One of my all time favorites.

A Masterpiece!

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was a show that I was quite enthralled with at an earlier time of my life, almost to an unhealthy extent. I still defend my thoughts on the show to this day, I think it still holds up as a competently put together series with cute and endearing characters that was perfect for when you had some off time on the weekend. With the writers of the shows and hand drawn animation FINALLY making a return to theaters with the My Little Pony Movie one can't help but ask: what the **** happened? The weirdest thing about this film is that I can't exactly pin point what made it such a forgettable snooze fest for me. I mean, it was predictable as all hell but I mentioned in my Incredibles 2 review that a film can be predictable and still be engaging as long as it was creative and well written enough that it can be overlooked. Looking back, I think that was the problem here: the My Little Pony Movie completely lacks creativity, it feel like it exists solely to get money out of suckers like me who liked the television series. At certain points it actively felt like it was following a checklist of criteria that had to be met in order for it to meet it's 1 hour and 40 minute run time that it honestly doesn't need in hindsight. There is a point near the end of the film where certain characters reunite with the main 6 and it feels so forced into the writing that it actively took me out of the film. I would comment specifically about other scenes in the film but I'll be honest, I don't remember the film well enough to do such a thing and I haven't felt inclined to return to it so I can so. When that's the case, what can I say? It's not a bad movie, I can't recall anything in the film that actively annoyed me and most bronies seem to happy with it. Maybe I'm just not as enthralled with technicolor ponies as I once was. If you are a brony and want to go see it I'm confident that you will be able to watch it and be satisfied, but for me, it just went on and on and on and on and on and zzzzzzzzzzz.

Call upon the seaponies again! I seen FiM since autumn 2011 under the early Brony heydays where Everfree Radio existed. Back in 2014 I think the first fan made non official MLP movie posters was made on the booru and deviantart. I waited for the MLP movie since the spring where the first teaser was out, and the wait was worth it as now the hype is fading. Awesome songs, music and animation. The Friendship Festival is like my fics becoming alive. I would not mind if the movie was 2 hours long to flesh it out. The movie did not make it to the Oscars for best animated feature, but a possible Oscar or Globes runners up for music or songs.Lukas Graham from my country Denmark made the song Off to See the World. The villain the Storm King dies, as Tempest becomes a fan favorite on MLP forums while there are a lot of visual gags in the end credits.

In all fairness to this film, take my review with a grain of salt. I'm a nineteen-year-old viewer who finds My Little Pony childish and dopey, the brony phenomenon just a case of nerds who refuse to grow up, and the animation to look cheap and painful. Of course I'm biased. That being said, if you're looking for a good clean family film to numb your brain with and enchant your three-year-olds, this one's not a bad choice. If your kids are already fans of the show, this film is more or less just a longer version of it, much like the Bratz animated films that were huge in the early 2000's when I was still in elementary school. You'll get similar Flash animation and audio, the same ever-popular themes of friendship, unity and respect among other things, and unlike a lot of children's animated works to grace the silver screen these days, you won't get any vulgarity or crude sex/fart jokes, so that's definitely a bonus if you want a simple, clean family film. If you're an adult lone viewer going into it and you've never seen My Little Pony before, you'll either really love it or hate it with a burning passion like you've never felt before. It's a very unrealistic utopian look at how the world should be, which is all well and good if that's what floats your boat, but it's so sickeningly rainbow and glittery and perfect that it's a complete bore-fest to me, and the voices - oh lord, the voices! It takes me back to the days of having my English teacher drag her fingernails down the chalkboard to get my attention! ARRGH! What a headache! It's simply annoying and preachy to me, and really doesn't offer much in the way of a well-developed plot or a solid story with any sort of actual meaning to it. I wasn't expecting some pretentious philosophical sermon in this film, but why couldn't there be more to it than exactly what you'd expect? I'm sorry, but I just can't force myself onto the big fat bandwagon for these stupid cartoon horses, no matter how often my friends drag me to the movies to see them.

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.