My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)

To me, this movie is perfection.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I haven't seen the series until 2 weeks before the movie came up. When it was announced, I had my complains since I never watch the show. Until a friend of my recommend me the series, I watch it and I absolutely like it for the way the make the story, the time line, the characters, the animation, the humor, the song, is a good series after all. And I was expecting the same whit the movie and... is just OK. Nothing great, nothing bad, just OK.Let's say the bad things: The writing is bad. Not as bad as Emoji Movie or The Star, or even LEGO Ninjago, just bad. What do I mean? The movie can be predictable and cliche. And that's a issue that even the series suffer. It has cliches like "The layer reveled", "The queen who doesn't help", "The main character using their friends for distraction so he/she can do something wrong" and "The main villain reveling he lied to somebody by using to do something and saying he won't do what he made". And maybe if they make fun of them, that would be fine, but they literally said what everything has said already. Another issue is some of the characters, like Micheal Peña voices Grubber, Tempest sidekick who doesn't do anything in the movie other than be whit Tempest and saying lame jokes and The Storm King, a sinister and stupid villain that wants to be funny and scary at the time and both failing whit some lame quotes and only appearing a little in the second act and giving him a main role in the climax. There are some jokes that are not funny apart of the jokes of the characters that I don't like. Like there's a joke referencing a game called "Hungry, Hungry, Hippos". Some characters are even pointless since they don't do anything like the princesses and some could be more helpful like Discord or Starlight or Quibble Pants. And finally, Twilight. I don not hate this character, I think she's decent in here since she's interesting and funny, but she doesn't have any development whit the new characters apart of Tempest in the end. She barley interacts whit them and that's it, she doesn't have any message or scene that discovers that she was wrong and apologies whit the new characters other than the Mane 5 and Spike. And in the end, you see Twilight whit the new characters and the movie makes you believe that they're friends, but I'm sorry, if there is not development, there is not friendship. Even more when she is literally THE PRINCESS OF FRIENDSHIP.OK, you might think that I hate this movie. Well, I don't. Like I said, is an OK film. I have seen this in theaters and the experience was OK, nothing remembering or shameless. I went whit my twin brother (Who has seen some episodes of the series and want it to watch this so he can't stop of watching CGI in animation for a while) and there were a few people out there, like 5 or 6 persons. To give it credit, it is funny actually. Not as hilarious as the series, but it is funny. There's a joke in the climax that made me laugh so hard that everyone in the theater also laugh hard, even my twin brother. The songs are pretty catchy and fun to hear like "We got this together", "Time to be awesome", "Open up your eyes" and "Off to see the world". It's a fun musical, but no the best. The animation is beautiful to look at it. The colors, the sets, the character animation, the movements, it has CGI fake in the backgrounds but they weren't annoying. Most of the characters are fun, even Twilight and some of the new are nice like Tempest, Capper and the pirates. The best parts of the movie are whit Rainbow Dash and Spike, when they speak and they said funny things, made me think, the movie worth watch in the theater. In the series, they are interesting characters, and here they're funny as hell giving some of the best lines in the film and every scene when they talk (Even Spike, the best character of the series) it was so good. The score made by Daniel Ingram is pretty good, I wish there's a score for hearing it all. The voice acting is great. The climax is fine. And this movie brings back what Walt Disney Pictures use to do. Maybe if this was released in the 80's I would forgive it, but since it released in 2017, there's nothing to said other than find his issues. So after all, the movie is fine. It's an OK film that bronys and pegasisters will love to death, it maneges what they want, some of the fans can be disappointing, it depends of their opinions. Maybe if the writing was more funny and less predictable and cliche, this could be a good movie, maybe a better one. But I know the director had fun, the writers had fun, everyone who made the film had fun, so I won't step back and said they ruined, it could be a lot worse. Maybe I was expecting more of it, but at least is not disappointing like the LEGO Ninjago Movie. If you had a girl or girls in general, they might love this movie, more if they're fans of the franchise. For everyone who hates My Little Pony, they're not force to look this as a obligated film to watch. For everyone else, if they're interest in it, I said good and check first the series made by Lauren Faust first so you can understand the world and the characters for it.

Marking this as spoilers just in case something I say could be construed as such.I think at this point the writers for the show and movies are doing a far better job at creating more likable and interesting side characters than main characters. If I could have a movie or series based solely off of the redeemed villains and their adventures and struggles to overcome their differences and learn how to deal with life after their periods of evil, then I'd gladly take that over another "Look here at Princess Twilight! Isn't she great? WORSHIP HER." movie. At this point I feel like Twilight is being shoved down everyone's throats in the MLP movies and show and I dislike her even more now than ever. Her character traits only cause more problems than they solve and this movie is no different. She's just so unlikeable now that I was rooting for the bad guys to win the whole time just to end the Twi-fest. For once I'd like to see someone else take center stage for an MLP: FIM movie because so far no version of movie or TV Twilight (including in Equestria Girls) has any redeeming qualities or character development.That all being said, the animation was very good. It had the feel of the show, but on a higher level and I'd like to see another movie done in this style. The voice acting was great as well. The songs were generally decent and the singing was good. Overall forgettable tunes, to be honest, with the exception of Tempest's solo though. The addition of the new species and kingdoms was a huge plus as there was a great range of new characters and something other than ponies to look at for once. Going off of that, the character design aspect of all the new characters was on point, and, and maybe it's just me thinking this, but bold for an MLP piece. The decision to actually scar a pony and give them a physical alteration as a result of trauma is something new to MLP, but the story behind it as well as the overall character development because of it was spot on. Tempest, by far, is one of my all time favorites now up along with Sunset Shimmer. I was a little disappointed that she didn't get her horn back, but to be fair even without it she is a completely capable character with the ability to literally kick butt on a level that no other character has ever been able to accomplish before. It's sad to think we'll probably never see her again.Overall my lower score is due to Twilight, pure and simple. She was just so unlikeable and really taught no lessons in this movie. So much focus was put upon her when really she was practically useless and was the central cause of many of the arguments, downfalls, and stress of the story. Yet for some reason we're supposed to treat her like some kind of god character that is integral to everything and who is the only one who can ever solve any problems. It's so aggravating at this point that only she is is made out to be the competent hero when clearly there are others who better deserve the spotlight. For example, Pinkie, Dash, and Rarity given that it was their contributions that led to the alliance of characters that successfully managed to save the kingdom in the end while Twilight did NOTHING other than go against the very thing she is a princess of, that being friendship. It's actually kind of sad that it was the other characters who went out and made friends and won the day while the "princess of friendship" only resorted to mistrust and thievery to try and accomplish her goals. While the former does make sense given the early betrayal by Capper, the latter is uncalled for given what she is supposed to stand for.Anyway, rant over. The only redeemable qualities about this movie were the visuals, the side characters and villains, and the soundtrack.

It's been hard to get a 2D animated movie out in theatres since most animation studios has gone to CGI. But a 2D Movie based on a cult animated tv series based on a girls toyline really brings back the memories. But it's not just the animation of the movie that should get praised. It's also songs and guest voice actors (mainly Emily Blunt, Taye Diggs, Zoe Saladana and Kristin Chenoweth). This movie needs more love.

"My Little Pony: The Movie" is a good send-off to the TV series, "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic", but it also has some weaknesses as well.Putting the more advanced-looking art style aside, and the great soundtracks, I'll be talking about the plot primarily, which is still good as a whole.Being the conclusion of the current MLP chapter, we look at whole of Equestria, especially Twilight Sparkle, preparing for the " Festival of Friendship", which was disrupted by an invasion by the Storm King's minions and henchmen. Naturally, everyone is enslaved, and all the princesses but Twilight are turned to stone. The latter is needed so that the Storm King, an ape-looking main villain of the movie, may use the alicorns' powers for himself.The main characters (Twilight, Spike, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack) manage to escape Canterlot via a waterfall and decided to find help. Twilight overhears Princess Celestia, her mentor, trying to summon the "Hippos", but this misunderstanding led to a series of events that came too quickly. The show took its time, usually two or more episodes, to look at each problem, villain, or new characters, so seeing characters like Capper, who tries to sell the ponies, allegedly taking them to the wrong hippos, on purpose to pay off his debts, all the way to meeting Griffin pirates working for the Storm King, against their will, felt a bit rushed.By the time both Capper and the pirates decided to purposely stall for time, so Twilight and friends can escape from the pirate ship, since the Storm King's minions showed up, the ponies finally find the real "hippos"... or "Hippogriff", horse creatures with fingers, wings, and beaks like birds. I thought that this part of the plot was interesting, especially with Twilight trying to talk to Queen Novo into helping the ponies take down the Storm King with her orb, to fooling her friends to keep Queen Novo busy so to secretly steal the orb... only for the friends, feeling betrayed, going on a shouting match with Twilight on the gloomy-looking sea side.With the ponies in bad mood, going their separate ways, Twilight is easily captured, with another weakness of the plot shown. Tempest Shadow, a bitter helper to the Storm King, is just another Starlight Glimmer, the TV series main villain from season 5. Both Tempest and Starlight had rough childhoods at the cost of their friends, grew up feeling bitter towards the idea of making any new friends... only for Twilight to put some senses into their heads, and welcome them to Equestria's growing circle of friendship. Otherwise, Tempest could have had the opportunity of being a memorable MLP villain.But, the main villain is, of course, the Storm King. It turns out that he dislikes everything about the ponies or "friendship", but very interested in obtaining the princesses' powers for himself. Even though he can now control the day and night, the movie doesn't go into details as to why the Storm King is the Storm King, or why he wanted the powers so badly, even lying that he'd be able to fix Tempest's broken horn. The Storm King, not just based on how he looks, feels like another Lord Tirek, the TV series villain from season 4 finale; they both hate ponies, but love their powers.And also, we have three Pegasus with Twilight and friends, that, from walking into the desert (half-dying) to falling from the pirate ship, you'd be screaming "But some of you guys can fly, or have magic!".Honestly, we could have more serious villains than what we got, especially when looking back to those of the 1980s era of My Little Pony, but, otherwise, everything else about the story was good. From Twilight and the princesses planning the Festival of Friendship to successfully pulling it off, and even welcoming Tempest, were pleasant to watch, and a welcome addition to the overall FiM canon.They were also moments I did laugh out loud over, from Twilight and friends being themselves to Queen Novo of the Hippogriffs telling her daughter that she's grounded.Sure, the movie won't be nominated for the best animated movie of the year, and it admittedly reuse some concepts from the FiM series, but, if you don't have anything else to watch, or you have young kinds, this movie is still worth watch, most especially to fans of the series.