
Part of the reason for that is that 1980s animated films were generally more interested in making money than being art, and the Disney renaissance spearheaded by critical and commercial hit The Little Mermaid was still several years off.īut it’s also because The Last Unicorn is simply unlike anything else that existed at the time.

The sort of movie that a certain kind of nerdy Gen-Xer or elder millennial will enthusiastically yell about with strangers whenever it happens to come up in casual conversation, but that most average moviegoers almost completely missed out on.

Though the animated film The Last Unicorn will turn 40 years old in 2022, it’s still largely considered a cult classic.
