My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Interdimensional Exchange

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Interdimensional Exchange would be a 2025 American animated musical adventure film based on the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls franchise by Hasbro, itself a spin-off of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Directed by Ishi Rushell and produced by Katherine Crownover, the film's screenplay would be written by Meghan McCarthy and Nick Confalone from a story by McCarthy, and would be produced by Allspark Animation and Netflix Animation. The film would star the voices of Rebecca Shoichet, Tara Strong, Ashleigh Ball, Andrea Libman, Tabitha St. Germain, Cathy Weseluck and Kathleen Barr. The score would be composed by William Anderson, with songs by Daniel Ingram and Josh Haber.
Development on a Netflix-exclusive Equestria Girls film would begin at Allspark in early 2022, with recurring Equestria Girl director Ishi Rushell set to return as director and McCarthy and Confalone set to write the film. In late 2022, the cast from previous Equestria Girls media would be announced to reprise their roles in the film. Animation would begin in late 2022, and would be worked on for two years. The story would be set shortly after the special My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Spring Breakdown becuase Rushell wanted to explore "how things go when the human and pony worlds collide as strongly as they did at the end of that special". Animation for the film would be done with Toon Boom Harmony because Rushell would want it to have a stronger quality than previous Equestria Girls media.
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Interdimensional Exchange would be relased on July 3, 2025, and would receive a positive critical reception. Critics would praise the film's themes, screenplay, directing, vocal performances (particularly Schoichet, Strong, and Libman's), musical score, songs, and animation.
==Synopsis==
After the events of Spring Breakdown, the shipwrecked crew is in need to go back to land, and Sunset Shimmer quickly takes them to a crazy route home... througth the Pony world of Equestria. The overrall clash between both worlds does not go precisely well, with the humans seeing the Ponies as "far behind [their] ages", and the Ponies being angered at their actitude towards their world. Sunset and her friends must find a way to get them to weork together when, suddenly, both worlds are threatened by the most surprising enemy they could ever face: A human version of Sunset who sees hate as more powerful than friendship.
==Voice cast==
*Rebecca Shoichet as:
**Sunset Shimmer, a former inhabitant of Equestria who went to the human world, and Princess Celestia's former apprentice. Schoichet would also voice Sunset's human counterpart, a cynical wannabe supervillain who wants to take over both Equestria and the human world to prove that hate and power are stronger than friendship. Shoichet would describe the relaionship between both Sunsets as "a sort of 'opposite self' kind of things. They are complete opposites. Human Sunset represents what Sunset could have been, and Pony Sunse represents what the other Sunset could become if she wanted too". Andreas Deja would serve as both Sunset's supervising animator.
**Twilight Sparkle's singing voice.
*Tara Strong as Princess Twilight Sparkle, an alicorn and the Princess of Friendship in Equestria, responsible of bringing friendship to everybody at the kingdom, who is Sunset's love interest and Princess Celestia's student. Strong would also voice Twilight's human counterpart, a friend of Sunset's who is a science enthusiast. Kristof Serrand would serve as both Twilight's supervising animator.
*Ashleigh Ball as:
**Applejack, a country girl with superstrength and a friend of Sunset's. Ball would also voice Applejack's pony counterpart, an earth pony eith a hard-working actitude. Brenda Chapman would serve as both Applejack's supervising animator.
**Rarity, a glamorous but generous girl and a friend of Sunset's. Ball would also voice Rarity's pony counterpart. Kevin Lima would serve as bothy Rarity's supervising animator.
*Andrea Libman as:
**Pinkie Pie, an energetic girl with a love for parties, who is as friend of Sunset's. Libman would also voice Pinkie's pony counterpart, an earth pony who similarly loves parties. Eric Goldberg would serve as both Pinkie's supervising animator.
***Shannon Chan-Kent as Pinkie Pie's singing voice.
**Fluttershy, a shy girl able to communicate with animals, and a friend of Sunset's. Libman would also voice Fluttershy's pony counterpart, a timid pegasus who is a friends with Princess Twilight and an animal caretaker in Equestria. David Brewster would serve as both Fluttehrshy's supervising animator.
*Cathy Weseluck as Spike, Twilight's dog, who gained the ability to talk after an incident with Fluttershy. Weseluck would also voice Spike's Equestrian counterpart, a dragon and Princess Twilight's best friend. Chris Sanders would serve as Spike's supervising animator.
*Kelly Sheridan as Starlight Glimmer, the human counterpart of Twilight's apprentice, who works for Human Sunset as her goon and sidekick. James Baxter would serve as Starlight's supervising animator.
*Kathleen Barr as Trixie, an aspirant magician with a big ego. Barr would also voice Trixie's pony counterpart, who is more egocentric than her human counterpart. Bob Scott would serve as both Trixie's supervising animator.
== Reception ==
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film would have an approval rating of 98%, with an average rating of 9.9/10, based on 354 reviews. The website's critical consensus would read, "Finding the middle point between timely themes and the franchise's celebration of friendship, Interdimension Exchange is a magical journey between the worlds of lughter and tears, with eye-popping animation to take us along the way". On Metacritic, the film would have a weighted rating of 95 out of 100, based on 58 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
==Trivia==
*The film would have a budget of 90 million dollars, making it the hightest-budgeted film in the My Little Pony franchise. According to director Ishi Rudell, this would be partially due to "Netflix's reputation on animation, which gave the studio the motivation to make this film as great as possible".
*In the film, the human versions of Rarity and Applejack would be confirmed to be a same-sex couple, becoming a couple during the film's events, while the Pony version of Applejack would be confirned to have feeelings for the Pony version of Rainbow Dash, and the Pony version of Sunset Shimmer would be confirmed to have feelings for Princess Twilight. Rudell would state that "the rise of LGBTQ+ representation on animation really motivated [the filmmakers] to cemment the ships and making them undoubtly canon and official". On choosing the Pony version of Twilight over her human self as Sunset's love interest, Rudell would state it would be mainly due to Human Twilight already being on a relationship.
*Upon noticing the Pinkie Pie's human counterpart in Pony form, Pony Applejack would ask Pony Pinkie Pie if she "cloned [herself] again", referencing the events of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode "Too Many Pinkie Pies".
*After coming back from the Pony world, Human Pinkie Pie would say "Wow, an interdimensional travel can give you such a crick in the neck". This would be a reference to the 1992 Disney film Aladdin, where the Genie said a similar line after being released from his lamp.
** Director Ishi Ruddell would later confirm that the line was an intentional nod to Pinkie Pie's supervising animator Eric Goldberg, who served as the Genie's supervising animator in Aladdin.
* When Human Sunset Shimmer refuses her Pony counterpart's offer to redeem herself, Human Pinkie Pie would state: "That's odd. It usually works for us". This would be a nod to how nearly all the villains in the Equestria Girls franchise end up redeeming themselves.
*The film would be the second film from the 4th generation of the My Little Pony franchise to be made througth hand-drawn animation, after My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), while all other productions were done with Flash animation. Coincidentially, both were done with Toon Boom Harmony.