I mostly watched this because as a kid I watched this a whole bunch and was hoping for a lot of nostalgia. I did get nostalgia from watching this, but there was a lot of stuff from this movie that I completely forgot about. However, I remember seeing some lists that had Black Cauldron not very high which I found a little hard to believe before watching. After watching I can understand how this movie wasn't regarded as very popular. I'm more glad that I got some nostalgia from this film because it has been a long time.
I will say that the movie as an animation is a tiny bit rough around the edges, but I think that all the designs that aren't any of the characters are really well done. The house at the beginning of the movie is very simple, but its design is very intricate and interesting. The same goes for the Horned King's Castle. Everything in there is menacing and dark while also looking very cool. I also liked how the skeleton warriors looked which was surprising because this movie is only PG. There are lots of dead skeletons which could be not great images, and there is one 2 second bit where we see a little bit of blood, but outside of that the skeletons are the worst of the images. The design of the animated characters are ok. Not a whole lot of super detailed or intricate designs of characters. The Horned King has an awesome design. He's super cool looking and thinking about it he has similar movements to Darth Vader which I thought was cool. Other than that the character designs were just okay. However average the design of the characters may be, the actual characters are alright. Taran is a pretty cool hero and Princess Eilonwy is a pretty good female character. Most of the movie Taran's story so he gets most of the action. The Horned King is cool and genuinely a threat. However there are two characters I'm not very fond of are Gurgi and Creeper. They are some of the only characters that aren't humans, but they are just annoying because you can't understand what they are saying at all. They make sense for being in the story, but they are my two least favorite characters. I can even stand the bard and he's annoying as well. Overall this movie was a pretty good nostalgia trip. I'd really only recommend this if I had no other movie to recommend so this gets a 5/10.
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