The Movie Everypony is Talking About · 7:33pm Sep 25th, 2021
Woke up today, saw my feed was full ‘o movie reviews. So I went to watch it.
My Little Pony: A New Generation
I decided to do it as a my-little-reaction kinda thingie, so no fridge logic, not yet.
Spoilers below here.
*Lantern goes up*
Me: “Oh, so you caused this, Sunny.”
“Hoof to heart.”
Sprout is a kleptomaniac.
Manufactured fear, oh dear.
Judgment Neigh
Oh. My. God. Masterful.
Medium Sneaky.
“Earth Ponies First”
That Hitch Calendar.
Cloud Puff.
Literal Angry Mob song.
The fluff bunnies.
“We had so much fun losing it.”
Glad to know my lantern prediction was right.
Wow. They really did not shy away from pointing out that marshmallows are made out of ground up horse-hoof.
Unicorns being superstitious.
I hope we all knew there had to be a third crystal.
They gave Sprout the Manuel Noriega hat and shades.
I do appreciate that only bringing the crystals together physically did nothing.
Rainbooms. How do they work?
“Was I a good sheriff?”
What was with those heart hoofprints at the end?
Ok, first reactions:
Firstly, I was concerned, as I’m sure a lot of us were, that this was just going to be a straight up money grab, not an actual attempt to make something meaningful. I worried that I’d be inundated with hollow characters, an obvious shallow story that didn’t touch on anything poignant, and a policy of “more effects covers all sins.”
The movie touched on a lot of real word themes, in ways I didn’t think that Hasbro would be comfortable with. I’m talking about the literal manufacturing and selling of fear, and the fact that somepony said “Earth Ponies First.” I think that this movie took a brave step going there.
There were definitely some parallels to be drawn between g4 characters and the current ones, but I feel that there was enough difference to make these characters distinct and original. They were surprisingly well developed despite having all that development crammed into an hour and a half.
There is enough actual substance to this movie that I feel like I have to go back and actually watch it again, just to see if I can find more connections, or notice things I didn’t on my first go-through. That’s a good thing.
Then, there is what I’m sure a lot of us writers care about:
This movie is a headcannon gold mine. Flying dogs, puff bunnies, where the hell is Twilight, how long has it been, why does Hitch have weird animal magic when no one else does, and many many more that are flooding my brain.
All in all, I think we have a winner.
And it’s us.
