The heavy-hoofed red bull and an interlude in which the unicorn is conscripted into a traveling circus alongside a harpy are so visually striking and wordlessly monstrous that they’ll lodge themselves in your gray matter forever.

| Jan 22, 2025

Would the act of giving The Last Unicorn a less-than-stellar rating be tantamount to kicking a puppy?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2024

It has a certain magic to it that speaks to young audiences in particular, while never shedding its mature perspective ...

| Aug 19, 2024

The 1982 cartoon adaptation of The Last Unicorn blends genres and eras to bring the shocking challenge of beauty to the screen.

| Dec 13, 2022

While it shows its age, it is carried along by a particularly strong story and a sophisticated script, a kind of anti-“Little Mermaid” fable where turning human is not necessarily the vaunted goal.

| Dec 3, 2022

You cannot appreciate The Last Unicorn with coldness in your heart, but if you are open to it, like the unicorn herself, it will show you something true. About life, about love, about loss, and about yourself most of all.

| Nov 29, 2022

This beautifully animated film features one of the original all-star voice casts and boasts no shortage of kindertrauma nightmare fuel. Complaints that the songs haven't aged well ignores the cultural legacy of this iconic text. This is a great adaptation

| Nov 17, 2022

My guess is that The Last Unicom falls into a dangerous no-man's-land: Its storyline is too uninvolving for children and the animation too unsophisticated to intrigue adults.

| Jul 21, 2021

I'd recommend watching The Last Unicorn especially if you are an animation fan

| Nov 25, 2020

Its charms hold up exceptionally well, in part because it grows along with its audience. Few stories carry that kind of power, and fewer pieces of animation can bring it so marvelously to life.

| Jun 17, 2019

While there's plenty in The Last Unicorn that appeals to fantasy nerds and stoner kids and little girls with dreams of lonely, enchanted unicorns, what makes this movie more special than anything Pixar or Disney ever imagined is fearlessness.

| Jun 17, 2019

This is a surreal, highly enjoyable tale which mixes fun animation, imagery, and symbols to make a truly unique experience.

| Jun 17, 2019

The Last Unicorn will endure as a film for reasons both intellectual and aesthetic. It's full of rich ideas and revisions of outdated, sexist stereotypes, and thereby feels more modern than many animated classics.

| Jun 13, 2019

Has a screenplay that's among the most literate ever written in the English language for what certainly would appear, from all the evidence, to be a "children's movie".

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 4, 2016

Classic '80s animated fantasy has some scary moments.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2015

Holds a forlorn, poetic beauty that separates it from the more conventional family-targeted animated features of its time—or any era, for that matter.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2015

We don't see stories like this anymore. In point of fact, we never did... which makes this movie all the more wonderful.

| Original Score: A | Jan 16, 2015

The Last Unicorn represents a rare example of an animated kids' pic in which the script and vocal performances outshine the visuals.

| Jul 6, 2010

Nearly everyone who waxes rhapsodic over The Last Unicorn starts off noting how they 'grew up' on the film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2007

Some horrific moments (the mark of the best fairytales) and some sublimely witty lines.

| Jun 24, 2006