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Summary: Widescreen edition available at Amazon UK
Review: (...), you've heard from other reviewers, this is a sucky full frame edition that looks like was made from old VHS master. So save your money and watch your old tape. Or, you can purchase a region 2 edition of this movie from Amazon UK, which is in widescreen presentation. I bought mine a year ago and have enjoyed it numerous times. But you'll need an all-region DVD player for that. Look online for them. They don't cost much more than a regular R1 player.
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Summary: Great movie. Terrible transfer to DVD.
Review: I've loved this movie since I was very young. It's charming and fun. This DVD transfer seems to be even poorer quality than my old VHS copy. If you still regularly play videos, it would be better to purchase this on VHS. The picture quality on the DVD is poor, and there are no worthwhile extras.
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Summary: Possibly the worst DVD transfer I've ever seen
Review: First things first: This is a nice movie for kids, particularly little girls. The story is compelling, though the animation is pretty lousy. The music, written by the estimable Jimmy Webb and sung by America, is quite good. I'd give the movie 3 stars on the whole, 4 stars for a little girl. Now for this particular DVD. It's absolutely attrocious! The picture looks no better than an average VHS cassette. Worse (MUCH worse), the soundtrack suffers from noticable pitch inconsistencies. It sounds like a dub from a BAD cassette tape. There is no excuse for this, and I've never seen (or heard) a poorer DVD transfer. If you already own this movie on VHS, there's no reason to spend any money to get his version. It's surely no better than the copy you have, and is (because of the soundtrack wow and flutter) arguably worse.
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Summary: The Unicorn's Long Road
Review: 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.
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Summary: Well-made film, but terrible DVD!
Review: Rankin-Bass' The Last Unicorn has held up surprisingly well as a film, but the DVD treatment it's received is just insulting. With jittery grain, scratches, and dirt marring every scene, a dark and muddy look, out-of-focus transfer, scratchy audio, and insulting pan-and-scan (yes, there are scenes where two people are speaking and NOBODY's in the frame!), it's barely watchable. Add to that the complete lack of extras and you're better off buying this one on VHS.
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Summary: The Last Unicorn, First movie
Review: When I was child, my father and I would watch this movie together, I would watch it everyday, as would any other child who is in love with a movie. This is a good movie filled with fun, sunshine,love, magic, and much more to attract the intrest of any child from 0-100 years of age.
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Summary: USA hates animation
Review: Ah, another Rankin-Bass film goes to the butcher shop! The problems remain the same. What are they doing with the soundtracks to these films? How can they possibly screw them up in this way? And how can they do this over and over AND OVER? To make this mistake once as a quick way to make a quick buck during all the hype over LOTR made sense, but here's a film that no one is going to buy unless they are already a fan. Why give it the same lousy treatment? In fact, if they were in such a rush, why not just somehow duplicate the german DVD? It seems like it would actually have been MORE work to do the terrible job they did. And like The Hobbit, what really blows my mind is the lowsy artwork. The hobbit in particular had fantastic cover artwork, etc. thanks to the magnificient talent of Topcraft (that would go on to become studio ghibli, surprise!), but instead it got a truly bad cover (don't worry, they're busy doing the same sort of facelift to all the children books you grew up loving too!). The last Unicorn suffers the same exact fate. Due to Amazon being a global store, you can just go to the bottom of the page, click on germany and type Last Unicorn right into the search engine. When you see how great that cover looks, you'll never want to look at this one again. I really don't understand what gives. During the mid 70's through the very early 80's, some strange, and even intelligent animation was coming out--animation that was more literate and less song and dance. Anyone remember the Mouse and his Child animated film? I never expected to see any of this stuff come out on DVD because of the very small audience for it, but it seems if you wait long enough, all things will come back into print. Just don't expect any love to be put into it.
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Summary: WONDERFUL ANIMATED FANTASY; MEDIOCRE DVD!
Review: I wasn't expecting much from this dvd release of the wonderful, lyrical animated fantasy "THE LAST UNICORN", and that's what I got. It is sad that some studios just don't care about the discs they release. I'm sure the folks who put out this disc saw this as just some dumb "children's cartoon" and saw no reason to do anything special for the release. There are no special features of ANY KIND. No photos. No trailers. No commentary. NOTHING. But that could've been overlooked had the film been given a nice presentation. But they failed even there. The film is not anamorphic widescreen but a poor full screen transfer which is a major disappointment. And yet, the film is still a magical experience not to be missed. This is a marvelous film. It is beautifully animated, written (by Peter S. Beagle based on his novel) and acted by an all-star cast of fine vocal talent (Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee, Angela Lans bury, Jeff Bridges, Tammy Grimes and more). Mention, too, must be made of the beautiful songs written by Jimmy Webb and sung by the group America ("Horse With No Name", "Tin Man", "Sister Golden Hair"). They perfectly complement the mood of the story. So, in spite of the frankly poor presentation of this dvd, I did enjoy the film because the film is so good it can survive even a botched job like this one. I only hope that someday some folks who truly care about films (like Anchor Bay Entertainment) will put out this film on dvd and give the film the presentation it deserves. It is a fantasy masterpiece! - George Bauch.
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Summary: Great movie, bad DVD...
Review: The Last Unicorn is an excellent and touching film, created by the same people who animated The Hobbit. It remained as true as practicable to the book by Peter S Beagle, and is still a delight to watch. However, the first DVD release is rather disappointing. Very little effort was apparently made: the video quality is poor, and the film it was taken from is clearly badly in need of restoration. There are no special features, and the packaging looks babyish--the characters are drawn with little effort at looking true to the film, and the blurb on the back was clearly written by some hack who didn't bother to watch the film. Don't be in too much of a rush to replace your cherished old VHS, if it's still in good shape! Let's hope that they put pit a higher-quality copy in the future.
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Summary: GOOD Movie BAD DVD
Review: I was so disapointed that the DVD didn't have ANY special feautures. EVen a comentery would have been nice, or a beter DVD cover.
I was also disapointd that it wasn't wide screen either. I really hope they will re-release a much better DVD offer. At this moment I wish I lived in the UK to get a beter copy and deal.
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