The Black Cauldron Movie Review
The Black Cauldron Review
"The Black Cauldron" Overview
Rating: PG
1985
Cast and Crew
Director : Ted Berman,Richard RichProducer : Joe Hale
Screenwiter : Ted Berman,Vance Gerry,Joe Hale,David Jonas,Roy Morita,Richard Rich,Al Wilson
Starring : Grant Bardsley,Susan Sheridan,Freddie Jones,Nigel Hawthorne,Arthur Malet,John Byner,Eda Reiss Merin,Adele Malis-Morey,Billie Hayes,John Hurt
Disney didn't make a PG-rated animated film until 1985; this is it, The Black
Cauldron, Disney's 25th animated feature. The film successfully skews toward
older kids, but it's not too much for the little ones. The story is one of the
better ones from this era (predating Disney's 1990s renaissance), involving a
boy who does battle with the Horned King as he attempts to destroy, well, a
magic pot that would give the King the power to raise an army of the dead. That
a kidnapped pig plays a central plot point is irrelevant, this is simple (and
simply-animated) Disney fun. John Hurt's gravelly voice of the Horned King
steals the show.
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Review by Christopher Null 
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