Rainbow Rocks

Will Guide · October 18, 2014

Hmm..I re-watched the film and figured out 12 of the 16 bands whose icons appeared on the tourament chart near the beginning of the Dazzlings' "Under Our Spell" I'll list the official names and unofficial names of the bands.

1.Rainbooms: Our Humane 6 (icon: horseshoe and rainbow)

2.Dazzlings: Our Villains (icon: musical notes and red siren pendants)
3.Flash Sentry's band (icon: a speaker that looks like Flash's cutie mark)
4.Trixie and the Illusions (icon: moon and stars like the one on Trixie's wizard hat)
5.Snips and Snails' rap (icon: brick wall with graffti of a pair of scissors and a snail)
6.Crusaders (icon: 3 skulls on fire; fire matches the girls' hair colors)
7.Bulk Biceps and his violin (icon: Weight and wings; resembles B.B's cutie mark)
8.Octavia and her Cello (icon: pink treble cleft surround by cello bows; resembles her cutie mark)
9.Derpy and her saw (icon: a gray, sour note and a muffin :muffins: )
10.Lyra and Bon Bon's Piano Duet (icon: A Lyre harp on a set of piano keys on a pile of Bon Bon candies)
11.Photo Finish's band (icon: a magenta ribbon with a camera shutter in the center)
12.The Eco-Teens (icon: globe with recycle arrows around it)

Those are the ones I know for sure, but the other icons are of:

13. A Diamond surrounded by a spike collar like you see on a dog...Oh The Diamond Dogs! or at least the human versions of them!

14. A happy and sad face like you'd see in theater, so I guess the Dramas-Teens!

15. A green oval with a musical note shooting across like a comet..I don't know for sure, but they could be the techies? Yeah, it's green like a circuit board.

16. A lightening bolt with a skull, 3 gemstones of purple, blue, and green, and drumsticks...It took a good look, but I found out it seems to represent the Punk Teens group

Hmmm...Looking at the flowchart of the bands before and after the montage, I conclude that were 4 official rounds in the BotB. No, the round where the Rainbooms sang "Shake Your Tail" and heard SnS Rap happened before the untouched flowchart was shown, so I guess that was more like the qualifying round that determines which band faces off with which in the first match. I shall make a chart that list which band was beaten by which.

Round one (The most outer row, like I said the round where Shake Your Tail was sung may have been considered round 1 in film, but to me, that was the pairing up round, THIS is what I call Round 1):

1. Trixie beats the Punk Teens

2. Lyra and Bon Bon beat "the green oval with comet musical note" or "Techies"

3. Bulk Biceps beats Snips and Snails (Seen in montage)

4. Rainbooms beat Octavia (Seen in montage)

5. Photo Finish beats "The Diamond Dudes"

6. Dazzlings beat the Dramas

7. Flash Sentry beat the Eco-Teens (Seen in montage)

8. Crusaders beat Derpy

Round Two (The 2nd most outer row):

1. Trixie beat Lyra and Bon Bon (Seen in montage)

2. Rainbooms beat Bulk Biceps

3. Dazzlings beat Photo Finish

4. Flash Sentry beat The Crusaders (We don't directly see the battle, but the Crusaders flash onscreen after the Trixie vs. Lyra and Bon Bon match, so I guess that was the Crusaders vs. Flash Sentry)

Round Three (Semi-Finals):

1. Dazzlings beat Flash Sentry

2. Despite the Rainbooms not finishing due to "Sunset going back to bad girl", the Dazzlings manipulate the Principles to officially declare the Rainbooms the winner over Trixie as part of their plan.

Round Four (Final):

Due to a "tricked Trixie trapping" (say that 3 times fast)our heroes below the stage, Trixie goes onto the Finals; the Dazzlings not so much wanting to officially win the BotB as much as create complete negativity and control over the whole student body, even sarcastily say "I don't think we can top that!" The Dazzlings get their full power and take One-Winged Angel Form. Nothing can stop them now!

The True Battle of the Bands (battle that determines the fate of the Equestria Girls World):

The Rainbooms, with sound system support by Vinyl Scratch, sing Fluttershy's song and take Anthro form. The Dazzlings overpower the Rainbooms with astral projections of their true forms. Sunset finally takes a stand and sings! She too takes anthro form. The student body is free and join in the chorus! Our heroes summon an Astral Alicorn--an Astralicorn, if you will--and finally defeat the Dazzlings, at last!

Wow! That took time and effort to write! Worth it! :lol:

EDIT: Finally added a much needed picture to show the icons of the bands and not just tell. and I also figured out the band with the green, blue, and purple gemstones, with a skull, lightening bolt and drumsticks!

Edited October 29, 2014 by WiiGuy2014

Felix · October 18, 2014

I'm buying this movie as soon as I can. <3 Much better than the first Equestria Girls! Also, I have one thing to say about the plot, but in case people haven't watched it I'll leave it in a spoiler.

So, because Sunset Shimmer had that book that Twilight also had and could then connect to the portal which thus allowed her unlimited access to their world, what does this mean for season 5? Heck, even Twilight said this was not goodbye.

So here's what my mind is racing on about: With the portal constantly open and Sunset Shimmer turning to the good side, I believe it's very possible we may see Sunset Shimmer in pony form again. Think about it. Season 4 focused on the magic that comes from the mane six and the rainbow that is formed by their colors whenever the concept of rainbow power, their ability to use the magic of friendship from within without the elements, occurs. At the end of Rainbow Rocks we saw them once again activate rainbow power, however, when Sunset Shimmer stepped in a seventh color of red was added.

Could this mean we have found our main seventh? Possibly one who will not appear all the time but still has potential to show themselves through out season 5? Remember that Sunset Shimmer on her own doesn't need to be involved with Equestria Girls to make any sort of plot. Sunset Shimmer originally came from Equestria which means if they were to put Sunset Shimmer into season 5 there would be no interruption between FIM and EG. They'd still be their own thing. The only minor thing that would have to be brought up from Equestria Girls is simply the fact that Sunset Shimmer would of course have to come through the mirror to find pony Twilight. Finally, as further evidence for this possibility, if Sunset Shimmer is in fact apart of rainbow power would the fact that Twilight and her friends cannot activate their abilities unless together then also apply to Sunset Shimmer since she is now apart of it? Meaning, if they want to use rainbow power at some point during season 5, they'd have to bring Sunset Shimmer in?

Edited October 18, 2014 by Felix

rjrgmc28 · October 18, 2014

I totally disagree! During that scene, I picture Sunset witnessing mean Flash making Twilight cry from offscreen and decided to confront the Dazzlings in the dark hallway because of that. Yeah, I'm making the arguement that particular scene was to get Sunset motivated to confront the Dazzlings. It's my most favorite memorable terkjerker in the film!

Agreed. Although I was thinking more about Twilight after the confrontation with Flash and how she was heartbroken after he pretty much spoke to her. For me though, it would have been nice if time was allowed to see Twilight being comforted/consoled by either one of the Mane 6 or even Sunset similar to this pic:

Image Source: Why Did He Act That Way Towards Me? by JOSHWILLZ

I know it might not fit into the film and the idea trying to come up with a scene could take too much time or lose viewer interest, but it would have shown a bit more of Sunset's caring side and also showed to the viewer that Twilight is capable of feeling different emotions in the CHS world.

As a hypothetical scenario on how the scene would have played out, I would have had Twilight break away from Applejack and Twi would burst into tears and run away crying. After the Dazzlings confrontation scene with Sunset, she would try and find Twilight before they returned for the second act and then finds her crying in a convenient location (e.g. outside the portal etc, viewers choice) and then Sunset would comfort Twilight and give her some encouraging words to bounce back and try and break the spell. It doesn't have to be drawn out and long (preferred though) but just enough to give the whole scene an emotional touch at the end.

I know this might sound a bit far out of the capacity and some people might not agree with the idea, but that is how I would approach the scene.

Edited October 18, 2014 by rjrgmc28

Will Guide · October 18, 2014

Well after seeing this movie first in theathers on priemere day, I was impressed! This night when I saw the t.v. broadcast. I was slightly disappointed to find that some scenes and shots were cut! They didn't even put a warning in front of the t.v. broadcast saying something like "this show has been edited to run in the time alloted". If they had put that up, I probably wouldn't have been disappointed. The T.V. version is still very good, though.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B04MfhXo0bXIYWsyY0tnTzMxSjQ/view

I used this upload camera in theater footage with Spanish subtitles (my second learning language) on the internet using my laptop and listening to it with one ear to compare with the t.v. broadcast I watched on my bedroom t.v. while listening to it with the other ear. I actually challenged myself to sync the two versions together whenever a cut scene or t.v. commercials broke it, so I'd hear a perfect mono version for each ear. It was fun!

Well, here are the scenes and shots that were cut!

Pinkie and A.J showing their cards to each other
Spike mentioning Twilight's got her own castle and Rarity freaking out with joy at that!
Spike photobombing the girls' selfie and Rainbow disconnecting AJ's video game controller
The bad counter song was trimmed down to the point where you couldn't see Granny Smith putting apple cores in her ears to not hear Twilight's weak singing
Snips and Snails rap is shorten to the point where we don't see Pinkie actually enjoying it. Just cut straight to Sonata liking it, even trimed out the high five between SnS before they leave the stage.
The scene in the hallway with Hate Plauge Flash hurting Twilight's feelings. That was my favorite tearjerker!
The mic test on the outdoor stage where Sunset put the setting too high, causing feedback is skipped
Rainbow's single line of "I know just the song" was cut just before the kept "Fluttershy wrote a really great one" and Fluttershy goes
Being a t.v syndication, the awesome closing credits were reduced to bland credits being pushed aside by advertising for a re-watch the next day on the newly renamed Discovery Family, so there was no "Shine Like Rainbows" song, no artwork, and most depressingly

NO NATIVE HUMAN SCITWILIGHT SPARKLE!

Like I said, I loved the t.v broadcast, but I hope the DVD/Blu-ray will contain the original theatrical version. Hmm...actually back when I first saw it at the movie theater, when the film ended the screen actually looked like a DVD Player's home menu screen, so perhaps the version shown in theaters will be the digital source transfer to DVD's and Blu-Rays everywhere! I look forward to that!

Edit: Went over it again and this time, I'm sure all the scenes that were cut from the theatrical version for syndication on television are in the spoiler box above. Plus if you consider the commercial breaks breaking the movie into several acts, then there were 7 acts total!

Edited October 23, 2014 by WiiGuy2014

Shadowking58 · October 18, 2014

I feel like a lot of people are complaining about Rainbow Dash' actions in this movie, and how it's out of character, and this may be hard to understand at first, but keep in mind that HUMAN Rainbow Dash did NOT learn any of the lessons that Pony Rainbow Dash did. They're two totally different organisms despite sharing name and look.

ponylaces · October 18, 2014

Watched the premiere on TV last night, and it didn't fail to impress me. I loved this movie, maybe even more than the first one. Sunset Shimmer got a lot of character development, there were tons of cameos, awesome songs, and overall an awesome plot.

Trixie's disappearing trick never got old. I also loved Sonata and Pinkie in this.

Vinyl saving the day with her badass car was probably the best part of the movie

I recorded the movie with my DVR since I was at school when the movie was on, so I couldn't see what was after the credits. I'm going to watch it again today to find out what was after the credits. Nobody spoil it for me please!

EquestriaGuy · October 18, 2014

I wonder if Star Swirl's spell could only lock onto the human world during a time when it had magic. Sunset brought some amount of magic when she appeared with the book, 3 years before EQG 1, so that could have been why the Sirens appeared now, and not 1,000 years ago. It would also negate the need for them to be that old as well. Hopefully this gets explained in EQG 3, but I doubt it.

SparklingSwirls · October 19, 2014

I really liked this movie! :yay: I just watched it today on Dailymotion and I found it quite enjoyable to watch. I wasn't a huge fan of the first one so I wasn't expecting much, but I'm glad that I decided to give it a try.

I thought it was neat that Sunset Shimmer helped out and got to actually do something (instead of just saying that she changed) so it was nice to see her get development. Flash Sentry is still... eh, but at least he was a bit better than in the first movie. I liked the Dazzlings too and thought the mythology behind them was interesting, although I still don't understand why it had taken them so long from being banished to take action in the EG world. :huh: Maybe I need to watch the movie again, and I probably will do so.

I loved the music as well; it was really catchy, and the animation effects were just great. I especially liked the song during the battle when you saw the bands "beat" the other bands and move up on the chart.

There were a few things I didn't like abou this movie though. I felt the pacing was a bit off at times, and I also thought RD was just a big jerk. >_> Granted, I know she's not the nicest character, but I think they went a bit too far with her at some points.

Edited October 19, 2014 by SparklingSwirls

Mand'alor Dash · October 19, 2014

Rainbow Rocks starts out slow, but about midway into the movie, I found that it had every bit as much colorful, good-natured charm as the original, but with none of the terrible plotholes and broken storytelling that made Equestria Girls 1 so widely divisive. It's a well-written movie with some strong music and an undeniable, compelling charm.

To nitpick, though: The Dazzlings' climax song was superb, but the Rainbooms' climax song was mediocre at best. In what twisted universe did the Rainbooms win that contest?

Ace O. Jade · October 19, 2014

Alright, this is really annoying me. I can't figure out who the two ponies/people in Trixie's band (the Illusions) were. Could anyone identify them?

Andaasonsan · October 19, 2014

I recorded the movie with my DVR since I was at school when the movie was on, so I couldn't see what was after the credits. I'm going to watch it again today to find out what was after the credits. Nobody spoil it for me please!

If you're watching the TV version, there is nothing to spoil. The after the credits scene was cut out.

Alright, this is really annoying me. I can't figure out who the two ponies/people in Trixie's band (the Illusions) were. Could anyone identify them?

I think they're completely new characters. The bulk of the background humans don't really have pony counterparts.

ponylaces · October 19, 2014

If you're watching the TV version, there is nothing to spoil. The after the credits scene was cut out.

Yeah, I just noticed that yesterday when I re-watched the movie. Oh well, I'll just look for it on the internet.

daring derp doo · October 19, 2014

in my opinion,i think the movie was great good songs, good lesson. but to fast paste! and i did not really get why a giant pony came to destroy them?.and it feels like the rainbooms make it seem like the dazzlings want to be popular when clearly the only thing they wanted was to get enough power to get to equestria. wich i also thought about in the first movie with sunset shimmer. :huh: :confused:

StargazerDC · October 19, 2014

I watched it yesterday. In my opinion, Rainbow Rocks is way better than the last one (which is still good, but this one is 20% cooler). I loved how they've shown background characters as Derpy, Lyra&Bonbon, Octavia and Dj Pon.. Oh, I've also enjoyed the irony they put here, when the other wonder where's Trixie gone and Pinkie says: "oh, she's hiding there!".
I used to dislike Sunset Shimmer but this movie has now made me like her!

Anyway, most of all I've enjoyed this movie for the music. The've done a great work this time. 9/10

Edited October 19, 2014 by Dan Sparkle

No one · October 19, 2014

I would just like to share my story on this.

I literally just saw the movie and I cannot say anything but praise for it. Now, I have not read other people's opinions, but I would just like to ask anyone who hates or feels strongly against the new line "Equestria Girls" (and just happens to read this) to consider my point of view, even for just a minute.

The most hate I have heard about "Equestria Girls" is, perhaps, because of the change of setting, namely in a high school, which is believed to drag along with it shallow concerns, petty problems and other terrifying concepts, such as romance and some falsely perceived sexualisation.

I have seen no degradation in the quality of the story nor the way it is told. It is, after all, an art piece where magical powers try to take over the world, and any person who by the virtue of their own free will watches it should refrain from condemning it due to any "things that do not make sense (plotholes)" and everyone else would do well to realise moving pictures are seldomly anything more than few people keeping visual records of the movement, recited lines and reactions of hired actors to falsely produced lighting, explosions and similar special effects - a movie is indeed an art project where one man (the director) says "This and this happens" with a "because..." thrown in-between sometimes. You either like it or you do not, either is fine, but logic or realism are poor excuses to something that is illogical and unreal, to begin with.

Now, maybe it is because I am so ancient, but I can only see the entire line of "Equestria Girls" as nothing but precious. Despite what some people might claim, all I have seen are some kids do what kids do best (when not fighting magical demons, that is ). Like in the short "Perfect Day for Fun", it was just so precious - a bunch of girl-friends just hanging out and having fun with each-other, they seemed so happy that it made me feel happy for them.

Or when they had that slumber party in "Rainbow Rocks", Rainbow Dash and Applejack were just so cute playing video games and Pinkie Pie gazing at her laptop, Flutteryshy with the Gummy plush, it was all just so very innocent and adorable. One can only hope his own children would be that charming (even if it is certain they will be, after all - they would be your own children ).

Although I can deduce why some people are troubled by the appearance of romance with Flash Sentry, when I see that I can only think how adorable it is going to be when my own daughter (hopefully) one day gets her own first crush, I expect it to be just as cute and charming.

I think I had some other points I wished to point out, however all that typing seems to got a lot out of me, so I will refrain for now. XD

Other compliments, which I would like to direct to the movie, start with the fact that this was quite a "musical" movie. While I do not believe there was an overwhelming presence of songs, compared to other productions of the same franchise, the premise of a concert/battle of the bands, itself, was highly regarded by me (i.e. it was AWESOME). Being a rock fan I was endlessly delighted to learn that the new movie would not only be titled "Rainbow ROCKS" but feature some sort of concert and I got to see my favourite characters dress in KISS-homage garments (I think [from Hasbro shorts]) and blast out some solid tunes! I know I will be listening to the entire soundtrack non-stop for quite some time. My only regret is I cannot somehow listen to all the songs at once and at the same time to each one separately. XD

I do not see much point in simply praising the overall quality of the music in the entire Generation 5, since words would be poor and overly worn out by this point, I would simply agree to their magnificence and only make specific mentions.

The sirens' songs were, also, especially good. Not only were they an exquisite vocal performance, I also have to admit their very first one had me under its spell. It posed quite a good point and made me root for them more or less. Considering we are being usually bombarded from all sides by antagonists who wish to rule/destroy/enslave the world by using some form of a really big stick (i.e. a weapon or force of some kind) it was really original for them to perform a song, ushering people to act out, on the premise that everyone is better than the rest (a notion that is way too common to everyone) and encouraging competition. I, myself for the most part, like competition and it is rewarding to prove yourself better than someone else. Still, friendship wins at the end.

None the less their initial plot was genial_{(from genius)} in its simplicity.

I even loved Trixie's song, its style was so pleasant, while at the same time the lyrics kept true to the singer. Oh, GOD, how I wish Hasbro would make a full legit album.

I suppose my only regret is the movie not having more songs.

I would kill to hear what Bulging Biceps' violin playing is like. XD

And Octavia's cello and the Cutie Mark Crusaders and etc. :3

Cheezus, enough out of me, I should really get a life! XD

Post Sctiptum

Oh, Gosh, I forgot to honor the already honorable animation, especially the Sirens' choreography was superb! Incredibly well thought out and animated, not only was it well realised but it must have been done with a consultant choreographer - it is that good and professional (considering it is supposed to be at high school tier)

Also I know a woman whose hair is so long it reaches her waist and beyond and I KNOW how hard it is to maintain such hair and how well it looks, so even if it is animated I take my hat off to two of the sirens (whose names escape me at the moment):

The one with the giant pigtails seemed quite fashionable, considering I do not like pigtails the fact that her hairstyle appealed to me speaks something.

And the lead singer - that much hair can NOT be easy to maintain or style!

Edited October 19, 2014 by Noone

No one · October 19, 2014