Product: The Last Unicorn [VHS] (1982)
Rating: 4.0
The Butterfly did not need new lines
This was the first movie I remember watching as a child and both the film and the book remain my all time favorites. I loved the soundtrack, the animation and the characters. I remember naming my first stuffed unicorn "Amalthea" after this film.I saw this DVD on sale at the grocery store and snatched it up, eagerly waiting for the day that my daughter would be old enough to enjoy it.It sat in the box for close to a year. While at an endurance ride, it began to rain and my student and I ran home to get this DVD to watch on her mom's laptop in the camper. All of us visibly cringed when we watched the bad redubbing of the same butterfly scene over and over again as he continued to ramble--horrible editing! "Now THat I'm A Woman" should have been left out, or at least grafted more smoothly into existing footage. Several scenes, such as when Amalthea looks at her reflection and unicorn paintings and the scene where she and King Haggard converse on the parapet are ruined by bad dubbing and editing. I've seen community college broadcasting students do better editing jobs.However, there are a few scenes that are somewhat interesting. One where Schmendrick overhears Lir calling him "that ridiculous magician" and the Midgard serpent in the carnival.Story is excellent, characters are truly unique, soundtrack is emotionally charged (I often cry) but there needs to be a "cleaned up" DVD release. I would also love to hear commentary from Peter Beagle and the cast and crew.