A young boy and a bunch of misfit friends embark on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diabolical tyrant can.With the budget of $44 million, it was the most expensive animated film ever made at the time. Earning $21.3 million domestically, it led to a loss for the studio, putting the future of Walt Disney Feature Animation in jeopardy. Due to its poor performance, Disney released the film for the first time on home video in 1998.Despite growing up in the 1980s, I actually never heard of this Disney film or any of its characters. Even now (2017) when I finally watched it, it seemed like a film that never existed. If Disney tried to bury it, I can understand it being forgotten throughout the 90s, especially as their second golden age was overshadowing decades of duds.The movie itself is neither good nor bad. A few repeat viewings and it would probably grow on me, but there are no really memorable characters. And there are no songs, which is what really makes a Disney cartoon immortal.

This ones tough. It's not terrible, but the things it does wrong haunt the movie considerably. They were almost there, but I believe the writing was all over the place for this movie. I was starting to like the characters, until the introduced the next one and the next one and the next one! I never even fully got to enjoy all the characters. I needed more of what they had. Im a HUGE fan of how this film looks. It can be pretty at times and very atmospheric. The character designs are timeless too, it's just sad that their personalities don't match.

For some reason my parents decided this would be a fun movie to let me watch when I was about 7 and home from school because I was sick. Between my fever and the evil skeleton dude I was thoroughly traumatized and had nightmares for weeks. Don't let your kids watch this sketchy movie. I literally made an account to review this because I hated it so much.

I was 13 years old when this movie came out. I recall watching this in the theater and enjoyed every bit of it! I still love this film today. I will agree with over reviewers that the film is dark and mature but it is a film that kids CAN watch - there is nothing vulgar within the film - but it does have an adult feel to the movie.If you liked Disney's "Sword in the Stone", "Fantasia" or "Alice in Wonderland" then you might enjoy this film.Live-action films similar to The Black Cauldron: "Eragon", "The Brothers Grimm", "The Sword and the Sorcerer", "Maleficent" and "Dragonslayer".9/10