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.

My Little Pony: A New Generation Film SPOILER FREE Film Review

 

Animation fans the My Little Pony franchise is one that since 2010 has taken on a life all of it's own with new fans finding out about the franchise and old fans rediscovering the franchise heck the 2010 series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic was so popular among the fanbase that it not only spawned a movie but it's also spawned a sequel / spin off series called My Little Pony: Pony Life. Well now we have an official sequel to My Little Pony: Friendship Is magic and so join me as I review the film that proves that some things don't really need sequels at all with the film in question being called simply just "My Little Pony: A New Generation" enjoy.

The plot of this film years after magic has vanished from the land of Equestria and the three pony races have hated each other for generations and one day two young ponies named Sunny and Izzy decide to bring magic back to the land of Equestria but on there travels they will face many dangers that will test them and there new found friendship to it's very core. Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot of this film in all honesty i in all honesty thought / felt that the actual plot of this film was very weak at best since there's no reason for these two ponies to go onto the adventure and so the whole just comes across as the ponies doing stuff for some unknown reasons in my opinion anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Vanessa Hudgens as Sunny Starscout , Kimiko Glenn as Izzy Moonbow and James Marsden as Hitch Trailblazer. Also starring in this film is Sofia Carson as Pipp Petals , Liza Koshy as Zipp Storm , Elizabeth Perkins as Phyllis Cloverleaf , Jane Krakowski as Queen Haven , Ken Jeong as Sprout Cloverleaf , Phil LaMarr as Alphabittle , Michael McKean as Argyle Starshine and some very familiar voices as a bunch of some very familiar characters.

Now in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's featured / presented to us in this very film in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the actual acting that's featured / presented to us in this film was at best passable and straight up bad at it's worst. Which is a shame because alot of the actors and actresses that are appearing in / starring in this very film in indeed some very good actors and actresses and so it's just sad to see them phone in there performances for this very film in my opinion anyways / at least.

Doing the animation for this film is Boulder Media who haven't worked on any other theatrically released feature length films about from this one. Which is a shame because even this film did indeed change animation styles from being traditional 2D hand drawn animation of the previous film to being full blown 3D CGI animation in this film the animation that's featured / presented to us in this very film is rather shockingly alot better then what it really had any right to be in my freaking opinion anyways / at least.

Now then one of the biggest issues that I personally had with this film and this isn't really a spoiler by the way but I really hated the fact that there were no stakes in this film. Take for example the previous film that film had alot of stakes for our main characters and so we know what the characters would stand to loose should they have failed in that movie but in this film tho there no stakes and so it doesn't really matter if the characters loose because life would return to how it already is at the start of this very / particular film which isn't even close to being a good thing at all in my opinion anyways / at least.

Not helping things is the fact that the main characters for this film aren't really given any kind of personality traits whatsoever barring Sunny and Izzy that is. This is big issue because in the very first episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is magic we got a really good idea as to what each character is like that thus made it alot easier for us the viewers to connect with each of that shows characters but here tho because of the fact that of this films main cast of characters don't have any kind of personality traits it makes / made it hard for me personally to connect with any of this films main cast of characters in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then I will very fully freaking admit that there are some things that I did actually like about this film like for example the character of Izzy was a very fun and more often then not a very funny character to watch in this film the other thing that I liked in this film were a few of the songs but that's really it. Since there's not really that much to actually like about this film which is a shame because this film is literally  sequel to what many myself included consider to be the best version of the My Little Pony franchise and yet this film does nothing all that new or interesting with either it's set up , it's characters or it's settings for that matter in my opinion anyways / at least.

So now then this film has / had an exact running time of exactly one hour and thirty one minuets and twenty nine seconds so lets just round all of that up to a whopping one hour and thirty one minuets and thirty seconds and well to this films credit this film doesn't feel like it lasted that long at all. This is because in my opinion anyways / at least this film had the right amount of running time for the story that it was trying to tell and so there really was no need for this film to last any longer then what it actually does last in my opinion anyways / at least.

So now then this film is a comedy film after all and that means that I have to talk about the actual comedy that's featured / presented to us in this very film and well in my opinion anyways / at least the comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film is very mixed bag of affairs for me personally. Since even tho alot of this films jokes did indeed get alot of laughs out of me there are also these really cringy and out of place pop culture references be it to movies or to brand names which kids just aren't going to get and that are simply just unfunny references to things in popular culture in my opinion anyways / at least. 

Overall the 2017 theatrically released MY Little Pony: The Movie is easily the better movie out of these two films but even so there are some good things that are to be found in this very film there's just not that many of them in my opinion anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very and freaking film gets a grand old score of a freaking whopping 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 boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personal preferred website to use to get images from this film being the official My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom wiki page just simply due to the fact that pretty much all of the images that are featured / resented to us on the official My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom wiki page are all pretty high quality and as well as being very high definition.