Radiance64

Can it be anything else but Helping Twilight Win the Crown? No. The intro song was cool as hell and all, but for a somewhat girlier song Helping Twilight Win the Crown was just amazing. The rest was too weird imo because it wasn't sang by the characters directly, and pretty forgetable.

Sigh... Alright, so my impatience led to me watching this movie in a way that I'm not proud of, but I guess that's my problem, the point is that I saw it. Now, I had high hopes for this movie, I didn't think it would be amazing but since the team we all know and love was working on it I knew it had to at least be moderately entertaining... turns out my estimate was correct, for the most part. Spoilers ahead. First off, the set-up for the plot seemed kind of rushed. Okay, so suddenly Celestia has a disgruntled former student who went to live in another dimension inside a mirror who just happened to come out of it at the right time when Twilight was there to steal her crown? Yeah, it sounds far-fetched because it is, but whatever. I think the good parts of the movie really started when Twilight actually entered the mirror though, her trying to adjust to her new human body was surprisingly very hilarious. I really liked the character designs in motion as well, sure the skin colors are weird save for a few characters but they were fun to watch. I also really liked one of the songs, but I'll get to that in a minute. Now, even though I did enjoy the general flow of the movie, looking back there was a lot amiss and left to be desired- for one, if the characters are in a school, why no classes? If they wanted Twilight to learn more about that world that probably would have been a better way to montage it rather than just putting her in a library like they did, either a missed opportunity or laziness. I don't think the characters should have had their pony names as humans either, in practice here it just seemed too coincidental and out of place. The fact that they all just became friends with Twilight, accepted her when she(or Pinkie, rather) told them the truth, and outright just blasted Sunset Shimmer with friendship power was just too convenient, I mean I know it's supposedly a parallel world but it all shouldn't have been that easy for her imo. Also, while I did enjoy the cameos, seeing characters like the CMC in high school and Photo Finish still in school was a little messed up imo. Lastly, while the song 'Helping Twilight Win the Crown' was pretty damn great, the rest of the music was kind of generic, and I found it extremely weird that most of it was not sang by the characters but rather just played over montages and whatnot, it wasn't right for MLP. Despite those negatives though, I did enjoy the movie. The general flow and pacing was good and the animation was as top notch as ever, plus it had some great and funny moments and at least one amazing song. It could have been way, way better and has issues and missed opportunities(putting the actual Equestria Girls song with its own animation somewhere would have been cool, for instance), it's still worth seeing for bronies I believe. If I had to give it a score, it'd be 2 1/2 out of 4 stars.