The Last Unicorn (DVD)

This movie is based on the book by Peter Beagle and written around the same time as The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Narnia. The story is about a unicorn that one day discovers that she may be the only one of her kind left. Disbelieving but unable to rest until she knows what has become of her kind she sets out to look for them in a fantasy medieval world. During her journey she finds friends in a hapless magician who longs to use "real" magic and a world weary woman who is bitter at a word that failed to fulfil her dreams. Together they travel to find the red bull and the rest of the unicorns. This animation is a true classic from a time where each ...  Read the complete review

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