The Black Cauldron - Nostalgia Critic 

1:55 - 2:05 Oh, you just earned a spot on my s#*& list, Doug! FIEVAL, NO!!

Where did Malcom go?

you should do a review RV with Robin Williams

where Malcolm go

Id probably have given Tamara just a couple more lines but all in all this really feels like the NC I know and love let’s keep up this momentum this is the minimum amount of sketches I expect in an NC episode good work

Only if it’s animated, and not Lion King remake pretending to be live action.

I wholeheartedly agree!!! It's overdue!

EgotisticalGhost I think a live action adaptation that stuck to the source material could really work. Sadly, that probably wouldn’t be what we would get. Another studio could probably do it better.

And unfortunately that's the one we can be all pretty sure we aren't getting

No! No more remakes! For the love of all that is Disney, PLEASE no more remakes 😭😭😭

Ah, the three best-known and best-loved pop culture characters.

Voiced by a drunk Donald Duck.

Luigicat11 😂😂😂

I'll take an entire trilogy on Jar Jar rather than see Gurgi for another minute. Jar Jar at least made me laugh 1 joke out of 10, Gorgi is consistently annoying throughout.

Makes sense knowing that Andy Serkis (the guy who played Golem) was inspired by Gurgi in this movie...... I'm not even kidding.

No it doesn’t

​@@Pizza-gremlin AHAHAHA 😭

gurgi is so much better in the book

He grew on me

well.. it was a relief that he died. but goddamn he came squeeling back. :@

you mean the book of three? yeah i read it its such a good read....unlike this

Frozen doesn't even try to like the books it's based on.

It's scary I don't like this film. It should of never been made for children

Yeah, as usual, the books are much better.

Has he read the book to you during your childhood?

Just call it something magical sounding like "the seer" or "the seance"

@@slevinchannel7589 I thought were talking about the pig

Or even just “the beast” make it sound super impersonal

It is even funnier in finnish: "possu"

I was not really bothered but "swine" would have been fine

There should be an extended edition.

I guess it was too dark for colorful pg Disney.

That last one i would find hard to believe, but then again we also have the little mermaid getting away with that once Ariel turned human...

@@GarryDKing Maybe the difference is that while they both are children, Ariel is 16 while Ellowny is 12.

@@Moonlitwatersofaqua wait Ellowny is 12?

Eh, GENUINLY thought the movie was better. Particularily the villain. (I mean, have you SEEN the OG art of The Horned King? and the other villains in the series aren't quite as good as the king either)

Pretty sure that's the plan.

I absolutely love the chronicles of Prydain! They are such great books! And Taran actually did something😂

To make good movies from good Books means keeping a balance between, what has to Be changed, and what Must not. They did a good Job in Lord of the Rings and a Bad one on the Hobbit ( though some scenes remained pretty awesome). To Change things is absolutely neccesary, it‘s all about keeping the spirit of the original in Every Adaptation alive, not holding on to every Little detail.

im gonna be honest i enjoyed this movie as a kid more than mulan or alladin. please dont murder me in my sleep.

For someone who plays D&D religiously, *Y E S* this is EVERY SESSION with my haggle of tards I call my companions :) Except our DM has some dignity and respect to let us do whatever we want and then punish us HEAVILY for it instead of just riding the shit wave lmao

I can hear the DM’s head explode from here. XD

Bitch, the bard is fleuder.

so accurate XD

Funnily enough, they actually statted out the Black Cauldron in an issue of _DRAGON Magazine…_

You bring news of the death of Luke Perry! You bring news of the upcoming Elton John biopic Rocketman! You bring news of the series finale of You're the Worst.

You bring news, of the Gummi Bears You bring news, of Ponyville You bring news, of the Gnomes You bring news, of Blue's Clue You bring news, of the Care Bears

@@enderfire1st_404 The last one is the absolute best because I know absolutely that was said officially in some form of media

"You bring news... of the puppy?" "You bring news... of the chocolate pudding?" "You bring news... of the pogo sticks?" "You bring news... of the berri-?" *Wood Nymph voice in the distance* "MY BERRIES????"

You bring news, of Fflewdurr Fflamm?

But he does have some similar speech patterns.

and in the books he IS Gollum

He sounds like Jar Jar if he inhaled a whole big tank of helium.

You got me wheezing at 12 am

@@LadyOnikara And got covered in honey and hair like Doofenshmirtz at the end of that one episode of Phineas and Ferb (where Candace has a bad haircut and the two of them have to fix it before she has to attend a benefit).

It's complicated

For me it was Malcolm at 21:36 , he's becoming my favorite part of those critics ^^

Nope. XD

That's exactly what I was thinking of when the Critic remarked on that part. Unfortunately, he thinks that his fans are sick of his older memes.

@@DeltaSpider_ Yes, key words being "he thinks".

what about lumbago this is a serious disease

Yep

I was waiting for it

Legit.

It’s the voice that annoys me, not his character. That voice is so pitched that it feels like my ears are gonna bleed.

@@griffh7747 Well, yeah. He's annoying. I said that. I was just giving my reason for not lumping him in with truly useless anti-characters like Jar Jar Binks. Can't bring myself to hate the little guy.

Fuck that thing

I am your 100th like. :)

I didn't know it was a book. Or three books. Or half of two separate books. Is this a "the books were better" scenario? I have to say, I'm kinda interested.

@@Obstreperous_Octopus : It's a series of five novels (and a collection of short stories), only the first two were the source material. Although inasmuch as Arawn and the Cauldron-Born aren't defeated until the last book, I'd say that this movie is a mash of _three_ books. And the books are definitely better.

(By the way, it's ‘Gwydion’.)

Why does this sound like LotR?

@@JaniacTheHedgehog : Well, they're both high fantasy. Lloyd Alexander based his books on Welsh mythology, but he couldn't help but be influenced by Tolkien, who revitalized that whole genre. And while Tolkien mostly used Germanic mythology as his inspiration, he pulled in a lot of stuff from everywhere across Europe, including some Welsh stuff. Indeed, just as Alexander couldn't help but be influenced by Tolkien, Tolkien couldn't help but be influenced by the legends of King Arthur, which were originally Welsh. So it's all connected.

I recently read the book they did the characters so wrong

Actually "Dd" in Welsh is pronounced like "Th", like in the words That or Then. So it's pronounced Fflewthir Flam

All of that sounds fucking awesome and I want to beat Katsenburg with Gurgi for denying us anything closer to that than this.

With elonwys name what language are you using to translate the meaning of the name? Because 'wy' does not mean water in Welsh water in welsh is 'dŵr', 'Wy' is egg in Welsh

You clearly don't speak Welsh at all. "Eilon" doesn't mean "fawn"; it isn't a word at all; "wy" isn't a word either, and the word for water is "dŵr".

Well the wording is only the gun doesn’t miss, the bullets still could

Not if you specifically intend to shoot “anything and everything I would use this gun to shoot if I had it for the rest of my life”.

You can still throw the gun if you waste the one bullet. It never misses after all. But yeah, maybe pick the sword.

Just buy more bullets dingus

Nathaniel Foga ouch

Oof!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

@@cadenmorris3680 That's what whoever made Care Bears told Disney. OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!

You know movie's bad when you compare it to Care bears

At least that girgy wasn't one

Jack Mazeika ah, a fellow defunctlandien

Great

Isn't the Horned King some sort of Lich?

Just googled it and holy shit that's amazing.

No, that's Bebe's kids

Comment s'more why don't ya

Luke too in Episode 4.

Aw, I actually kind of liked Kylo Ren. Sure he's no Darth Vader but I still got invested in him maybe in part to Adam Driver's performance.

Count again

It's based on a book called The cronicals of pydain

It was also tied to “Trick or Treat” so...

I doubt the uncut version would have made it to Toon Disney and become a big part of my childhood.

That one frame with the pig's face at 15:30 still gets me XD

WorkInProgress yes it would be a great idea for Disney to try making it better! Even when it was on Toon Disney, it was still good, even Dark Crystal was once shown on Disney Channel.

Black Cauldron=Disney's Chris Benoit

@@Markimark151 I always seem to forget that dark crystal is a Disney movie. I had watched and owed it for years on vhs before I realized.

More like milk. That movie was freaking good

SamuraiTurtle.26 The fighter of dimensions Ooh I agree man! One of the best films of 2019

Yeah, Original Sonic Live Action design would work. Though tbe redesign is actually quite good, the movie is decent as well.

At least it deserves its praise, unlike what people do with the Sonic movie.

Well , now “The Sonic Movie” is the best Video Game Movie ever made.

HYPERBOLE!!!!!!!

Mate its been a month

2015 dead meme 11 more months to go

Michael Plurad No. Disney only rejected his idea to do an animated adaptation of ‘The Secret of NIMH’ before the idea was agreed at Metro Goldwyn Mayer.

Which is odd because his next film would be A Troll in Central Park. Weird.

TheNerdyBirdyShow No. It was An American Tail (1986). A Troll in Central Park was in 1994

Bluth left because Disney's Son-in-Law Ronald Miller was an idiot.

He left because he didn’t like where Disney was going leadership wise.

No offense but you're just making "the book was better" argument. That's like going to a restaurant, ordering lasagna and then saying you prefer your moms. Same basis, same ingredients different people and execution. Just a bit of a jerk move.

Just out of curiosity, how long are the books and which is book 1?

@@joghnythegurue2710 restaurants don't base their food off your mom's food, so that's not a suitable example.

@@joghnythegurue2710 The problem is that this film was directed by Richard Rich, when has he directed a good film?

@@joghnythegurue2710 Incorrect, sir. If you're going to adapt a book into a film, you tell the author's story. If you want to tell your own story, you shouldn't adapt a book (unless you wrote it).

elden ring

When they said that the only way to stop the caudron was for someone to be sacrificed to it, I immediately thought "throw the dog in there".

I agree, I love this film! A youtuber called Breadsword did a fantastic video on why it deserves to be seen as a Halloween classic.

This film is gold!!!!

@@dariuswatson6298 I actually watched that video!!!! Lol

It definitely had some really cool visuals, and the concept was interesting. It's one movie that would probably do well with a remake (in the right hands).

I love this movie, but that might be interesting.

Damn. This will be the most hardcore Disney live action since pirates.

Your lying!

Oh god no

I'd rather they reanimate it but disney 2d theatrical animation is dead

And this really takes the cake: 14:09 😅

Mr. Flibble like the crow from Maleficent , Theova

I’m not familiar with the name Theova. Are you sure that’s correct? Also, Sleeping Beauty was a French story. If I was to hazard a guess, the first element “theo-“ is either from Greek “theos” meaning “God,” or from proto-Germanic “theud” meaning “of the people.” Either way, not Welsh.

Mr. Flibble idk , I can’t spell any words

Funny detail is that in Spanish I remember the bard was just called Faust, so... It's hilarious for me of the translators being "damn this name is difficult, we're gonna call him Faust"

Is that book series good?

R to the H to the E to the U M A TISM!

That's exactly what I thought he'd say!

Yeah!!!

“Rheumatism yes.” 8>

Yes, they still rent by mail. Pay $7.99 a month and you can rent all the DVDs you want via your mailbox

...Do they even give you the option to order the DVD? They used to, but I'd assumed that feature had long since been consigned to the Pit of Profiteering, aka, the Farm of Physical Media Flagellants. o.o

@Jake Rumschik Your dad is a hero of ancient times long forgotten.

@Jake Rumschik I still do as well. Sure, I can download the film or show from my Google play store, but once in a while the title is unavailable.

Annoying Orange looks to have gotten worse in the later years

It looks like it came straight from the Annoying Orange.

I think you mean NIGHTMARES!!!!!

That toaster is already haunting my dreams

That's why I played the Nightmare Face music

That movie was so relatable to me as a kid.

I loved that movie. It’s a good movie but I agree with Doug, if they’re gonna make it so fi they should’ve made it proper sci fi. But I’ve a soft spot for it cause I loved it growing up and the characters, story and animation is still good.

Also yes thank you. Looking darker doesn’t make it darker. Black Couldron has some dark themes, but never explores them properly. In treasure planet despite its light hearted moments actually let’s the death of characters sink in, it truly shows piracy, not the comedic types that were in Peter Pan, and still for all kids in difference from Pirates. Also it includes a “twist” villain that works greatly. Cause John Silver builds a real and emotional connection to Jim and is legitametly likeable and when he betrays Jim it’s not out of nowhere. So I agree, Treasure Planet can be argued as being darker than the Black Couldron.

More emotional, yes. Darker? U uh.

More emotional, yes. Darker? U uh.

more like flute of phlegm

@Pixel Wizard ok

How hard up was Nigel Hawthorne to play this role?

**Clears throat and summons the welsh** “Flywder Fleym”

That's "The Horned King's Ride", not Talwim's ride.

Boltizar nooo

So................... Not only did he have the look of a Raid Boss....... HE WAS...... Technically a raid boss in the Japan park

Defunctland is awesome

There was also a castle show that included Maleficent to promote the release of this film.

Don't lie. The fat stripper was hot.

@@kristaoconnors8878 "Don't shame me, it's my thing! I just love her rolls."

@@14mespider9 Like Donuts! Jelly Donuts!

We need full version, NOW!

The biggest problem with the film is that it was directed by Richard Rich. When has this guy ever been useful?????????

Then throw the dungeon in the dungeon, then throw the dungeon in the boy!

That and the Sword in the Stone--which was also loosely based off of a series of books as well.

Except Sword and the Stone is a better movie than this.

@@glowworm2 The Sword In The Stone is already getting a remake only for the Disney+ service.

I have though this for years the books were actually good, but the cartoon did a terrible job of adapting the books. I would love to see a live action version of The Chronicles of Prydain done right

I also think that two movies that really need a live action remake are treasure planet and Atlantis

Don't forget the hunchback of notre dame.

Sonic The hedgehog he said that.

No argument here

The original cut of the Black Cauldron was much darker than ALL of those you mentioned. It had Terran killing people on screen and brutal deaths with flesh being melted from bones, lol. In fact, the original cut of this movie scared the test audience into fleeing from the theater. The Black Cauldron, without being edited for kids, would have been Disney's first R rated film in its original format.

@@wiseguy01 honestly I desperately want to see the first version 😂 my cruel dark heart wants it

Maybe one day... 700 years after we're all dead

Sounds better

Actually Taran wanted to stop the Horned King in the beginning of the movie and was implied that the horned king has been around for a long time causing mayhem. Henwen was just a plot device to not only push Taran into that direction, but also to confirm the cauldron existent since the horned king had doubts about it "so it does exists!" When the horned king finally know the cauldron does exist, Taran wanted to destroy it to prevent the horned king from using it. The conflict for the hero was to stop the horned king from taking over the world by either not confirming the cauldron's existence or destroying the cauldron. Because as stated in the prologue, you can not only raise the army of dead, but also command the army to take over the world, this was shown how that was later in the film when the dead army seems invisible since it can turned living beings into dead skeletons (a scene that was cut out of the film). Also the horned king state this: "How long I have thirst to be a god among mortal men." There's more to it than having a story, you also need to be executed well, while your idea may seem like a story it is not guaranteed to be executed well. There is also no significance to your Calla's character either. Since the horned kings knows the pig can find the cauldron, there is no need to keep her alive especially long enough for her to make an escape. A story not only need's conflict, but also, character interaction, character development, climax, exposition, beginning, middle, and end. Your idea only has ideas and a beginning that's it.

Rahsaan Footman they tried to squish a whole book series into a one hour movie. And named it after the second book when it was about the first book. It was an all around mess :’) A pretty mess but messy all the same

Better solution, simply make it like the incredible book series.

@@icecreamhero2375 To say it sounds better is a friggin' understatement tbh. It sounds like an ACTUAL high fantasy to me.

THAT'S CAUSE HE DID AND GOT NO CREDIT.

It was in development so long that Bluth was probably still with Disney animation when it started.

Jay Play I see what you did there.

I still want James Bond month.

Or Hulu Month So we can Hulu and relax

@@FrequentUser99 definitely Bird Box, or just shitty Netflix movies.. Might I recommend Leo the Lion

You'll probably have to wait 'till March because since 2018 he decided to change the "Themed Month" event to March from that point on.

Don't worry, I'm sure Disney will get around to it eventually. They're trying to extend their copyright on their properties.

It would be too much to ask for Disney to erase the Gurgi character though, so I don't want a remake bringing him back again! Even as a young kid I hated that annoying piece of trash and he ruined the movie for me.

@@misseli1 idk if its about that. They havent redone bambi but did lion king, which doesn't need that. Its less than 30 years old. Bami is like, 75 years old, which thats more reasonable to re do. I think its only for money

Making copies of golden geese.

@@ghostuscoyote I thought he was cute tbh lol

He just hates Pokemon

@@GabrielUngacta "POKEMON SUUUUCKS!" _"LA-LA-LAAAAA"_

Pretty sure you're right. By the lore, I don't think it would count if you baited/trained any kind of animal to enter the cauldron. Even if the creature entered on its own power, it would need to possess the mental capacity to understand that it will die, what good will come of it, and decide that losing its life is worth the good it will do. Thus any non-sentient being wouldn't count.

All the movie line said was that it had to willingly go into the cauldron. Not that it had to know about its own sacrifice.

Yeah, that's like saying "To summon the dark lord of the abyss one must take the life of another sentient being beneath the light of the moon" and then killing a cockroach in the middle of the day since moonlight is just reflected sunlight, then crying about it not making sense of being rational when it doesn't work!

Well... the fly is WILLING to enter the cauldron for the sugar cube. Idk the rules must be analized deeper in other storys or in a remake of this.

@@archivistvault it willingly entered, it wasn't willingly sacrificing itself, thats the binding word

Yeah, but the original Beauty and the Beast made money and people know and like it. This film... Most people don't know that Disney made this film (and in their defence if you lost out to The Care Bears movie would you admit it existed?) Also while I can see you could get a decent movie out of a remake of this I'd rather see Atlantis the lost empire get one. Who doesnt want to see a giant robot lobster in live action?

A few years ago Disney actually reacquired the rights to the Prydain series with the intent to remake The Black Cauldron. I haven't heard anything since so I presume that project is dead.

Actually YES PLEASE! With the tone of something like the Jungle Book or Maleficent, a Black Cauldron remake could be something really special.

Marvelously said Ulick.

Unicorn Bunny The Lord of the Rings trilogy is live action fantasy and it’s one of the best film series of all time.

Judge Claude Frollo and Cruella de Vil: we are the scariest disney villains The Horned King: hold my beer

No professor call a khan is my favorite does ney villan.

Stormy Dragon To be honest we all forgot that Wales exists. I’m pretty most British people do as well.

Lol, the most people know about Wales is that Diana was called the Princess of Wales.

I didn’t know the names were Welsh 😅

I want to hear the film with specifically Welsh accents now, it might actually sound better.

Silly Jorge. Wales is a fish not a country.

Are kidding me? annoying Orange far out creepy then the brave little toaster because picture flute on Orange and facial expressions.

Synchro-vox animation will always be creepy.

I know, right?! They should have just had him animated like they did with Mrs. Brisby!

So was the film, meanin: the brave little toaster.

You should see the live action annoying orange, it’s 100% terrifying

I thought the same thing! I was expecting the comment section to be full of such comments but yours was the first I found in at least 10

With a stick.

And he got his ass kicked by a goat.

With a plastic knife as a weapon

*bottles clinking* 🎵Warrior! Shut the hell up!🎵

@Sebastian Emond now theres an idea... This kid and gurgi getting dimensionally teleported into 1970's new york just as The Warriors are first running from the amassed rival gangs.....one ill-timed "i'm a warrior " later,and we have some quality,though short lived, entertainment

They will remake it.

Sounds like a much more interesting character tbh I gotta read this book

You mean "R-R-R-R-R-RHEUMATISM."

Ha!

I was expecting him to make that joke...more disappointed than I care to admit that he didn’t

Old but gold NC meme.

Matthew Whisennand I was looking for this comment. Bless this!

IzzyVEntertainment7 yeahhh he’s just hates pokemon

@Queenofawesome25 *Sonic the Hedgehog trailer. Yikes is it awful (except maybe for Jim Carrey).

The Detective Pikachu movie doesn't suck.

He still hates Pokémon tho

YOu're all outdated now the new eldritch horror is Live Action Trailer SOnic

Ever read the books? I had the misfortune of only seeing this a few years ago after having read the series multiple times.

I lost it at the last description

Imagine if Dobby and Kreacher from Harry Potter were one house elf while chewing sand paper.

Imagine if Whitey from Eight Crazy Nights inhaled Sulfur Hexaflouride

Imagine Alvin the Chipmunk corrupted by Saurons Ring.

Imagine if Megaman from Captian N smoked an entire Marlboro factory then swallowed several pieces of broken glass.

Why not just go R rated? Imagine Disney going R rated. Wouldn't that be something?

The original cut of The Black Cauldron got an R rating. That's why Katzenberg freaked out, because he couldn't comprehend the idea of an animated film that wasn't meant for children.

They are supposedly rebooting it, the black cauldron was the first book of a series and their doing the whole series.

@@MrSHADOWfox99 Lets hope so.

@@vassel6643 No I'd just stick with PG-13, I mean they seem to be more comfortable with using that rating for some of the films.

van8ryan have any links?

Or by ... Y'know... Following the book

@@GraveRobbinJake it's a book adaptation? :O

I think it's part of a book series.

@@xLazySlacker its a combination of the first two books of the "Chronicles of Prydain." "The Book of Three" and "The Black Cauldron" believe it or not the characters are rather accurate to how they START at the beginning of the series, but all gradually mature and grow into their roles, namely Taren.

I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out there was a deleted scene of her revealing she wasn't a princess

I had exactly the same idea when the Horned King said that line.

It's kinda weird how that is supposed to be according to the books, actually. She is, in fact, a princess, but she was kidnapped as a baby by an evil sorceress. She never TELLS anyone she is a princess, though. That little tidbit is discovered by her friends later. Eilonwy actually has a very tragic back story. The reason for the kidnapping: Eilonwy's family line consists of very powerful female sorcerers wielding incredible magical powers, powers that are passed down mother-to-daughter (her kingdom was a Matriarchy). There are other magic wielders in the world, but the House of Llyr (Eilonwy's family) were truly exceptional. By the time of the Black Cauldron, Eilonwy is actually the last living member of that line, and the ancestral castle (due to an unspecified but relatively recent catastrophe) is about a mile offshore of the island they used to rule and partially flooded. The evil sorceress's plan: Raise Eilonwy to be her own personal magical super weapon and take over the known world. At the beginning of the first book in the series (The Book of Three - the Black Cauldron is the immediate follow up to it), Eilonwy believes that the evil sorceress is her Aunt, and they live together at a place called Spiral Castle. Eilonwy knows her "Aunt" is an evil sorceress, and despises her, but what can she do? Family, right? So one might ask, if the Sorceresses of the House of Llyr are so powerful, how was Eilonwy kidnapped in the first place? and also why didn't Angharad (Eilonwy's mother) use her awesome powers to find and rescue her daughter? Well to understand that you have to know that in the world of Prydain, magic both requires the caster to have innate magical potential and is realized by using complex incantations and rituals. The Llyr family spells are kept in a spellbook that requires illumination from a special magical light to even be read. Princess Angharad fled her kingdom to elope with a commoner, and took the family spellbook and magic light with her. At some point during their constant game of run and hide from the family, Angharad gave birth to Eilonwy, and her husband died. Rather than go back home and risk the utter rejection of her daughter, Angharad decided to tough it out and she kept her magic use very low-key (likely to avoid being recognized and captured, but this is never explicitly stated). It is at some point during this time that her own mother died and the unspecified disaster happened in the kingdom. It is likely that as far away from home as Angharad had managed to run, she didn't even know about it. And then Eilonwy was kidnapped and Angharad was brutally murdered while trying to find her missing daughter. So why didn't Angharad do an "Aw, fuck it" and use her magic before she died to find Eilonwy? Well, Eilonwy's bauble (the glowing ball that follows her around in the movie) IS the magical light required to read the spellbook. The bauble was magically bound to Eilonwy, and when she was kidnapped, the bauble automatically went with her, leaving Angharad with the now useless spellbook. The evil sorceress had assumed that the bauble was all that was required for the family spells and only realized her mistake when it was far too late. The spellbook vanished with Angharad and Eilonwy would not have access to the powerful and unique spells she was heir to. So the evil sorceress went to Plan B and tried to teach Eilonwy her own spells while always looking out for any sign of the lost House of Llyr spellbook that contained the super-premium stuff (spoiler alert: it gets found and abused in a later book). The problem with this plan was that most of the sorceress's spells were of the "inflict pain and suffering" and "make myself beautiful" variety, and Eilonwy, not naturally being very vain or inclined towards being evil, didn't really care for them. Thus her efforts in learning them were minimal. Of course, being a good person raised alone by an evil sorceress made Eilonwy's personality... odd. Taran and Flewdur Fflam were not rescued by Eilonwy from the Horned King's dungeons, they were rescued from the evil sorceress's. And Eilonwy did it to annoy her "Aunt". When they got lost in the ancient and unexplored tunnels under Spiral Castle and found the sword, removing it from the crypt caused the castle to collapse (via curse), theoretically killing the evil sorceress (spoiler alert: it didn't), and Eilonwy became homeless. At the end of the Book of Three, Dalben (the old man from the movie, and a potent sorcerer in his own right) offers to let her live with him and Taran while he attempts to make better arrangements for her, more suited to her rank (these arrangements actually sort of come to fruition in the third book, The Castle of Llyr, when she is sent off to learn how to be a proper lady and there is an attempt to wed her into the family that subsequently assumed the rule of her kingdom, thus legitimizing their rule). Her chores while living at Caer Dalben are the cooking and cleaning (make of that what you will). It is kind of a subtle gag throughout the Black Cauldron how many people really believe that she is nothing more than an orphan Scullery Maid. The books were very well written, and for the most part, everything that happens in them follows a logical progression. The problem with the movie is that it cuts out and changes so much stuff to fit into a single movie that the story is nearly incoherent. To properly do this book series justice would either require a full series or a film treatment like Lord of the Rings (not The Hobbit). There's just too much there to chop this into a 1.5 hour one-off film and have it make any sense. The movie we ended up with is a weird bastardization of about 3 or 4 chapters drawn from both The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron and kinda mixed together. That being said, I still mostly enjoyed the visual style and tone of the film.

@@michaelmiller3012 huh. What's this series called again?

@@MrsSetsuna101 The series is called the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. The books are, in order: The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer (personally my least favorite of the series), and The High King. He wrote a collection of short stories also set in Prydain called The Foundling, and the story of Princess Angharad's elopement is in there.

Susan Sheridan, Princess Eloinwy's voice actress, died only a couple years earlier from that as well.

LucienTheFirst He was amazing as The War Doctor!!! I really wished we got more episodes with him in it

@@ToonReel001 how she die?

@@slanetroyard92 I think it was cancer.

@@ToonReel001 wonder why it's always cancer.

I agree Literally a 2 bit knockoff Gollum lmao

well in the books he starts off as essentially Gollum

She's also a massive bitch, just like all modern Disney princess'.

Eonwe, I think. It's been a long time since I read those books.

*Eilonwy☺️

He did an "Old vs. New" episode about both versions of The Lord of the Rings a long time ago.

Louis Duarte But not the Rankin/Bass versions. And he needs to & should do an Old vs. New review of the animated 1977 The Hobbit versus the live action 2012-2014 The Hobbit Trilogy.

@@hobbitfan8686 Dude...The 2012-2014 Hobbit Trilogy SUCKED. There...it's been reviewed.

@@hobbitfan8686 That is an interesting idea. IMO the Peter Jackson version of the Hobbit wins by a landslide.

I love me some Rankin Bass Hobbit.

I'm still calling him Pickles. 😂

I just use Pickles (even though I speak some Welsh)

In case anyone is curious, it'd be "Fleother Flam" or something along those lines. ...I just study Welsh phonology as a hobby.

I think if someone makes an adaptation of something Welsh, they *should* know how to pronounce names. It's basic respect.

@@monsterhanna6691 I'm with the Nostalgia Critic I'm just going to call him Pickles from now on.

How about Donald Trump Cocky???

I am so gonna live by that quote from now on.