"I'm a villainthropist. I do bad things for the community." I haven't laughed that hard in quite some time.

I'm the one who sent you the DVD and I just wanted to thank you so much for watching it! It is my favourite movie of all time and I know it's not perfect, it's just that as a child, this was the one animated movie that I watched that I didn't think was talking down to me. Thanks again for making such a great show!

@blamesocietyfilms

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@TechnicJunglist

Жыл бұрын

The novel is one of my absolute favorites. I always wanted a live action film with Jim Carrey as Schmendrick.

@franticrage73

Жыл бұрын

It’s one of my top 4 family films from my childhood. Thanks for sending it.

My dad got this movie for me when I was young and I loved it *so* much. The animation/art style was really pretty and it had such a dark side for being a kid's movie. It's nice to see you guys watch it, this review comes at an interesting time for me (as my dad is dying of final stage cancer right now), and this really brings back fond memories of watching this with him. ❤

@CaptChrispy

6 жыл бұрын

So sorry to hear that.

The tragedy of the last unicorn is the wizard turning her human she feels her own mortality. When she returns to being a unicorn she can never truly belong she went through her crucible and came out changed. Better or worse is for others to decide

@katrinakaraoke5830

3 жыл бұрын

I always saw the ending as bittersweet and a bit tonally off in the film for this reason. Like, the Unicorn admits to Shmendrick that "I'm cursed with emotions I was never meant to feel, and thus I will never be able to relate to my species again, but I'm just going to go back to what I know and hope for the best", and then the music picks up and everyone smiles at the horizon. Don't get me wrong, I love the movie and book, but I always found that kind of funny.

Schmendrick is a Wild mage right? Yelling "Magic, do as you will!" is a clear sign of him asking the DM to roll on the Wild Magic tables.

😭😭😭😭...Gah, I still have the VHS tape my dad brought me in the 80's. As a child I would make my entire family watch the VHS tape, then immediately following the end, I'd rewind it and we'd watch it again, and again, and again. My parents were so sick of The Last Unicorn. 🤣 No joke, The Last Unicorn is my all time favorite movie. "I'm alive! I'm alive...." 😭😭😭♥♥♥🦄 Run free little unicorns! 😭💖💖💖

@celinahatton2653

3 жыл бұрын

I wore out the tape watching this movie on repeat, and drove my poor brother INSANE 🤣

Of course I have to mention Secret of NIMH if you haven't seen it, it's one of my favorite animated movies, it's from the same era of animation, and it was Don Bluthe's first movie outside of Diseny. Not to mention the beautiful animation, story, and score by Jerry Goldsmith who did the score for Logan's Run.

So glad you guys decided to watch this. It is my favorite film of all times. As my favorite I fully ackowledge it's flaws, but it filled me with so much wonder and imagination as a child, I still get that sense of wonder every time I watch it. You both should read the novel, as it's fantastic. Fingers crossed that you guys watch Interstella 5555 for next time

A witch named Fortuna, and we don’t get a single Bona Fortuna? I am beyond let down.

@blamesocietyfilms

6 жыл бұрын

Perhaps when you watch the next Unboxing you will get your wish.

Definitely read the book! I haven't watched this movie since I was a kid, but I have read the book relatively recently, and I was surprised the movie hit so many of the main plot points. Having said that, the book is a fairy tale for adults, there is an alien quality to the unicorn, it's immortality and being untouched by time and ask the changes around it. Schmendrick and Molly are more nuanced and human. I totally get why you say the movie was so close to great. I feel if the movie was less kidified it would be a classic. Studio Ghibli, revisit it! Treat the source material and the audience with respect.

This movie (as well as the novel) shaped my childhood. Thanks for watching it!

Since we're in Cartoon June now, I was wondering if you guys have ever seen The Brave Little Toaster, one of the first films I myself ever saw. The name and premise are indeed ridiculous, but it actually has many moments of quiet beauty as well as a surprising amount of existential horror

@TechnicJunglist

Жыл бұрын

So many scenes in that flick gave me anxiety as a child.

I had a bit of a cinema immersion tank as a 4-year-old with this for all 5 rental days from Blockbuster every time my family went, until some Disney movie took its place. Went back to it as a college student, and had the same feeling as you guys, that it was almost great. I highly recommend the book, read that recently and it almost makes me wish for it to be remade, though I can't imagine it without Christopher Lee.

I'm disappointed at the lack of any sort of Schmendrick Lamar jokes in this episode.

@jareds2619

6 жыл бұрын

lyricsfromsweden Kung fu schmenny

@jacobsenx2

6 жыл бұрын

Schmen-dot

@lyricsfromsweden

6 жыл бұрын

8:05 "I fucked Sherane and went to tell my bros".

@melothecat6662

6 жыл бұрын

lyricsfromsweden and then I freaked it

@SupremeUnit

5 жыл бұрын

They missed the film's alternative title: To Pimp A Unicorn

_"I_ am Haggard." Yes, you are, grandpa. Yes, you are.

"almost great" is a perfect description for The Last Unicorn. Deeply flawed but somehow, something works in it.

I met Peter S. Beagle when he went on tour. I love that the book that he wrote on a dare (and he admitted wasn't even his most favorite book he's written) has become his legacy. Also he said he hated that they chose the band America to single the title track cuz he couldn't stand the song "Horse with No Name"

@kayleen2946

4 жыл бұрын

Also if you play the part where Captain Culley invites them to sit by the fire, as they are sitting, he inexplicably says "have a taco"😂

Belle and Sebastian reference! Yes! Matt, you have awesome taste in music. Also, have you guys seen Storks? It was unfairly cast aside as just another B-grade animated movie, but it has great comedic timing and lively, cartoony animation.

Given the opening discussion, here's a question that has always been rolling around in my brain box: How often, if ever, do you pause or rewind the movie mid-viewing? We know from Weekend that you keep the remote close at hand, but obviously, that was an exceptional case for all manner of justifiable reasons.

I feel like a lot of the appeal of this movie, especially for those of us who found it young, was it's efforts to discuss puberty and growing up, maybe even more so than the novel. The unicorn starts out ignorant, aloof and kind of bratty. She becomes a woman, there is a change in her body, she's aware of her own mortality, she discovers love. When she returns to her unicorn state she has some of her invincibility returned but it is now tempered by wisdom. That's just my own dumb theory. Take it with a heavy dose of salt.

@justincoleman3805

4 жыл бұрын

Gross.

@driptrat

4 жыл бұрын

Justin Coleman any chance you would care to elaborate?

@dianewood2430

4 жыл бұрын

It’s not dumb

14:33 I love that bit of comedic editing btw.

The last unicorn was my favorite movie when I was little, so much so that I played it so much that my mom had to buy me three disks because they kept breaking and getting scratched from playing it so much. I didn’t get some of the parts when I was younger but no I understand them, this movie will forever have a special place in my heart.

This is one of my favorite movies from childhood, glad to see you watch and talk about it

Oh my god!.... "Grosse Pointe blank" is one of my all time favorites! It´s what I would call a "perfect action-comedy". John Cusack and of course Dan Aykroyd are both amazing. And also John´s sister Joan Cusack (as always) is amazing in one of the supporting roles. Everytime I see her I get reminded that she is the most underrated actress out there...

The ending of “City Lights” always makes me start bawling like a little baby lol

Its an animation classic! You laugh you cry and are filled with wonder.

Sometimes I am surprised by the vinyls that Matt gets on display. This is one magnificent cover that I also own.

Thank you for the flashback to my childhood! I completely forgot about this movie and I must have watched it 20+ times growing up. Brilliant episode as always guys. Love from Australia xxx

A Fleet Foxes reference and a Belle and Sebastian reference in the same episode!? Bravo Matt!

18:39 Mabruk was voiced by Paul Frees, one of the most prolific voice actors of his generation.

@justincoleman3805

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks imdb

My mom read the book when she was a kid, and also saw the film at a cinema when she was a senior in high school for an art class field trip. She and got my sister and I the movie on DVD, and I have very faint memories of watching it and looking at the cover. But it’s since been discarded as we got older. I want to hunt down a DVD of this someday.

A bittersweet unicorn movie during Pride month? Very appropriate. Great review/episode as usual guys.

Just rewatched your Mac and Me episode. The scene with the drill bit coming hrough the wall reminded me of the movie Body Double, seen it?

Thanks for reviewing this classic. My favorite childhood movie! 💓 Awesome start to "Cartoon June"!!

I love it. Thanks fellas!

Unico and TLU are the two cartoons i watched on repeat as a kid.

The butterfly looks so much like Guillermo Del Toro that I suspect he cultivated his look from it

@stevenmonster

6 жыл бұрын

Haha I had the same thought when I saw it.

@TheTyjah

6 жыл бұрын

:D

Just saw Slap Shot and it just might be one of my new favorites! I also think that this just might be the most 70’s movie I’ve ever seen. I could smell and feel this movie and I loved it. Thanks guys!

Since the block of marble anology works, you should put out the edited and unedited version of one episode. Therefore, you see the block of marble and get a true appreciation for the editing.

My sister's favourite two movies, except our copy of Nausicaa was just called Warriors of the Wind. I think you guys are watching a redubbed version.

@puppysect

5 жыл бұрын

If I recall it (Nausicaa) was first released in the west by Roger Corman(!) with that title. The cover was awesomely misleading. But awesome. =)

Villanthopy is one of my new favorite things. Craig, pick Princess Mononoke.

@vincentzombi3916

6 жыл бұрын

Bernard Jones yes!! Hope they get to it!!

Where did you get that Savini print?

I like the beginning with the scenes of real tapestries

Villanthropy made me guffaw. Genius

If you haven't seen it, you guys should totally watch Bakshi's 1978 Lord of the Rings. That movie informed my preferred fantasy aesthetic that holds to this day.

I'm so happy that you guys watched and reviewed this under-rated film! Just I love it and the book its based on! :D

I remember my parents had a taped VHS of another movie from the kids' channel, must have been 15 years ago, and in the commercials for other movies they were going to be playing, was a trailer for "The Last Unicorn". And the reason I remember so vividly that the trailer was on the tape, but not which movie was actually the feauture, was because even at 6 years old it scared me and left me with such a feeling of forlornness, just from the composition of scenes and soundtrack in that tiny clip, that I never wanted to see it and ALWAYS fastforwarded past it, with my little thumb mashed on the button for dear life or else the sadness would get me.

I thought all the unicorns died, too! And I actually saw the movie. That's weird.

Same on "They"re Coming to Take Me Away"

My absolute favorite movie. But when IS a raven like a writing desk??

@governor_explosion

6 жыл бұрын

The only answer I've heard for this one that makes sense is 'Poe wrote on both'.

@Leelabean

5 жыл бұрын

I thought that riddle was somewhat known for being nonsense and not having an answer. So Schmendrick gave Ruhk an unsolvable riddle to keep him busy while he set the unicorn free.

Nice behind the scene details. I appreciate the purposed little details in the background.

Twice Upon a Time, seen it? I recently watched for the first time as an adult (I watched it countless times when I was a kid) and was pleasantly pleased at how well the animation holds up. The story is paper thin, but it's got a lot of charm. Worth checking out for the unique visual style alone.

Craig you need to make Matt watch Your Name. I know you have it!

YESSSS! I love this movie!

I'm writing this before watching, I am very excited to see what you guys think of this movie as my husband loves it because it was one of his childhood movies. I saw it as an adult first and I hated it lol the animation is great in a lot of ways but the story is just.....idk. I could go into detail but I fear it would be longer than the script for this episode so I wont. I will just simply press play and see what you guys think. Just one note, I love Matt's analogy of the sculptor and marble. Being an artist I totally get where you're coming from there.

I remember watching this as a kid, the tv's brightness got turned up somehow and nobody could figure out how to fix it for a few days. I remember almost nothing about the movie aside from the fact that I didn't like it and that the unicorn looked incredible, she's all white, so when the brightness is turned up she just glows and looks incredibly magical, it stuck me as a kid despite disliking the movie as a whole. I also vaguely remember thinking the skeleton was freaky as hell.

Recently got hbo for hulu to catch up on some series but had to rewatch Grosse pointe blank when I saw it was included. Then I had to look up if it was on seen it

“*If they follow you, don’t look back...like Dylan in the movies*” is a reference to the band, **Belle & Sebastian**, who are from Scotland, the only country with a fictional official animal, yes, you guessed it- The Unicorn!

You guys should watch Bakshi's "Wizards" or some other Bakshi!!

@blamesocietyfilms

6 жыл бұрын

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I'm 14 and I love this movie, I watched this for the first time when I was like 6 and I thought this movie was a one of thoes weird reoccurring dreams until I found out I still had it (I have no idea why my parents let me watch it so many times). I remember how this movie made me feel, It wasn't scared it was just very unsettling but I just kept coming back to it for some reason until I finally started to understand the underlying message of the movie without realizing it. I have to say that movie was like an invisible slap to the face for me, definitely not for little kids despite the cover looking like rip-off my little pony or something😂 even so I still can't help but find this movie eerily infatuaing🤷‍♀️

Oh boy that album behind Craig is my favorite Beach Boys album!

I've been watching this movie for 30 years (since I was 4), and the book is probably the best book I've ever read. It's hard for me to see the movie and not have the context of the book to flesh it out, so I appreciated being able to see it through new eyes, even though you didn't love it. Peter S. Beagle has stated in interviews that he was disappointed in Alan Arkin's phoned-in performance, and I can agree that they should have cut the version of the song where Mia Farrow sings 'Now that I'm a Woman' and had the other version in there, but I've seen it so many times, it's just part of the character of the movie that this bewildered, newly-human girl sings her heart out, and it's not pristine. For me, some of the charm of this movie is that it lacks the polish and veneer of Disney. It has profanity (I was glad they sent you the Enchanted Edition, which has remastered animation, but retains the non-G rated dialogue with all the 'hells' and 'damns'.), a 3-breasted harpy, a tree with boobs, and when Schmendrick sits down with Captain Cully, Cully says, 'Have a taco.' (Which is also in the book, because Beagle throws in random snippets of modernity for comedic effect). Quite a bit of stuff in the book is not in the movie, like the fact that Schmendrick is immortal when he meets the unicorn, because he was such a bumbling idiot, his master Nikos granted him immortality until he could gain mastery over his powers. Almost every character is staking some relationship to immortality, from the butterfly who can't keep his stories and songs straight because he only lives for a season, to Mommy Fortuna who lives forever in the minds of the immortal unicorn and harpy (she has a carnival act in the book where she is singing in a darkened inner cage about old age, and it makes all the carnival patrons so uncomfortable that they leave), to Haggard, who is actually cursed, but I won't get into that, because the movie cut everything with the town of Hagsgate. The ending is bittersweet, because the unicorn has to live an immortal life with the barb of regret, which was hard for me to understand as a child, but as an adult, that truly would be a curse. Please, please read it! I'll mail you a copy if you will. Thanks again for doing this one!

Can’t wait for more cartoon June!

I loved this movie when it came out, and ever since.

This sat in my “watch later” for a long time since I was so worried you guys would only have bad stuff to say. This has got to be one of my top 3 favourite childhood movies, and I’m glad this was lighthearted instead of cynical! I’m surprised a joke was made about the music but you guys didn’t mention that a good chunk of it was made by America- I coulda swore America was at least a little popular.

I thought that was the Psychonaut 12"by Fields of the Nephilim in the background there, but it's not, so now I need to know who that is.

I'll forever be fascinated by how much better the German dub is. It happens rarely but in this case, the voices seem to fit the characters better and the acting doesn't sound stiff and like it takes itself too seriously. I still remember how excited I was when I finally got the DVD and could finally enjoy the superior original version because, of course, the original is always better. Way to go to tell my then smug "I'm not a peasant, I watch movies in their original, true form"-self I'm an idiot.

Thank you sincerely for the comment about The Room, Matt. I SINCERELY agree haha

I never watched this as a child. Never even heard of it. I skipped this & went straight to -Bakshi's- The Hobbit.

@seanhenry2921

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was nowhere on my radar as a child.

@SleepFan771

6 жыл бұрын

You made the right choice.I saw The Last Unicorn once as a child and hated it then. It looks like it aged even worse.

@animemanj

6 жыл бұрын

Rankin Bass did the Hobbit too.

@aestevalis0

6 жыл бұрын

Well, shit. All these years, I thought it was a Bakshi film. And now that you've made me look it up, I don't think I've seen Bakshi's LoTR either.

@animemanj

6 жыл бұрын

The Fluffy Gentleman I've never seen his LoTR either.

Now I’ll see why dan avidan from game grumps loves this movie so much

Omg yes, I haven't seen this movie in so long. I used to have the dvd and I don't even know where we got it but I watched it a couple times, yet I was surprised at the ending here because I just remember it being a terribly sad movie. I really thought that it ended with all the unicorns having gone extinct!

For Halloween guys please do, Halloween 1978 Or pumpkinhead 1988, anyways great video as always!!! Keep it up fellas!

I wonder how I missed this one? I was definitely in the age group and demographic that should have been all over it, yet somehow I never have even heard of it. Thanks for letting me know about it!

The Mia Fu’roh pronunciation is new to me and I am definitely going to refer to Matt as Matt Sloán from now on.

Craig if you haven't seen it yet you should check out the 1973 animated classic Charlotte's web. A classic film you got to check out!

Huzzah for villainthropists!

This is one of the rare movies where the foreign translations are better than english. I watched it in english, french and german and i must say i prefer the german dub by far. Better voiceactors than english and hearing Christopher Lee talk german is always a delight.

I love America, that song is my jam :)

Mia Farrow was one of the best actresses of the 80’s and 90’s? Did that take place in alternate universe? I don’t recall a single movie she was in during that time period.

Belle and Sebastian reference. Nice.

Have you guys watched the Super Mario Bros live action movie? What the Hell did we just freaking watch!?

Can't wait for Kimi no Na Wa (Your Name) to get a spot in cartoon june.

Ayy lets go! Snacks at the ready.

Hey guys! Awesome video yet again! I was wondering if you've guys have seen Thank You For Smoking directed by Jason Reitman and starring Aaron Eckhart? It's a truly unique satire that pokes fun of all sides in our political climate while examining what is behind making and defending an argument. If you guys haven't, it would make for an amazing and memorable upcoming episode! Regardless, keep it up guys bc you make every Friday for me just a little bit more special!

Here's my pick for cartoon June, that studio Ghibli classic, Grave of the Fireflies.

I'm watching this again for all the germans

One of my two favorite fantasy movies as a kid, the other being A Flight of Dragons. I hope you do that one next.

Is it just me, or does that butterfly closely resemble George R.R. Martin? Seen It: Stardust (2007)? It is honestly one of my favorite fantasy movies. Of. All. Time. It’s just so fun and unusual (because it’s based on a novel by Neil Gaiman, who comes up with the most fantastically odd worlds). The only issue I really have with the film is Claire Danes. I feel like she’s just completely inauthentic (in this and so many other roles).

Have you ever seen Waltz with Bashir ? It's a gripping mix of a documentary and animation that is emotionally tugging from beginning to end and left me jaw dropped . Btw this was so robbed at the oscars !

You should watch "Felidae" (1994) in Cartoon June. It's a German animated movie about cats. It's quite brutal and dark and not aimed for children. Also, the English dubbing is great.

Blast from the past

I have reviewed both versions of "Gun Crazy". Totally different movies, but I enjoyed both for different reasons.

I'd really love to see Fehérlófia during the cartoon june, the visual of this movie are astounding and wildly experimental!

@lyricsfromsweden

6 жыл бұрын

It would be a very Craig thing to pick another animated horse movie for Cartoon June. However both of them has said in the past that they're not big fans of experimental film, so I doubt it.

@lyricsfromsweden

6 жыл бұрын

Felidae would be a very fun one though!

Speaking about your comments in the opening. Would you ever do a riff tracks kind of thing as a separate show/ podcast?

I'd love to read that Billy West interview. Can anyone provide a link?

5:22 Was that a really sneaky reference to Alan Arkin's role in Edward Scissorhands? Because if so, I admire your subtlety.

Have you guys seen logan I know you two are big fans of western and since this movie is so heavily inspired by westerns what did you think of it and if you haven't you guys should do a welcome to the basement on it i think it would be a nice change of pace to watch a very recent movie

How well do you guys know your ghibli movies? Favourite? Least Favourite?

fire and ice next!

Also I hope Craig picked Belladonna of Sadness it would be the missing link to all the previous animated features on the show