The Last Unicorn, such an underappreciated gem!

[Johnlindsey289]

It's an excellent and underrated 1982 animated fantasy from Rankin-Bass about a unicorn who thinks she is the last of her kind as she wonders into the dangerous but magical world beyond her to find them, she meets a handful of different people including a magician who magically transforms her into a beautiful human maidan to fool the bad guys who have the unicorns of the world hostage. A prince falls in love with her as she must decide for 3 days weither to save the unicorns of the world or stay lovey dovey with the prince.

It's a unique and one-of-a-kind animated movie with the voices of Christopher Lee, Jeff Bridges, Angela Lansbury, Mia Farrow, Rene Aubejenos, Robert Klein ( from "Tales from The Darkside Movie"), and the music of America. Does offer a nice soundtrack, good animation for it's time, laughs, tears, and not to mention when the unicorn becomes a human chick, she is absolutely soooooo hot! especially in her birthday suit scenes

It's a cross between " The Secret of NIMH" and " The Princess Bride", i highly recommend this movie! it's on DVD now to own and there's a live-action remake in the works coming next year which is a cash-in on the successes of "Harry Potter" and " Lord of the Rings" making the genre popular again and one of those remakes next to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Assult on Precient 13", "Dawn of the Dead", " Stepford's Wives", "Suspiria", and "King Kong" that now Hollywood is obessed with.

 

[Temple Fugate]

It's underappreciated? I know a lot of friends here in upstate New York that remember the movie very fondly. Many of us were excited when they announced the DVD.

 

[The Penguin]

It's an excellent and underrated 1982 animated fantasy

Animated you say? Then it goes here on TTZ, not Entertainment. So moved.

 

[Sharklady]

I agree that this movie is good enough to deserve a wider reputation. It has well-developed characters, a decent soundtrack, and a climactic scene that's among the most dramatic in animated history.

 

[Viceroy]

it's on DVD now to own

though if you look it up on Amazon;

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00019330Y/qid=1085109858/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-8371763-3539356?v=glance&s=dvd

there's tons of complaints about the poor quality.

 

[Skeeter]

I agree that this movie is good enough to deserve a wider reputation. It has well-developed characters, a decent soundtrack, and a climactic scene that's among the most dramatic in animated history.

I assume you mean the scene where the unicorn is changed into a human?

Spoiler

Or is it the scene where she is changed back to a unicorn?

 

[Sharklady]

> I assume you mean the scene where the unicorn is changed into a human? <

No, that scene is near the middle. I refer to the Final Confrontation on the beach.

 

[Poofie]

Wah,

Hi (I'm new)
The Last Unicorn is one of my favorite animation!!! Here in the Netherlands nobody knows this animation such a waste!! But fortunely something very nice happened to me. I now work at the Cartoonschool and the owner of the school had been in Japan somewhere 1990 and he was at the studio where they had made the Last Unicorn ^_^. And now i own an original Cel from the movie. BEAUTIFULL I've got the inked/colored cel and the pencil drawing.
You see he was allowed to choose an original cel ^_^..and now he's given them to me. I'm very happy with them. ^________________^so Nice..I've got a cel of the Unicorn running the pencilart is so beautiful drawn.

^________________^..it's nice to know that other people know this animation..
It's such a beautifull story...iff this story was done by Disney every1 would know this animation.

 

[Sublime420]

Well no wonder it's underappriciated, look at that cover. You'd have to have some large steel balls to go into a store and buy that. Never seen it though. A little before my time. Time of birth actually. I wonder if it's downloadable.

 

[Sharklady]

> You'd have to have some large steel balls to go into a store and buy that. <

I'll bet a lot of parents buy such videos all the time.

 

[Luna]

The Last Unicorn is one of my favorite movies,animated or otherwise(I also have the book)....The animation is awesome(esp. the transformations),and I love the characters esp. Unicorn/Lady Amalthea and Schmendrick the magician....I got the DVD as soon as I could when it came out...

 

[kaine23]

I barely remember seeing this on HBO as a kid.

 

[Bubblegum Girl]

I don't recall seeing the Last Unicorn. Maybe I did but don't remember after all it was in the 80s and I was a baby back then so I'll probably won't remember what happen.

 

[Lord Dalek]

I remember seeing it eons ago. Can't remember what it was about for the life of me.

A short IMDB trip later: Rankin and Bass farmed this one out to Germany eh? Thats odd, usualy they worked with Toei Doga and that Korean company.

 

[Prism]

The Last Unicorn was probably RankinBass' best animated film of all time. It had music by America,gorgeous art, diverse character designs,bittersweet poignant story and excellent animation. I think it's still out on VHS and it is one of the ultimate fantasy films ever. It was based off of a book, even though I can't recall the author's name. This is literally one of the best animated films of all time.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

It was a reeeeeally long time ago that I saw The Last Unicorn. The only scene I remember is one where the ground shakes under the unicorn and she falls and a volcano erupts.

That happened in the movie, right?

 

[shogunthethird]

ah yes, my first taste of animated female nudity before I discovered anime, I haven't seen it in decades but then if there's one thing Rankin-Bass does well it's animated hot chicks (Cheetara anyone?)

 

[Sharklady]

> It was based off of a book, even though I can't recall the author's name. <

That would be Peter S. Beagle. He makes a cameo in this movie, as the butterfly with the miniscule attention span.

> The only scene I remember is one where the ground shakes under the unicorn and she falls and a volcano erupts. That happened in the movie, right? <

Ah, not exactly.
But I shouldn't explain what does erupt, in case you have occasion to see it again.

 

[PowerZord]

Whoaaaaa this is super super old I was just a little kid when i saw it. I still remenber bits of it.

I saw it as a kid, but I Hardly remenber half of the movie

 

[Jave]

I vaguely remember this, but for what I remember this movie was very good.

The one scene I clearly remember is when the group meets a skeleton that wants to drink some wine, and the magician gives him an empty bottle which the skeleton happily "drinks".

Extremely good animation, specially coming from Rankin/Bass. Did thid originally air in theaters? Or was it made for TV?