Unicorn Wars

Name: Unicorn Wars
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, War
Released: March 10, 2023
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Itxaso Quintana, Jaione Insausti, Jon Goiri, Kepa Cueto, Manu Heras

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GKIDS | Release Date: March 10, 2023 | TV-MA

Starring: Itxaso Quintana, Jaione Insausti, Jon Goiri, Kepa Cueto, Manu Heras, Maribel Legarreta, Ramón Barea

Summary: For ages, teddy bears have been locked in an ancestral war against their sworn enemy, the unicorns, with the promise that victory will complete the prophecy and usher in a new era. Aggressive, confident teddy bear Bluey and his sensitive, withdrawn brother Tubby could not be more different. As the rigors and humiliation of teddy bearFor ages, teddy bears have been locked in an ancestral war against their sworn enemy, the unicorns, with the promise that victory will complete the prophecy and usher in a new era. Aggressive, confident teddy bear Bluey and his sensitive, withdrawn brother Tubby could not be more different. As the rigors and humiliation of teddy bear bootcamp turn to the psychedelic horrors of a combat tour in the Magic Forest, their complicated history and increasingly strained relationship will come to determine the fate of the entire war. [GKIDS]… Expand

Director: Alberto Vázquez

Genre(s): Action, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, War, Animation

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 92 min

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Carlos Aguilar

Mar 10, 2023

An inspired antiwar epic that recently won the Goya Award (Spain’s equivalent to an Oscar) for animated film, Vazquez’s sophomore nightmarish fairy tale culminates with frighteningly revelatory imagery signaling the pattern of destruction that has characterized human history. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Mar 9, 2023

A story about drug addiction, corrupt authorities, and environmental collapse sounds grim on paper and plays grim on screen, but Unicorn Wars is more than “grim.” It’s deranged. Read full review

Polygon Tasha Robinson

Oct 19, 2022

The latest from Spanish writer-director Alberto Vázquez is transgressive and aggressive to a degree that’s hard to fathom: It weaponizes cute cartoon creatures against its audience, and introduces innocence and beauty in order to tear it apart on screen in the most horrific ways possible. The film isn’t an easy watch, but it is a bold and memorable one. Read full review

Collider Marco Vito Oddo

Mar 7, 2023

While Unicorn Wars' rhythm can be uneven, the movie is still a brilliant anti-war story elevated by Vazquez’s mesmerizing art direction. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Katie Rife

Mar 10, 2023

As Vázquez keeps adding elements in its last half hour, Unicorn Wars starts to feel like the beginning of a trilogy, or maybe a TV series that got canceled unexpectedly and had to wrap up its storyline in a handful of episodes. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Oct 29, 2022

The visually striking, not-at-all-kid-friendly result is all kinds of wrong: Picture pastel-colored anime bears impaled on the horns of sleek black horses, backlit by raging hot-pink infernos. “The Care Bears” this ain’t, though the comparison can hardly be accidental with this ultra-graphic, Saturday morning cartoon-subverting satire for which irreverent Bronies may well be the ideal audience. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Mar 9, 2023

Unicorn Wars is forcefully provocative, trying too hard to push buttons at the cost of more nuanced explorations of masculinity and power. For Vázquez, a pile of cartoon corpses makes enough of a point. Read full review

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