Hello there pony fans and animation fans and as i said yesterday i'm here to give you a review of the second documentary about the My Little Pony fan base with this one being called Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans Of My Little Pony (phew what a mouthful).
Now like A Brony Tale this film focuses on the fanbase of MLP and it has no real story to it and unlike A Brony Tale which took an outsider looking in approach to it's story telling this one is the people on the inside telling you about the show and about some of the issues that they go through whenever someone finds out they like the show which i think makes this film feel more real.
This film features contributions from Lauren Faust , Tara Strong and John De Lancie as well as other voice actors but unlike the other film where Ashliegh Ball was firmly the star of the movie the stars in this one are the fans themselves which to me is how it should be but don't get me wrong anytime i get to see my bae , my spirit animal Tara Strong is always a good thing but here i'm glad she took a back seat to the fans.
Speaking of the fans they were really good and i really liked seeing their stories in the film and the fact that they all have issues not only when it comes to telling people that they like the show but also personal issues like for example one of the fans has a brain tumor and another has an illness that's just two of the many fans that are in this film and it makes them more relatable and that's something that i think more documentary's should do.
Now then since this film has no basic premise to speak of it means it can do more interviews with the people that matter (the fans) to me that's both a good and bad thing it's good because we get to here more of their stories and see more of there lives but it's bad because it also drags the film out i think this film would have been better if it was an hour and ten minuets instead of 90 minuets but that's just me.
Now inbetween the interviews we have short segments of animation and to be honest i really liked the animation in the film and i like they it kind of tells a story as well it basically all about this professor at pony university and he's telling his class which includes characters from the show about the fans. I thought the animated segments were really cool and where really well handled there was a lot of nice fluid movement and you can tell that alot of time and effort was put into those scenes which were just pure fun.
Another thing that i liked about this film is it included fans from all over the world unlike A Brony Tale which just included fans from America here we get to see fans not only from America but also from Germany , England and The Netherlands.so it made the fanbase feel more bigger then A Brony Tale did and for me that's great because i'm British and i never knew there were people in my home country who loved the show and it also helps that the film actually showed some locations near were i live so yeah UK pride was strong.
This movie did something that i think A Brony Tale should have done and that's show almost every aspect of the fanbase not only do we see people who watch the show but we also get to see people who make music based of the show and people who make laser shows as well as people who make merch to sell on conventions which i liked because it showed almost all aspects of the MLP fanbase as apposed as just the people who watch the show.
Overall i'm would say that both this film and A Brony Tale are equal in my eyes both have faults and both are worth watching and i'm sorry but i had to include a 20% cooler picture but i give this film a solid 5.5 out of 10