That development is not so much poetic justice as it is the accelerant for a monster’s evolution.Ĭalling “Unicorn Wars” a film where the monsters eventually win may be true. Seeing how Bluey’s face eventually matches the blackness of his soul will give no joy to the viewer. The root of Bluey’s resentment towards Tubby will make a viewer’s jaw drop at learning the depths of that teddy bear’s pettiness. Being ranked second best in the army is to Bluey the most grievous of insults. But any purity in that motivation is polluted by his narcissistic and sociopathic character. Bluey, on the other hand, may be driven by a desire to do better in life than his father. Yet he’s also more physically out-of-shape than Bluey and continues to put up with Bluey’s abusive treatment of him. Tubby is the gentler and kinder of the two brothers. Teddy bear brothers Bluey and Tubby, “Unicorn Wars”’ central protagonists, embody the film’s thematic conflicts. That beautiful moment of understanding and revelation soon gets interrupted by the horse-like creature’s death at the hands of the protagonists’ platoon. That sense is best captured in a moment where the viewer sees the essential role the unicorns play in bringing life to the Enchanted Forest. Vazquez’ film thus creates a world where innocence and even beauty cannot withstand hatred or ambition in the long run. The arrows the teddy bears learn to shoot may have cute little hearts for fletches, but when they hit unicorns in the legs or the neck there’s nothing cute about the injuries inflicted. The affectionate Cuddly-Wuddly brothers both perish horribly as a result of a bad drug trip. What truly makes the horrors depicted in Vazquez’ film feel incredibly disturbing is having its cuter elements continually juxtaposed with its more unsettling and even violent moments. It’s not clear what’s worse: the graphic violence of the conflict or the madness of militarism and toxic ambition. ![]() The opening minutes hint at this with the unicorn Maria nearly getting swallowed by an amorphous monstrous blob. “Unicorn Wars,” despite occasional bursts of visual beauty occurring within the Enchanted Forest, is thus at its core a horror story. ![]() On the other hand, the teddy bear army officers happily encourage this hatred as a means of controlling their underlings. ![]() The teddy bear recruits have been indoctrinated to believe they will bring about a new golden age by reclaiming the Forest for the teddy bears and drinking the blood of the last unicorn. As the viewer learns during a religious service, the teddy bears have long resented the unicorns evicting them from the Enchanted Forest. In return, the teddy bears use sharp knives to disembowel unicorns or blow them up with hand grenades.īlame religious fanaticism for the teddy bears’ efforts to exterminate the unicorns. But these animated fantasy characters possess the same degree of cuteness as Stan and Kyle and their kid friends on “South Park.” Here, unicorns gore teddy bears.and even trample them underfoot. Unwary viewers may envision animated cuteness once they learn Alberto Vazquez’s (“Birdboy: The Forgotten Children”) new animated film “Unicorn Wars” is populated by lots of teddy bears and unicorns.
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