Obviously I can’t remember much about the movie but the one scene I do remember is the characters needed to go up this makeshift elevator kind of like a box with a pulley or lever or something of the sort.

Anyways they knocked out the person guarding it and they felt bad so they took him along and made their way up.

I think they were animals of sort but it was so long ago when I watched it. I also think there was some sort of magic involved.