Movie Review: ***The Black Cauldron (1985)

This is a Disney movie, based on the novel by Lloyd Alexander.  It is not a musical.  This film was directed by the Mormon movie maker Richard Rich.  My thought about this movie is that somehow it missed the magic of the Alexander book of the same name.  In the book, Taran and Eilonwy are fascinating characters, and then you add Dolbi, Gurgi and Fflewddur Fflam and it is a very entertaining story.  The characters lack the same spark and spunk.  It gets really bad when the fair folk sound like little kids.  The voice of the evil Horned King is ridiculous.
So my conclusion is I love this book, just not this particular telling.  Read the book.