I find that low-budget films are often better than the multi-million dollar movies that you can see in theaters. There's more thought put into the script, and you can get to know the characters better when they're not clouded up by all the distracting special effects and so on.
Anyway, Voyage of the Unicorn is SO underappreciated it's not even funny. The movie has a distinct flavour that I have yet to see replicated. Plus, the music was absolutely AMAZING (especially the song 'faith preceads the miracle')...
Nothingness looks, feels and bounces like tofu... which, ironically, tastes like nothing.
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phillip_thomas_sam
18 years ago
I totally loved this movie.
Amashelle was right...It was severely underappriciated. For something that was low budget they did AMZINGLY well. And i heard some quite nasty reviews about VotU; sacrilige i say.
...At least we few are here to stand by it.
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flyingamon
18 years ago
A friend of mine told me he saw it in episodes on a German TV channel and he liked it very much. I saw it yesterday cos I bought the DVD and I also liked it very much.
I completely agree with Amashelle that this movie was according to me better than most big budget movies you see in the theatres.
If this movie had been in the theatres it could certainly have had the success of the Harry Potter movies. I only saw the first of HP movies and in comparison with VotU I like VotU a 100 times more.
The creatures looked very real and cool. I also liked that some supposed to be evil characters were in fact good such as the Minotaur and Medusa. And they chose a black unicorn instead of the usual white.
Yes too bad the mermaid didn't make the screen. That weird dance from Miranda was the only minus point in the movie in my opinion but well I blame that on low budget. But with low budget they still could make a whole army of scary looking trolls.
Good acting from everyone. The 2 daughters look promising talents and I hope to see more of them in the future.
Medusa was very pretty but Titania hm she could seduce anyone any day. She looked like a combination of a spirit and vampire, I liked her the most.
I didn't understand the thing about Oberon too well. Suddenly it seems he joined the trolls and than they talk of a pact and suddenly Oberon becomes a slave too. Anyway doesn't sound like Oberon is a very trustworthy king.
My friend said that Medusa and the professor got together in the end in our world. I guess they cut that out in the DVD version as I only got to see a glimpse of Medusa when the professor celebrated becoming decane. The switch from magic world to our world was a bit too quickly in the end.
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