Product: The Last Unicorn [VHS] (1982)
Rating: 3.0
Great new presentation, but not quite the movie you remember
This DVD fixes almost all of the problems I had with the last DVD release of this movie. The picture is clear and presented in widescreen format. The sound is great and the menus are actually navigable. Unfortunately, this release has one huge drawback: it's censored. Lionsgate has apparently decided that words such as "hell" and "damn" have no place in a children's movie, and censored such words from this version of the film. While this would probably not be at all noticeable for people who have only seen the film once or twice or are watching it for the first time, for someone who grew up watching the movie regularly the changes are actually very distracting.I was so looking forward to seeing my favorite childhood film the way that it was meant to be seen, but once again I was ultimately disappointed. It's nice to have an autographed copy of the film (available from Conlan Press), but I will probably never watch it again. The best version available is still the German DVD (Das Letzte Einhorn, only playable on region 2-enabled DVD players), which can be bought from Amazon.de.