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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3282391" data-attributes="member: 1656">Hrmm.  I just watched it again last week.Compared to the other Rankin-Bass movie it's always been most closely associated with in my childhood memory (The Flight of Dragons)... I didn't think it had held up well.There are jumps in the storyline, the characters feel horribly cardboard with no discernible reasoning for many of their choices and actions, and the whole thing feels like a bad railroad.The Flight of Dragons isn't perfect, but it's a movie I can still watch and enjoy repeatedly.  (And it's just hit 25 years as well... DVD release, please!)  It hangs together.  The characters are fun, and their motivations are mostly consistent, and it doesn't have that godawful butterfly <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I'm almost regretting watching The Last Unicorn again, because it was a lot better in my memory <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I don't think I've been quite so let-down since rewatching He-Man and She-Ra - The Secret of the Sword...-Hyp.</blockquote>