The Princess and the Goblin (1991), 5

G | 1h 22min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 20 Dec 1991
The story is about the adventurous Princess Irene. The princess is off playing in the woods when she is attacked by goblins pets. She is saved by a mining young warrior boy named Curty. They quickly become friends and get into a lot of trouble. The goblins attack and Irene must rely on her own magic to save Curty, and in turn the entire kingdom.
Director: József Gémes
Stars: Claire Bloom, Joss Ackland, Roy Kinnear.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107875/
Watched online, mediocre copy.

1 song in the Soundtracks; hard to say if more were sung or if this was sung multiple times.

Not released in US until '94; 1st released in Hungary, one of the countries of origin.

Rated 6.9 by 2.1k IMDb voters who see something I don't.

The kingdom's industry is mining, but an underground nation of goblins wants them gone and is damming a river to flood the mines. The princess encounters them in the forest, and with the help of her great grandmother's ghost learns to find her own magic to help defeat the goblins when they attack the castle and when she and the villager boy go underground to learn more of the destructive plans.

It's just a sequence of getting into and out of trouble over and over, and gave me no reason to care about anyone or anything onscreen.

int'l indie; dir. Gemes; 5