Voyage of the Unicorn

This was a refreshing fantasy, and at four hours a beautiful, long journey we enjoyed over several nights, having taped it. It was fun to see a well-known star playing such a neat fantasy role as a professor whose job was being threatened by a dean who didn't like his unorthodox methods of teaching. But we were introduced to several lesser-known players, Heather McEwen, his older daughter Miranda, and Chantal Conlin as her younger sister Cassie. Chantal became the star of the story, with her wonderful child's faith based on drawings her late mother had done in a large portfolio. She easily accepted the step of faith embodied in the motto on the big sqauresail of the Unicorn, the magic ship they traveled on. The motto was Credendo Vides, by believing one sees. As the story unfolds, gradually the practical older sister began to realize that seeing is believing was not the only way to comprehend things. The professor father, as well, had to make the move into the reality of believing is seeing. They came to see that they were in an unseen magical world, and had a mission, as they were part of a prophecy that had to be fulfilled in order to keep an unseen evil empire from taking over, and endangering everyone in the real world. Some of the acting was overdone, but still fun to watch. Soon the meek, scared sisters became the heroines, especially little Cassie, standing up unafraid before the big, hairy, ugly bad guys. That gave them a whole new power to overcome their adversaries. Besides the ship called Unicorn, with its long twisting horn as the prow, there came also a real unicorn whose tears had the power to bring someone back to life. Finally the professors and the sisters were waking up in their own beds, and were thinking about the dream they had, until they each realized it not a dream. This is the kind of enjoyable departure from reality shows and crime drama that Dinotopia and other fantasy stories provided a few years earlier, but it also had a powerful underlying principle that can be applied to the real world, Credendo Vides. By believing, one sees.