Really nice video as usual! I'm not sure how we can request for you to review stuff but I would like to recommend a show called "Paddle pop adventures" or just "Max adventures" in some countries, including mine. It's a franchise with many movies and series done to promote ice creams from an australian (?) brand. The most recent movie released was in 2d and made by the same studio that animated bob's burgers. I think it would be a really cool franchise to talk about on your channel, since it isn't even that known despite how many content it has!
I think that the humanoid form that appeared at the end of the movie was the embodiment of what Bluey and Tubby represented. (Bluey being full of rage, violence, hatred and anger. Tubby being full of compassion, love, and empathy.) Therefore, by consuming the last two opposing figures, the humanoid figure represented both sides of what humans are capable of becoming. Human's pure malice and pure love.
I think the whole thing was just a prophesy for the creation/rule of man and the religion was just a way to manipulate the creatures/nature to bring it forth. Which will also bring its demise. Looking at the original short film how they referred to humans as demons and how they can only be brought back when the last of them dies. It was all a setup lol.
@@enbee7515 Yeah it can be it is say in the beggining the Bears find the book and formed civilization but the unicorns didn't so is like they remained more like a part of nature. Which it has its flaws since they were clearly sentient and roughly had the same intellectual capacity of the Bears since they could talk and organize a massive war. But if they were still more in contact with nature maybe maria represented the more natural parts of the Human not extreme hate and Violence or pure love but things like the natural impulse to survive and natural tendencie things like that.
@@God-T I like to think she represents redemption or innocence. Plus this is how I see the tragedy of Bluey. His father was sad because Bluey and Tubby's mother chose another man. Bluey is also seeing this and seeing that she's closer to Tubby, possibly seeing this as her choosing his brother over him. This could've left an impression in him that he's gonna be left alone too. Being embraced by Tubby at the end probably gave Bluey some hope that he was still loved. But seeing Tubby go to Maria is what finally broke him and made him think Tubby doesn't love him. It's like his mother choosing another man all over again.
@@God-T Like the comment above says, I also think Maria is like a symbolic representation of humans having some retained connection to nature. Maria ha encountered another monsterous creature that is like what she became at the end of the movie (possibly another unicorn that was partially eaten, or dying while the Simians worshipped it). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Much like Bluey and Tubby represent how humans are capable of both being kind and empathetic, as well as cruel and monsterous (they're also great nods to Cain and Abel).
The human at the end is a mixture of: _The sapience of Simians. The awareness of what it is doing_ _The violence of Bluey. Humanity's vanity and malice_ _The empathy of Tubby. Humanity's kindness and compassion_ _The connection to nature Maria is. Humanity will always be connected to it_
@@AndromedaApokalipsy I've had moments where I have no money in my pockets, and I was far from home, hungry and thirsty by no fault of my own and I interacted with people and was just myself. Taught a child about the sea while riding a ferry and helped an old woman and a cute teen*, the family of the child gave me food and a ride**, the old woman turned out to be a friend of my high school and when I mentioned I went there probably put in a good word for me, the teachers never faulted me, not that I gave them reason. All without asking. I thank them and hope that child grew up well. * I was a teen at the time **The ticket was all the money I had and I lived 50km away from the port through a desert
Quite a bit of people say that animation is just for kids but so many films try to advertise for adults and use animation to push the boundaries of what a movie can do
Animation is not just for kids, it's for people of all ages. People like Genndy Tartakovsky, Ralph Bakshi, and now Alberto Vasquez are trying to prove that.
I feel like animation hasn't been exclusively for kids _at least_ since Akira, maybe like Watership Down. But I guess in terms of _mainstream_ stuff, then whatever gets bums on seats in the cinema.
I felt it was more Apocalypse Now, Happy Tree Friends and Backdraft. Definite Vietnam War, cuddly yet gory violence with a brotherly conflict, such a great combo
My theory is that the bears stumbled upon an ancient forbidden sight. Unknownly releasing a creature and the unicorns knew about. As the bears grew, the unicorns tried to warn them but the bears, thinking it was retaliation or just acted out of fear of losing their new found knowledge, instead started to debate with the unicorns. This eventually turned into a bloody conflict. The unicorns were trying to prevent theomster from rising and the bears didn't know any better and wanted their own home back. The place was then overrun by the chimps who further fed the monster.
(Spoilers ahead) In my opinion I don't think Bluey was ever really jealous of Tubby being closer to their mother. He was afraid of abandonment by his brother to some extent his mother. We see him get "left behind" by Tubby a few times within the movie. He loves his brother, just not in the healthy way. He expects Tubby to constantly love him despite everything, he wants Tubby to reassure him, he wants him to stay with him no matter what, but when Tubby parts way with him bc of Maria's injury, he's enrages, partly bc of his belief of unicorns being evil but also because Tubby has once again left him. It really shows that to me because he chose to kill his mother instead of his brother. While it's probably a combination of this hatred towards his mother for cheating and everything else. The conversation that his father had with him probably ruined whatever views he had on his attachment, that somebody could just stop loving him and no longer understand him,that his brother would leave him like their mother would've done with his father.
That is actually a really interesting way to put it, and also shows the trauma a child can go through once they hear their own parents cheated, and how it can twist their minds so much deeper than we realise.
He was definitely jealous, and was chasing that connection the entire movie. Even with the scene where the mom runs to the *other* SO, she was actually moving on because she was unhappy. It may have been cheating or not.. because the dad already accepted defeat. I think the dad scene on the boat happened BEFORE his mom ran in the woods right? So he had to have already known, and his parents decides as grown adults to split. And bluey even as a child wrapped all those fucked up feelings into an act of blatant jealousy and aggression. I adamantly think that because his thinking behind the scene where he (redacted) his mom is.. “if I cant be close to her.. no one can”. It was resentment and hatred beyond his own understanding, and a self manufacturing of shared grief Also, even though Bluey isnt fully a sociopath (actual feelings of shame post the mom (redacted) scene), him actually crying at the aftermath, it shows that he has actually extremely strong emotions led by impulsion. And that his actions were lashes out that stemmed from his own extreme feelings As you can see, the cartoon bear movie has some deep nuanced shit going on. Just so good. Awesome comment though, you’re not wrong/just adding my opinion to the pile!
@@NicoleHam [Im not great with tone in text so please don't feel obligated to reply, Im just gushing abt Unicorn wars a bit lol] Great take as well! Yeah, I think that the woods scene was before the boat scene, my memory ain't all that good unfortunately. I can definitely see the whole "If I can have her no one can," thing from Bluey, he is very implusive, angry and jealous (as you've said), I do think the scenes with him and his brother shows that Bluey has a very unhealthy attachment to his brother even from birth, it's probably even amplified after the boat scene. The movie had a lot of themes surrounding leaving and staying, especially with our two main care bears whether it's their mother leaving their father or Tubby leaving Bluey. Overall the movie is wonderful and I loved reading your take.
I think Bluey uses Tubby as a stand in for their mother. He's the same color and 'weak and despisable' to him like she was. Bluey gets easily enraged by Tubby because he regrets his mother's death and wants to keep Tubby close for comfort but still has that underlying hate and twisted mentality.
the fact that it took tubby, whos seen as pure; bluey, whos more violent; and the corpse of a unicorn to form a human is just so interesting to me. its like its showing humans are both empathetic, kindhearted creatures, and also vile, selfish ones too.. yet deep down we find ourselves still connected with nature, albeit vaguely just a thing i observed
I'm a veteran, man. It hurts. It fucking hurts to come home after all that garbage and be rolled out a red carpet as if it was the right thing to do. I've never felt so lost. I was raised to believe that what we (America) did in all the wars was justified. Like we were defeating the wrong. And it's just not like that. I don't understand what I did, or why I did it. It was my job and I was just there to reciprocate what I was taught. That was back in 2007. Now that I'm home and separated from the military since 2012, it's still like static in my head. It's like there was another me completely dissociated that was deployed but deep down I know for a fact that was me. As much as I don't want to believe it. I don't want that past to be part of me. But it is. I just have to live with it.
I’m a vet and these are my exact thoughts and sentiments as well. I was a direct part of the conflict against ISIS. Spent a lot of time flying over Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen. People have no idea what we did over there. How many thousands of people we wiped out. I joined for the right reasons, but the system is corrupt and those in charge are devoid of any and all morality. It is just a military industrial complex funding itself and using the young and naive to further the agenda. What was the point of everything we even did over there?
Honestly got to give credit to the priest character. Usually you see a priest in mature media they are usually seen as hypocrites and power hungry. The bear priest however was simply doing the task assigned to him and can be seen as another victim of the propaganda but also giving a damn about those he served with to the point of self sacrifice. Plus his design is amazing as is adorable.
Anyone can abuse their position of power, so it’s sort of a cliche used to invalidate religion when in reality it’s something that happens in all faiths and atheism.
Idk priests are typically not that in media though. I rarely see priest characters being power hungry and hypocrites. I usually hate it because it makes priests seem so safe to go too, and as a girl that grew up in the church, it was very misleading.
@@sadie_cat then maybe the religions should stop inspiring these characters with being bad people. Western Christians ruined their own faith and instead of changing, they double down. Religious people need to get over it. Be better and inspire more love like the faith tells you too. Rape camps, oh I’m sorry, STRAIGHT conversion camps still exists you know.
18:42 Little detail, the unicorn Bluey ambushes IS Maria, and the one that stabbed him off the cliff, is a younger unicorn that appeared before which Maria plays with
I think the unicorn being named Maria fits with the Biblical references they were going for in the movie, especially considering that it's from her that humanity is partially born/created, while Tubby and Bluey help with the finishing steps.
Unicorns impaling their enemies with their horns is actually how they were traditionally depicted until...about seventy years ago, I want to say. They, lions, griffins, and horse-sized dragons were all considered roughly equal contenders in ferocity and equivalent symbols of valor.
Finally someone talks about this film, it's very awesome, the story, the writing, the animation. I'm not really into gore but that doesn't stop me from saying that it's awesome
@@x.owls_4182 usually these type of comments goal's it's to get curious people to watch their content, I think the creator of that song is the alt account of yeaman, so he can get free views without getting suspected. I hate comments where people self-promote their content on the most random video and comment (like mine) possible
@@Waffle_Laffle As far as I'm aware, the movie's going to be out for the American continent (since its only evailable in Spain) in april 4, or at least of latinamerica (which is where I live) But I watched the movie on youtube, sadly it got deleted (Sorry if theres any mistake in this text, I'm venezuelan and i'm sill learning english) If you live in a different continent, then I'm not sure
For me I think the human creature at the end is a manifestation of Tubby’s love and compassion, mixed with Bluey’s hatred, rage and guilt, along with Maria’s innocence. Human beings can be all these things with no clear balance. And it was born from the blood spilled in war.
@@Loaf_B My apologies sorry should have added in his interpretation I got mystery inc dumbledorw case flashbacks for a moment If anything the director only said this is what i think it is, You can make your own interpretation Contrary to other less exemplar cases
On the animation point I find it interesting that the bears seem to be completely in a 2D style but the unicorns seem to have a more 3D look to them which not only separates them further but gives the unicorns more to the imagination even since the shadows and highlights on them are more ambigious and reliant on the viewer's eye than the bears who are more stylized and outlined
Also as an animator; Horses are so friggin hard to draw. It's why the Last Unicorn is featuring just ONE unicorn, why Spirit/ the Spirit series has a lot of 3D elements. Probs one of THE HARDEST creatures to draw and animate on the planet. So I DEEPLY applaud the resourcefulness in the film.
This reminded me of the story from fifteen years ago, when an old lady next to me was choosing among the discounted DVDs in the store and.. to my surprise, she picked out Happy Tree Friends. She happily told her partner that she had finally found a cute cartoon for her grandson. Because I feel its important to protect the mental development of a child (and despite the fact that I saw a few extreme scenes in cartoons, and movies when I was a child, be it action or horror, none of them affected me like the death of these annoyingly cute animals, if I had seen them when I was a kid, heck even watched with adult mind I still ground my teeth from it remembering those scenes.💀😬😱). Soo, I mingled with them and explained to the lady that she should not buy this DVD for her granddaughter (whom I found out is 5 years old) . When I explained to her the reason for my concern, she was completely shocked that if this is a cartoon, then why do they made this to children. I told her that yes, it is a cartoon, but only because it's drawn or cutely illustrated, these are not intended for children ,just for adults. So yes.. Lesson learned, not everything is what it seems.
I was amazed that Dwayne Johnson commented about the power and subtlety of animation at the Oscars before announcing the winner for Best Animated Feature. It's right at the beginning of the replay, so you don't have to watch the whole awards show.
Nah. Not really. GDT's Pinocchio won this year over the big studios, and there's always some artsy animated film from France or wherever that gets included in the nominees (even if it never wins against Disney/Pixar).
@@wildfire9280 As far as I’m aware, only DelToro gave a speech about animation. A good one that says that animation isn’t a genre but a form of art which barely got any applauses from the audience.
@@Myrkin I know. What I was saying was that Maria was the one being tended to. The one who stabbed Bluey was Maria's friend. I could have worded it better but that's what I meant.
@@Mord12gp Ah, I see. The OP was talking about unicorn that did the stabbing and not the one that received help for her wound, so I thought you were talking about the former, not the latter.
I realized that the kiss Bluey gives the unicorn before he eats her is also referencing the kiss Judas gives Jesus before the betrayal. Which… is right after the Cane and Abel Betrayal between brothers. A lot went into this movie and it only gets better another watch through.
@@toonrex2806 You know, considering he also clung onto religion and tried genociding an entire race(well, he didn’t succeed like Bluey did), that makes sense
Personally my favorite character was the priest. Think his name was Padre. While he did instill messed up beliefs in the soldiers(genocide), he absolutely had compassion for them unlike the commanders. He provided moral support and was honestly a much better leader than the sergeant and kept a level head despite the horrific things happening in the film. The moment where he sacrifices himself to save the other bears was amazing and I honestly felt sad at his death the most because his sacrifice was in vain. Such an amazing character despite his lack of screentime.
We actually had Alberto show up in our university several times to talk about his movie, projects, and festivals. It was pretty cool! (specially when he told us no one uses Maya in Spain and we've been trained exclusively in it)
I love how unicorns are seen as peaceful, pure beings yet in the past they were known as creatures too powerful and dangerous for any hunter to take down/capture, animation really isn’t just for kids and it’s irresponsible to assume that since a lot of animation(like this movie) can scare kids
Scaring kids really isn't the issue. Kids enjoy horror, and many straight up enjoy gore in media. Like, so was watching Happy Tree Friends if not kids? It's more about the subject matter and how it's communicated. And, obviously, many parents have objections to content. But I think, despite them both being gory, Vox Machina is more concerning for kids to watch than Happy Tree Friends because of the graphic sex. It's also narratively more complex with characters meant to be heroes doing gravely immoral things or making light of serious subjects and that being presented as flaws rather than gags.
I feel that the monster is symbolic of the inner darkness that everyone tried to ignore. It represents what everyone had allowed themselves to become in pursuit of their beliefs. By the end, Bluey's darkness had become too much and it finally consumed him. His own insecurities and irritationality devouring him in one foul swoop.
I'm from Spain (the country where this movie was made), and I was able to see this movie in the theater the day it was released. It is a film that, leaving aside the gore and that, is fantastic as it criticizes the war, religious fanaticism, and teaches us how envy and hatred can make us terrible people. I am glad that this film is receiving the support it deserves, and I would recommend watching the previous film by Alberto Vázquez (Director of this film) which is called "Birdboy"
@@terri3715but maybe others didn't. I was going to recommend it too. Spain's animated productions need all the diffusion they can get, as they have a lot of talent but are also very niche
Personally, I interpreted the black goo swallowing Tubby and Bluey at the end and becoming a human as that human is both good (Tubby) and bad (well, Bluey), rather than being born from the war itself, it was born from the corpse of the last unicorn and consumed the 2 bears to form the being it has become, with the apes learning and evolving into humans themselves.
I wonder if all the hearts and rainbows may actually be a way of pointing out how the religion is being used for violence. I mean we see hearts as a symbol of love, and you have brands like Care Bears and My Little Pony put it everywhere in their aesthetic because the concept is about good will, but also about being cute. At some point it’s something that’s more for a cute aesthetic than for deeper meaning. The bears use the heart as a religious symbol like the Cross or Star of David. It’s on their pendants and their military uniform. It’s a symbol of love but also an emblem of why they are killing everything and dying violently. It’s an image used so much that eventually it loses its meaning. And because it’s just going along with the teddy bear imagery, it’s a good juxtaposition for the audience without using a real life religious symbol that might alienate some.
To the people that don't know this. Bird Boy. It was a comic first. I didn't know it was a movie. I'm from Spain and I read the comic. It was depressing
I felt so bad for the Unicorns and Tubby. The movie meandered a bit in the beginning but the ending really tied things together. I want to see more of his movies. ( I also saw Bird Boy)
One thing I found interesting about the movie was how it was told from the perspective of the side that was clearly in the wrong (the bears). From thinking that they were superior to the unicorns to destroying their forest, and yet the unicorns were presented as “jealous”. It was an interesting take, and even with that, we were able to understand the unicorns and figure out that they were the victims in the end.
So, I’m not 110% sure about this, but the relationship between the unicorns and the teddy bears reminds me very much about the stuff my mom talks about in the bible. For context my mom listens to a lot of Mike Kaiser (I think that’s how his last name is spelled) he’s a bible scholar and talks extensively on the things in the bible that get skipped over. From what I understand because I lack the focus to read and occasionally listen to some of his podcasts with her, the main parts of the bible where genocide is a big part is because of the Nephilim. The Nephilim in the Bible are a race of angle human hybrids that are larger and stronger than most humans. The reason for the going and wiping out entire groups and villages is because god views the Nephilim as an abomination that was never supposed to be created. The relationship between the teddy bears and the unicorns may be based off of those particular parts of the Bible since the movie draws inspiration from it. Also just saying some of the way the religion in the movie kinda feels like the general tone eludes to the idea of Gnosticism, but I may be looking too hard into that one.
I feel like Centaurworld has sort of kickstarted an era of animated media with mythical cute equines mixed with extreme horror, and personally, I’m here for it.
Believe it or not, the original first My little Ponies special from the 1980s is rather dark for it's time and visuals. Yea it's still for kids and never gorey but it does have a tone that at times is ominous.
GKids never fails to disappoint when it comes to there animated films, even with the graphic nature in some of there films and its just glorious. Even with the foreign directors coming in and making these movies makes it more impactful not just the gory visuals but the fact that i see GKids is more of an indie animated film publisher and they do good films. Good to see the creator of Bird Boy made another movie and imma check this out later
i mean,those things could possibly be made before firearms?. gunpowder as a whole is literally made by accident and considering the unicorns never used armor in some way they probably wouldn't want to change
@@valentinam3224 it still doesn't make sense that they don't have at least muskets, seeing as those were made far before chain fences and other things.
Yes, they don't use money, guns, granates and other things. The logical answer, I guess is, that in the sacred book wasn't any information about them... Wait, how, when they still were wild knew how to read? Maybe God teached them...
When I was 12 I went down a rabbit hole of short films. “Unicorn Blood” made such an impression on me that many years later (at 17) I showed it to a friend of mine. It also made an impression on her to the point where we would sometimes reference the short. Its amazing to see how far it came to a full film, since it always felt like there was so much more lore and potential to it.
I actually have an art book of this movie and creator said the magic forest was based on several different locations - from jungle to european forest. He wanted the place to change along side with the characters.
everything aside, i’m really happy with the translations. i speak spanish, and one of my favorite things is seeing how different the translations (dubs and captions) are but this movie did a good job at not putting literal translations and getting the sense of what the dialogue is. i’m happy about that, specially because i know whoever watches it without speaking the native language is going to have the same impact as the ones who do. overall it’s a good movie, great quality of everything.
I love when kid looking animation is used to make the most Graphic, Adult content!🤣😂 And the fact that this is the same people who made BirdBoy, the forgotten children, this would make sense.
Honestly really want to see some more in universe content, the story is pretty much over but I would love to see more of the characters before the war which I think would make an additional watch even more gut punching as you watch them all get brutalized
@@karolinakuc4783 like an alternate ending where there's an island with a bunch of people, (the island where BATFC happens) and the teddies are on another, more exotic island.
I haven't seen this yet, and I definitely want to! To me, making the unicorns always shadowed/silhouetted makes it clear that we are seeing them only from the bear's point of view. The bears see them as sinister and scary, so that's what we're shown.
Without seeing the movie, (I only watched this video), I’m interpreting the bug drug/brother’s murder suicide part, assuming they meant to equate religion to drugs, as ‘when we sober up, start to reason, we may realize that we are all better off dead for the things we do’, (as it was a murder suicide after the drug trip and how everyone dies at the end of the movie)
I was really worried this movie was just going to be hyper violent for the sake of it, and I was shocked by the sheer production value of the entire run time. I really loved how much of the movie seemed to be inspired by many minor themes from Princess Mononoke, like the monster being a result of violence and hatred, the unicorns themselves being attached to the forest like the forest spirits and separate from the industrialism and advancement of the humans, or the bears in this case. I loved the Unicorns mystique throughout the movie, too. More than being the antagonists to our main characters, they were a good divide to the story in how they were animated, distinctively different, sharper, almost as though the unicorns were drawn how the bears saw them. Menacing and evil. Bluey and Tubby though, what a tragic yet fitting end. There really was no redemption for Bluey at all, not after everything he did, and Tubby was just another victim of his brothers endless crusade to be more than mediocre. To be great. To be number one. And his aggression towards Tubby was fueled by his severed connection to his mother. He publicly humiliated him, shamed him, outright hated him, and yet still sought forgiveness in the end. Truly a master class in adult animation.
I think Tubby tending to Maria reminded Bluey of the image of Tubby and their mom in the garden. Perhaps the flashback that brought is what really sent Bluey into that rage
10:18 In fact, Bluey is just the name translated into English, her name is actually "Azulin". Although they accommodate them better so that there is no difficulty in pronouncing or remembering them by language, as with "tubby" or "father" which are actually "gordi" and "padre". Smiles=sonrisas achuchones=hugs gemelos mimosin= mimosin twins sargento caricias=sergeant caresses It works with almost everyone, since there are some names that are in English or in other languages, just a clarification, cuddly hearts to you ❤
Two things that I noticed in the movie: - all the unicorns appear to be female while the bears that engage in war are male - Bluey killed Tubby with a rock like how Cain killed Able in the bible
To think about it, it wasn't the unicorns who killed the camp, but the figures swinging in the trees waiting, manipulating and conquering all in an effort to see themselves ascend.
The characters in Birdboy were so interesting and I loved each one.I get the same vibe from the characters in Unicorn Wars. I love both of these films.
The way I see the ending is this After the 2 factions are completely wiped out by their own beliefs and hatred, once Bluey fulfilled a greater atrocity, a demon soon manifest from a unicorn and consume both Tubi and Bluey. Once consume, this monster created a being that fits in the morally gray area that is both peaceful and violent, man. Then the monkeys follow it, soon will evolve into people.
I actually like that thought because it makes more sense than from the original short film that both are consumed and become human as it’s more unreal that a human can just be born straight up evil (to me at least)
@Machine Ambassador a detail I think some forgotten, maybe they were banished by the now evolved humans and probably are the hidden population or they were executed and murdered
G-Kids are quickly becoming one of my favorite localization teams. They consistently make daring choices. I have yet to regret watching a single film they have translated and this one will be no different. I look forward to the eventual Blu-Ray release.
@@thiskid990 They tend to follow an older model, back before buying shows was the norm. You don't really see that all that much anymore. Gotta love G kids.
@@thiskid990they're always being overshadowed by fucking Disney. And the Oscars pulling that stunt with big hero 6 over song of the sea was just proof of that.
Im honestly really glad that this is getting known it’s an amazing film and the animation is amazing. Also as an Spanish person I think that the totalitarian military leaders vibes that the bears in the minute 11:58 are definitely inspired by Franco( military leader and dictator of Spain from 1936-1975) which is honestly makes it really interesting, idk if it was the vibes it was going for but this film honestly reminded me to the civil war and the dictatorship of Franco . ( pd sorry if my English sucks ^^” )
It's so weird to me how little I know about the entire Franco dictatorship when he was around until -like the 80s- he died in 1975 (my bad). Schools in the USA don't really teach much about it; I feel like I learned way more about the Spanish Civil War and Franco from Wikipedia than from anything in school
Toxic and tragic. Having to witness his father's depression, as well as willful ignorance by the mother on the whole situation, and then being distorted by the extortion of military and religion...it's not like this toxicity came out of nowhere.
One minor thing I like in the lore is how the bears were kicked out of their lands. Which that and alotta other moving of peoples from certain lands is a common backstory of real life wars. Including how religion will influence many wars, not just crusades. Just look at many past wars and how religion effects them in one way or another. Plus I love how the characters show real life traits that full individuals to go to war. Superiority complexes, jealousy, domination, revenge, desperation. Hidden agendas, etc. I would not even be surprised if the director took a lot from real life wars, including that of Spain’s 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century European and Colonial past.
The stuff you were saying around 28:47 is absolutely true and I’m glad someone else said it. Animation for adults shouldn’t just be a bunch of raunchy, vulgar jokes. Forget the 954th comedy, give me more stuff like Bojack Horseman that explores depression and mental illness in meaningful ways.
Honestly I'm surprised that the unicorns didn't completely took out the bears on the first day of war the unicorns seem way stronger and faster where the bears can't keep up
5:56 fun fact "autour de minuit" means "around midnight" but the way Saber pronunced it sound more like "autour de minette" which mean "around the (female) puss". So not totally the same thing lol
im the kind of person who's very sensitive to disturbing and graphic content there are some movies that i find interesting, but i turn away due to how easy it is for those movies to induce a panic attack in me but this one, oh this one... this one caught my eye based on the animation and the premise of the movie i didn't watch the whole movie in one go; i only watched bits and pieces of it so i don't get overwhelmed this movie is absolutely fantastic and i really wish more adult animated movies like this was made!!! i rarely see any good ones, especially ones that talk about serious subject matter
When you mentioned bird boy, I instantly got flashbacks of first watching it when I was about 10. I wasn't freaked out or scared (since I'm used to watching horror/gorey stuff) I was more... Fascinated by it which is weird, and I'd deff watch it again, I remember some parts of the movie. Im pretty sure it was a nuke that happened. Lots of deaths, but bird boy is not as gruesome as unicorn wars is. Unicorn wars has to be the most bloodiest movie I've ever seen.
I think the human at the end will embody both the traits of the consumed brothers. Maria's corpse was the catalyst, the human will have Tubby's compassion, love, and empathy as well as Bluey's evil greed, envy, and hatred.
Sad that this is one of the few adult animations that is mature, while the rest are immature and focus on being shocking and edgy for the sake of it. I mean, it is a good example of a Shakespearean tragedy as well as an anti-war film
What's worse is that a lot of people are going to look at this movie and dismiss it as just more shock value stuff, as cutesy-looking hardcore adult cartoons often are.
I didn't get to see the movie but Alberto Vazquez himself came to our university to give a talk about Unicorn Wars mainly, but also about his other projects. It was very interesting learning how they did this masterpiece almost exclusively in Blender, seeing his other projects and knowing there's a new movie coming! 'Decorado' is the inspiration for it and I'll be sure to watch it when it comes out :) Also thanks Saberspark! I love all the content you have, hope you talk about more not-well known animation in the future
So glad more people are talking about this movie, it’s so beautifully animated and has such an interesting story. I only found this movie due to a friend who recommended it. My mouth always fell open when so many things happened. So many plot twists!
When I watched the scene of Bluey being impaled and tossed off a cliff, I was pretty sure that the unicorn who did so was not Maria, but the even smaller unicorn she'd been playing with earlier, while Maria was the one Bluey wounded. Which to me is significant because it shows that in war even the very smallest and youngest might be forced to fight.
@@Solstice261 Apenas salió el trailer llamo al atención y cuando salió la película todo estalló, gusto demasiado y ya perdí la cuenta de las veces que la vi subida en TH-cam.
I know its ending was meant to be dramatic but I can't help being reminded of the "turns out it was man" bit from the Futurama Scary Door about combining all the most evil animals.
Honestly what surprise me the most was the kind of environmentalist message there is. I mean all species used to live in harmony until the bears "found god" and started to chop down trees. Even one unicorn says before the final fight "they adore an idol that's not good for nature"
I find that rather silly, to be honest. Nature is only in 'balance' because animals are CONSTANTLY slaughtering each other, and diseases rapidly spread among species that become more numerous. It's the old hippie ridiculousness, thinking nature is so kind and gentle when Mother Nature incessantly acts like a meth-addicted skank who routinely beats her kids with a tire iron.
The unicorn was referring to the apes, not the bears. They were talking about getting the apes on their side, but as you see in the film. They are too focused on praying to the goo thing
Actually I was able to see Unicorn Wars when it released in France, they were like, less that 30 showings of it. So even in France it was quite obscure (The french trailer barely got 30k views)
So glad you're talking 'bout this film!! It's a masterpiece and I really really want people of other countries to watch it, and I too recommend the other Alberto's movies and short films, such as Birdboy (Psiconautas: Los niños perdidos) that you mentioned, because they're sooooooo underrated but sooooooo great. Also, the (Spanish) community around this movie is so kind! And Alberto (and Uniko) really love to engage with the fans.
You are literally the only person in TH-cam that I blindly follow to watch good movies. And this is an example of one of them. I just need to say thank you for opening the doors of cartoons and films for me you really changed my perspective on them
The beginning of this movie also reminds me heavily of the book The Things They Carried. It's a novel based on the Vietnam War and the author's experience in it. It's a heartbreaking book, but a masterpiece nonetheless
I was reminded of The Things They Carry, though for a different reason. TTTC is a series of fictional stories that aim to reflect real emotions and feelings. Unicorn Wars is cartoonish, fantastical, and not based in any specific reality, but the violence (which gets toned down in most movies) is realistic.
(Only) the unicorn wars characters names in English (I know) 1. Bluey (the light blue bear). 2. Tubby (the light pink chubby bear). 3. Coco (the light yellow bear) 4. Pandi (the panda) 5. Smiles (the orange big mouthed bear) 6. Snuggle (the fluffy blue ((kinda)) bear) 7. Blacky (the big/taller grizzly bear) 8. the cuddly wuddly’s (the polar bears, and I don’t 100% know their names) 9. The priest/the pastor/ the father ( the purple bear with the glasses) 10. Sargent Ironstroke (the big gray bear) 11. Maria (the unicorn with the white wrap things around her stomach 12. Captain Snout (the skinny high commander) 13. Pompom (the yellow bear with the freckles) 14. Grimaldo/powerful protector (the light yellow bear with the weird snout and a scar/stitch, I don’t 100% know his name) 15. Furry (the fluffy light black bear). And that’s all the unicorn wars characters names in English I know. “Breath in them out”, you guys don’t know how happy I am to finally be finished with all of that.
Honestly I feel like bluely and tubby represented both the positive and the negative aspect of human morality and the human figure likely represent the gray nature of humanity and how we can easily fall and become something far worse if we don’t find some type of balance in ourselves but that’s just my opinion.🤔🐱
I think you're right about Unicorn Wars taking place in a post-apocalyptic world, as the short Unicorn Blood establishes that when the last unicorn dies, man will "again" rule the world.
Here in Basque Country I watched the film twice at the cinema, it was an amazing experience and Im very happy that Saber is talking about it! thanks to him it's going to reach a bigger audience and maybe get more popular as it deserves, loved the movie I recommend it too. Thanks Saber.
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Day 179 of asking you to read Twokinds. JUST DO IT ALREADY POTATO HEAD!!!!
Really nice video as usual! I'm not sure how we can request for you to review stuff but I would like to recommend a show called "Paddle pop adventures" or just "Max adventures" in some countries, including mine. It's a franchise with many movies and series done to promote ice creams from an australian (?) brand. The most recent movie released was in 2d and made by the same studio that animated bob's burgers. I think it would be a really cool franchise to talk about on your channel, since it isn't even that known despite how many content it has!
I will wait even till day 1000 for you to read Twokinds! Just read it so I can die in peace!!!
I think that the humanoid form that appeared at the end of the movie was the embodiment of what Bluey and Tubby represented. (Bluey being full of rage, violence, hatred and anger. Tubby being full of compassion, love, and empathy.) Therefore, by consuming the last two opposing figures, the humanoid figure represented both sides of what humans are capable of becoming. Human's pure malice and pure love.
What about Maria? She was part of that figure too. In fact she was the main part that formed the end-figure.
@@lexa2310 I think maria is like the glue that binds the two together, the natural aspect kinda, she is the in-between
I think the whole thing was just a prophesy for the creation/rule of man and the religion was just a way to manipulate the creatures/nature to bring it forth. Which will also bring its demise. Looking at the original short film how they referred to humans as demons and how they can only be brought back when the last of them dies. It was all a setup lol.
Bluey, that Australian kids show about those dogs?
@@enbee7515 Yeah it can be it is say in the beggining the Bears find the book and formed civilization but the unicorns didn't so is like they remained more like a part of nature. Which it has its flaws since they were clearly sentient and roughly had the same intellectual capacity of the Bears since they could talk and organize a massive war.
But if they were still more in contact with nature maybe maria represented the more natural parts of the Human not extreme hate and Violence or pure love but things like the natural impulse to survive and natural tendencie things like that.
I kinda like the symbolism with Bluey's violence and vanity and Tubby's empathy and self doubt being devoured and formed human. It's poetic.
Also the last unicorn corpse symbolising nature and our rejection/embrace? of it.
yhh the move was ok.. the plot made less sense in the 3rd act . what was the point of the unicorn daughter? what was her role in movie. 5.6/10
@@God-T I like to think she represents redemption or innocence. Plus this is how I see the tragedy of Bluey.
His father was sad because Bluey and Tubby's mother chose another man. Bluey is also seeing this and seeing that she's closer to Tubby, possibly seeing this as her choosing his brother over him. This could've left an impression in him that he's gonna be left alone too.
Being embraced by Tubby at the end probably gave Bluey some hope that he was still loved. But seeing Tubby go to Maria is what finally broke him and made him think Tubby doesn't love him. It's like his mother choosing another man all over again.
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Like the comment above says, I also think Maria is like a symbolic representation of humans having some retained connection to nature. Maria ha encountered another monsterous creature that is like what she became at the end of the movie (possibly another unicorn that was partially eaten, or dying while the Simians worshipped it). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Much like Bluey and Tubby represent how humans are capable of both being kind and empathetic, as well as cruel and monsterous (they're also great nods to Cain and Abel).
For anyone who has seen the trailer of Unicorn Wars for years: Yeah this is not for kids, who else would think otherwise?
The human at the end is a mixture of:
_The sapience of Simians. The awareness of what it is doing_
_The violence of Bluey. Humanity's vanity and malice_
_The empathy of Tubby. Humanity's kindness and compassion_
_The connection to nature Maria is. Humanity will always be connected to it_
humanity kindness xD
@@AndromedaApokalipsy have you never experienced the inherent kindness of humanity along with its faults?
@@AndromedaApokalipsy I've had moments where I have no money in my pockets, and I was far from home, hungry and thirsty by no fault of my own and I interacted with people and was just myself.
Taught a child about the sea while riding a ferry and helped an old woman and a cute teen*, the family of the child gave me food and a ride**, the old woman turned out to be a friend of my high school and when I mentioned I went there probably put in a good word for me, the teachers never faulted me, not that I gave them reason.
All without asking.
I thank them and hope that child grew up well.
* I was a teen at the time
**The ticket was all the money I had and I lived 50km away from the port through a desert
@@liamnehren1054 PROBABLY checked Mixelstuff channel, eh?
@@amirhz6183 no idea who that is, so definitely haven't watched their channel.
Bluey killing Tubby via rock to the head reminds me of Cain and Abel. I like that connotation.
Except Bluey is younger than Tubby while Cain is older than Abel
I think that's what it's meant to symbolize
@@draph91 huh thats cool
@@seanemery1917 actually in the original short film Gordi is the one that kills Azulin by pushing him down a hill
@@nataliamorales9485 I know he did
Quite a bit of people say that animation is just for kids but so many films try to advertise for adults and use animation to push the boundaries of what a movie can do
“Animation is cinema. Not a genre for children”
-Guillermo del Toro
TH-cam getting angry for showing this content that’s “obviously” for kids
Animation is not just for kids, it's for people of all ages. People like Genndy Tartakovsky, Ralph Bakshi, and now Alberto Vasquez are trying to prove that.
@Lordd882hypocrite
I feel like animation hasn't been exclusively for kids _at least_ since Akira, maybe like Watership Down. But I guess in terms of _mainstream_ stuff, then whatever gets bums on seats in the cinema.
This movie is basically what happens when you put The Care Bears, Happy Tree Friends, Apocalypse Now & The Last Unicorn in a blender.
And a little bit of All Quiet on the Western Front, at least with their depictions of warfare.
I LITERALLY THOUGHT OF SAVING PRIVATE RYAN TOO😭
fun fact. the whole movie was animated on blender, both the 2d and 3d animations
I felt it was more Apocalypse Now, Happy Tree Friends and Backdraft. Definite Vietnam War, cuddly yet gory violence with a brotherly conflict, such a great combo
Funny cuz it's made in a software named blender
I think the “human” by the end is…basically human
The nature of unicorns
The violence of blue
The empathy of tubby
Combined to make a human
Well it isn't human coz humans have irises. The monster symbolizes monstrous system religious fantastism has produced
You almost forgot the intelligence of simian
@@CristianCastro-fo4qm It didnt absorb any Simian at the end though?
@@komorebi3555 actually it did when it was chasing maria the unicorn it ate about two or three simians
It reminded me of Cain and Abel.
This is why animation is not just for kids, it’s it’s own medium with a lot of genres and audiences
Nods in agreement in Japanese.
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Absolutely like the legend of vox machina
Exactly
I wonder what the upcoming movie "Fixed" directed by Genndy Tartakovsky will be like. Hopefully, better than Sausage Party.
My theory is that the bears stumbled upon an ancient forbidden sight. Unknownly releasing a creature and the unicorns knew about. As the bears grew, the unicorns tried to warn them but the bears, thinking it was retaliation or just acted out of fear of losing their new found knowledge, instead started to debate with the unicorns. This eventually turned into a bloody conflict. The unicorns were trying to prevent theomster from rising and the bears didn't know any better and wanted their own home back. The place was then overrun by the chimps who further fed the monster.
I parallel the bears with Zionist Israelis and the unicorns as Palestine.
(Spoilers ahead)
In my opinion I don't think Bluey was ever really jealous of Tubby being closer to their mother. He was afraid of abandonment by his brother to some extent his mother. We see him get "left behind" by Tubby a few times within the movie. He loves his brother, just not in the healthy way. He expects Tubby to constantly love him despite everything, he wants Tubby to reassure him, he wants him to stay with him no matter what, but when Tubby parts way with him bc of Maria's injury, he's enrages, partly bc of his belief of unicorns being evil but also because Tubby has once again left him.
It really shows that to me because he chose to kill his mother instead of his brother. While it's probably a combination of this hatred towards his mother for cheating and everything else. The conversation that his father had with him probably ruined whatever views he had on his attachment, that somebody could just stop loving him and no longer understand him,that his brother would leave him like their mother would've done with his father.
That is actually a really interesting way to put it, and also shows the trauma a child can go through once they hear their own parents cheated, and how it can twist their minds so much deeper than we realise.
Why act so… repulsively towards someone you’re obsessed with keeping around?
That’s a _Satanick_ subversion there.
He was definitely jealous, and was chasing that connection the entire movie. Even with the scene where the mom runs to the *other* SO, she was actually moving on because she was unhappy. It may have been cheating or not.. because the dad already accepted defeat. I think the dad scene on the boat happened BEFORE his mom ran in the woods right? So he had to have already known, and his parents decides as grown adults to split.
And bluey even as a child wrapped all those fucked up feelings into an act of blatant jealousy and aggression. I adamantly think that because his thinking behind the scene where he (redacted) his mom is.. “if I cant be close to her.. no one can”. It was resentment and hatred beyond his own understanding, and a self manufacturing of shared grief
Also, even though Bluey isnt fully a sociopath (actual feelings of shame post the mom (redacted) scene), him actually crying at the aftermath, it shows that he has actually extremely strong emotions led by impulsion. And that his actions were lashes out that stemmed from his own extreme feelings
As you can see, the cartoon bear movie has some deep nuanced shit going on. Just so good. Awesome comment though, you’re not wrong/just adding my opinion to the pile!
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[Im not great with tone in text so please don't feel obligated to reply, Im just gushing abt Unicorn wars a bit lol]
Great take as well! Yeah, I think that the woods scene was before the boat scene, my memory ain't all that good unfortunately. I can definitely see the whole "If I can have her no one can," thing from Bluey, he is very implusive, angry and jealous (as you've said), I do think the scenes with him and his brother shows that Bluey has a very unhealthy attachment to his brother even from birth, it's probably even amplified after the boat scene. The movie had a lot of themes surrounding leaving and staying, especially with our two main care bears whether it's their mother leaving their father or Tubby leaving Bluey. Overall the movie is wonderful and I loved reading your take.
I think Bluey uses Tubby as a stand in for their mother. He's the same color and 'weak and despisable' to him like she was. Bluey gets easily enraged by Tubby because he regrets his mother's death and wants to keep Tubby close for comfort but still has that underlying hate and twisted mentality.
the fact that it took tubby, whos seen as pure; bluey, whos more violent; and the corpse of a unicorn to form a human is just so interesting to me. its like its showing humans are both empathetic, kindhearted creatures, and also vile, selfish ones too.. yet deep down we find ourselves still connected with nature, albeit vaguely
just a thing i observed
In the short film Unicorn Blood, humans were referred to as demons! 😒
@@moarmy6779 wait we aren’t?
@@wildfire9280 Look at Unicorn Blood for yourself. It's on TH-cam! 👍🏽
thats actually so clever
@@moarmy6779 im not surprised
I'm a veteran, man. It hurts. It fucking hurts to come home after all that garbage and be rolled out a red carpet as if it was the right thing to do. I've never felt so lost. I was raised to believe that what we (America) did in all the wars was justified. Like we were defeating the wrong. And it's just not like that. I don't understand what I did, or why I did it. It was my job and I was just there to reciprocate what I was taught. That was back in 2007. Now that I'm home and separated from the military since 2012, it's still like static in my head. It's like there was another me completely dissociated that was deployed but deep down I know for a fact that was me. As much as I don't want to believe it. I don't want that past to be part of me. But it is. I just have to live with it.
I can’t even begin to imagine what you are dealing with internally right now. You’ll be in my prayers. ❤️
I’m a vet and these are my exact thoughts and sentiments as well. I was a direct part of the conflict against ISIS. Spent a lot of time flying over Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen. People have no idea what we did over there. How many thousands of people we wiped out. I joined for the right reasons, but the system is corrupt and those in charge are devoid of any and all morality. It is just a military industrial complex funding itself and using the young and naive to further the agenda. What was the point of everything we even did over there?
Honestly got to give credit to the priest character. Usually you see a priest in mature media they are usually seen as hypocrites and power hungry. The bear priest however was simply doing the task assigned to him and can be seen as another victim of the propaganda but also giving a damn about those he served with to the point of self sacrifice. Plus his design is amazing as is adorable.
Anyone can abuse their position of power, so it’s sort of a cliche used to invalidate religion when in reality it’s something that happens in all faiths and atheism.
He ended up being my favorite character for these reasons. Yes his design is adorable.
I'm super tired of seeing representations of God fearing people as the bad guys
Idk priests are typically not that in media though. I rarely see priest characters being power hungry and hypocrites. I usually hate it because it makes priests seem so safe to go too, and as a girl that grew up in the church, it was very misleading.
@@sadie_cat then maybe the religions should stop inspiring these characters with being bad people. Western Christians ruined their own faith and instead of changing, they double down. Religious people need to get over it. Be better and inspire more love like the faith tells you too. Rape camps, oh I’m sorry, STRAIGHT conversion camps still exists you know.
18:42 Little detail, the unicorn Bluey ambushes IS Maria, and the one that stabbed him off the cliff, is a younger unicorn that appeared before which Maria plays with
I think the unicorn being named Maria fits with the Biblical references they were going for in the movie, especially considering that it's from her that humanity is partially born/created, while Tubby and Bluey help with the finishing steps.
Unicorns impaling their enemies with their horns is actually how they were traditionally depicted until...about seventy years ago, I want to say. They, lions, griffins, and horse-sized dragons were all considered roughly equal contenders in ferocity and equivalent symbols of valor.
I’ve also seen in this film called The Cabin in the Woods
I never knew that. That's really interesting, I'm gonna Google it. 😂
Finally someone talks about this film, it's very awesome, the story, the writing, the animation. I'm not really into gore but that doesn't stop me from saying that it's awesome
@@x.owls_4182 usually these type of comments goal's it's to get curious people to watch their content, I think the creator of that song is the alt account of yeaman, so he can get free views without getting suspected. I hate comments where people self-promote their content on the most random video and comment (like mine) possible
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Where to watch the movie lol-
@@Waffle_Laffle As far as I'm aware, the movie's going to be out for the American continent (since its only evailable in Spain) in april 4, or at least of latinamerica (which is where I live)
But I watched the movie on youtube, sadly it got deleted (Sorry if theres any mistake in this text, I'm venezuelan and i'm sill learning english)
If you live in a different continent, then I'm not sure
For me I think the human creature at the end is a manifestation of Tubby’s love and compassion, mixed with Bluey’s hatred, rage and guilt, along with Maria’s innocence.
Human beings can be all these things with no clear balance. And it was born from the blood spilled in war.
The director said it's supossed to be a prototype god at the beginning of the movie
At the end it gained form
The one of the procephy
@@isauldron4337 The director has his own views while others have their own, it's all up to the watcher to theorize.
@@Loaf_B i know he literally only said to me the monster is
@@isauldron4337 I thought you meant "Oh the director said it so its facts" so my bad there!
@@Loaf_B My apologies sorry should have added in his interpretation
I got mystery inc dumbledorw case flashbacks for a moment
If anything the director only said this is what i think it is, You can make your own interpretation
Contrary to other less exemplar cases
On the animation point I find it interesting that the bears seem to be completely in a 2D style but the unicorns seem to have a more 3D look to them which not only separates them further but gives the unicorns more to the imagination even since the shadows and highlights on them are more ambigious and reliant on the viewer's eye than the bears who are more stylized and outlined
Yes, the unicorns were made in 3D and then given some color in 2D
Also as an animator; Horses are so friggin hard to draw. It's why the Last Unicorn is featuring just ONE unicorn, why Spirit/ the Spirit series has a lot of 3D elements. Probs one of THE HARDEST creatures to draw and animate on the planet. So I DEEPLY applaud the resourcefulness in the film.
Unicorn War takes the concept of "Animation is a Medium, Not a Genre" to a melancholy level.
Yep, in the animation everything is possible.
This reminded me of the story from fifteen years ago, when an old lady next to me was choosing among the discounted DVDs in the store and.. to my surprise, she picked out Happy Tree Friends. She happily told her partner that she had finally found a cute cartoon for her grandson. Because I feel its important to protect the mental development of a child (and despite the fact that I saw a few extreme scenes in cartoons, and movies when I was a child, be it action or horror, none of them affected me like the death of these annoyingly cute animals, if I had seen them when I was a kid, heck even watched with adult mind I still ground my teeth from it remembering those scenes.💀😬😱).
Soo, I mingled with them and explained to the lady that she should not buy this DVD for her granddaughter (whom I found out is 5 years old) .
When I explained to her the reason for my concern, she was completely shocked that if this is a cartoon, then why do they made this to children.
I told her that yes, it is a cartoon, but only because it's drawn or cutely illustrated, these are not intended for children ,just for adults. So yes.. Lesson learned, not everything is what it seems.
You saved that 5-year-old’s childhood 😭
That was nice from you!
And then the Oscars is still like "Look at these animated movies meant for kids, films that are meant for kiddy iddy widdy babies"
I was amazed that Dwayne Johnson commented about the power and subtlety of animation at the Oscars before announcing the winner for Best Animated Feature. It's right at the beginning of the replay, so you don't have to watch the whole awards show.
Nah. Not really. GDT's Pinocchio won this year over the big studios, and there's always some artsy animated film from France or wherever that gets included in the nominees (even if it never wins against Disney/Pixar).
@@heltaku9397The oscars mostly nominate them because they kinda have to. Not because they want to/respect the media.
@@FabschOblivion669 you say this right after the most recent Oscars just gave animation its due credit for the first time in history
@@wildfire9280 As far as I’m aware, only DelToro gave a speech about animation. A good one that says that animation isn’t a genre but a form of art which barely got any applauses from the audience.
18:45 The unicorn that impales Bluey here is NOT Maria but her friend, a younger unicorn, who appears earlier in the movie.
That was Maria. The friend didn't get stabbed. At the end her wound opened up, that's what Tubby was trying to close.
@@Mord12gp Actually, the OP is right. The unicorn that pushed Bluey over the edge of the cliff is Maria's friend.
@@Myrkin I know. What I was saying was that Maria was the one being tended to. The one who stabbed Bluey was Maria's friend. I could have worded it better but that's what I meant.
@@Mord12gp Ah, I see. The OP was talking about unicorn that did the stabbing and not the one that received help for her wound, so I thought you were talking about the former, not the latter.
Yes, I saw her shorter horn.
I realized that the kiss Bluey gives the unicorn before he eats her is also referencing the kiss Judas gives Jesus before the betrayal. Which… is right after the Cane and Abel Betrayal between brothers. A lot went into this movie and it only gets better another watch through.
Not gonna lie, Bluey's makeover later in the film looks pretty badass. Who would've thought that a teddy bear would make such an intimidating figure?
I agree wholeheartedly. His Lieutenant get up with the ominous mask with only one eye visible felt like peak character design
@@frootsnacc6790 And the blue eye reminds me of Belos from the Owl House.
@@toonrex2806 You know, considering he also clung onto religion and tried genociding an entire race(well, he didn’t succeed like Bluey did), that makes sense
Masks, scars and uniforms make anyone look badass
Looks like Teddy Bear Sans
Personally my favorite character was the priest. Think his name was Padre. While he did instill messed up beliefs in the soldiers(genocide), he absolutely had compassion for them unlike the commanders. He provided moral support and was honestly a much better leader than the sergeant and kept a level head despite the horrific things happening in the film. The moment where he sacrifices himself to save the other bears was amazing and I honestly felt sad at his death the most because his sacrifice was in vain. Such an amazing character despite his lack of screentime.
I don't think he actually had a name in the movie, Padre means Father in Spanish
Padre is the way to say "priest" in Spanish
It does not only means "father"
Also his teachings helped Bluey become a better leader despite his insanity.
@@zebefreod871 Yeah I agree with that.
@@dellll"holy father" = "priest" too, so it's not a surprise
We actually had Alberto show up in our university several times to talk about his movie, projects, and festivals. It was pretty cool! (specially when he told us no one uses Maya in Spain and we've been trained exclusively in it)
I love how unicorns are seen as peaceful, pure beings yet in the past they were known as creatures too powerful and dangerous for any hunter to take down/capture, animation really isn’t just for kids and it’s irresponsible to assume that since a lot of animation(like this movie) can scare kids
Scaring kids really isn't the issue. Kids enjoy horror, and many straight up enjoy gore in media. Like, so was watching Happy Tree Friends if not kids?
It's more about the subject matter and how it's communicated. And, obviously, many parents have objections to content. But I think, despite them both being gory, Vox Machina is more concerning for kids to watch than Happy Tree Friends because of the graphic sex. It's also narratively more complex with characters meant to be heroes doing gravely immoral things or making light of serious subjects and that being presented as flaws rather than gags.
@@muntu1221 Good point!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer stone even got away with it. Voldemort was drinking unicorns blood.
Nevermind my last comment, I cannot read
@@muntu1221 how is graphic sex any worse than graphic violence?
I feel that the monster is symbolic of the inner darkness that everyone tried to ignore. It represents what everyone had allowed themselves to become in pursuit of their beliefs. By the end, Bluey's darkness had become too much and it finally consumed him. His own insecurities and irritationality devouring him in one foul swoop.
Kinda like the heart of darkness
@@SilverMoonChyld more like “every heart returns to the darkness whence it came! Darkness is the hearts true essence” (Xehanorts heartless Kh1).
Yeah so deep
May he burn in the Wrath circle of Hell forever!!!!!
I also thought it was a cool detail that the monster consumed Tubby first and Bluey second, bc he's always been second place
I'm from Spain (the country where this movie was made), and I was able to see this movie in the theater the day it was released. It is a film that, leaving aside the gore and that, is fantastic as it criticizes the war, religious fanaticism, and teaches us how envy and hatred can make us terrible people. I am glad that this film is receiving the support it deserves, and I would recommend watching the previous film by Alberto Vázquez (Director of this film) which is called "Birdboy"
He's watched birdboy.
@@terri3715but maybe others didn't. I was going to recommend it too. Spain's animated productions need all the diffusion they can get, as they have a lot of talent but are also very niche
Spaniard here, knew it would be from here because of the short film "Sangre de unicornio"!
Where can we watch this movie? What app?
@@Silly_2 Movistar+
Personally, I interpreted the black goo swallowing Tubby and Bluey at the end and becoming a human as that human is both good (Tubby) and bad (well, Bluey), rather than being born from the war itself, it was born from the corpse of the last unicorn and consumed the 2 bears to form the being it has become, with the apes learning and evolving into humans themselves.
Cue some very certain human with a pencil mustache (HITLER) taking note
I wonder if all the hearts and rainbows may actually be a way of pointing out how the religion is being used for violence. I mean we see hearts as a symbol of love, and you have brands like Care Bears and My Little Pony put it everywhere in their aesthetic because the concept is about good will, but also about being cute. At some point it’s something that’s more for a cute aesthetic than for deeper meaning. The bears use the heart as a religious symbol like the Cross or Star of David. It’s on their pendants and their military uniform. It’s a symbol of love but also an emblem of why they are killing everything and dying violently. It’s an image used so much that eventually it loses its meaning. And because it’s just going along with the teddy bear imagery, it’s a good juxtaposition for the audience without using a real life religious symbol that might alienate some.
To the people that don't know this. Bird Boy. It was a comic first. I didn't know it was a movie.
I'm from Spain and I read the comic.
It was depressing
I felt so bad for the Unicorns and Tubby. The movie meandered a bit in the beginning but the ending really tied things together. I want to see more of his movies. ( I also saw Bird Boy)
The Gigantic load of demonic Shit NEVER should've seen the light of fucking day!!!!!
One thing I found interesting about the movie was how it was told from the perspective of the side that was clearly in the wrong (the bears). From thinking that they were superior to the unicorns to destroying their forest, and yet the unicorns were presented as “jealous”. It was an interesting take, and even with that, we were able to understand the unicorns and figure out that they were the victims in the end.
Me too. So kind and innocent creatures died from violence.
@@MeNooNie1806 Yeah that's why I hated the movies ending, cause the good guys lost. I hate those bears so much!
@@joeskys2362They both lost, i dont think there was a right or wrong side, just like real war, its always more complicated than that.
So, I’m not 110% sure about this, but the relationship between the unicorns and the teddy bears reminds me very much about the stuff my mom talks about in the bible. For context my mom listens to a lot of Mike Kaiser (I think that’s how his last name is spelled) he’s a bible scholar and talks extensively on the things in the bible that get skipped over. From what I understand because I lack the focus to read and occasionally listen to some of his podcasts with her, the main parts of the bible where genocide is a big part is because of the Nephilim. The Nephilim in the Bible are a race of angle human hybrids that are larger and stronger than most humans. The reason for the going and wiping out entire groups and villages is because god views the Nephilim as an abomination that was never supposed to be created. The relationship between the teddy bears and the unicorns may be based off of those particular parts of the Bible since the movie draws inspiration from it. Also just saying some of the way the religion in the movie kinda feels like the general tone eludes to the idea of Gnosticism, but I may be looking too hard into that one.
I feel like Centaurworld has sort of kickstarted an era of animated media with mythical cute equines mixed with extreme horror, and personally, I’m here for it.
I love Centaurworld
@@Andhhko Me Too!
@@Andhhko same it was a fun show
Yup. At least they had a confirmed antagonist (as in villain) and at least someone won the war in the end. In this one. Everyone died.
Believe it or not, the original first My little Ponies special from the 1980s is rather dark for it's time and visuals. Yea it's still for kids and never gorey but it does have a tone that at times is ominous.
GKids never fails to disappoint when it comes to there animated films, even with the graphic nature in some of there films and its just glorious. Even with the foreign directors coming in and making these movies makes it more impactful not just the gory visuals but the fact that i see GKids is more of an indie animated film publisher and they do good films. Good to see the creator of Bird Boy made another movie and imma check this out later
You might want to reword the beginning...
did you mean "never disappoints?" "never fails to disappoint" would mean they always disappoint
@@TWO000 thx. Was deadass tired when i wrote it
@Jack Wrath hmm...was doing it wrong the whole time
@@TheGuindo i like some of there movies. Most of them are bad but to me, some are at least decent and good
I find it wierd how they developed things like barbed wire, fences, medals, electronics, yet haven't created any form of firearms.
i mean,those things could possibly be made before firearms?. gunpowder as a whole is literally made by accident and considering the unicorns never used armor in some way they probably wouldn't want to change
well they do have cannons and grenades, I think that counts as firearms??
@@valentinam3224 it still doesn't make sense that they don't have at least muskets, seeing as those were made far before chain fences and other things.
Yes, they don't use money, guns, granates and other things. The logical answer, I guess is, that in the sacred book wasn't any information about them... Wait, how, when they still were wild knew how to read? Maybe God teached them...
Because it's probably to show a level of primitive thinking. It leads back to them forming to becoming humanity
When I was 12 I went down a rabbit hole of short films. “Unicorn Blood” made such an impression on me that many years later (at 17) I showed it to a friend of mine. It also made an impression on her to the point where we would sometimes reference the short.
Its amazing to see how far it came to a full film, since it always felt like there was so much more lore and potential to it.
I actually have an art book of this movie and creator said the magic forest was based on several different locations - from jungle to european forest. He wanted the place to change along side with the characters.
I draw them too!
Vasquez also mentioned that “Platoon” and “Full Metal Jacket” were a part of the influence in an interview on the special features.
everything aside, i’m really happy with the translations. i speak spanish, and one of my favorite things is seeing how different the translations (dubs and captions) are but this movie did a good job at not putting literal translations and getting the sense of what the dialogue is. i’m happy about that, specially because i know whoever watches it without speaking the native language is going to have the same impact as the ones who do. overall it’s a good movie, great quality of everything.
I was thinking the same! I love their names too, Gordi y Azulín
I love when kid looking animation is used to make the most Graphic, Adult content!🤣😂
And the fact that this is the same people who made BirdBoy, the forgotten children, this would make sense.
Yeaman's totally a bot
it can feel like a middle finger to people who think animation is for kids
@@arandomthingintheabyss2062 EXACTLY!😃😎
One of the reasons I love Happy Tree Friends so much
@Jack Wrath shut your trap.
Honestly really want to see some more in universe content, the story is pretty much over but I would love to see more of the characters before the war which I think would make an additional watch even more gut punching as you watch them all get brutalized
Well I guess Bird Boy and Forgotten Children can be seen as a prequel. Coz it is by the same writter and designs are in that style
@@karolinakuc4783
like an alternate ending where there's an island with a bunch of people, (the island where BATFC happens) and the teddies are on another, more exotic island.
I haven't seen this yet, and I definitely want to! To me, making the unicorns always shadowed/silhouetted makes it clear that we are seeing them only from the bear's point of view. The bears see them as sinister and scary, so that's what we're shown.
AGREED
Without seeing the movie, (I only watched this video), I’m interpreting the bug drug/brother’s murder suicide part, assuming they meant to equate religion to drugs, as ‘when we sober up, start to reason, we may realize that we are all better off dead for the things we do’, (as it was a murder suicide after the drug trip and how everyone dies at the end of the movie)
I was waiting for either you or Steve Reviews to talk about this movie, this was a CRAZY movie but somehow also REALLY pretty.
I have been waiting so long for this :
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I was really worried this movie was just going to be hyper violent for the sake of it, and I was shocked by the sheer production value of the entire run time. I really loved how much of the movie seemed to be inspired by many minor themes from Princess Mononoke, like the monster being a result of violence and hatred, the unicorns themselves being attached to the forest like the forest spirits and separate from the industrialism and advancement of the humans, or the bears in this case.
I loved the Unicorns mystique throughout the movie, too. More than being the antagonists to our main characters, they were a good divide to the story in how they were animated, distinctively different, sharper, almost as though the unicorns were drawn how the bears saw them. Menacing and evil.
Bluey and Tubby though, what a tragic yet fitting end. There really was no redemption for Bluey at all, not after everything he did, and Tubby was just another victim of his brothers endless crusade to be more than mediocre. To be great. To be number one. And his aggression towards Tubby was fueled by his severed connection to his mother. He publicly humiliated him, shamed him, outright hated him, and yet still sought forgiveness in the end. Truly a master class in adult animation.
I think Tubby tending to Maria reminded Bluey of the image of Tubby and their mom in the garden. Perhaps the flashback that brought is what really sent Bluey into that rage
10:18 In fact, Bluey is just the name translated into English, her name is actually "Azulin". Although they accommodate them better so that there is no difficulty in pronouncing or remembering them by language, as with "tubby" or "father" which are actually "gordi" and "padre".
Smiles=sonrisas
achuchones=hugs
gemelos mimosin= mimosin twins
sargento caricias=sergeant caresses
It works with almost everyone, since there are some names that are in English or in other languages, just a clarification, cuddly hearts to you ❤
Man that ending is something else. There's so much room for interpretation and it feels like every version is correct.
I truly think that the movie almost reminds me of Watership Down. Ya know, the animated movie that also featured bloody violence.
Watership Down is tame compared to this m8
It reminds me of genndy tartakovsky primal
the director of unicorn wars actually did mention watership down as an inspiration for this film in an interview
Two things that I noticed in the movie:
- all the unicorns appear to be female while the bears that engage in war are male
- Bluey killed Tubby with a rock like how Cain killed Able in the bible
I love that when Bluey hugs Tubby, Tubby's body covers Bluey's broken face. He could've healed him if Bluey didn't grow jealoud.
Yes it is my favourite moment. They look very cute.
To think about it, it wasn't the unicorns who killed the camp, but the figures swinging in the trees waiting, manipulating and conquering all in an effort to see themselves ascend.
oh yeah why didn't I think of that
I just saw this and I concur the simians played the war smarter than either side
The characters in Birdboy were so interesting and I loved each one.I get the same vibe from the characters in Unicorn Wars. I love both of these films.
Man, this show was wild. I love it when movies that look child friendly aren't child friendly.
It’s like Care Bears meets Full Metal Jacket- definitely an unexpected combination
Reminds me of when I saw the trailer of Sausage Party for the very first time.
Happy Tree Friends.
That's it. That's the whole comment.
This video is about a movie not a show
@@lydiajulianprower8356 oh..that show...gods that scared me when i was a kid.
But it is good for people who like gorey stuff
The way I see the ending is this
After the 2 factions are completely wiped out by their own beliefs and hatred, once Bluey fulfilled a greater atrocity, a demon soon manifest from a unicorn and consume both Tubi and Bluey. Once consume, this monster created a being that fits in the morally gray area that is both peaceful and violent, man. Then the monkeys follow it, soon will evolve into people.
I actually like that thought because it makes more sense than from the original short film that both are consumed and become human as it’s more unreal that a human can just be born straight up evil (to me at least)
I was thinking the same thing.
@Machine Ambassador a detail I think some forgotten, maybe they were banished by the now evolved humans and probably are the hidden population or they were executed and murdered
@machineambassador6118Maybe the human monster thing and the monkeys are going to the town to wipe them out ?
G-Kids are quickly becoming one of my favorite localization teams. They consistently make daring choices. I have yet to regret watching a single film they have translated and this one will be no different. I look forward to the eventual Blu-Ray release.
May 9th, so we gotta wait over a month with no sign of them doing an English dub
G kids is a treasure. Soo many beautiful animated films I would never be able to see without em
@@thiskid990 They tend to follow an older model, back before buying shows was the norm. You don't really see that all that much anymore. Gotta love G kids.
@@thiskid990they're always being overshadowed by fucking Disney. And the Oscars pulling that stunt with big hero 6 over song of the sea was just proof of that.
Im honestly really glad that this is getting known it’s an amazing film and the animation is amazing. Also as an Spanish person I think that the totalitarian military leaders vibes that the bears in the minute 11:58 are definitely inspired by Franco( military leader and dictator of Spain from 1936-1975) which is honestly makes it really interesting, idk if it was the vibes it was going for but this film honestly reminded me to the civil war and the dictatorship of Franco . ( pd sorry if my English sucks ^^” )
It's so weird to me how little I know about the entire Franco dictatorship when he was around until -like the 80s- he died in 1975 (my bad). Schools in the USA don't really teach much about it; I feel like I learned way more about the Spanish Civil War and Franco from Wikipedia than from anything in school
Bluey killed his own mother and then later kills his own brother, both out of jealousy and rage. How toxic that's beyond any redemption.
So sad that his father begged him to be good, to be the best, and he ends up being the worst thing ever
and i still love him as a character. one of the rawest motherfuckers in media
Toxic and tragic. Having to witness his father's depression, as well as willful ignorance by the mother on the whole situation, and then being distorted by the extortion of military and religion...it's not like this toxicity came out of nowhere.
I mean the mother never gave a lot of attention to bluey
May he burn in the Wrath circle of Hell forever!!!!!
One minor thing I like in the lore is how the bears were kicked out of their lands. Which that and alotta other moving of peoples from certain lands is a common backstory of real life wars. Including how religion will influence many wars, not just crusades. Just look at many past wars and how religion effects them in one way or another. Plus I love how the characters show real life traits that full individuals to go to war. Superiority complexes, jealousy, domination, revenge, desperation. Hidden agendas, etc. I would not even be surprised if the director took a lot from real life wars, including that of Spain’s 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century European and Colonial past.
DUDE YEEEEESSSS!! So happy you saw this!!! It was screened at my theater and it was freakin amazing. Hope this helps to get it some more attention
LUCKY!!
@@92zbf91 pagaste el premium de youtube?
@Jack Wrath why
@@92zbf91 Vi tu mensaje respondiendome pero creo que desaparecio de los comentarios. La pregunta de premium fue si pagaste por la película en TH-cam.
GlI have been waiting so long for this :
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Gordie & Maria were my favorite characters and really felt like the last of the good & purity in their world.
Me too.
The stuff you were saying around 28:47 is absolutely true and I’m glad someone else said it. Animation for adults shouldn’t just be a bunch of raunchy, vulgar jokes. Forget the 954th comedy, give me more stuff like Bojack Horseman that explores depression and mental illness in meaningful ways.
It's so brutal, but as an artist it is BEAUTIFULLY well done. The animation is so good.
19:00
Can't believe Bluey's villain arc turned him into Sans the Skeleton
On god bruh
Honestly I'm surprised that the unicorns didn't completely took out the bears on the first day of war the unicorns seem way stronger and faster where the bears can't keep up
Because the unicorns never wanted to wipe the bears out
@@sebastiansandoval4861 if they are at war im sure they wanted to kill them all
5:56 fun fact "autour de minuit" means "around midnight" but the way Saber pronunced it sound more like "autour de minette" which mean "around the (female) puss".
So not totally the same thing lol
im the kind of person who's very sensitive to disturbing and graphic content
there are some movies that i find interesting, but i turn away due to how easy it is for those movies to induce a panic attack in me
but this one, oh this one... this one caught my eye based on the animation and the premise of the movie
i didn't watch the whole movie in one go; i only watched bits and pieces of it so i don't get overwhelmed
this movie is absolutely fantastic and i really wish more adult animated movies like this was made!!! i rarely see any good ones, especially ones that talk about serious subject matter
When you mentioned bird boy, I instantly got flashbacks of first watching it when I was about 10. I wasn't freaked out or scared (since I'm used to watching horror/gorey stuff) I was more... Fascinated by it which is weird, and I'd deff watch it again, I remember some parts of the movie. Im pretty sure it was a nuke that happened. Lots of deaths, but bird boy is not as gruesome as unicorn wars is. Unicorn wars has to be the most bloodiest movie I've ever seen.
This is why animation isn't a genre, it's an art form to portray all sorts of different genres and topics!
But this was a trip! Woah xD
I think the human at the end will embody both the traits of the consumed brothers. Maria's corpse was the catalyst, the human will have Tubby's compassion, love, and empathy as well as Bluey's evil greed, envy, and hatred.
27:04 THAT'S THAT SOUND'S ORIGIN.
I have been looking for it for sooooo long!
Unexpected, but very welcome surprise.
As a fan of Happy Three Friends, this movie was great! So glad to see it being analyzed by one of my favorite analysis youtubers!
man i love happy *_three_* friends
I was just thinking of HTF. Makes me think this could be the origin of Flippy who had constant PTSD of war.
@@rylkalthewolf4825 I'm pretty sure Flippy was in the Vietnam War
SAME! When I saw the cute appearance of it and the death first thing that came to mind was HTF.
Sad that this is one of the few adult animations that is mature, while the rest are immature and focus on being shocking and edgy for the sake of it. I mean, it is a good example of a Shakespearean tragedy as well as an anti-war film
What's worse is that a lot of people are going to look at this movie and dismiss it as just more shock value stuff, as cutesy-looking hardcore adult cartoons often are.
Also, you can use backgrounds from this film as wallpaper on your computer or just print them and hang as picture on the wall. They are gorgeous
@@StarlightPrism But unlike in those animated movies it actually makes sense here.
13:28 calling it now the heart necklace holds a cyanide capsule. It's pretty obvious with the premises of the movie
I didn't get to see the movie but Alberto Vazquez himself came to our university to give a talk about Unicorn Wars mainly, but also about his other projects. It was very interesting learning how they did this masterpiece almost exclusively in Blender, seeing his other projects and knowing there's a new movie coming! 'Decorado' is the inspiration for it and I'll be sure to watch it when it comes out :) Also thanks Saberspark! I love all the content you have, hope you talk about more not-well known animation in the future
So glad more people are talking about this movie, it’s so beautifully animated and has such an interesting story. I only found this movie due to a friend who recommended it. My mouth always fell open when so many things happened. So many plot twists!
When I watched the scene of Bluey being impaled and tossed off a cliff, I was pretty sure that the unicorn who did so was not Maria, but the even smaller unicorn she'd been playing with earlier, while Maria was the one Bluey wounded. Which to me is significant because it shows that in war even the very smallest and youngest might be forced to fight.
When I read 'Bluey' I thought of the blue dog and then was confused, mostly because I left this then came back without reading the title of the video.
Me alegra tanto que le estén dando reconocimiento a esta joya española en todo el mundo 😭✨
Y si esta peli estaba chido
Si, las películas de animación españolas suelen ser ignoradas, joyas como esta tienen que ser ayudadas a llegar al público general
Siiiiiiiiii al fin Saberspark está hablando de esta belleza, saludos desde Colombia 🇨🇴
Corazón mimoso para todos ❤❤❤❤🩸
@@Solstice261 Apenas salió el trailer llamo al atención y cuando salió la película todo estalló, gusto demasiado y ya perdí la cuenta de las veces que la vi subida en TH-cam.
I’ve been waiting for people to say something about this movie I love it
I know its ending was meant to be dramatic but I can't help being reminded of the "turns out it was man" bit from the Futurama Scary Door about combining all the most evil animals.
That ending hits hard. Almost as hard as that one punching scene at the start lmao
Blueys mask design is absolute perfection. Honestly one of the coolest designs I've seen for a character in a long time.
Reminds me of a certain skeleton with a blue eye
@@krajicsek13 glad I'm not the only one 😭😭
@@krajicsek13 be careful to not have a bad time :P
It would be funny to hear megalovania when Bluey wears the mask.
Honestly what surprise me the most was the kind of environmentalist message there is. I mean all species used to live in harmony until the bears "found god" and started to chop down trees. Even one unicorn says before the final fight "they adore an idol that's not good for nature"
I find that rather silly, to be honest. Nature is only in 'balance' because animals are CONSTANTLY slaughtering each other, and diseases rapidly spread among species that become more numerous.
It's the old hippie ridiculousness, thinking nature is so kind and gentle when Mother Nature incessantly acts like a meth-addicted skank who routinely beats her kids with a tire iron.
The unicorn was referring to the apes, not the bears. They were talking about getting the apes on their side, but as you see in the film. They are too focused on praying to the goo thing
@@flutterg1035 I know but how curious the war started after the bears found god and started to chop down trees
I agree that the unicorns were the true victims. They literally had their whole home destroyed.
Actually I was able to see Unicorn Wars when it released in France, they were like, less that 30 showings of it. So even in France it was quite obscure (The french trailer barely got 30k views)
I love how this movie covers heavy topics but also the animation isn’t ugly and overly gory
I like that in the movie the god doesn't have irises so he cannot see others. It captures metaphor better than the short "Unicorn Blood".
This is why we need more Spanish animated films like this one. They're all too good
So glad you're talking 'bout this film!! It's a masterpiece and I really really want people of other countries to watch it, and I too recommend the other Alberto's movies and short films, such as Birdboy (Psiconautas: Los niños perdidos) that you mentioned, because they're sooooooo underrated but sooooooo great.
Also, the (Spanish) community around this movie is so kind! And Alberto (and Uniko) really love to engage with the fans.
You are literally the only person in TH-cam that I blindly follow to watch good movies. And this is an example of one of them. I just need to say thank you for opening the doors of cartoons and films for me you really changed my perspective on them
Yeah, watched Ringing Bell on his recommendation and it was brutally emotional but absolutely cathartic and refreshing experience of a short film.
On a random tangent, that person who drew Saber as a Lynx/Bobcat did a REALLY good job! It's some real high quality fanart!!! 👍
The beginning of this movie also reminds me heavily of the book The Things They Carried. It's a novel based on the Vietnam War and the author's experience in it. It's a heartbreaking book, but a masterpiece nonetheless
I was reminded of The Things They Carry, though for a different reason. TTTC is a series of fictional stories that aim to reflect real emotions and feelings. Unicorn Wars is cartoonish, fantastical, and not based in any specific reality, but the violence (which gets toned down in most movies) is realistic.
It makes me happy to see people talking about this movie. It truly didn't hold back with how dark it could get,and it pull it off extremely well too
(Only) the unicorn wars characters names in English (I know)
1. Bluey (the light blue bear).
2. Tubby (the light pink chubby bear).
3. Coco (the light yellow bear)
4. Pandi (the panda)
5. Smiles (the orange big mouthed bear)
6. Snuggle (the fluffy blue ((kinda)) bear)
7. Blacky (the big/taller grizzly bear)
8. the cuddly wuddly’s (the polar bears, and I don’t 100% know their names)
9. The priest/the pastor/ the father ( the purple bear with the glasses)
10. Sargent Ironstroke (the big gray bear)
11. Maria (the unicorn with the white wrap things around her stomach
12. Captain Snout (the skinny high commander)
13. Pompom (the yellow bear with the freckles)
14. Grimaldo/powerful protector (the light yellow bear with the weird snout and a scar/stitch, I don’t 100% know his name)
15. Furry (the fluffy light black bear).
And that’s all the unicorn wars characters names in English I know. “Breath in them out”, you guys don’t know how happy I am to finally be finished with all of that.
Honestly I feel like bluely and tubby represented both the positive and the negative aspect of human morality and the human figure likely represent the gray nature of humanity and how we can easily fall and become something far worse if we don’t find some type of balance in ourselves but that’s just my opinion.🤔🐱
That's the point of the ending haha
Yes
@@Jaziekitty the ending could have many interpretations so this one doesn't have to be the ONE.
I think you're right about Unicorn Wars taking place in a post-apocalyptic world, as the short Unicorn Blood establishes that when the last unicorn dies, man will "again" rule the world.
Here in Basque Country I watched the film twice at the cinema, it was an amazing experience and Im very happy that Saber is talking about it! thanks to him it's going to reach a bigger audience and maybe get more popular as it deserves, loved the movie I recommend it too. Thanks Saber.
The god feels a lot like an eldritch god in the vein of Lovecraft. A lot of the iconography tends to skew to older interpretations of divinity.