Review of The Black Cauldron (1985) by Richard Schickel for Time — 04 Jan 2002
The new boys know how to create wonderful transformations in a character's expression with a deft stroke or two, and they have mastered the deliciously parodistic plasticity required by the movements of their ever twisting-turning-tumbling creatures.
Their pastoral scenes still glow with the old Disney sweetness, and the ones of foreboding glower with the old relish for the grotesque. They satisfy an older viewer's nostalgic feeling for his childhood's delight while fulfilling the younger crowd's need for a kind of magic the movies too rarely even try to provide of late.
It is never too early to learn that animation is still the best special effect.
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This review of The Black Cauldron (1985) was written by Richard Schickel and published by Time on 04 Jan 2002.
The Black Cauldron has generally received mixed reviews.
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