My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks
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So... Sunset Shimmer is reformed, Twilight is not the protagonist and we have Sirens as villians, what could go wrong? Well this time not alot. We see less of Brad (Flash Sentry) and more of Trixie, this is a big one. Hello mare and gentlecolts and today My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks and for the record this movie was miles better form the last.
Directed by Jayson Thiessen
Written by Meghan McCarthy
Story and Characters - This movie has a far better plot from the last film; The film opens with the students of Canterlot High School preparing for an upcoming musical showcase, where Twilight Sparkle's friends Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Rainbow Dash perform in their own band called "the Rainbooms". During the practice, they find themselves in their "half-pony" forms whenever they play, which was due to the Equestrian magic generated from Twilight's crown. Meanwhile, former school bully Sunset Shimmer is ostracized by the rest of her student self despite her attempts to redeem herself, though Twilight's friends still value their newfound friendship with her. Sunset then runs into three new students Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, and Sonata Dusk, and offers to show them around the school. The trio, forming a band called "the Dazzlings", perplex Sunset and the Rainbooms when they perform a song that creates dissent amongst the rest of the students and convinces them to turn the showcase into a battle of the bands (Scott Pilgrim Style). Sunset discovers that the High School Principals Celestia and Luna were under the Dazzlings's spell. So, she sends a letter to Twilight Sparkle via Sunset's book.
Twilight realizes that the Dazzlings are sirens who are exiled from Equestria that feed on negative emotions that control everyone through their singing. Twilight and her faithful dragon assistant, Spike, return to Canterlot High School, where she reunites with her friends there. Twilight suggests that she and her friends must use the power of friendship to break the Dazzlings' spell, but finds that Twilight's friends can't evoke their magic. With Sunset's help, Twilight determines that they must perform a song that breaks the Dazzlings's spell. Rainbow Dash assigns Twilight as the Rainbooms's lead singer whilst Twilight comes up with lyrics that break the Dazzlings's spell, which turns out to be more difficult than Twilight thought. When the Dazzlings catch wind of the Rainbooms, they set the rest of Canterlot High School against the Rainbooms, creating strife within them and increasing vulnerability to their spell.
School against the Rainbooms, creating strife within them and increasing vulnerability to their spell.
Later on at the competition, the Rainbooms outdo each opposing band, giving Twilight more time to work out her own counterspell. During the semifinal round against Trixie's band, Rainbow Dash performs an egotistical song that nearly triggers her half-pony transformation. Sunset attempts to stop this, believing that the Dazzlings may find out about their plan. However, this appears to be a student's selfish act, causing everyone to dislike Sunset. The Dazzlings use Trixie to capture the Rainbooms underneath the stage to prevent them from participating in the final round, during which the Dazzlings absorb their magic, causing Twilight's friends to argue. After the argument, Twilight and Sunset realize that the argument is preventing Twilight's own counterspell from happening, and convince Twilight's friends to help them out. Eventually, the Rainbooms are rescued by Spike and DJPon-3, who uses her headphones to keep herself from being under the Dazzlings's influence. DJPon-3 creates a makeshift stage and a battle ensues between the Rainbooms and the Dazzlings. During the battle, the Dazzlings gain the upper hand, proving to be too powerful for the Rainbooms to handle. Twilight convinces Sunset to help the Rainbooms fight back, causing Sunset to reveal her half-pony identity. With Sunset's help, the Rainbooms finally break the Dazzlings' spell and destroy the gems that empower the Dazzlings, rendering them tone deaf and freeing the entire school from the Dazzlings's influence. Defeated, the Dazzlings run away while the entire school celebrates the Rainbooms's victory. Rainbow Dash offers Sunset a position in the band as a backup singer, and in response, Sunset reveals that she's also a guitarist. The film ends with Twilight and Spike returning to Equestria, promising to keep in touch with Sunset using her book.
During the credits, a montage reveals Sunset performing as the Rainbooms's newest singer and guitarist.
In a post-credits scene, (Human) Twilight is investigating the strange activity around Canterlot High...
So yeah the plot was consistent and generally more awesome and the amount of cameos was alot so yeah, the plot was passable, but it still could have been better.
Sunset Shimmer & Mane 6- So the main character is Sunset Shimmer she is on the path to healing her past mistakes. In the second film, Sunset Shimmer appears to have completely changed from her old self and started believing in friendship, becoming friends with the mane 6, even Twilight Sparkle. She also appears deeply repentant for her actions made at the end of the first film, referring to her transformed into "raging she-demon." However, she suffers from a lack of confidence, keeping silent in situations she feels it isn't her place to speak up and falling prey to The Dazzlings taunting. During the final battle, she finally overcomes her insecurities and joins the Rainbooms in defeating the Dazzlings, gaining a half pony form in the process. At the end of Rainbow Rocks, Sunset starts writing friendship reports to Princess Twilight using the book she once used to communicate with Princess Celestia. To me anyway she is a very relatable character and although this she has a lingering side story that she sat through out the sidelines of the story until at the very end play an active role. Twilight Sparkle returns to the human world and serves as the temporary lead vocalist of her human friends' band, the Rainbooms. She in this movie was really well portrayed and when her friends put her on a pedstal putting pressure on Twilight as it gave us something to root for. Sunset Shimmer is awesome, amazing and well everything in between (keeps his inner fanboy in check). As for the Mane 6 Fluttershy, Pinkie and Rarity stood out for me in the band as they had more 'expressive' dialouge than AJ or Rainbow, that and the interactions between them were fun to watch, that and comedy wise it's AWESOME!!
The Mane 6- The Mane 5 greet Twilight and admire her efforts helping them as they expect so much form her meanwhile its the opposite for Sunset. Also has lots arguments about priorities in the band like clothing,music etc which causes a brief rift between them this makes conflict very belivable between all of them. That and Fluttershy is the best when it comes conflict
Animation & Sound- So the animation is better than the first movie as colours are brighter and stand out more with in contrast with background this is seen when Sunset and Twilight have a conversation during the night were they have a reconciliation. this break form the action slows down the tempo and is very relaxing scene with a cameo of Maud Pie of course. This makes the film far better and the animation is far better any way.
The Soundtrack is amazing hands down brilliant, Daniel Ingrams's work is amazing, songs like Rainbow Rocks, Better Than Ever, Under Our Spell, Shine Like Rainbows just to name a few. in other words these songs are amazing and didn't feel forced like the first movie excluding the Cafetria Song of course. The music is powerful and awesome to listen to, and 'Welcome to the Show' is one of the best songs i have heard in a long long time...
The Villains- The villains are known as the Dazzlings a singing group of sirens with there goal of making humanity there slave. Adagio Dazzle is shown to be scheming, manipulative, and only concerned with being adored by others also she is the leader. Sonata Dusk is shown to be somewhat air-headed and carefree, similar to Pinkie Pie. Aria Blaze is portrayed as being more level-headed than her companion Sonata Dusk and often speaks in a rather bored disposition and she is the other one. Although there are a few plot holes about them that arent adressed and there motives arent really soildified...
Final Verdict- Equestria Girls 2 is a giant improvement from the last film, and this was really enjoyable and Sunset is the most amazing thing in this movie, everything was soild and the it was better paced than the last film and was just generally a better movie. I hope to see this carrry on in the Friendship Games film this year and hope to see more awesome Sunset Shimmer in the days to come. and expect a teaser trailer for the film at San Diego Comic-Con International : http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/05/sdcc-my-little-pony-panel-gets-time.html
The King of Depravity rates this film 8.9/10
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