Charles Solomon of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote that the "highly dimensional sound track, with its opulent Elmer Bernstein score and excellent vocal performances, is a technological work of art. But it is the animation itself with some of the best work the studio has produced since Walt Disney's death in 1966 that dazzles the viewer." He felt that if "its script and direction were equal to the animation, "Cauldron" would be a masterpiece to rank with "Snow White" and "Pinocchio", instead of the frustrating, beautiful, exciting and ultimately unsatisfying film that it is."