i'm well aware the movie's only been out for, uh... two hours? so most people haven't seen it yet, but i thought i'd type up a post on my thoughts.
overall: it was really cute! i think all the ponies were really good friends together, they all had cute designs, thought maaaaybe a little same-y on the models themselves... but all their hair and colors & the like were so different they were VERY easy to tell apart, even if i did forget their names a few times, lol.
and the plot was nice enough! very simple, with the "we have to reunite the earth ponies pegasi and unicorns and we have to collect the crystals" being most of the plot, i guess, but the plot itself felt maaaybe a little short? i feel like a LOT of the movie was dedicated to meeting sunny and her friends, which isn't a bad thing! i think they're all super cute! but i think a plot like this worked similarly but a little better in the mlp g4 movie, the 2017 one. the whole "traveling to different places and meeting new characters on a fetch-quest"-type plot worked a little better there, mostly because i think we already KNEW the main cast? the opening of the movie is all characters we know- the mane six, the princesses, spike, ect. until tempest and co. show up, so less of the movie is, well, introducing the main characters. sorry if that's worded poorly </3
but overall, the movie was super cute! while i didn't like the animation at first- like, when the trailers were coming out, but i'm a stubborn old mule and i knew it'd grow on me- i did get used to it and it was very cute. the landscapes especially i thought were very pretty! and the opening segment, in a different art style, with the mane 6- that was really cute! the songs were nice, though not really my kind of style- and, like i said earlier, i liked the new main cast quite a lot!
they all have very individual personalities and designs, even if i wasn't the best at keeping their names straight, which was super great! and i'm very pleased they don't just feel like "this one's the new pinkie pie! *this* one's the new twilight!" at ALL, they feel distinct from their predecessors in my opinion! (they were maybe a liiiitle same-y... but even if izzy was "the funny, bubbly one", she didn't just feel like a rehash of pinkie pie to me, nor did izzy with her "leader and finds the power of friendship" character, if that makes sense!
all in all, i think i'm still gonna have to get used to g5, after being so attached to g4 for god knows how many years, but i liked the first movie quite a lot! what did you guys think of it?
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i'm well aware the movie's only been out for, uh... two hours? so most people haven't seen it yet, but i thought i'd type up a post on my thoughts. overall: it was really cute! i think all the ponies were really good friends together, they all had cute designs, thought maaaaybe a little same-y on the models themselves... but all their hair and colors & the like were so different they were VERY easy to tell apart, even if i did forget their names a few times, lol. and the plot was nice enough! very simple, with the "we have to reunite the earth ponies pegasi and unicorns and we have to collect the crystals" being most of the plot, i guess, but the plot itself felt maaaybe a little short? i feel like a LOT of the movie was dedicated to meeting sunny and her friends, which isn't a bad thing! i think they're all super cute! but i think a plot like this worked similarly but a little better in the mlp g4 movie, the 2017 one. the whole "traveling to different places and meeting new characters on a fetch-quest"-type plot worked a little better there, mostly because i think we already KNEW the main cast? the opening of the movie is all characters we know- the mane six, the princesses, spike, ect. until tempest and co. show up, so less of the movie is, well, introducing the main characters. sorry if that's worded poorly </3 but overall, the movie was super cute! while i didn't like the animation at first- like, when the trailers were coming out, but i'm a stubborn old mule and i knew it'd grow on me- i did get used to it and it was very cute. the landscapes especially i thought were very pretty! and the opening segment, in a different art style, with the mane 6- that was really cute! the songs were nice, though not really my kind of style- and, like i said earlier, i liked the new main cast quite a lot! they all have very individual personalities and designs, even if i wasn't the best at keeping their names straight, which was super great! and i'm very pleased they don't just feel like "this one's the new pinkie pie! *this* one's the new twilight!" at ALL, they feel distinct from their predecessors in my opinion! (they were maybe a liiiitle same-y... but even if izzy was "the funny, bubbly one", she didn't just feel like a rehash of pinkie pie to me, nor did izzy with her "leader and finds the power of friendship" character, if that makes sense! all in all, i think i'm still gonna have to get used to g5, after being so attached to g4 for god knows how many years, but i liked the first movie quite a lot! what did you guys think of it?