorite disney movies. it is a little dark, but that's one of the reasons i like it. but for the love of al that is good, MAKE IT BUYABLE!!!.Score: 5/5
Fantastic Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ITunes let us buy it!! Its sooo good!!!!!.Score: 5/5
From the Disney Vault of ShameI love this movie, its so awful that it becomes good again. This film bombed so bad at the box office it almost ended the Disney Animation Dept. i will give Disney credit for trying to do something different, this film is much darker than other Disney movies and slightly more exciting than Wizard. The story was just weird but comming out of that 70's era i can excuse it. Anyways its worth $2.99 to see how they animated the villains death, much more interesting than the typical Disney death in which the villain finds an excuse to climb up a really high location, trips on their own toes and falls..Score: 2/5
🐷Criminally underrated ! One of the few that deserve a live action remake..Score: 5/5
Needs iTunes extrasNeeds iTunes extras.Score: 4/5
Great moveShould be available for purchase though. I for one will never "rent" a move from itunes, fwiw..Score: 5/5
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I missed thisI remember watching this movie when i was younger. It always had me on the edge of my seat. I lost my copy of this when i moved to my new house, i was so dissapointed. Please make this availibal to buy, no doubt ill be one of the first to buy it. (:.Score: 5/5
AWESOME!!!!This movie is so great. I remember watching it as a kid, and i looked for it a few times too. I'm soooo glad its finally here!!! iTunes, please make it available to buy soon, renting's not enough ;) I would reccomend this movie for those over 13 or 14, cause its a bit violent for a Disney film. Otherwise, its superb! Really nice soundtrack too....Score: 5/5
Good movie but bad trailerThe trailer shows part of the movie and it needs to have trailer trailer. Do not watch the trailer, you'll regret it..Score: 1/5
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