My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games is an upcoming 2015 Canadian–American animated musical fantasy comedy film sequel to 2014's My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, the third installment in the Equestria Girls spin-off film franchise, and a spin-off of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic animated television series. It is written by Josh Haber and directed by Ishi Rudell. The film is slated for a television network premiere on Discovery Family on September 26, 2015. Like the first two Equestria Girls films, the film re-envisions the main characters of the series, normally ponies, as teenage human characters in a high school setting. When the students of Canterlot High School prepare for the annual "Friendship Games" sports competition against rival school Crystal Prep Academy, they discover that the Twilight Sparkle from their world is on the opposing team. A forest clearing, used both for the Friendship Is Magic episode "Bloom & Gloom" and for this ...
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Saved!I've been watching so much Cutthroat Kitchen that when I tried to watch this again I couldn't get through five minutes because seeing animation was just weird.
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Saved!Silent GamerEditing … Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality
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Saved!I feel a little guilty bumping my score up to a 9 and ranking it as my 19th favorite movie because I think it's pretty flawed but what can I say? This movie makes me really happy. :)
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Saved!My blu ray came and I watched the commentary. It was really good. I feel the way to do a commentary right is to balance out praising the work and poking fun at it, and this one did that. The ways they poked fun at the illogic were humorous, but my favorite part was when they joked that Principal Cinch was mean because her mole was sentient and controlling her. I liked the season one and Rainbow Rocks commentaries okay, but this was my favorite. They also did commentary on the deleted scenes, which was a nice touch. Overall, it felt kinda like watching a Simpsons commentary again, and I'm pretty attached to Simpsons commentaries. I also remember loving the Beauty and the Beast commentary. The South Park ones are good too.
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Dr Eggnog wrote his opinion about My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship GamesSaved!This movie has its flaws, but I decided to bump my score up from a 7.5 to an 8 after thinking about how excited and happy its made me overall and comparing that to other movies I've given an 8 to. It would be unfair to give it less.
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Saved!Ok, I've got my thoughts organized. SPOILERS!
SpoilerPros:
- The animation starting up the intro song was really cool.
- Human world Twilight is cute and sympathetic.
- Rally song is my favorite Pony song since My Past is Not Today.
- In some ways the movie just feels more like a MOVIE than the first two.
- Balances a lot of characters pretty well.
- Poor Flash Sentry. I felt kinda sorry for the guy.
- Everyone at CHS knowing human world Twilight and it freaking her out was great. "You guys know my dog's name too?"
- Deadpan honest girl was funny. "That speech was really bad."
- Human world Twilight's song is pretty.
- Villain had a good professional evil vibe going on.
- Spike managed to be a good character even without words.
- Cadence's advice to Twilight was sweet.
- The shot of Sunset and Twilight walking up to the chalkboards was hype.
- The big race was pretty epic.
- Sunset is still likable. It's neat how Sunset feels like Twilight from Rainbow Rocks. And human world Twilight feels like Sunset from Rainbow Rocks.
- Sunset's take my hand scene was beautiful.
- The use the magic song was creepy.
- Pacing was pretty good.
- Don't have any huge problems with the first half in general.
Cons:
- Rarity and Pinkie have one note dialogue.
- Villain was pretty one dimensional, and she was stupid to make Twilight use the magic when she didn't even know if it would help.
- Spike getting his voice was pretty pointless.
- For someone who put together a complicated device, Twilight sure doesn't know jack shit about it.
- So these two schools know about magic, but the school board doesn't? No one has footage? The world should be aware of magic by now.
- Another she-demon transformation
Pro/Con:
- I was kinda disappointed that Twilight wanted to go to CHS, since if she stayed at her old school she could teach the others about friendship. But then I thought about it, and if I was her I would want to be near the people who had been nicest to me, like Sunset.
Overall, I like it and I'm going to give it a 7.5, even though I don't like the second half as much as the first.-
Saved!WhiteSnakeEditing … Con Counterpoints: Spoiler----- For supporting characters, there was nothing really wrong with the portrayal of Pinkie Pie or Rarity. They weren't really the focus of the movie here, nor did they really do anything to come across as detrimental or annoying. But if you really want to talk about "one note" characters, lobby that complaint to half of the Shadowbolt team. Twilight was, of course, great. Sugarcoat (AJ's rival) was also a great addition with her brutally blunt commentary. Soursweet (Fluttershy's rival) seemed like a stereotypical kid's show mean girl at first, but after you learn she's really just bipolar, it actually makes her sarcasm/hateful switches fun to watch. But as for the others, they're not really as memorable. Indigo Zap (RD's rival) and Lemon Zest (Pinkie's rival) seemed pretty cool at first with cool designs/mannerisms, but it's just a shame that they didn't really do much more to make them stand out. Coming across as a hyperconfident jock and crazy rocker girl, respectively, but not much else beyond that. And as for Sunny Flare (Rarity's rival), she was utterly forgettable. Unlike Indigo or Lemon, nothing about her really stood out at all, and I actually had to look up her name to know who she was. Really, she was just that stereotypical kid's show mean girl I was talking about, and there was nothing really memorable to work with here. ----- Principal Cinch had a great villain song towards the end and, like Cinderella's stepmother, knew how to play her cards throughout the movie. Knowing just the right things to say to get what she wants, even if that meant convincing Twilight to unleash the magic in a last ditch effort to win the games. As such, magic was still a fairly new concept to both her and Twilight, and because things normalized after Twilight recaptured the magic during the race, Cinch assumed that she could be able to do it again. Unleashing/recapturing magic, that is. Not realizing that the device was already reaching critical mass. Dangerously amplifying the portal magic with 5 different pony powers already. (Notice that when the device first absorbed Rarity's magic, no portals showed up. But after the portal magic was drained from the statue, portals began manifesting themselves after each new pony's magic was absorbed. Creating increasingly more unstable portals as the device kept combining it with more and more magic. Culminating in Midnight Sparkles's ability to tear into the fabric of reality with overpowered portal magic.) That said, I don't really consider Cinch up there in the echelons of great MLP antagonists (the bar Discord and others set is too high), but she wasn't a one dimensional villain either. She didn't really want to use to magic to takeover the world or something cliched like that. No, instead, she was just more of a ruthless principal that absolutely detests failure at all costs, doing everything she possibly could to maintain the prestige and superiority of Crystal Prep in all regards. Even if that meant cultivating a cutthroat environment where her students MUST succeed (or else), but producing legitimately superior students in the process. Students that lacked sportsmanship? Sure, but never did they have to resort to illegal methods (like cheating) to win their battles. The competitions the Shadowbolts won, they won fair and square through sheer superiority. Building better bird houses, Twilight solving that equation (probably winning the spelling bee, too), Soursweet being an extremely efficient archer, and (even though CHS was in the lead due to Twilight's archery mishaps) rollerstaters/athletes so fast that they quickly closed that gap in a matter of seconds. To say that they didn't need to cheat was an understatement, and they only really considered that option when they suspected that CHS of winning the race due to magical disturbances. Proposing to fight fire with fire; magic with magic. Which, to be fair, that race was indeed a mess (Soursweet being distracted by the ivy plant, Indigo falling into a freshly created ditch, etc.) and you really can't say that anyone would have won that race fair and square. But to say that Principal Cinch is one dimensional does discredit all of that. She does thinly blackmail Twilight by offering to use her influence to either help/deny her acceptance into an independent study program (a dickhead move, but not illegal), and she is willing to use magic to "level the playing field" after the Shadowbolts lost due to unexpected circumstances in the race. But other than that, she didn't really do much to be a cliched villain. She was just unsufferably smug and strict about being superior, hated to lose, and did everything she legally could to get ahead. Something that apparently rubbed off on her students, making the antagonists just a group of people that didn't really have any grand evil aspirations (unlike the first two movies, where the villains wanted to takeover Equestria), but were just considered the best and brightest of an academically rigorous school, headed by an academically rigorous principal. ----- I'mma have to agree with you on this. Other than finding a way to include Cathy Weseluck in the movie, and having Spike be the one to snap Midnight Sparkle back to her senses (calling out to her, showing how horrified he is at the new Twilight), I don't really get WHY he talks. At least with Midnight Sparkle, the reason she has portal ripping magic is because she did absorb portal ripping magic. But as for Spike, it doesn't really make sense. He chases a jackrabbit around Equestria/CHS via portals, and apparently gains the power to speak after being shocked by Fluttershy's magic as it's being drained out of her. Which, I mean, I know that Fluttershy's thing is dealing with animals and all, but it'd still be a stretch to say/imply that her magic could also grant animals the ability to talk. ----- She understands the device alright. The thing that she doesn't understand are the variables involved: magic. So while yes, she did manage to make some Ghostbusters-type shit in her spare time (being a super genius and all, and seeing as how magic can already be stored by stuff like school statues or small crowns), that doesn't mean that she knows everything there is to know about magic. Which, it being a subject that she knows little about, she's obviously gonna go out there to know everything about it. Even if it means making a sci-fi device to track it down. ----- Did you not seeing that ending argument that shut Cinch down? Magic is still not common knowledge in the world of CHS, apparently, so Cinch was then warned by Celestia, Luna, and Cadence of just how crazy she'll look explaining it to people who weren't there to witness it firsthand. Possibly even being reputation-shattering for someone that's suppose to be the head of an elite educational facility. So umm, yeah. It does look like the town would rather keep quiet about all of these weird events popping up or risk looking insane to the rest of the world. I mean, they might have photographic and video evidence of the girls in their "pony" forms (like the picture in Equestria Girls 1 for example, where Twilight takes a picture with the EQ cast at the Fall Formal), but it looks like even then, it hasn't really convinced the world of magic just yet. Especially considering that no one ever seems to capture one of the "she-demons" on film when all hell breaks loose, apparently. But besides, why would you want magic to be public knowledge, Nogg. Like a superhero whose identity has been revealed, it's just gonna cut into their social lives as various interest groups start pursuing them (the government, the media, scientists, etc.). It's just gonna fundamentally change the feeling of this spinoff series if they're no longer treated as regular high school teenaged girls by the global community and more like gods or anomalies to be studied. ----- The only line I really did take issue with was Midnight Sparkles' "who cares? there's more magic there" line because, although I do get Twilight's unsatisfiable thirst for more knowledge, as well as not understand friendship magic enough to avoid corruption, it seems extreme to destroy everything (including friends like Cadence) to get said knowledge. Very extreme. That said, I really do think that it was necessary to transform her in to she-demon to harken back to the first movie, beautifully wrapping up Sunset's redemption arc in process. Because now, as fate would have it, it was Twilight who became the corrupted one and Sunset who was the one that saved her. Talk about coming full circle. =) Overall, I really do consider this movie (alongside Amending Fences) as some of the best highlights that season 5 had to offer. The other episodes were fine and all, but they didn't really remind me of why I fell in love with this series in the place, you know. -
Saved!Dr EggnogEditing … Wow, that was an impressive wall of text considering I'm probably the only person who will ever read it. For me, Rarity and Pinkie both came across as detrimental and annoying. It's true that they weren't the focus, but neither were the Crystal Prep rivals, and I didn't find them annoying. They were shallow, but they didn't have enough screen time for that to get annoying to me. A missed opportunity at most. I'd say I liked them. Although Principal Cinch wasn't as cliche as she would have been as a "take over the world" kind of villain, and I did like her, I still wouldn't call her complex. I like that the climax's parallels the one in the first movie, but I was still a bit disappointed to see another she-demon type of affair. I did see the ending argument that shut Cinch down, and it was my least favorite part of the movie. In the rest of the film, the school felt like it knew about magic and was perfectly okay and calm about it. I liked that casual feel because it helped give the movie a fun vibe. I don't imagine that a town would be able to keep quiet about it even if it was in their best interest. I still feel it would have made much more sense for the world to know about magic at this point, and I wouldn't have needed to see the government stepping in or anything. Outside of this movie, my favorite parts of season 5 have been Castle Sweet Castle, Bloom and Gloom, and Party Pooped. I liked Amending Fences just okay. So far, I've liked season 5 more than season 4 and maybe more than season 3 as well. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
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Saved!Dear god, I just realized something. They made the villain allergic to dogs, and there's a dog in the movie, and the writers never took advantage of that for dumb humor! They must have just forgotten. It can't be that they actually showed restraint. Why else would they have mentioned her allergy?
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Saved!Just watched this on livestream with about 2000 other people. It was good. Rainbow Rocks was a big improvement on the first movie, and I feel this was perhaps another improvement, though not as big of one. My problems with RR were that I didn't like a lot of the dialogue and there were a massive amount of songs that all kinda blurred together. Those problems were lessened here. It was an enjoyable spectacle with songs I liked, a few funny moments, and a nice use of human Twilight. Plus it just felt more like a movie. Rarity and Pinkie both felt very one note, but they were bearable. Some stuff about the climax bugged me. I'm thinking about a 7/10 overall. It's hard to say because I missed parts due to the tenuous nature of a livestream. But I can tell they put plenty of work into it and I will be buying the blu-ray.
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Saved!Holy crap, an Equestria Girls short I actually like. They somehow made the shipping hints they're doing with Lyra and Bon Bon even more explicit than in Slice of Life. And I adore it! It's such a great, weird little in joke. Though I think with the heart at the end kids are going to figure out something's weird that they're not supposed to get. When I was a kid stuff like that made me feel uncomfortable (not lesbian stuff, hidden jokes). And it seems like if one of them hadn't made the team Lyra and Bon Bon would've kept on being angry at each other. But oh well. I laughed at the hot dog eating, and it's funny that they kept competing after everyone else had left.
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