Nico the Unicorn

After the huge disappointment of "The Little Unicorn", I was rather wary of picking up a "family" unicorn film, but this film proved truly pleasing to the heart. "Nico" not only has sympathetic characters, but gorgeous scenery, a striking unicorn, and a moving message. Billy Hastings is a young boy who has coped with not only the loss of his father, but a crippled leg from the accident that killed him. His heart, however, is completely whole and he proves this when he saves a poor battered circus pony from a cruel master. The pony, after being restored by Billy and his mother's kindness, gives birth to a baby unicorn. When the unicorn, Nico, grows into a gorgeous adult, his existence is soon discovered and released to the press by a group of greedy kids. When Billy resolves to take Nico up a mountain to freedom, both their lives are put on the line as the race for freedom begins. If you assume that there are some corny moments in the film, you'd be right. However, the corniness is actually minimum and the film is truly moving. One of my favorite parts was getting a glimpse into the unicorn's world, an achingly gorgeous paradise scene that I hadn't been expecting. All the actors, including the beautiful Anne Archer, do great jobs.Parents, as a few people have pointed out, there is a disturbing scene where Nico's sweet mother is fatally attacked by a mountain lion. A few have called this scene not very disturbing, but it certainly rattled me (even though I was expecting it) and I have no doubt kids could be bothered by it too. I was surprised by one person's comment that it's no big deal because all it shows is the pony with several cuts on her. Um, that's still disturbing, as the "cuts" were large wounds that the pony was bleeding profusely from; plus, it does show the mountain lion bite her hard at one point. I don't want to dissuade parents from letting kids see it by any means; just please watch with your kids. Recommended!

The unicorn is perfect. Beautiful, smart and loving. The movie is a good story. But, there are a few scenes parents should be aware of. In the first scene, The man "that is trying to sell a pony to the slaughter house", comes in to wear the pony is, drunk. He starts hitting her with a stick. Then later, the boy finds her practically dead. She looks dead, and you can see blood on her. The boy, yells at the man, that he killed her. My daughter was horrified. Later in the movie, there is a scene with a mountain lion. You see the mountain lion once before. The second time it comes, the unicorns mother ends up outside the barn with it. The mountain lion attacks her. The boy finds her dead. It was a frightening scene. In conclusion, my children were undecided weather or not to keep it. It ends beautifully, and gives a breathtaking view of the unicorns "world". They loved that. If I could remove those other scenes, I would say it was wonderful. I am writing this review, because, someone else left a review, warning about the mountain lion scene. So, I didn't let my children watch that part. So, I am warning about the drunk man scene. -Thanx-

Put your fantasies about modern CGI and million dollar budgets away and sit down with a warm cup of hot chocolate or coffee and a cinnamon roll for some feel good human adventure and spirit. No fancy CGI just some cute, little, well spaced special effects glitter to enhance a already great little gem to get on DVD/Blu Ray and keep it together in your treasured collectibles along with your Goonies.

You can read the other reviews and get the storyline; what I wish I had known before I bought this movie is that there is a fairly graphic, bloody scene in which Nico's mother, the little boy's beloved pony, is killed by a mountain lion. My 5-year old, senstive, animal-loving daughter watched this movie a month ago and is still haunted, to the point of tears, day and night, by memories of this scene... As a parent, I feel very guilty for not prescreening this movie before showing it to my daughter - but I never imagined such an awful scene in a children's movie. She still enjoys the story and wants to watch the movie, oddly enough, but we have to fast-forward past a large section of it every time.

Nico the unicorn is so neat and fantastic!Its about A boy whogot in an accident and had a hurt leg then he got twenty dollarsso he was going to school and saw a old carnival and he checked it out so he saw a poor minature pony who was dressed as a fack unicorn the guy that ran the carnival was going to sell it (He was a drunk) so the boy bought the pony and left without the pony he was going to get her the next day.told his mom she finally got talked into it. they came to get the pony and he beat her almost to death so they got the pony and cleaned, and fixed her up laterhe finds out shes pregnant she had her baby and it was a unicorn and then thats when the real adventure starts!!!-Will R. Stallings

the movie came in pefect conditions.. THe movie is fine for my 7 year old daughter who love unicorns. Not scarey at all. THough blood bites are shown. I didnt like the main kids attitude what a brat and his language (using the Lords name in vain) a couple times.. but other than that.. its a fine flick to watch as a family. would i buy it again if this one gets damaged. .probably not.

Although it is obviously an older movie and the picture was not Chrystal clear we did enjoy the movie.

We loved it. It is a feel-good movie and great for the whole family.

This is an American import DVD. I did not read the small print. So was very disappointed when it wouldn't play on any of my DVD players.

Alles in allem ein netter Film für Kinder.Er ist ganz gut, könnte aber hinsichtlich der Handlung noch durchwegs spannender aufgebaut sein.Die Handlung ist doch ziemlich vorhersehbar.

Très bon film pour enfants

Loved this movie as a kid and could not find it so super happy I could still get it here!

Super