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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lars Jensen wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><Black Cauldron was never shown in Danish movie
theatres, so I've never<BR><seen it and can't comment on it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Black Cauldron was a dark, "weird"
sorcery trek and is in a class by itself from all the other animated feature
films.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The film is readily available from amazon US
or UK and it is worthwile to see if only to appreciate the entire Disney
film universe. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The film is geared mainly for an older teen
audience and widely diverts from the Disney formula for children --and their
parents-- movies which includes *both* The Fox And The Hound and The
Great Mouse Detective.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Black Cauldron was very bitterly
criticized, but not by Leonard Maltin.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A movie comic book of the Black Cauldron was never
made by Western/Gladstone/Disney Publications. (I don't know about Egmont), but
I have a 1985 Scholastic Inc. version which is a regular comic
book copyright Walt Disney Productions with 4 tier panels and speech
ballons.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Disney produced another "weird" film, The
Nightmare Before Christmas but perhaps having learned a lesson, they
did not put it out on the Disney Label, instead Touchstone.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Surprisingly enough however, using their most
famous character and symbol Mickey Mouse in a definitely *out-of-character*
role, Disney came out with a "weird" cartoon short: Runaway Brain. Comic
version MM and Friends Oct. 2004. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marvin
Winitz</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>