Disney PlusThe Black Cauldron (1985)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.1
Overview
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
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Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
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Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's central conflict of good versus archetypal evil, resolved through universal themes of courage, friendship, and self-sacrifice, lacks explicit alignment with modern progressive or conservative ideologies, leading to a neutral rating.
The movie features traditional casting with a predominantly white-coded human cast and no explicit race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narrative follows a classic fantasy structure, portraying traditional identities neutrally or positively without incorporating explicit DEI themes or critiques.
Secondary
The Black Cauldron is an animated fantasy film that does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a classic good-versus-evil quest, with all character relationships and arcs remaining within heteronormative or platonic frameworks, resulting in no LGBTQ+ portrayal.
The film features Princess Eilonwy and three witches (Orddu, Orwen, Orgoch). Princess Eilonwy primarily aids in escapes and uses a magical bauble for light, not combat. The witches are powerful magical beings but do not engage in direct physical combat against male characters. No female character is depicted defeating male opponents in close-quarters physical combat.
The film adapts characters from "The Chronicles of Prydain" series. All major characters, including Taran, Princess Eilonwy, Fflewddur Fflam, and The Horned King, retain their established genders from the source material in the 1985 movie.
The animated film adapts characters from Lloyd Alexander's 'The Chronicles of Prydain' novels. The on-screen portrayals of characters like Taran and Princess Eilonwy align with their established depictions in the source material, with no changes to their race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
6.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
6.3
6.4
Critic Ratings
5.6
5.9
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