Year: 1982, Director: Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Bass, Nostalgia Score: 5/5, Most recent watch: Several times as an adult. Best quote: "There are no happy endings because nothing ends." You know, for a movie with a G rating, The Last Unicorn covers some fairly adult themes, like mortality, regret, and trees with giant boobs. I've also seen this movie on several Internet lists with titles like, "10 Most Violent Children's Movies" and "15 Unintentionally Terrifying Kid's Films." And, honestly, it is pretty intense for something that's supposedly appropriate for toddlers. It also seems like the novel the movie is based on is not a children's or young adult book, as I had originally assumed. So, that may also go a ways towards explaining why it's so dark. To be sure, the list of potentially frightening or age inappropriate content in The Last Unicorn is pretty long, but I don't remember ever finding it upsetting wh...
A project to virtually recreate my childhood VHS collection. Once a week, I'll be watching a kids' movie released sometime between 1980 and 1999, and writing about the experience of seeing them again as an adult.