Product: The Last Unicorn [VHS] (1982)
Rating: 1.0
USA hates animation
Ah, another Rankin-Bass film goes to the butcher shop! The problems remain the same. What are they doing with the soundtracks to these films? How can they possibly screw them up in this way? And how can they do this over and over AND OVER? To make this mistake once as a quick way to make a quick buck during all the hype over LOTR made sense, but here's a film that no one is going to buy unless they are already a fan. Why give it the same lousy treatment?In fact, if they were in such a rush, why not just somehow duplicate the german DVD? It seems like it would actually have been MORE work to do the terrible job they did.And like The Hobbit, what really blows my mind is the lowsy artwork. The hobbit in particular had fantastic cover artwork, etc. thanks to the magnificient talent of Topcraft (that would go on to become studio ghibli, surprise!), but instead it got a truly bad cover (don't worry, they're busy doing the same sort of facelift to all the children books you grew up loving too!). The last Unicorn suffers the same exact fate. Due to Amazon being a global store, you can just go to the bottom of the page, click on germany and type Last Unicorn right into the search engine. When you see how great that cover looks, you'll never want to look at this one again.I really don't understand what gives. During the mid 70's through the very early 80's, some strange, and even intelligent animation was coming out--animation that was more literate and less song and dance. Anyone remember the Mouse and his Child animated film? I never expected to see any of this stuff come out on DVD because of the very small audience for it, but it seems if you wait long enough, all things will come back into print. Just don't expect any love to be put into it.