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I have a string of one-liner reactions to the movie... But I don't think they'll make much sense from an outside perspective...
So... in summary, I thought the movie was among the ranks of ranging from "okay" to "good". It was not the best thing ever, but neither it was the worst. It had a lot going for it, but also had a lot of missed potential.
But since I suck at reviewing and criticizing stuff. Let me summarize:
I didn't enjoy the animation as much as I did with the actual show. I can understand this because the animators are obviousloy not accustomated to animating humans. That doesn't mean I can't nitpick about it.
some of the character design was really... well, bad, in my opinion. Humanized Luna was one of the biggest offenders in this.
I am disappointed with the lack of characters utilized. For example, I wanted more moments like CMC's Youtube video...
I have a STRONG hatred for...what's his name? I forgot. I call him the corndog guy because Friendship is Witchcraft. The romance was some of the worst I've ever seen. And his character was also... well, bland. My reasoning? There was no reason for it. They meet. Twilight blushes, and bam. They seem to hit it off quite well. I would overlook it if corndog guy would gain a decent personality, but he is just the generic cool guy. We know nothing about him. Oh, and at first I thought it was Shining Armour. Yeah.
The villain was kind of lame, and very disappointing. She had some potential, but it was mostly wasted on evil grinning and goofball henchmen screentime.
The movie had an disappointing ending. Like... seriously... BAD STUFF HAPPENING! Oh nvm, everything's good again. And I feel that Sunset had some terrible "character development"...HECK, SHE WAS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSONALITY! (Well, granted, the power of magic helped... probably... BUT STILL!)
I didn't think much of the songs. I thought they were generic and bland. But then again, I have shifted away from MLP musicals for a while now and only have a few that I still like (Winter wrapup and Becoming Popular...)
...Which, by the way, reminds me. Gee. This feels different. A LOT different to the original... not sure how to react to that... I guess I liked the original more...?
However, there were things I liked as well:
Fluttershy faces.
Fluttershy faces.
Fluttershy faces.
I don't know why, but Fluttershy stole the spotlight for me. I'm not sure about other people, but I really loved her one-time facial expressions... unfortunately, if you look at them as still pictures, they can be kinda... creepy.
Anyhow, let's see...
I enjoyed how they took the effort off making all the counterparts slightly different to their originals. This was more prominent in the non-Mane 6 characters, but I still thought this was a nice addition. My personal favourite is Cherilee. Not so cheery, though. ^^
Fluttershy
Er... That's it... I can't remember much on the positives, because I mostly got my points from the one-liners I typed onto Skype (just so you know, I was initially discussing it with Jamza, but then he had to leave. I, on the other hand, decided to keep talking about it... to myself... Because I'm weird like that.). Anyhow, I can't remember much good about this movie. Other than me having enjoyed it, which definetely means that there is something... Yeah, bye.