King Sombra's Fantastic Movie 5: Hotel Sombra

Plot: King Sombra decides to start his own luxury hotel, but he soon finds that running a hotel is much harder than he expected, and things only get worse when a rival hotel called Hotel Hope opens up nearby. 

Why You Don’t Want To Stay At Hotel Sombra:

1. Subpar animation as usual.
2. Cringey voice acting, especially from Sombra.
3. It goes on for way too long — its runtime is almost three hours.
4. The title is stupid and a clear ripoff of Hotel Mario.
5. Numerous continuity errors and animation mistakes. 
6. Like in the other films, Sombra’s motivations are never explained and his desire, in this case to open a hotel, comes out of nowhere.
7. The first half of the movie is very slow-paced and boring, and things don’t really pick up until Sombra discovers a competing hotel known as Hotel Hope.
8. As always, Sombra is a major jerk who misbehaves and even commits several crimes in this film such as stealing, arson, tax fraud, assault, vandalism, sexual harassment, and other illegal activities. 
9. Terrible dialogue. 
10. Some jokes rip off the Spongebob episode “Krusty Towers,” such as Sombra’s requiring of Radiant Hope to use the “employee elevator.” 
11. Like always, Sombra gives his things dumb and uncreative names. Hotel Sombra is no exception.
12. Characters interchangeably refer to Hotel Sombra as a “hotel” and a “resort.” Which is it?
13. So many unfunny toilet jokes, like when Sombra randomly pees in the hotel pool just because he can.
14. Sombra never does any of the work — instead, he forces his subjects to do all of the work. He mostly just yells at his employees to do things and never does things for himself. 
15. There’s a cringeworthy scene where Sombra throws a tantrum just because the hotel walls are painted a certain color.
16. It follows the “Sombra formula” like most of these movies: Sombra wants X, he decides to do Y, and then Z happens.
17. Sombra fills the entire hotel with pictures and memorabilia of himself. He even opens a gift shop in the hotel that just sells Sombra-themed stuff. This shows he is a huge narcissist. 
18. Sombra berates and makes fun of his janitor for being overweight, calling him “Fatty” which is extremely offensive and mean spirited. 
19. Lazy writing and storytelling.
20. Lackluster special effects.
21. Sombra attempts to blow up Hotel Hope just because he finds out it’s doing better than his own hotel. In fact, he was willing to murder innocent ponies just because he felt like he was losing his own stupid hotel war.
22. It takes Sombra forever to realize who the real owner of Hotel Hope is — Radiant Hope, who decided to start it in order to prove a point to Sombra. Based on the name, isn’t it obvious who owns the hotel? How dumb can Sombra be? 

Redeeming Qualities:

1. The hotel war between Sombra and the rival hotel is actually quite entertaining. 
2. Hope is of course a very likable character here, as she gets back at Sombra by creating her own hotel.
3. The plot is somewhat creative.

Trivia:

1. If you look closely at Sombra’s belly, you can sometimes notice a faint scar. This is likely where his “tumor” from the fourth movie used to be.