1985 · animation · family · fantasy
The Black Cauldron (1985)
Directed by Richard Rich, Ted Berman1h 20m1985
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.
Our read: The Black Cauldron (1985) (1985) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive animation · family · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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