If Jurassic Park and Princess Mononoke had a baby and it was raised by Edgar Wright, this is what you would get. A horror-comedy where most of the comedy comes from interesting ways a unicorn can kill someone, Death of a Unicorn doesn’t take itself seriously at all (other than the subplot of Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega’s estranged Father/Daughter relationship). The bad guys are obvious as are their enablers and the point here is that greed is bad (which it is) and that trying to subjugate nature is dangerous (also true). Not a whole lot of groundbreaking stuff going on here.
The movie shines when it’s showing Unicorn rampage and people getting impaled, but the interactions between the characters are also done pretty well. They’re all basically cartoons, and it’s fun watching them get what they deserve with little subtext.
It’s a great hangout movie, even though it drags a little here and there, it’s generally fun enough to keep the downtime between brutal outbursts of gore from killing the mood.
3 out of 5