Product: The Last Unicorn [VHS] (1982)
Rating: 3.0
The Unicorn's Long Road
The Last Unicorn, is the story about the las unicorn in the world. It's a beautiful fairy tale, that does not have a happy ending.The Unicorn after (hearing a man saying that she was the last, and talking to a butterfly about the Red Bull. )Goes on a long and perils journey to find her fellow unicorns.On her way she meets Mommy Fortuna a witch who captures her, and keeps her in her carnival.However, the unicorn does not stay her long. Schmendrick the witches magician saves the unicorn and he goes along with her on her journey.Schmendrick gets 'kidnaped' more or less and he meets Caption Cully and his men. There he makes appear Robin Hood with his magic. The men are no longer amused by this and they tie him up to a tree.The magician does a foolish spell and makes the tree come to life. The Unicorn saves him and they soon continue on their journey, this time accompanied by Cully's cook Molly.The three of them eventually make it to Haggared's castle and the unicorn is too afraid to face the bull.The magician turns her into a human girl to protect her from the bull.When Schmendrick, the Unicorn, and Molly finally meet King Haggared, and his adopted son Lir.Schmendrick tries his best to help the Unicorn ( now called Lady Amalthea, name given to the unicorn by Schmendrick.)The young Prince falls in love with Lady Amalthea and he does good deeds to impress the girl.Molly tells Lir that maybe the Lady Amalthea does not like good deeds.Lir soon tries to find out more about the women he loves, and fallow her , and she starts to love him in return.However, the poor Princes only learns that the women he loves is a unicorn.A beautiful gem of a movie with an ending that doesn't usually happen. While a good movie the DVD format is awful. I would either order it over seas in the UK or wait 'till it's re-lease in March to get it.