My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Forgotten Friendship Review

Pony fans when I woke up this morning I had no idea that by the evening i'd be here writing up a review on the newest Equestria Girls special so here is my review of My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Forgotten Friendship.

As far as I can tell the special is an adaptation of the book A Friendship To Remember by Perdita Finn and just going of the MLP Wikia the special does seem to be really faithful to the book. The plot is someone steals the memories of Twilight , Applejack and the rest of the gang apart from Sunset Shimmer so it's up to her to find out who did it and get her friends back. I'll admit I knew who the villain was from about the half way mark it's not a good mystery at all but the story it self is pretty solid.

The film stars the great Tara Strong , Rebecca Shoichet , Ashleigh Ball , Tabitha St. Germain , Andrea Libman , Cathy Weseluck and Kathleen Barr. In all honesty there's not much I can say about the acting since these actors have been playing there characters since 2010 so of course they are going to know how best to play there respective characters and thus all of the actors do a solid job and it is nice to hear new dialog from these characters since we are nearly a month out before the season 8 premier.

I will say that unlike Magical Movie Night which was just the Equestria Girls TV series sold as a movie there is one plot this time around and the animation for a TV special isn't that bad but the issue I have with the animation is this is following the movie which had better animation so anything that came out after that is going to look cheap by comparison but with all of that said it is not see the familiar animation style of the show.

The best word I can use to describe this special is cute and in all honesty I think that's the best word to use this spin off franchise it's cute nothing more and nothing less altho it does make me wish that this spin off franchise was canon just because it would present more story telling possibilities but i'd fully understand if any of you pony fans didn't like that.

There's a few good jokes in the special I personally laughed at lot at Twilight for spoiler reasons i'm not going to reveal which version of her but if you've seen this special then you'll understand why I thought that there were alot of scenes in this special with Twilight that were so in character they made me laugh and for some reason this spin off franchise is now meta because they make a lot of meta jokes and they are all really funny.

Honestly at this point with the Equestria Girls franchise I do wish they'd try something different which I know they are doing with the toy line but i'm talking more about the films and specials just because after a while they all start to blur into one and they all start to feel like they are the same thing and not a different film or special.

Overall if your into MLP or if you know someone who is into this franchise then they might like it but at the same time even if you are into MLP you'll see nothing new here and you'll know where the story is heading and who the villain is so with all of that in mind and bearing in mind this is more aimed for little girls because heaven forbid the guys get something aimed at them in this franchise I give this special a 5 out of 10.

The Flintstones Series Review

Hey there cartoon fans this review has taken me the longest to do and I have to say it was worth it to give you all the best possible review I could so lets travel back to the stone age and visit everyone's favorite stone age family The Flintstones.

For those of you who either don't know or have forgotten The Flintstones was a TV series that started in 1960 and ran for six seasons ending it's initial run in 1966 racking up an impressive 166 episodes a record which for a long time stayed with The Flintstones until it was beaten by another famous family The Simpsons and i'm guessing they will keep that record until the end of time.

The set up for the show is it's 60's America but in the stone age and as you can most likely guess from what i've just said there's no story for the show but the show isn't episodic because what happens in what episode might effect the next few episodes as was the most famous storyline for the show the birth of Pebbles which started near the end of the third season and a few episodes later she arrived on the scene.

This series has the late Alan Reed voicing Fred and the rest of the cast includes Jean Vander Pyl as both Wilma and later Pebbles , the great Mel Blanc as Barney and Dino , for the first for seasons we have Bea Benaderet as Betty but for the final two seasons we got Gerry Johnson and finally the great Daws Butler as Bamm-Bamm.

The casting for the show I thought was pretty spot on as you could tell I didn't name every actor only the actors who played The Flintstones and The Rubbles and I have to say I really enjoyed Alan Reed as Fred since I grew up with Henry Corden playing Fred I was shocked to actually find myself enjoying Alans portrayal of the character and the rest of the cast are really fantastic I can't really say much about Mel , Jean and Daws since they are legends but I freaking love the voice that Bea uses for Betty.

While watching the show I found out a few things that I didn't know about the characters like for example Betty's maiden name in the show was McBricker and how the couples first met in the two live action films they have stories with contradict each other but here they met at a hotel where both couples pretended to be rich fearing the other wouldn't like them if they knew the truth and that's the tip of the iceberg.

One thing I noticed that's a negative is the quality in the shows writing took a nosedive around the third or fourth season with the first two seasons being written by Looney Tunes veterans Warren Foster and Michael Maltese as well as Arthur Phillips. The stories in those two seasons were more relatable and had more funny gags in them but from the third season on wards they had a rotation of writers and the stories became more kid friendly which wasn't the intention of the show when it first came out.

   

It's time to talk about one of the elephants in the room the animation yes it is cheap and yes the backgrounds do repeat themselves alot in the show honestly you could make a drinking came about how many times the backgrounds repeat but I still found the animation to have a charm to it maybe it's because I grew up with the show and thus i'm already used to it but at the same time I do see where people are coming from when they say the animation in The Flintstones is bad.

This one i'm not sure is an elephant or not but there's alot of animal cruelty in this show it's not awkward to watch or anything like that but it does make you wonder what are there animal cruelty laws in Bedrock or do they even have any.

Now I know alot of people have said over the internet that the show is not funny and boring and while the latter can be said for certain episodes the show is pretty funny and I think that came down to the writing because if you watched the show during during the Pebbles and Bamm Bamm era then there were alot of unfunny jokes but if you watch the show before they were introduced you will find alot of jokes that will make you laugh out loud a few times.

Now not alot of people know this but during the shows run it had to opening and closing themes and if you want to get technical five opening credits for it's first two seasons the opening and closing themes were Rise and Shine which lasted until season 3 episode 3 where it was replaced by the more well known theme Meet The Flintstones. 

The opening and closing credits also changed in that episode because for the first two season the opening credits basically followed Fred going home , picking up a dress and turning on the TV while the closing credits was just him getting ready for bed in season three we got the more familiar intro so I won't talk about that but we got two more opening credits after it because after they introduced Pebbles they added Pebbles to the intro and then after that because they wanted to sell some toys they added a scene with Pebbles playing with what they were trying to sell and then finally we got Bamm Bamm added into the mix.

It's thanks to this show that we got The Flintstones franchise and I guess you could say it's still going strong with smash success that was The Flintstones comic book series but there have been a few bad notes with the live action movie prequel and the weird WWE team up movie.

Overall it doesn't matter what I say about this show because it's legendary and you have all most likely all ready made up your minds on if you like the show or not like I said before this has taken me the longest to do because Batman and The Looney Tunes Show both took at least a day to watch and review this review has taken me closer to two days to watch and review and since this show is all ready a legendary show i'm not going to rate it.