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1/10
Awful, awful, anything but friendly!
27 June 2016
This movie was horrible!

-Lots of exposition, exposition, rush it out ASAP! -With a 70-minute runtime, there's just not enough time to introduce an entire second school and still have time to give the Wondercolts spotlight. -Terrible "villains". With the exception of Midnight Sparkle (who's only on the screen for around two minutes), they do not have the coolness factor that other MLP villains and most Disney villains have. In fact, Cinch's plan to use Sci-Twi in the Friendship Games backfires so epically it almost gets the world destroyed. -The Friendship Games put untrained students in mortal peril. Motocross and archery have a high risk of injury, if not death. Plus no one bats an eye when the giant Piranha Plant attacks the stadium. -Dean Cadence is UGLY! -The HuMane 5 are still as flanderized as ever! Thank Celestia the 2017 movie won't be Equestria Girls-related, as the true Mane 7 had an entire show to be fleshed out. -Shining Armor has no more than two lines, and never shows up again. What a wasted character! -The final battle lasts only a few seconds. -Just Eat Gilligan: Twilight, why are you keeping that magic-stealing pendant around when it's clearly hurting people! Without it, you could have avoided this plot. NO ONE in your school has no idea how magic works. Is it any surprise that it goes out of control and almost destroys the world? -The Shadowbolts are one-dimensional and can be summed up in a single small sentence each: an ostentatious athletic girl, a brutally honest girl, a sarcastically nice but really passive aggressive girl, a girl who's really passionate about music and sort of outgoing if you could call it that, and then another one I don't even remember. You should be able to know who's called Sugarcoat and who's called Sour Sweet. That's how memorable they are. -Please get smarter about raising the stakes. -Very slow movie.

Avoid this movie. Watch Finding Dory instead. (It climaxes better than the entire FG movie.)
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1/10
What a big disgrace to MLP.
28 May 2016
I am super pumped to watch 2017's My Little Pony movie. It's gonna have both a really good story and tons of epic action, even more after the show made its characters extremely complex and grow throughout the series. However, the first Equestria Girls has none of that charm. While the show was meant to be timeless, soon after the 2017 movie Equestria Girls won't just be remembered for its backlash, it simply won't be remembered period.

Now I've got a laundry list of things wrong with the movie.

-The story plays out like every girly thing ever.

-Ten million high school clichés.

-Exposition, exposition, rush it out ASAP.

-EVERYONE in the movie is an idiot. Seriously, that crown has no protection and Twilight doesn't even use her magic to guard it while she's still a pony?!?

-The longer the movie goes on, the more obvious it is that it had to be padded out to fill 70 minutes.

-Flash Sentry is a flat, cliché character. If he was removed, little to nothing would change.

-Technology references. Email, texts, Youtube...this movie will become more dated as time goes on.

-Unmemorable generic pop songs. Minutes after hearing one, I totally forgot it. Meanwhile, Elsa's Let it Go from Frozen had a FAR greater impact than all songs in the Equestria Girls series combined.

-The simple use of a generic high school setting is EXTREMELY limiting. Star Wars and Lord of The Rings knew better than this and are set in their own potential universes instead.

-The final (and only) fight in the entire movie lasts only a few seconds.

-Sub-conflicts that are over in two minutes and never brought up again.

-Multiple scenes that don't advance the plot.

-LOGIC, FOR PETE'S SAKE! IF ANYONE IN THAT SCHOOL HAD A BRAIN, TWILIGHT WOULD HAVE NO CHANCE AT WINNING BACK THE CROWN! Nor would Sunset Shimmer's reign of terror last more than ten minutes.

-Twilight says "Equestria will find a way to survive without my element." Ugh...

-Very obvious Deus ex Machina at the end.

-ALMOST NO ACTION. Lack of action drags away lots of fun. This becomes far more obvious after watching a lot of Disney and Dreamworks movies. Hell, even a single episode of EG's parent show has more action than this entire movie!

Of all the Equestria Girls movies, I was only impressed with Rainbow Rocks. The first was garbage, and Friendship Games had absolutely forgettable "villains"! (For Pete's sake, no more one shot villains. 3's failed to live up to 2's, leaving very little impact.) I'm done with this series and skipping Legends of Everfree! Want a great story, smarts, and action? Then please go watch Big Hero 6 for the Nth time instead of Equestria Girls.
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