If you've seen my posts about EqG, you'll know I haven't been very enthusiastic about it. At first, the idea was so bad I couldn't stop laughing about. Then the designs were released, and I was in stitches! As time went by though, EqG stopped seeming so hilariously terrible and settled for just seeming terrible. I decided that I was just going to ignore it, but a friend of mine who saw it on YouTube wouldn't stop talking about how great it was, and I decided to watch it. And frankly?

If he weren't just a friend on the internet, I'd probably break his nose. But enough of the background and threats of violence, let's move on to the review, shall we? I'll try to keep it light on the spoilers, but there really isn't much to spoil.

As usual, the voice work is great. The animation seems to be pretty good in Equestria, but that goes down the drain in the human world. The plot is mediocre at its best moments, and those are over once Twilight and Spike go through the mirror into the human world.

A lot of people said that this avoided high school drama clichés. I can’t help but wonder if we were watching the same movie. Popular girl is a bully, main character is an outcast who becomes popular, love interest is a generic dreamboat, main character beats popular girl in some popularity contest. Nothing gets original until the end, when Sunset Shimmer becomes a demon and brainwashes the school to invade Equestria.

If you can look past how stupid the plan is (the magic of Equestria is apparently no match for teenage awkwardness and angst), this is the part that could have redeemed the movie. However, it’s too rushed to make much of an impact. Twilight regains control of the element, the teens are returned to normal, and Shimmer is defeated in mere minutes after she steals the crown and transforms. And naturally she’s redeemed, because apparently MLP isn’t allowed to have villains anymore. Twilight then attends the dance, goes back to Equestria at the last minute possible, and I’m left wondering how I can get that hour of mine back.

Tl:dr

This movie spends most of its time being an unoriginal high school drama, and when we finally get to some good conflict, it’s resolved almost instantly.

Score

2/10, So it still manages to be better than MMDW and MMC