Day 26: Legend of Everfree Review

I was hoping to post this review on the day it is released as an official end to my blog-a-thon, but because someone posted streams of both languages on Youtube, and later on this site against the rules, everyone is going to post their thoughts and reviews, so I might as well. With no Land Before Time Movie in direct competition as I hoped in Friendship Games, let's see how this stands out. Spoilers beware for those who wish to watch it on Netflix.

It's been a year since Friendship Games, and we're already treated to a fourth movie. Naturally, after a trilogy, we would be highly judgemental on a fourth movie. Take it for instance Transformers: Age of Extinction, Hasbro's fourth cinematic Transformers movie where only the Dinobots are the main highlight (even Frank Welker's return wasn't enough to save the movie).

So what do I think of the film? It's a good start for a second trilogy. Certainly better than Friendship Games and the first movie, just not as great as Rainbow Rocks as my personal favorite. Why do I say this? One, Hasbro did post over ten minutes of the movie. Reason two was the book published a month ago that completely tells the story.

In one thread post on FIMfiction, I did speculate the camp would be filthy and would be deserving to be torn down until they found magical creatures. Then when I saw the backgrounds, I am proven wrong. But seeing the movie, the only hint to my hypothesis that the camp is under the weather is the dock that easily repaired.... Twice. Still, it would be nice to see that there are mystical creatures in the Human World, let alone the Timberwolves. And several weeks since, we, Doctor Wolf included, have discussed the possibility of the villain. Truth is...

Gloriosa Daisy is the villain. Plainly obvious to the most of us spectators. She was driven to insanity from Filthy Rich coming to collect his payments and the magic from the five gems around her neck (these and two others become the possible Elements of Harmony). The result is the longest final battle in an Equestria Girls movie.

The songs are good, though two of them, namely "Midnight in Me" are very short. Sunset Shimmer sings her own solo as well, but if a little stronger sounding it would have a Phil Collins vibe.

Now, for those that have read my latest story Equestria Girls: the Rubicon may have read the Legend of Everfree chapters, which gives the reason as to why it gained three dislikes over six days. Is this better than my version, or vice versa? Perhaps, perhaps not? The movie touches on areas I didn't explore (Timber's scary story sounding more natural than mine, Twilight's relationship with Timber Spruce), while I touched areas the movie itself didn't explore (Why did Snips and Snails go and not the Crusaders, a more Arkham Knight approach for Twilight's struggle, Flash's dilemma, placing some events around such as bringing Filthy Rich a little later etc.). Perhaps a combination of the two would benefit the story as a whole? Either way in the Jongojiverse, the story has already been set; like I keep mentioning, any and all irregularities are the result of an alternate universe (one written over several months before the material gets released in piecemeal).

Maybe the film is on par with Camping is Just Dazzling, though I've written that story as a complete "do what you know" story.

After a potential shipping story at the end (Wink, wink), we are given the question as to how the magic came out. The answer lies in a chipped fracture in the pedestal (which in the Jongojiverse is already repaired as shown in "Wrath of the Red Dragon".) Perhaps this means the mainverse versions of some fanfictions such as Sunset Slayer or maybe even the events leading up to The Rubicon? Then again, we would know that magic would be surging it's way to the human world somehow since Rainbow Rocks and have written works well before, so why now does Hasbro decide to make the jump

Either way, this sums up the review of Legend of Everfree. There are tons of vectors waiting to be drawn by the fans. Some video dubs nitpicking the story, and so forth.