Last Unicorn

Pros: Very sweet. Better than the book in some ways.
Cons: 21 years have taken their toll.

Peter S. Beagle’s 1968 novel The Last Unicorn is one of the best loved (and best deserving of love) fantasies ever written. Beagle writes with a lavish grace. He can stir sentiment as easily as cite ...

Pros: A fine animated story for young and old.
Cons: One must be willing to look through the eyes of a child once again.

One of the real triumphs of animated film, The Last Unicorn, was released back in the early 1980s. It was the children’s movie made from Peter S. Beagle’s 1968 book The Last Unicorn, which has sold more than five million copies ...

Pros: Extraordinarily faithful adaptation, well voiced, charming story
Cons: Gratuitous songage

This is a review of the film only.  The DVD is available as a region 2 from Amazon from £3.98 or from Amazon.com as a region 1 for $7.49 new or $2.54 used!  It is also, apparently, available as a video on demand.It is easy to ...

Pros: Absolutely fantastic voice over cast
Cons: Never was a fan of the drawing style by Rankin/Bass

After my Top 10 Animated Goodness Movies list, in which I’d listed The Hobbit, someone mentioned I should have put The Last Unicorn instead. I hadn’t seen the movie – until now. Before I bothered with the ...

Pros: Wonderful animation, good music, and a poignant and magical tale.
Cons: None, even the sad parts are appropriate to the story!

Two huntsman enter a forest that is never touched by winter and begin talking about the belief that these woods belong to a unicorn, and unicorns in general. Only their horses know that a real unicorn follows them and is listening with keen interest in...

Pros: GREAT story, terrific animation, memorable music, magical and utterly delightful!
Cons: A couple of very mild curse words...WHY??

"The Last Unicorn" is a lovely fable sure to enchant and delight those of us who love fairytales and somewhere, deep inside, still believe in magic. But before you allow your horse/unicorn-loving 5-year-old daughter to watch it, be warned that, despite...

Pros: Everything: animation (even if it's vintage), music, storyline, actors
Cons: Taking out the two "damn"s that make their appearances--come on, people!

Being born in 1985, this movie The Last Unicorn had been out for a few years before I had the opportunity to see it. Even at the age of 3 onward it was my favorite film, to the extent the local movie rental store told my mother she'd give it to me for ...

Pros: Excellent artistry, a profound story and a talented roster of celebrity voices
Cons: Film's decidedly moody tone might be too depressing for young children; it's not on DVD!

In my youth, I watched a lot of television. I don't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing, but I, like many of the kids of my generation (yes, the dreaded "X"), was pretty much glued to the TV set for all of my formative years.

My...

Pros: Beautiful soundtrack, lasting impressions
Cons: Depressing, possibly scary

First, I have to correct the synopsis on the main Epinions page. The unicorn is a girl, and thus "she" not "he."

Now that that's done... I saw this movie when I was in the lower grades, and I remember loving the songs,...

Pros: Hauntingly beautiful timeless story.
Cons: Terrible DVD, Mia Farrow's singing voice.

When I was a young child, I was obsessed with horses. I even saved my money at ten years old to pay for riding camp. Unicorns, though a tad girly, were by extension horses to me, and if a video had a picture of one on its cover, it was all it took to get ...

Pros: Wonderful music, great movie
Cons: I don't own it... yet.

Seeing this title sure brought back memories. It came out in a time when unicorns were every young girl's fantasy and catching and actually owning one was their dream.

I not only watched this movie over and over as a child, I tape recorded off...

Pros: beautiful tale, score, and story
Cons: hard to find to rent or buy

Once Upon A Time...

When I was a little girl, it was a weekly tradition to rent a movie. Since it was just me and my two older sisters, who all had relatively the same taste, it was never a problem to agree on a movie. One of the...

Pros: lovely animation, story, acting
Cons: not for little kids

This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I have had it in my video collection since I was a child. Though, I am sure my parents never bothered to watch it with me as it is not appropriate for small children. There are portions of the movie that...

Pros: Beautiful story, great music, touches your heart
Cons: ending is a little sad

The story of "The Last Unicorn" is really a wonderful magical tale for all ages. People everywhere will enjoy it. Truly it has a simple plot, but a wonderful story none the less.
It is the tale of a unicorn who while walking in her forest...

Pros: Great music, good animation, wonderful characters, follows the book well.
Cons: None

This was one of the first books I ever read, struggling through it at a young age. Then I saw the movie version at the video store. I rented it with little hope that it would be as good as the book. Rarely are the movies as good as the books, in my...