More than ten years and $25 million in the making, and at those figures, rather a large disappointment. The Disney studio's attempt in the Eighties to reassert itself in the animation field seems to have an eye as much on George Lucas and Steven Spielberg as on Pinocchio or Peter Pan. The settings and atmospheric effects are drawn with unfailing care: the veiled fairy kingdom located below a whirlpool is particularly well done, and the predatory swoops of a pair of winged serpents are truly exciting -- and so forth and so on. But the story is one of those sub-C.S. Lewis, sub-Tolkien Instant Myths, to do with magic swords and clairvoyant pigs and other wanton hocus-pocus, and the personages who populate it are either bland or cloying. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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