For real, I haven't seen this flick since it was released in '86 when I was 5 years old, but I'll be damned if I didn't remember most of the stories and characters. It is still one of the best non-Disney animated movies released over the years. Although, the writers of this one really should have gone to history class a little more often.The thing that I did kind of forget about was how dark/violent some of the scenes are... some of the cats, mice, raids, fire, etc... are drawn in a very non-kid friendly style. You really wouldn't see many of these things in the very glossy animated movies of today. Alot of the darker images reminded me of this flick, which was released by Disney in '85:
"The Black Cauldron" was a dark animated movie, especially for Disney. I mean the main villian (and honestly i think one of Disney's best) was the demonic looking Horned King, who used dead people and ghosts as his army. It was quite daring to spend $25 million to make this movie (but only earned $10 million at the box office). Not surprisingly, this movie has been cut, chopped and re-edited to the point where the movie no longer makes sense and has been thrown deep in the Disney vaults along with this movie:
because of things like this...
and filed under the category of "We should have thought twice about that one."
Honestly, I miss animated movies like "An American Tail" and "The Black Cauldron" because I think a lot of the animated movies of today have become to stale and glossy - basically 1D. Regardless of how good or bad these flicks were they had emotions and a little more depth, which is needed today.
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