The Black Cauldron

this is an intelligent film from the world of Disney its great plot and magical characters make it a well deserved film.... Full review

I thought this movie was cute and well written. Kids will love it; girls and boys. It has some sad moments, and some funny times. This movie may be a little frightening for young kids, but other than that, it's really... Full review

What is this movie trying to be? It starts out looking like a Bambiesque cheese fest for little kids, and ends with the living dead walking around like a horror cartoon. Oh well....no matter how you disect it, you'll come out... Full review

Although based on an excelent story, this cartoon fails to live up to it. I read the book after I saw the movie, and my dislike for the cartoon only grew. In very few ways does it follow the actual story... Full review

This a a terrible combination of "The Book of Three" and "The Black Cauldron." First off, the Horned King was history by the time the companions went after the Black Crochan. Sprial Castle was crumbled by that time, and Eilonwy was... Full review

Well, where do I start? This has got to be one of the worst movies Disney has ever released. It is very poorly done. It would scare the living daylights our of some children. Those that wrote the screenplay should be... Full review

this movie to me brought back the origninal disney magic and animation of older past films like snow white and pinoccio. Even though it doesn't to me live up to the book i still think its good that kids today have... Full review

The black cauldrin was not released to the public after it's 1985 movie showings.Some people believe it was because of it's very demonic adult themes which may be too much for a small child viewer.The movie begins with a young boy... Full review

It's a great movie and it's a movie worth watching.It's on of the good disney movies in animation.I liked it.... Full review

Always curious about The Black Cauldron, I finally got around to it after seeing a DVD at the rental store. Despite a lot of grating elements, I ended up liking it overall.The movie starts off on the wrong foot. The... Full review

Although originally envisioned as a breakthrough film that would re-establish Disney as a great animation studio, The Black Cauldron instead almost buried them. Frankly, it's not a good movie, but I don't think it remotely qualifies as bad either. ... Full Review

Those heeding some of the more wild rumors about The Black Cauldron....The Black Cauldron does not do that, and is all the better because of it.....If nothing else, The Black Cauldron has become the most infamous of all of Disney's animated motion pictures..... ... Full Review

Technically, "The Black Cauldron" is top-notch;....With few exceptions, the overall grim tone of "The Black Cauldron" feels nothing like any other Disney movie.....although I have to admit I remember enjoying it immensely when I was in the fourth grade.....One humorous scene, involving Fflewddur Fflam being turned into a frog....I liked the scenes that involved three bickering, bargain-making witches who are the protectors of the cauldron (although, once again, there is no explanation of where they came fro ... Full Review

The key to the movie is in the richness of the characterizations, and the two best characters, I think, are the Horned King (with voice by John Hurt ), and a fuzzy little creature named Gurgi (voice by John Byner). The best of the Disney animated features were not innocent children's entertainments, but blood-curdling stories of doom and obsession (with a few smiles along the way, of course). ... Full Review

When Disney died in 1967, his last great movie was "Sleeping Beauty....I imagine that "The Black Cauldron" failed at theaters probably because of the fact that it was dark....actually, the movie is a visual, enriched, and traditional triumph.....Along the way, Taran meets two intriguing characters:.... ... Full Review

Every now and then a Disney animated film gets shunted aside out of misunderstanding or thoughtlessness, relatively ignored by the public for years. "The Black Cauldron" never really got its due as a classic Disney adventure tale shaded by more... ... Full Article

Roy E. Disney, the 78-year-old nephew of Walt Disney, is the third-largest shareholder in the Disney Company, the last family member to be involved in its operation and a hidden power in the boardroom who has served as the company... ... Full Article

How's this for an eye-opener? Out of sheer coincidence, I reflected late last week on the amount of time and energy I have spent reviewing film on the internet, and much to my surprise, it dawned on me, rather suddenly,... ... Full Article

Reviewed by Colin Jacobson (January 22, 2008) After nearly 20 years of consistently lackluster animated films, in the early Eighties Disney tried to reinvigorate this department with a tremendously ambitious and epic tale: an adaptation of Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of... ... Full Article

The Harry Potter book franchise has been credited with getting an entire generation of children not only interested, but absolutely exited, about reading. But now that the Harry Potter series has come to a conclusion, what is there  out there... ... Full Article

In the 1980s, Disney's animation department wasn't doing too well. "The Black Cauldron" had bombed with both audiences and critics, and other fare such as "Oliver and Company" and "The Rescuers Down Under" had received lukewarm receptions. ... Full Article