![]() Using the last of his strength to smash though, he crawls, gasping, to the shore, perplexed by the sudden snow and cold. Out of breath, he swims to the surface but his way blocked by thick ice. Meanwhile, below the surface of the pond Jack seeks unsuccessfully for Lily's ring. The onset of a blizzard and the howling winds drive Lily to seek shelter. Without the power of the stallion the world plunges into sudden, severe winter. Meanwhile Blix and his party overtake the dying stallion and cut off the magical horn. Jack leaps to his feet and dives into the water to retrieve it. She tosses the ring and it falls into a pond. Lily, though not at all contrite, apologises teasing Jack by telling him that she will marry the man that finds her ring. But Jack is very angry at her for desecrating the unicorn with her human touch. Blix's party gives chase while unknowing, Lilly, delighted by the experience, but puzzled by the unicorns sudden departure, returns to Jack. Stung and in pain, the stallion gallops away followed by the mare. Blix, hiding from sight, seizes the opportunity presented by Lilly's charm of the unicorns, to fire a poisoned dart into the flank trusting stallion. Although the unicorns appear to be as pleased by Lily as she is by them, she has unwittingly made them vulnerable. Mortals like Jack and Lily are not permitted to see-let along touch them, but Lily, delighted by their beauty and against Jack's warning-approaches them and gently pats one on the nose. ![]() These are sacred animals, guradians of purity, innocence and all that is good. Then Jack tells her that he has a special surprise, taking her to see the last two unicorns - a mare and a stallion. Unaware of the danger, Jack and Lily play in the forest glades together like children. Unknown to the two lovers, Blixx and his companions have found them and although the goblins are repelled by the teens' beauty and goodness, they follow Jack and Lily knowning that the youngsters will sooner or later attract the targeted unicorns. Lily's real plan is to visit her beloved Jack( Tom Cruise), a forest child and trusted friend to all the creatures that live there. She warns Lilly that visiting the woods is not a princess-like activity, but Lily goes anyway, leaving as quickly as she arrived amid Nell's warnings of things to forest things avoid. Along the way the playful young teen visits her friend Nell ( Tina Martin) a kindly peasant who lives at the edge the woods. The scene shifts to Princess Lilly all innocence and mischief, heading to the enchanted forest. He sends Blixx and his two companions, Pox ( Peter O'Farrell) and Blunder ( Kiran Shah)to set a trap with orders to bring the unicorn's horn back to him. Only someone innocent and pure, such as the Princess Lily ( Mia Sara), can attract the unicorns. He cannot approach the unicorns, he tells Blixx, because only the pure can find them. He confides to Blixx that he wishes to kill the last two unicorns so that darkness will fall upon the world, allowing him to emerge from his cave where he is shielded from the sunlight that is his enemy. ![]() Valerie J.The Lord of Darkness ( Tim Curry) alone in his chamber, calls his minion the goblin Blixx ( Alice Playten). It all makes for a jumble of a long movie, which originally aired as a miniseries on NBC. The most stunning scenes are the fairy sequences that take place in a futuristic castle in the sky (think Wizard of Oz meets Star Wars) and the epic battles with innovative leprechaun bark-and-stick armor. It's part Romeo and Juliet, via the seemingly doomed romance of the princess fairy and teenage leprechaun part contemporary romance, with an uncomfortable-looking Randy Quaid in the romantic lead and a large part unfocused fable that fills out its Irish stew with a feud reminiscent of Ireland's Catholic-Protestant conflict while throwing in fantastical Braveheart-style battle scenes and Riverdance-like interludes. It's also a struggle between competing, derivative story lines in this bloated, plodding film that can't decide what it wants to be. There's a war goin' on in this bit o' blarney, but it's more than the feud between the fairies and the leprechauns, upon which most of the overwrought tale hangs.
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