The Last Unicorn

Why is this movie so enthralling? Is it just me? Of all the people I force to sit through the thing, almost none have come away from the experience saying he or she enjoyed it. When I worked in Heartland, a daycare place inside of D&W, I donated the movie to the video drawer and watched it at least once every time I worked. The children were the only ones to ever understand my fascination with it. Schmendric the Magician and Molly, the ever taken-for-granted compainion of a backwards Robin-Hood, are The Last Unicorn's faithful sidekicks a story worth being retold daily. The Red Bull still scares me every time. And the talking skeleton is the man. Hopefully the world will learn to appreciate this masterpiece of fiction some day before I die.