The pony film AND rest of the current season have reportedly been leaked on the internets, so all the ponyfags can now enjoy them in their filthy basements. It's like pony christmas for cloppers.
Besides Twilight, the film gave Pinkie Pie the most importance of the main six. Rainbow Dash and Rarity have some importance, but Applejack and Fluttershy do pretty much nothing. The problem is that the movie tried to shoehorn all of these new characters, Capper and the pirates, which gave less of an opportunity for screentime for the main cast that we know MLP for.
Besides Twilight, the film gave Pinkie Pie the most importance of the main six. Rainbow Dash and Rarity have some importance, but Applejack and Fluttershy do pretty much nothing. The problem is that the movie tried to shoehorn all of these new characters, Capper and the pirates, which gave less of an opportunity for screentime for the main cast that we know MLP for.
To be fair though, if the new characters wound up too underdeveloped there would've been no reason to care about what happened to them (though once again, they did pretty much that with the Storm King). Anyone who's watched the show know who all the other characters are, so there's less of a need for introductions and characterization for them. Most episodes of the show follow a similar format when introducing a new antagonist or conflicting character of some sort (the first Trixie episode, Flim Flam bros, Queen Chrysalis, etc)
I don't know anything about animated film production, but it could've had something to do with money and the main cast sharing the same voice actors, like they could've been paid per line. As I mentioned earlier, Rainbow Dash had more of a role than Applejack (voiced by Asheligh Balll), and Pinkie Pie had more of a role than Fluttershy (voiced by Andrea Libman).
If it helps at all, there was a rumor that the budget for the film was $65 million.
The main baddy was a bumbling fool who was having too much fun being evil. Like a 1960s Batman villain. Of course, if you're a lefty, that's probably what you think Trump is.
The secondary one was just a wow such deep generic semi-tragic backstory character.
And of course there was a tertiary villain also, because why not. He was completely ineffectual and did nothing.
If it really did have a budget of $65 million I'd guess a fair chunk went to her paycheck so yeah, they're going to push the most expensive character front and center. Though the biggest monetary return will be through toys and playsets, especially with Christmas in less than three months.
It wasn't very good. Pretty much any season finale or two-parter of the show is better.. was it written by completely different people or something? Like if they had taken any season finale and just made it longer and prettier I would have found that a more worthwhile use of money
Also no one else was at the theater, except one other couple but I think they snuck in after a different movie because they left like 1/3 of the way in.
Just watched the pirated version with a group of buddies. It was meh, they were having more fun talking about it, I only made comments every now and then. Nothing really big sticks out to me outside of thinking Cary Elwes should've played the cat character (but I dunno if he can sing--at least much anymore) and
I think the villain's death might've been a bit too harsh. Like him turning to stone on his own accord is fine, whatever, but to get smashed to pieces and thus killed off for real makes me think, "Dude, what terrible thing did he do to deserve that?" I'm not complaining they killed off a villain at a time where even Disney's pussying out of killing its villains, I just have to question if the method was appropriate.
Still, I don't watch the show so it clearly wasn't up my alley, but it did look nice at times, mostly with the backgrounds. Although something about the animation kinda bothered me at times, I just don't know how to explain it. One of the guys pointed out it was reminding them of the Recess movie, which was a feeling I had gotten as well in the beginning scene as the camera was panning through Equestria, but that wasn't the only thing bugging me.
Just watched the pirated version with a group of buddies. It was meh, they were having more fun talking about it, I only made comments every now and then. Nothing really big sticks out to me outside of thinking Cary Elwes should've played the cat character (but I dunno if he can sing--at least much anymore) and
I think the villain's death might've been a bit too harsh. Like him turning to stone on his own accord is fine, whatever, but to get smashed to pieces and thus killed off for real makes me think, "Dude, what terrible thing did he do to deserve that?" I'm not complaining they killed off a villain at a time where even Disney's pussying out of killing its villains, I just have to question if the method was appropriate.
Still, I don't watch the show so it clearly wasn't up my alley, but it did look nice at times, mostly with the backgrounds. Although something about the animation kinda bothered me at times, I just don't know how to explain it. One of the guys pointed out it was reminding them of the Recess movie, which was a feeling I had gotten as well in the beginning scene as the camera was panning through Equestria, but that wasn't the only thing bugging me.
I think it was done to subvert the viewers' expectations. "Yawn, villain gets turned good by friendship" is replaced by "holy shit that guy was splattered all around the landscape!"
There was some other scene, where one of the bad guy soldiers gets hit repeatedly with pies or cupcakes or whatever. That was non-fatal of course, but was drawn like he was torn up by a hail of bullets, with the custard acting as fake blood. Animator anger issues perhaps, or just the result of pony overdose?
Why the heck is everyone shocked that the main bad guy died? MLP did that kind of shit already like in 1984. Not to forget all the time we got animated movies by Disney or Bluth, where characters died.
Also, I stand by my opinion that this movie was boring to the point that I say the Minions movie had more of a "curve" in how the plot went. This was "characters move from A to B and then to C" before the obligatory 20 minute final showdown.
Edit: Granted, I am enough of a fan of the show that I say it had its moments, but the script writing was not above something to expect from a season two parter in the show. Kinda sad. I did not expect Pixar level of storytelling, even if they got one of the writers behind Toy Story 2 on the project (not kidding btw) but I think the Rugrats movie had more suspension to it than this movie.
Spoiler I think the villain's death might've been a bit too harsh. Like him turning to stone on his own accord is fine, whatever, but to get smashed to pieces and thus killed off for real makes me think, "Dude, what terrible thing did he do to deserve that?"
People seem to forget there was a prequel comic that show him absolutely annihilate Cappers home town with only Capper and his best friend being the only presumed survivors (Capper gets betrayed by his best friend later on and he dies in the dessert) and goes more in depth on why Tempest is who she is (This shit gets dark pretty quickly)
People seem to forget there was a prequel comic that show him absolutely annihilate Cappers home town with only Capper and his best friend being the only presumed survivors (Capper gets betrayed by his best friend later on and he dies in the dessert) and goes more in depth on why Tempest is who she is (This shit gets dark pretty quickly)
Its only an hour and a half long. Another 30 minutes would just make it a normal length movie. May as well add them in for extra character development.
People seem to forget there was a prequel comic that show him absolutely annihilate Cappers home town with only Capper and his best friend being the only presumed survivors (Capper gets betrayed by his best friend later on and he dies in the dessert) and goes more in depth on why Tempest is who she is (This shit gets dark pretty quickly)
Alright then, that makes sense. But I'm still gonna parrot that this should've been in the film in some form or another. There was that flashback during the villain song (guess if you could call it a villain song), they could've found space to fit that in there.
