Wonderful character development!

Fresh and Exciting

Excellent but underrated film

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

As popular as unicorns are, it's strange that there aren't more movies about them. This is probably the most famous unicorn movie. I love unicorns! I'm probably expressing some bias when liking this movie simply because of how much I love them. This is still quite a solid film with good writing. I love how during the middle of the film, they do this completely different thing.They turn the unicorn into a human! As a human, a prince falls in love with her, but it's complicated because she's well, a unicorn. It seems as though she's actually going to stay as a human at the end of the movie, but ends up going back to being a unicorn. The prince didn't get the girl he wanted, but I really felt what they did was unique and mature. The unicorn is beautifully drawn and such a likeable character. ***

The last unicorn is looking for her kind. The butterfly tells her about the Red Bull driving all the unicorn away. Mommy Fortuna is able to see the unicorn but others only see a horse. She puts the unicorn in her carnival with the other animals which her illusionary spells turn into magical creatures. Amateur magician Schmendrick helps the unicorn escape. They are befriended by Molly Grue. As the Red Bull confronts the unicorn, Schmendrick turns her into a human being and the Red Bull walks away. The trio arrives at King Haggard's castle following the Red Bull to search for the lost unicorns. Haggard and his adopted son Prince Lir live in unhappiness. Schmendrick names the unicorn-turned-human, Lady Amalthea and Prince Lir falls in love. Haggard dismisses his magician Mabruk and replaces him with Schmendrick when Molly Grue commented on how unhappy he seems to be.This has a 70's feel with the rock ballads and animation. It has a romanticism and a slightly adult feel. The dialogue is a little clunky at times but voice work is generally good. Schmendrick could have a younger voice. Nothing against Alan Arkin but Schmendrick is almost childlike to me. The story is fanciful with a soft beauty. Mabruk should have more to do. The best bit is the skeleton desperate for wine. With everybody looking for IP, this could be a great one to make live action.

The Last Unicorn isn't My Little Pony. It uses a variety of colors beyond pink and light blue. The animation is artful, with some beautiful drawings of nature. Its characters are more complex than the typical cartoon on Saturday morning, and it has a greater sense of adventure and danger.But The Last Unicorn is a kid's film. Adults can tolerate it well enough, but I wouldn't go see this on my own. The plot does make attempts to stray from the norm, but its pretty simple, reliant on magic to cause or solve problems in an instant. I found the characters either too loud, too arrogant, too slapsticky, or too typical. I think they were made more relateable to kids than to reality.It was alright. I wouldn't watch it again, but it gets some bonus points for not condescending to its audience. Its a good film to watch with your kids, around 7 and up. Its important to add some magic to their childhood, and I feel this is a film they will remember for years.

"The Last Unicorn" is an animated film with great drawings, decent animation, a mediocre plot, and horrible pacing. The pacing is dictated by the music. The music is both a strength and a weakness.The plot could easily have been condensed into way less than that of a feature film. Frequent breaks for musical numbers is the only reason it reaches 90 minutes. And even then, the non-music parts of it are rather slow. I'm not saying the music in the movie is a bad thing, but it both lives and dies by it. On one hand the music isn't that great by itself, but on the other hand the movie seems designed to fit itself around the tone of the music. And in that way it fits very well.The one thing I loved about this movie was the drawings. Especially when they showed the darker and evil characters. The drawings for the red bull and harpy Celaeno were amazing. The contrast to the unicorn and her overly contoured childlike drawing helped set them apart and make them amazing as they were.The movie is full of holes if you are thinking about it too hard. It's too slow, the music isn't that good, Molly Grue cries out "Schmendrick!" at least 10,000 times. It's one of those movies with a good concept and good morals, but if you try to dissect it you will succeed. I'd bet young girls will love it. To an adult it's not as unbearable as the title may suggest, but it's nothing spectacular.