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Thursday 2 June 2022

My Little Pony: Make Your Mark TV Special Review

 


My Little Pony fans to say that the franchise is back in a big way would be an understatement since just last year we got a brand new animated movie and in just a few months we're getting a brand new animated TV series airing exclusively on Netflix. However to help to tide us over Netflix have released a brand new special and so then join me as I review the special that for some strange bears the exact same name as the new TV series with the special in question being called simply just "My Little Pony: Make Your Mark" enjoy.

The plot of this special is Zip discovers that there's something wrong with the newly returned magic and has to do everything within her power to fix this issue before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty OK in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this special is Jenna Warren as Sunny Starscout , Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Zipp Storm and JJ Gerber as Hitch Trailblazer. Also starring in this special is Ana Sani as Izzy Moonbow , AJ Bridel as Pipp Petals , Rob Tinkler as Sparky Sparkeroni , Amanda Martinez as Queen Haven , Kimberly-Ann Truong as Posey Bloom , Sara Garcia as Dahlia , Samantha Bielanski as Jazz Hooves and Jonathan Tan as Rocky.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. Which is very sadly becoming par the course for this next generation of My Little Pony in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  



I assume that doing the animation for this special is Atomic Cartoons since there's no animation company listed on this specials official IMDB page. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / prese ted to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty a huge step down interms of quality from the freaking animation that we freaking got in A New Generation in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


I really did expect them to replace the entire cast from the movie for this show and this special simply because of the fact that alot of the actors in the movie are fairly big named actors and as such it would have been super expensive to get them all to reprise their roles for this special and for this series. However that doesn't mean that they had to cheap out on both the animation and the writing both of which feel like a huge stepdown from the movie in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

To me this special feels alot more like a second pilot episode since alot of this special is spent with setting up things that we hopefully might see in the series. Which is a red flag for me personally since it got in the way of them telling a story which should have been the main focus of this special and not setting up things that we aren't going to see play out for a couple of more months in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


When it came to the movie Izzy was the best character for me personally and so then it's a shame to see that they give this wonderfully funny character little to nothing to do in this special. Which does make sense since it's Zip that's this specials main character but the thing is this special does nothing to make Zip an interesting character which only serves to make you miss Izzy alot more in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Now then this special has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty five minuets and eleven seconds. Which is tad bit a short running time for this special since you very easily could have gotten a whole series with of air time just out of this one story alone and so the very fact that the makers of this special chose instead to cram this storyline into one forty five minuet special means that plot points feel alot more rushed in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


So now then since this special is a comedy special that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty really bad. With pretty much all of this specials jokes not really landing and not even getting so much as a chuckle out of me which is always a red flag indeed in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 



Overall this special really is a huge step down from the movie in every aspect which is a shame because the movie did leave us with some potential for future propjets to be good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very special in this very review and as such that means that this very special erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official My Little Pony Generation 5 fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the actual images that are actually from this actual freaking episode being Google Images this is simply because Google Images actually has a wide varitity of images from this actual freaking episode all of which are currently featured / up and on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page right now / as we speak and plus all of the images that are currently featured / up and on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in freaking definition.