ReaderKenka
Let's be realistic.
Chirphymium
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Fatma Suarez
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Hitchcoc
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.
preppy-3
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:)
MartinHafer
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.
Robert Reynolds
The failure of AMPAS to nominate this cartoon for an Oscar is unbelievable! Granted, it was a good year for animated shorts and a good year particularly for UPA-Columbia, but this cartoon is simply delightful! Written by James Thurber and animated in Thurber's artistic style, it is his world come to life! If you like James Thurber, you'll love this cartoon, probably as much as I do! Highly recommended.Edit: Since I posted this particular comment, I discovered just why it wasn't nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Subject-it was never submitted to AMPAS for consideration, because Stephen Bosustow was, for some reason, not pleased with the end results. I think that it's a marvelous piece of work, but without submission for consideration, the Academy could not nominate the short. I've since watched it several times and it is still highly recommended.
