moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (07/30/85)
A quick review for those of you out there in a hurry: saw
_The_Black_Cauldron_ this weekend. All the little ones in the
audience seemed quite captivated by it (little ones being about 3-8
years of age -- I went to the cheap show). Pretty boring for adults,
unless you like the standard Disney storyline, used for the last 10
years of animated pictures, and plastered onto a mock-Tolkien
story. Animation is better than average Disney, if the average is
the pap they've done for the last 20 years; it still isn't even close to
the Snow White level, which is what they're hyping. As Reiher
said, you can tell the difference between backgrounds and the
animated characters easily, and while the backgrounds are better
than average, it's not enough. My big question is why critics give
the villains such high points; I found The Horned King to be your
average all-powerful rotter, with a touch of avarice shown at the
beginning (a small but nice point). The best of the animation at the
finale reminded me of Bakshi rotoscoping, except with a great deal
more care, and there are some nice effects of the walking dead. If
you can't figure out the ending, you're a terminal pessimist. Skip it
unless you have young ones, in which case it's O.K., I guess.
"I don't like this... it was
too easy."
"You think it was a trap, huh?"
"NAH... It was just too easy...
I didn't get to shoot NEAR
enough people..."
Expect the Unexpected.
He does. ---> Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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