So if Paul Rudd is attached to a movie, it is automatically assumed to be a comedy? Because if this was supposed to be funny...um? I don't think I cracked a smile once. Just miserable.

And I hate lazy filmmaking nowadays in regard to using CG. The least they could have done is use some practical effects with the unicorn. A stuffed beaver as the unicorn would have looked more realistic.

Okay... something positive. Near the beginning of the film, they used a deep cut Cocteau Twins song for a couple of minutes. It's all downhill from there.

Rewatching DoaU I enjoyed it a tad more but it's such a baffling failure. Movies like Death of a Unicorn have started to tarnish the once exciting reputation of A24 taking a seemingly fresh idea then shoehorning it in a daft framework. The unicorn is a great idea and DoaU spoils it with heavy handed medical subplot or it's class warfare commentary. It's worse crime is that it never lets the unicorns be majestic or even much fun (at first they're too busy being run over or dissected then of mutating into some sort of generic computer generated horror). The conputer generated effects are distracting. As a metaphor for science versus commerce it holds sime strength; but that's an awful tradeoff giving away magical unicorns for socioeconomic banter. Jenna Ortega can make anything more magical but try as we might she will never be the sort of actual unicorn we wre promsied. A lot of the actors here are favorites known for good work who seem somehow miscast (Paul Rudd was great in Friendship but doesn't have the intensity for horror; same with Sunita Mani). Surprisingly Will Poultner nails his role here. Overall I don't feel DoaU lives up to it's immediately amusing title and is kind of a chore to get through; a surprising failure of an idea that would feel bulletproof.

Like others, I was surprised to see this classified as a comedy, and in the end it tried to do too many things. Everyone in the cast has done better work elsewhere and the CGI was a bit overdone. The story lost my interest after a while and the points it was trying to make were obvious and overdone. Overall a good idea with an unsuccessful execution.

Have to agree with the three above reviews. Went in expecting to love it, A24 and Paul Rudd are usually sure winners for me, although I don’t watch as many films as most of you here.

But yeah, heavy handed messaging, poor CGI, and just not enough good moments to make this enjoyable. Was my last film of the Challenge unfortunately, didn’t have enough time to follow it up with anything else as dawn was approaching and I still needed to read a bunch of comics to hit 100 for the month.

Color me difficult, but I liked it. I don't think that it's the best film that I've seen all month, but I enjoyed watching the over-the-top characters get their just rewards from the unicorns. The CGI wasn't bad enough to pull me out of the film, but then again, I watched Toxic Shark this month, and middle-schoolers can create better CGI creatures than that film did. I dunno...I guess that I just got on Death of a Unicorn's wavelength, which is far easier to do at 3:00 AM than at any other time of day, I think.

I saw it post midnight and liked it although I felt it went over the top gore wise. I saw it again and enjoyed it again on a used DVD but I am gifting it to a friend who liked the movie much more than I did. She IS a gore freak so there you go!