
The Last Unicorn - spoilers!!!
Review created: 04/22/07(updated 04/22/07)

The Last Unicorn is and always has been one of my favorite movies of all time! If you love unicorns - you can't pass up this animated movie about the last unicorn.
The movie starts out: a unicorn standing in the middle of the woods, wondering is she the last? What has happened to the rest of the unicorn - surely she cannot be the LAST. The unicorn learns from a butterfly that a powerful force known as the Red Bull has herded all the unicorns to the ends of the earth. She searches out to find other unicorn, but to her dismay she is captured and put on display in a freak circus - however mortal men cannot see the magical horn (they see unicorns as horses or mares), so of course there is magic involved. She escapes with the help of a friendly incompetent magician and starts her journey again. Other characters join later. When the unicorn reaches the castle of King Haggard, supposed keeper of the Red Bull she has an encounter with the Red Bull and she learns she cannot combat him, however Schmendrick (the magician) at the last moment changes the unicorn into a human to protect her. In human form, the Red Bull is not interested in her and leaves.
Schmendrick, Molly (another character), and the strange young woman go to King Haggard's castle (which of course is at the ends of the earth) and seek entry so they can possibly learn more. The new human formed unicorn is introduced to the King as Lady Amalthea. The magician tries to find a way to stay with the King, as the only occupants in the castle are the King and his adopted son Prince Lir. The King, for dark and mysterious reasons of his own lets them stay, replacing his competent on-call wizard with Schmendrick, and setting Molly to work in the kitchen. Gradually forgetting who she was, Amalthea (the unicorn) becomes more and more human with each day passing, and falls in love with the Prince. In a mixed complexity of fate and feelings, she must struggle with losing her immortal self even as she continues to find out what the King has done with the unicorns. It is later revealed that the King, having grown bored with almost everything that life has to offer, ordered the Red Bull to herd the unicorns of the world into the sea beside his castle. There he alone could watch his unicorns, the one thing that still gave him a measure of happiness.
In the end, Schmendrick, Molly, Lir, and Amalthea confront the Red Bull in his lair. Schmendrick reverses the spell, turning Amalthea back into the unicorn, but she does not want to leave Lir. The Bull drives her toward the ocean, as he drove all the other unicorns, but Lir comes between them and is killed. Grieving, the unicorn turns on the Bull and forces him into the sea. The other unicorns come out of the water, destroying Haggard's castle as they rush past; the unicorn restores Lir to life before she, too, returns to her home in the forest.
Little girls LOVE this movie! If you aren't a little girl and you have a fascination with unicorns, you won't be disappointed with this movie! Simply one of the best unicorn movies ever made!
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