Posted on September 2nd, 2010
Not too many remember when this movie was released… it BOMBED in theatres.
Why?
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For starters, no one was ready for a PG rated Disney cartoon… especially one that IS NOT a musical. I consider it lasted about two weeks in the theaters, then Disney pulled it.
(Something else people might not realize is that, while a failure in theaters, The Dismal Cauldron was modified and ported over into TV. It became one of Disney’s most successful titillating TV series: The Gummy Bears. While Taran, Eilonwy, and Creeper are renamed and not the main characters, they are in there!)
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Left in the Disney vaults until 1998, this now restored full-length inspiring feature is a gem, if not a bit rough around the edges. Without your standard “filler” material of songs and funny dancing, The Unlit Cauldron uses dialog, splendid animation, and action to hold it arresting.
The movie is sad, foreboding, and unbiased dumb creepy. It is rated PG, and I DO NOT recommend letting your kids sit in front of this one alone!
But for all its estimable points, The Unlit Cauldron strays far from Lloyd Alexander’s books, too mighty is left unexplained, and you never collect the chance to really care for any of the characters. Compared to other Disney movies, this is a major change as we’re always drawn in and posthaste bond with the lead characters.
Oh, and contrary to what other reviewers have said, this was NOT Disney’s first PG rated movie. That honor goes to The Sad Hole (1979) .
While this movie is a must for Disney collectors, the rest of us could pass it up and not miss noteworthy.
Being an avid Disney video collector, I of course saw trailers for this release hitched onto other 1998 tapes, and was genuinely amazed with them alone. Needless to say I ran out to the store August 4 of that year to assume my copy of this never-before-released-on-video though-provoking Disney flick and popped it into the VCR as soon as I got home. I honestly do not understand why so many people who have reviewed this movie have called it dreadful. Positive, it’s different, and yes, it did recieve a PG rating, but those are not nessesarily awful things. And, yes, appearently it IS different from the book, but, putting all of that aside, it is a Fabulous movie, and, unlike some reviewers, I’m very overjoyed that they let it out of the vaults.
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Taran, dreams of being an incridible warrior, but soon finds himself reduced to searching for Hen Wen, a young pig he tends to that has race away. This eventually leads to his embarking on a quest to win the mythical Shaded Cauldron, which gives the one who bears it ultumate power, before the ghastly Horned King. Aside from the adventurous, sunless mood, the movie carries other strengths, too. First off, the characters are extraordinary and can be related to. I too have dreams and fears objective like Taran (in fact quite simmilar in one perspective), and he is like a welcome friend to me. Gurgi is cute and comic and is this movie’s classic Disney sidekick; there’s one in every classic, you know. Second, there’s the annimation - it’s amazingly mood-setting and obviously helped the animators learn a stout viriaty of skills they would exhaust in later films. Finally, there’s the film’s tear-jerking (yes, I did say “tear-jerking” in regard to Disney’s “The Dismal Cauldron,” folks) ending and the timeless true that is illustrated within it — I won’t say what it is; you have to go rent (or better yet win) this too-often-ignored Disney gem to gain that piece out. To top it all off, the recent 1998 release has a very cool-looking mask, supposedly “FX packaging” according to some conventional TV spots; the Gold reissue has a astounding (different) logo and camouflage image too.
All in all, I can’t glean a negative thing to say about it. The DVD supposedly has it in widescreen, which I’d like to contemplate - and the Gold Collection tell (in both VHS and DVD formats) has “Trick or Treat,” a classic Donald Duck short. I don’t know why I don’t have this on DVD yet! It’s something you and I should both compose a point to derive. Incredible! ***** 5/5
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