Product: The Last Unicorn [VHS] (1982)
Rating: 3.0
A cut up classic
I just love this movie and own an older copy I bought when I was young on vhs video (along with numerous copies of the book). I was really excited to see this movie on dvd, expecially in an anniversary addition.I of course bought it, the excitment of what it had to offer growing.I will start with the bonus features, these are a bit of a disapointment, there was a lot they could have added, deleted scenes, artists scetches, cells, the soundtracks, an actual interview with Peter S. Begal, none of which they had. And while I read on the back what fetures they offered, there is no actual interview with Peter S. Begal just him telling you the story line (in case you didn't watch the movie) and Schmendrick gallery was simpley a few frozen scenes from the movie and 2 books covers (out of many.)But the movie still was the most important part to me so I could forgive. And the movie I will admit they restored the color on which was refreshing. My vhs video appears quite washed of color throughout and where it does have color it was way over saturated so the color restoration was a nice change. But this I will say is my only compliment to this dvd, for restored color it is nice.What they did not restore was the scene where they were trying to find their way down to the red bull and made the skull laugh (the actual scene of what they did that made him laugh.) was left out, thye did leave in the scene where he turns water into wine (some versions had that left out because of the religious reference) but not only that they also blanked out the words "damn" in two places and "hell" which seem very awkward. (Where Molly first sees the unicorn and says "damn you where have you been", when Prince Lir is trying to complete his poem, and when roak says hell asking mommy fortuna what they stopped for.)The older vhs version I have at least has the original words in it. Apparently the company was trying to rerlease the movie for 5 year olds not fans.Generally dvd rereleases (especially anniversary additions) have ADDITIONAl scenes, not more cut scenes.It was a large disapointment that they would cut it up more before releasing it. I am glad I have the VHS, it is something to collect, the dvd is something to use and play but not an edition worthy of collecting. Unless you desperately prefer the dvd format you might as well stick with your vhs copy if you have one.