The Last Unicorn

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Army Wifee

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Does anyone around here remember this movie? I remember seeing it once on the Disney Channel back around 15 years ago. The only thing I really remember was the Red Bull and the cat.

I checked it out from the library recently and watched it. I thought it was a good movie. "Good" as in it's one of those movies I can only watch every once in a while.

My only complaints are that I wish that the animation was better and there were less choppy cuts. I also wasn't a big fan of a lot of the songs that was in the movie. I do however LOVE the music that plays at the end when all of the unicorns escape.
 
I got it on DVD, actually.

Very nice movie, especially since I'm a fan of the old Rankin/Bass specials based on The Hobbit and Return of the King.

Fun bit of trivia: the animation studio, Topcraft, later went on to become Studio Ghibli.
 
It's one of my favorite movies,animated or otherwise,and I've loved it since I first saw it as a child....I love the songs(especially the title song),the animation (and nice character designs as well....these are probably my favorite animated representation of unicorns),and the characters (my favorites being the Unicorn/Lady Amalthea and Shmendrick,though Molly Grue,King Haggard and Mommy Fortuna also have their moments....
One of my favorite quotes comes from this movie,Shmendrick's line "There are no happy endings,because nothing ends"....I also love the scene where Molly confronts the Unicorn (because she's waited her whole life to meet one,and only now,as a bitter,grown woman,she does,rather than meeting one as a young,innocent girl)....
The DVD releases have been pretty lackluster,though...the first one doesn't have any extras,and the transfer's not much better than the VHS one....
the second one has a nice extra (an interview with Peter S. Beagle,who wrote the book the movie is based on),and a great transfer,but it cuts out some minor swear words (a couple uses of "hell" and "damn"....personally,I feel that Molly's rant against the Unicorn loses some of the impact by cutting out her saying "DAMN YOU!,Where have you been?")....
 
I actually saw this in the theaters as a child and it blew my mind. There were some very indelible visuals in this film. An all-time favorite.
 
I saw it for the first time about 6 years ago and I felt it was a fantastic movie with a very touching ending, I basicly put myself in the female unicorn's shoes and asked myself what I would do if in her situation and I broke down and cried at the end of the movie, it was that touching. I often wonder why it took me so long to see The Last Unicorn since it was made a long time ago, I guess maybe I figured it was a girls movie or something and I let my macho side get in the way, I wish I had given it a chance sooner and I have since added the film to my DVD collection.
 
I saw this back when I was a kid on HBO or something. The final scenes stayed with me all my life whenever I look at the ocean. I own the dvd now, and its great to see the story behind the film and novel.
 
This is a fairly well-regarded movie at rabroad, and yes, many posters here have seen it.

I think there's a melancholy and magic to it not found in many Western productions. Of course, it was actually a joint American-Japanese production, but still, it's written and adapted from a western fantasy book.

Even though technically it isn't the best, the design work still holds an allure and mystery to it. And "anime" Amalthea actually works really well for the character.

I recently checked out the comic book version that came out and the artwork doesn't hold the same appeal as the animated version for me.
 
This movie used to come on in the afternoon almost every weekend on my local fox station. I remember the ending being depressing, even at that age, but I don't really remember the details.
 
It is fantastic. Perhaps my favorite product of the 1980s, in fact; it's definitely way up there as a personal favorite of mine. It's aged so gracefully with so many sublime moments, and there's plenty of heart and feeling backing up the journey that makes up the structure of the story. I wouldn't call the ending depressing, more like acutely bittersweet. It gives the same sort of feeling that Lord of the Rings does: things do work out, but there is loss along the way and a price to be paid. But despite that, the Unicorn at least does reconcile herself with the regret she has out of her feelings for Lir. In essence a shred of humanity remains, and I think the way she looks at it says a lot considering her utter horror at being human earlier in the film. She lost something and gained something in return. If she could do it over again, would she not love Lir? It doesn't look that way to me.

I'm waiting on a signed copy of the book to be shipped to me from Conlan Press. Can't wait.
 
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