My Little Pony: Equestria Girls

Plot synopsis:
After her recent coronation, Twilight Sparkle and her friends go to The Crystal Empire for a Royal Princess Summit. While her friends are still excited about her recent coronation, Twilight tells them that she is still not sure about her her title, as well as the addition of wings to her form.That evening,Twilight is awakened when a cloaked pony makes off with her crown. Twilight chases the pony into a room within the castle, where the culprit is revealed to be a fiery-haired yellow pony. The crown ends up falling into a strange mirror, and the thief follows right afterwards.The next morning, Princess Celestia explains to the others that the culprit was a pony named Sunset Shimmer. Sunset was Celestia's former pupil before Twilight, but due to not getting what she wanted quick enough, she went through the mirror. The mirror had originally been held in Canterlot, but was later transported to the Crystal Empire, where it was put in the care of Princess Cadence.The mirror also operates on a timer, whereby access to the world on the other side, happens once every 30 moons. Currently, the portal only has 3 days left to remain open, and Twilight is entrusted with the task to go through it to reclaim her crown.Naturally, Twilight's friends are eager to assist her, but are told by Celestia that Twilight has to accomplish this task herself. Twilight goes through the mirror, but Spike (in a panic), quickly charges after her.Once on the other side, Spike finds himself as a dog,and Twilight as a teenage human girl. Naturally, Twilight first freaks out at her new appearance, but soon finds herself in front of a large building. Thinking it to be "a castle," she goes inside, and finds herself among a number of other teenagers. After being helped to her feet by a boy with blue hair, she wanders the halls, studying the other teenagers.Suddenly, she hears one girl berating another about taking something, and speaks up, telling the bullying girl to stop what she's doing. The fiery-haired teenager just smugly walks off, claiming she can do whatever she wants.Once the girl is gone, the other introduces herself as Fluttershy, and tells Twilight that the girl she just talked back to was Sunset Shimmer. When Twilight asks what she was talking about, Fluttershy tells how she came across a crown one day. Unsure what to do with it, she turned it in to Principal Celestia.Twilight then goes to the Principal's office, and inquires about the crown. It soon turns out the crown is to be used as the crown for the upcoming Fall Formal in three days. A trio of picture on a nearby wall shows that Sunset Shimmer has won the crown the last 3 years.Though Twilight could probably ask for her crown back, she tells Spike she's mainly fearful that humans might come through the portal to Equestria, looking for it. Wanting to win fair and square, she decides to run for Princess of the Fall Formal.Encountering Fluttershy in the lunch room, Twilight tells her about her plans, and Fluttershy tells Twilight that Sunset is very vindictive of anyone else running against her (including mentioning how she lashed out at a candidate for the Princess of the Spring Fling earlier in the year). Twilight also notes that it seems there are numerous cliques in the lunchroom, and Fluttershy claims that Twilight will need to convince all of them if she is to win the crown.Fluttershy tells Twilight to meet the head of the Party Planning Committee in the gym to sign up for the Fall Formal, and Twilight is surprised to run into Pinkie Pie! She also encounters Applejack, who also cautions Twilight about what she plans to do.After Twilight leaves, Sunset Shimmer (along with Snips and Snails) come to the gym, where she quickly berates all that Pinkie has done. Pinkie then lets slip about Twilight running for the Fall Formal title, and Sunset quickly leaves the gym.Cornering Twilight in a corner of the school, Sunset lets slip that bringing an Element of Harmony into an alternate world can cause things to happen, but upon finding out that Twilight has no idea what they may be, she just berates her and Spike, claiming there's no chance she can win the Fall Formal, as she has no way this alternate world works.Twilight then goes to the library to study, and awkwardly tries to use a computer, carry a large book load, and even work a copy machine. After several hours, the library is set to close, and Spike leads Twilight to an upper floor, where he has a bed for her, made out of books.Twilight shows Spike a yearbook she found, that shows Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Rarity, all posing in a picture as Freshman students. Twilight notices that they seem to be good friends, but wonders why they aren't this way anymore.The next day, Twilight prepares to win over the various students, but is surprised when they all start chuckling/giggling as she walks down the hall. Before she knows it, Twilight is yanked into a side-room by Rarity, before Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy appear.They then show that video was taken of Twilight's mishaps in the library the previous day, and Sunset Shimmer has posted a video (composed of footage shot by her lackeys, Snips and Snails), showing Twilight 'spazzing' out. Humiliated by what's happened, Twilight is unsure what to do.Several of the girls agree to help her, but a verbal fight breaks out, when they all claim that others are not dependable. Such issues include:-Fluttershy saying Pinkie Pie ruined her silent auction with loud noisemakers.-Rarity claims that she volunteers to help the Party Committee, but is always told her help isn't needed.-Applejack tells how Rainbow Dash offered to have the Soccer Team show up at her bake sale, and then didn't appear.As they talk further, they soon find out that:- Pinkie received a text from Fluttershy saying she wanted 'a big party,' but Fluttershy claims she didn't send a text like that.- Rarity claims that she received an email saying her help wasn't needed, but Pinkie claims she sent no messages.- Applejack also finds out that Rainbow Dash received a message that the bake sale's date has been moved.Upon finding this out, the girls all make up, and are now apt to believe that Sunset Shimmer was behind their divisions.Going to a small coffee house afterwards, Twilight runs into a boy she met previously, but Rarity cautions Twilight to not pursue him, as the boy (named Flash Sentry), was previously Sunset Shimmer's boyfriend (up until she broke up with him 2 weeks before).The group attempts to find some way to change the school's thoughts on Twilight, and Rarity suggests they wear some headbands with horse ears, and tie tails around their waists, which were part of a fashion idea she had a few years ago, to support the schools mascot: The Canterlot Wondercolts.At lunch that day, the girls begin to sing a song about helping Twilight Sparkle "win the crown," and the infectious song soon unites the numerous cliques in the lunch room.The next day, Sunset Shimmer reports to Vice-Principal Luna that the gym has been wrecked, and provides photos showing Twilight doing the destruction. Twilight is unsure what to say when called to Luna's office and shown the pictures, but is saved when Flash shows up. He provides some photos that have had Twilight cut out of them, showing that the photos Sunset presented were doctored. Even though Twilight's name is cleared of wrongdoing, Luna informs them that the damage to the gym means the Fall Formal will need to be moved back an extra day.This news causes Twilight to panic, and she rushes out of the school, and into a dress shop where the others are. In a private corner, Twilight frets about what to do: if she stays longer than that evening, the portal will close, and she and Spike will be trapped in this world for another 30 moons.Spike suggests that Twilight confess to the others just what she is, and what is at stake. At first unsure about telling them the truth, everyone is shocked when Pinkie Pie just spouts off everything that Twilight wants to say, claiming she had "a hunch." Even though she's a "pony princess" from another dimension, the girls are still willing to help her out.Returning to the school, they set out to try and fix the damage to the gym, with several other students quickly pitching in to help. Pretty soon, the gym looks brand-new, and the Fall Formal is set to go on that night.The girls then return to the dress shop, where they prepare for the evening, and then return for the dance.At the reveal of the Fall Formal princess, the girls cheer when Twilight wins! However, Spike's voice rings out, and Twilight sees Snips and Snails running away with him! The girls chase them outside, to find Sunset Shimmer standing by the portal with a sledgehammer, threatening to destroy it, unless Twilight hands over her crown.However, Twilight refuses, claiming that doing so would cause more harm to the beings in this current world. Twilight's friends happily gush over how selfless she is to help them, causing Sunset to snap and jump Twilight, intending to take the crown from her.A gave of keep-away ensues, with Sunset eventually getting the crown. However, upon putting it on her head, it turns her into a red-skinned, demon-looking entity. She then turns Snips and Snails into the same, and then sends off a mind-control beam that overtakes all the students at the school.Sunset then reveals her true intentions: she intends to lead her "teenage army" into Equestria, and take it over. Gloating over how she has magic in this world over Twilight, the other girls rally around Twilight, causing Sunset to send a fireball hurtling at them. But surprisingly, a forcefield builds around the girls, and Twilight claims that the magic within the crown, still gives her power. It then turns the girls into ponified human girls, before they unite in Friendship, stripping Sunset and her minions of their power. The teenagers at the school are also freed of their mind-control as well.In the aftermath, Twilight chastises Sunset that the crown brought out the worst in her, and showed everyone what was in her heart. Sunset apologizes for what she did, and the girls say they will try and teach her about friendship, something she lacked.After a dance in the gym, Twilight wishes her new friends goodbye, before going through the portal.On the other side, Twilight's friends are eager to hear what happened, but she explains she just wants to sleep, tired from all the dancing. As she walks down a hallway, Twilight bumps into a new member of the royal guard, named Flash Sentry. Twilight grows a little quiet, and the others goad her on that she likes the new guy.

Tags: alternate reality

Review:
Would have been a nice two-parter to link the existing My Little Pony seasons 3 and 4 together.Two, it's so obvious the entire movie is a giant advertisement for Hasbro to sell anthro-based dolls based on popular characters.
Equestria Girls disregards the strengths of the show: humans instead of ponies, generic high school setting instead of an interesting magical pony land and a bitch that is mean to everyone but obviously will be put back in line by Twilight Sparkle instead of having none of that.
But how else should we know what human is representing what pony, right?There are also small things like every one of the six girls are basically wearing the same things: knee high boots and skirts.
Scenario is like written by a 16yo kid.My curiosity has gone too far, if that's what Hasbro wants to do, this is a controlled destruction of this community nothing more, and an ugly plot to sell toys and dolls to little girls.
For years, fans of the weirdly popular "My Little Pony Friendship is Magic" series have been flooding the Internet with fan art of the main characters in human form.
In perhaps the biggest piece of fan service ever, the creators of the original TV series have produced a whole new movie with the very premise of your favorite characters in human form and going to high school.
Heck there was even a "Gotham High" cartoon series planned which recasts Batman and his villains as high school students..Our story follows Twilight Sparkle as she pursues a previously unheard of rival named Sunset Shimmer through a magic portal in order to recover her magic crown that was stolen.
These songs are not catchy in the slightest, the melodies have no energy or distinction and while it may not be the case I would be surprised if anybody after watching the movie could remember a single lyric or note.The dialogue sounds tired and too high-school cliché-sounding, any attempts to be witty or funny came across as forced and any sweet moments were mawkish.
Even though the movie is short, because the story is so paper thin(25 minute episode quality with lots of filler in a film over twice as long!), completely lacking in any originality of its own and too padded out it feels much longer, I also felt sometimes as though I was being talked down to and I don't like that.
We have a very talented voice cast here, Tara Strong being the most prolific and recognisable, and they do their best but their material is beneath them to the extent I found they were wasted.Overall, a huge disappointment, doesn't stop me from being a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic but this movie does not do one of the best animated shows in recent years justice.
Even some of the backgrounds, like the Fall Formal and the Crystal Empire (which I'm usually not all that impressed by) managed to prove appealing as well.The music takes a different style from that of the series, going more pop-ish and overall more fitting of the high school environment.
The human counterparts of her friends are obviously faithful to their originals, but what makes them work particularly well here is that each of them get their own time to shine that never feel out of place, and at least most of them get something new added to their roles as well to fit the setting, which I thought was a really nice touch and it made them all the more interesting to watch in an alternate reality.For the secondary characters, they weren't as nice.
It doesn't matter, this is such a wonderful piece following "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic," regardless if it's a theatrical feature that's like a TV presentation.In conclusion, "Equestria Girls" is an absolutely fantastic movie.
They put what they personally want on such a high platform that anything that could be made will never live up to what the fans want and they are being blinded by their own wishes.Growing up I always wondered what some of my favourite cartoon characters would look like as humans, ie.
But, as popular as it gets, some people wouldn't be surprised if these ponies went off the high school.I'm not saying it's a bad film, but I just wished it could've been a bit more clever.
Yes they had somewhat skimpy clothes, and Applejack straddling a chair in a skirt was a little over the top(nothing obviously showing), and that is why I knocked off a star, but I come from the 80's gen that grew up with Barbie and Jem in short skirts, and Teela and She-ra running around in cheek hugging bathing suits, and I turned out to be a fairly conservative parent.It was a genuinely good for kids kind of movie though, and taught about friendship, dealt with bullying(and standing up to one), and good overcoming bad.
My daughters love mlp and were so excited to see their favorite ponies as humans.The plot change was a fun twist and despite the horrible soundtrack it was a sweet little movie that continued to focus on the magic of friendship.
For those of you that are so repulsed by this movie you need to just accept and get over the fact that this is a movie that is meant for little kids to enjoy, not for 18-40 yr olds to obsess over.I'm not going to sit here and make fun of bronies because that has been done 1,000 times already, but I will say to some of you, please stop demanding this show have a more adult theme to it and please stop running out and grabbing up every new mlp toy that comes out so that you can do god knows what with it.
The best part of the film by a landslide was the comedy, but about half of it was nods to brony (adult MLP fans) in-jokes and the like anyway.In conclusion, bronies will probably enjoy the movie at least a little (We've certainly had to put up with worse *looks at Mare-Do-Well*), your daughter will probably have fun and would be better off seeing this than a Barbie/Bratz/e.c.t. high school movie, and everyone else should stay far away from this one, or at least watch the first 3 seasons of the show (Friendship is Magic) first..
And watching Twilight Sparkle adjust to walking on two legs and having hands was hilarious.The movie was also well made; the animation was well done and looked like the TV show, and the music was fun to listen to.
I spent most of the movie keeping an eye out for Derpy Hooves, the pony that was mistakenly drawn with crazy eyes in season one and has become a fan favorite (she shows up as the credits are ending).The movie was made just like the show, good for it's target audience of young girls but also entertaining for it's adult audience as well.
The idea behind the main characters of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, who are portrayed as full grown adults in the series, taking a step into the, ahem, wonderful world of high school as teenagers doesn't sound wonderful on it's own, but writer Meghan McCarthy has done an excellent job managing to explore this idea, enforced by Hasbro marketing strategies, while staying true to the heart of the animated series.
STORY There's many things in this movie that would have worked perfectly if it got more time, like the explanation of where twilight really.
Some plot elements may seem a little dark for a child audience, however this isn't really a big deal as the movie seems to be aimed at slightly older girls, dealing with typical high-school problems, which also makes it an excellent movie for children who still watch the show, but are just leaving its target demographic.As for the music, I regularly found myself tapping my foot or bobbing my head to the rhythm, they're all incredibly catchy!
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls is one of those films that fans will have to agree to disagree on it's just how it is with this film.Being this is the first film of the new series it was bound to get the fans talking plus having a different theme with the new series But the film does something to make it worth a watch if you're curious about it or want a family film or just a fan in generalThe plot centers around Twilight Sparkle must travel to a alternate reality in order to gain back a crowd stolen by Sunset Shimmer As the plot goes on you'll learn more about Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle in this film The animation in the film is pretty good with some good work on the visual effects as well they did time the animation to make it a enjoyable animated filmThe voice acting is good as well with a good cast though some of the writing in this film kind of felt out of wax but with the cast being Tara Strong,Ashleigh Ball, Andrea Libman, Cathy Weseluck, Tabitha St.Germain,Rebecca Schoichet, and others they did some good work with their performances but I have to get this one to Tara and Rebecca as Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer they gave the best out of the cast for their performances Music in the film goes up and down as we also get original songs for this filmThe cons mostly for this film: Some of the writing does feel out of wax also some moments in the film just make you want to shake your head Then again this film was targeted for a specific audience so need to keep that in mind But fans might enjoy it or animation fans in general it just one of those films that is going to be a opinion one way or the other I give My Little Pony: Equestria Girls an 7 out of 10.
However, we've got an archetypical spiteful/bossy teenage girl as a villain (yay originality) and plenty of fan-service throughout the movie (4th-dimentional Pinkie, a "so awesome!" from Rainbow Dash and an extremely moe Fluttershy).One thing I really disliked about the characters is how pretty everyone is.
The songs were cheesy, girly and catchy, just like you'd expect from a My Little Pony movie.-----BREAKDOWN - 5/10Good animation/soundtrack but terrible plot and character development.
It perpetuates a sexist view of both genres (boys play rock & roll, girls put on their make-up) and it was made to sell new merchandise, so yeah, not really a good movie, even though I love My Little Pony.Don't give it a higher note just because it's for kids and don't give it a lower one because you were disappointed.
I don't like this because it's more creepy than charming in that it seems to promote bestiality, and for a movie aimed at kids, this is beyond disgraceful.Which brings me to my next point, the film makes a point of saying that people should judge Twilight Sparkle by what she DOES instead of how she LOOKS, which wouldn't be a bad moral if all but one of the "humans" in this film weren't drawn with a thin physique and the girls wearing short, low-cut clothes.
Speaking of, I think the bad animation played a very high part into making this "movie" like some kind of parody or something.
It is similar to the last episode of Season 3 of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series, where a story line that could have spanned five or more episodes was squashed into a single 22 minute episode.It seems that with Lauren Faust's creative input missing from the team, they are moving back to outdated stereotypes that should have been eradicated from popular media a long time ago.The "humans" in the movie looked to be anorexic or bulimic and had about the same appeal to me that the creatures of Monsters High had.
That's never been done before(!)After most of the movie, which is exquisitely painful to see, as it's simply some stupid teenage girls singing forgettable pop songs and rubbishy pop-culture references, the film ends with Twilight winning the crown, but the antagonist stealing it anyway, leaving the majority of what happened entirely pointless and redundant.
The plot is weak, the characters are completely OOC, the rules to explain the new universe don't make any sense whatsoever, the villain is clichéd, the songs sound like they should belong in High School Musical 4, the humor is infantile at best, the morals are twisted, and while the animation matches the show standards, it is not good enough for theaters.
The only thing I will say about this movie is that I like the Sunset Shimmer character.
my little pony is a good cartoon which bits i not liked aka twlights wings but when i heard a movie was coming out i tough ney but i gave it a look and i was kind of meh about it some parts which i though were stupid or just pointless sometimes some parts i wish they made a little bit better but anyways the story was done well (except the ending) and the acting was good excpet when pinkie pie knows whats happening which i tough was just bad and pointless i love some easter eggs like the cutie mark crusaders song on youtube called bad which i think connects with the fans people say it sets a bad example for real girls and teens like saying is just stereotyping i think not but i tough its just a fun movie to give a watch at least once hope you enjoy the movie.
SPOILERS At one point in the movie, "Twilight" (that is the only name i know apart from rainbow dash) has to be voted prom queen or something so she can get the crown (why she didn't just steal it from the school office or beat the living daylights out of the antagonist whilst she was in human form and take the crown like any normal person would do, i don't know) so in order to win over the mind of her classmates, her and her friends sing a song in the canteen (or cafeteria) essentially saying "vote for twilight".
Twilight is your not so generic but not amazing character she of course is getting to know the our world while still keeping her pony attributes in check like her love for books, her rationality and her knack for organization and of course her teaching skills and her magic of course also she has crush/relationship with flash sentry in the human worlds.
When Equestria Girls was first announced, I was really apprehensive as to weather or not I was going to see it and I know I was not the only brony out there who had the same feelings towards it.The few things I did dislike about the movie is the fact that all the characters did indeed look like Bratz dolls and that they were still all different colours.
and the story writing, although could have been tied in with Friendship is Magic a little more, was still fairly decent.I was not expecting this movie to be a musical, so when the first song started, I was pretty surprised.
I personally like the music a lot, especially the intro remix and the "Help Twilight Sparkle Win the Crown" song, even though some people say it sucks, still think it's pretty nice, nice job Danial Ingram..
this movie is a good Hasbro movie for kids but i never saw it i heard it was a good movie so this movie is pretty good i love how twilight became a human and spike became a dog and the another main characters became a human too so this movie is a good movie it's way better then the original my little pony.
The movie was really decent, in fact, it was pretty good compared to what we have in modern animation, but it has some points that well, are bad.First of all the movie starts in "equestria", and it starts the first problem, sunset shimmer was supposed to haven't known the existence of twilight, neither she wasn't able to know that she would be at the "canterlot" castle at that time, simply because the portal opens ever 2,5 years.Anyway, the movie goes on, and it gets kinda better when the other characters as humans show up into scene, that is probably the best part of the movie, form that point, it's really generic from my point of view, the deal is that, in fact, the movie has a wannabe love relation between twilight and flash sentry, they only are in scene like 10 minutes and they are already in love?
Sure it has a bit of the 'be yourself' but then the characters seem a little like they are not being themselves next to what they were in the pony world.Anther thing that bothers me is that they never explain where Twilight lives after going through the mirror.
Which it isn't at all because in most high school movies/stories it's all about the character fitting in but that was never the goal for either Twilight or Sunset Shimmer.