The Last Unicorn (DVD)

This is a review of the film only. The DVD is available as a region 2 from Amazon from £3.98. It is easy to forget, in the computer age that is 2009, that animated films were once all hand drawn; each cell painstakingly illustrated; backgrounds pencilled and inked, the artists' hands shaping the final product. A Ralph Bakshi film is immediately recognisable as coming from his studio, and instantly distinguishable from an offering from the Disney conglomerate. To modern eyes, much of the animation from the late 20th Century may seem primitive, lacking the 3D rendering of today's computer generated products, and also lacking the consistency of style that most ...  Read the complete review

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 what they have to say. This serene, beautiful, pure, and immortal being is alarmed at the prospect that she may be the only unicorn left in the world. Where have all her people disappeared to? She has never needed any other company than the simple knowledge that their were others of her kind out there in the world, but now she cannot find a moments peace as she debates whether or not to search for them. Unicorns were not ...  Read the complete review