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Title: Ambitious and Different; a nice change!
Review: After "101 Dalmatians" in 1961, Disney was not to release another true "animated masterpiece" until "Little Mermaid" in 1989. That said, "Black Cauldron" is one of the best films of this "inbetween" era. The animation is striking and the storyline (while occasionally meandering) is a compelling and exciting one. I like how the cute characters in the film, like Gurgi and Hen Wen, are ESSENTIAL to the plot, not thrown in just for the sake of having something cute (like in many a Disney film). All in all, seeing this movie as a child validates it to me as one of the true Disney "classics." It's for people like me that this film rightfully deserved its long awaited video release.
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