The Unicorn in the Garden (1953)

Very disappointed :(

One of my all time favorites.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

"The Unicorn in the Garden" is an animated short film from 1953, which had its 60th anniversary a couple years ago and tells us the story of a husband and his wife. And a unicorn! The man sees a unicorn in the garden and tells his wife. She says it's nonsense, but he is resilient and finally gets his wife to take a look. Of course, by then the unicorn is long gone if it ever existed at all. The wife is downright evil though and tries to get her husband sent to a psychiatric ward to get rid of him, but her plan is not working in the very end. The ending was pretty cruel, but also entertaining. I must still say it went against the first couple minutes. So there never was a unicorn and it was just the man's plan and the audience was fooled? I am not sure. But I don't even dare asking if there really was a unicorn in the garden? Because the answer obviously would be: Of course not! A unicorn is a mythical creature. Little fun cartoon. Go see it.

I remember reading this story in middle school. I became enamored with the wonderful wit and insights of James Thurber. I thought "The Night the Bed Fell" to be one of the funniest stories ever written, all under the guise that these were Thurber's relatives. This tale is a short one. We empathize with the husband whose I'll-tempered wife won't listen to him. He sees a unicorn in the garden eating roses and wants so badly to be listened to. When his dreams are crushed, he manages to work things out to his advantage. It reveals a real sense of justice. Thurber's simple drawings still create wonderful personality among his characters. One of the best animations I've seen despite its simplicity.

Animated short about a man who sees a unicorn eating flowers in his garden one morning. He tells his wife who refuses to believe him and tries to have him committed...but it doesn't end up that way.The animation is a mess and the voices of the man and his wife don't quite match the drawings but I liked it. It was only 7 minutes long, the narrator was good and there are a load of clever visual jokes throughout. Also the music perfectly fits the mood of the piece. The moral of the story is puzzling and doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Still, all in all, it's a fun short. I have nothing more to say but we do have to have 10 lines of text for every review so I had to write this sentence out:)

This story is based on a James Thurber story. It's told using very simple Thurber-style drawings.A man sees a unicorn in the garden. He tells his evil and cranky wife and she tells him to get lost. Again he sees the unicorn and wakes her once again. She tells him they are mythical creatures and tells him again to get lost. Then, she gets out of bed and calls a psychiatrist and the police to have him committed. When they arrive, they think she's crazy. The beleaguered husband, when asked about the animal, responds that "unicorns are mythical creatures" at which point they shove a straight jacket on her and take her away as the film ends.While this is a cute and moderately diverting cartoon, it definitely has a dark edge to it, as both husband and wife are pretty sinister people. Worth a look but younger kids will probably get nothing out of it.