Equestria Girls Legends of Everfree Review · 6:15pm Sep 25th, 2016
Spoilers Ahead
Equestria Legends of Everfree , in English is the fourth in Equestria Girls and wrote by Kristine Song and Joanna Lewis. It starts the usual voice actors from the previous film, so no need to get into that. I will say I was expecting a Gravity Falls rip off, but it wasn’t thankfully. It was, well, let’s just get into it.
Let’s start with the good parts of this film. I will first to say that the setting is not in a high school, but a forest. The background for the setting is great considering the animation style. I will say I am thankful, eh, “Pony up,” the word itself is only used once. I do like that “Pony Up” sequences are completely gone and now are done smoother regarding animation style. I also do like Sunset Twilight subplot I call “Midnight Sparkle Subplot” and it’s splendid. On that note, Twilight’s fear is entirely understandable, and she goes the full route and tries to leave. I also say, believe it or not, Brad gets good character development. I know it’s odd, but kudos. I also love each of the Mane Six’s Powers. Rarity’s being shields, Fluttershy is talking to animals, Rainbow Dash being speed Applejack is a strength, and Twilight, being my favorite, being telekinesis Sadly, that’s all the decent points I have to say about this film.
I, however, have a lot worse things to say about the movie than good. All the things that made Brad a cringe-worthy character took on the character of its own by the male camp counselor, Timber Spruce; by that I mean, Timber and SciTwi’s romance feels so artificial. Their love starts just them giving a quick lot at each other, and that’s it and just over three to five days, they are in love; it's borderline Little Mermaid romance. I will also say that the film has several subplots that go nowhere and two stick out in my mind. First, of Filthy Rich subplots goes one where. Filthy Rich appears only three times in the film; once at the beginning, another time in the middle(but only in flashback) and for one last time at the end for a couple of seconds. The other subplot is “Gia Everfree.” Her design and intentions remind me something out of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but she is reduced down to being a folk’s tale, and that’s it, she's completely dropped for she-demon #3. I really wished she was the main villain for that reason if Avatar did it with a similar rating to MLP why not here? Anyway,that leaves me to the main villain, Gloriosa Daisy. The film tries to misdirect you thought it that she isn’t the villain, but so obvious. “Evil Gloriosa,” the actual villain, is only on screen for five to ten minutes, and she also has a weak ass villain song, it’s certainly not a “This Day Aria.” On that note the songs are majorly weak the one exception being “The Midnight in Me.” You probably noticed I left Sunset out of the equation of the powers, and I did that on purpose. Sunset is powers are, no joke, heart. Yes, she is reduced down to Mati’s from Captain Planet. She has the power to read thought but only when touching someone and feeling how other people feel. There are some other pointless scenes, but would be going into nitpicking territory. So yeah a lot of bad things in the movie.
Overall, the film is the weakest out of the now four Equestria Girls film with weak songs, pointless subplots,and more. I hate saying this, but the cons outweigh the pros and this movie. If they were to enhance some subplots and drop others, it would have been far better. As Legends of Everfree is, I will be not watching, now, a third time. It’s definitely a skip and you better off watching Cinmera Sins cover it.
No no, you were right the first time my friend; when it comes to expression distaste for EQG, there is no such thing as overreacting.