My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: The Ticket Master Review

As a franchise My Little Pony has been going on for quite literally decades with the franchise spawning several TV shows and movies. However there's no question that it became more popular then it's ever been in 2010 thanks to the release of Friendship Is Magic and well it's been a while since an episode of that show was last talked about by me so I thought that i'd dive right back in and review another episode of the show and so then join me as I review the episode that really could been solved just a few minuets in with the episode in question being called simply just "The Ticket Master" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Twilight gets given a ticket to prestigious ball she has to chose just one of her friends to go with her a task that is made harder when all of Ponyville gets wind of the extra ticket and wants to go as well. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty not that bad however tho this episodes plot wasn't all that good as it did come across as being like the kind of plot that you'd expect to find in a filler episode of an anime in that all it was there was to basically show you what the rest of the shows plots could be like moving forward which in all fairness is a pretty decent thing to do and even with that in mind this episodes plot was still a really fun plot that offered alot of really fun and more often then not funny interactions between all of the characters however when the previous two episodes went out of there way to show you just how epic that the show could be with it's more mature themes and storytelling it does feel out of place for this episode to suddenly go the more family friendly route which is something that does make sense as this was a show that was made for the whole family but at the same time it does kind of feel weird that after this truly epic two part episode we now get five of the six main characters arguing over a spare ticket when in just the last episode alone they were working together to save their world and while it's understandable to have the more epic plot come first as it sets up all of the main characters there could have been something in this plot that made it a little bit epic in it's own unique way with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode is voice acting legend and Beetlejuice: The Animated Series star Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle and Ashleigh Ball as Applejack and Rainbow Dash. Also starring in this episode is Andrea Libman as Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy , Star Wars: Ewoks , Swamp Thing and Beetlejuice: The Animated Series star Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity and Iron Man: Armored Adventures star Cathy Weseluck as Spike.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty really good. With it being clear as day that all of this episodes main actors have alot of really great chemistry together even tho there were most likely not even in the same room when the episode was being made in the first place with all of them turning in some really good performances in their own right which is something that really does make alot of sense as alot of this episodes actors are a bunch of really good actors in their own right with alot of them voicing characters from our own childhoods and pretty much being THE voices for these characters as that's just how good that all five of them really are in this episode and while only five actors in the whole show is a small list of actors to have it is something that does work well enough for this episode as it allows for all of this episodes to get alot of screen time and to show us just how good of an actors that they all are with the episodes best actor being Tara Strong which yes is a bit of cliche thing to say but she really is good in this episode as she goes from being painfully funny in one scene and then in the very same scene also be very serious and you totally by into it as it feels like something that her character would say and do with this episodes acting really being helped by this episodes script as the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Top Draw Animation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty really good as while the show was always animated in flash because of the fact that it's cheaper to do it that way that is something that work well for this show and for this episode as this is a show and an episode that really doesn't require that much money be spent on it as it this point in the shows history it was still trying to find it's feet and to that end the shows animation does come across as being alot more better then what it really had any right to be as while yes the some of the characters movements can be a bit stiff at times when they get it looking good however the characters then have these really fluid looking movements to them however tho where this episodes animation does fall a little bit flat is in the backgrounds as the backgrounds in this episode do look a little flat and uninteresting now this is something that could be due to the fact that the whole show was animated in flash as it's not an issue that's exclusive to this episode but at the same time it is something that you notice quite alot in this episode as the episode does spend quite a lot of it's running time outdoors as none of the backgrounds in this episode have any depth to them and instead look like that they were painted on some cardboard but in saying that tho we do get some really nice looking shots in this episode as well just due to how good and how pretty that this episodes animation can be.

Twilight spends the whole episode trying to work out who to give the spare ticket to as she doesn't want to upset all of her friends. When all she had to do was give it it Applejack because all of her other friends wanted to go for selfish reasons where as Applejack wanted to to go for a selfless reason as she wanted to sell more apples there as that would help her family busisness and improve her families way of life and that's really it which is a really good reason to go to this ball where as all of the ponies had rather selfish reasons for going be it wanting to visit the garden or to impress some people all of which are things that could be considered selfish and heck even when the group realise that they've been forcing Twilight to stress out over this due to them not leaving her alone like she asked them to it's Applejack that's the first to apologize and lead the others into saying that they wont go to the ball anymore which again is an incredibly selfless thing to do but for whatever reason the episode does spend alot of time with Twilight trying to work out something that was already lied out in front of her to begin with which is something that's true to her character as one of the things that made her well her is the fact that she's always honest and so when show says that she wants to go to this ball to help to sell more apples you know that it's the truthful answer but given that the show was still trying to find itself at this point in time it is forgivable that they would have Twilight ignore all of this as technically Twilight doesn't know any of them all that well and so she would have no reason to trust Applejack on her word as for all she knows she could have been lieing to her in the first place.

However tho there is something else that could have ended the plot of this episode right at the start of the episode itself. With that being the fact that if Twilight had just asked for more tickets from Princess Celestia in the first place then she wouldn't have to chose which of her friends to take with her as they'd all get to go in the first place something which does end up happening when she writes to Princess Celestia saying that she won't go if all of her friends can't go which makes the whole episode feel pointless as she very easily could have written another letter at the start of the episode or even in the middle of the episode just explaining the situation and asking for more tickets in the first place while the show was still finding itself when this episode was being made this is something that really should have been fixed very early on in the development of the episode as it makes the entire episode come across as being rather quite pointless or if your not going to have Twilight write the letter asking for more tickets then have her suggest that they could do something that's equally as fun together as the show is meant to be all about friendship anyway this is something that would make alot of sense but for whatever reason the makers of this show chose not to do that and yet by not addressing this issue it does leave us with what could be seen as being a plot hole in the episode albeit not a very big one but it still could be one nonetheless with it seeming like the writers of this episode Amy Keating Rogers & Lauren Faust just didn't know what to do for this episode and so they just had the main character ignore the obvious way to fix it until the very end of the episode where they the have do the very thing that could have fixed the issue in the first place.

As much wrong as there is with the way that the show did this plot from a writing point of view it did get something right an it's the most simple thing it's the fact that they showed how all of her friends where doing ore harm then good to Twilight. As while yes they all just really wanted to know who got the extra ticket to this ball called The Grand Galloping Gala it's seeing how they all ultimately do more harm then good as they all try and upstage each other some in subtle ways and then in the case of Pinkie Pie throwing a Ponyville wide party when all Twilight wants to do is have some time to herself so that she can just think and get some lunch in her and that's it and yet because of each of them choose to put themselves first and not think of her and her wants and her needs then they do come of as looking like bad friends as no friend worth there salt would ever put pressure on someone to choose them for something especially if it meant not choosing quite literally any of the other friends as that's not only a bad thing to do regardless of your age but it's also something that does make you come off as looking like a selfish person so much so that Twilight would have been well within her right to say that she's not taking any of them and instead chose Spike as he was the only one that was helping her out just because it was the right thing to do and yet by showing all of the other ponies act in such way it does also make them feel more three dimensional as well as it shows to us the audience that these characters do have flaws and as we see in the episode are more then willing to grow and to learn from those flaws and become better people or in this case ponies because of it and while the episode does understandably wrap things up in a nice little bow at the end of the episode as this is still a kids show afterall it still would have been nice to show the characters that put all of this pressure on Twilight not get what they want as all that does is tell the kid audience that if you put pressure on people for selfish reasons then you still get what you want in the end.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets exactly. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running time for this show to have in the first place and to be fair to this episode this episode really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time but tho in saying that whilst the episode does use it's running time wisely in one respect it doesn't use it wisely in another as the episode does develop it's plot as well as it's ever going to given the fact that this is a kids show and those don't typically develop there plots that well let alone if it's plot from very early on in the shows run and so to expected this episodes plot to be that well developed would be asking a bit much from this show but what isn't asking much is for the episode to develop it's characters alot more then what it already is as this episode really doesn't develop it's characters all that well this si despite the fact that it does show all five of Twilights friends do have flaws that they over come in the episode however the episode really doesn't give us the audience a reason to want Twilight to pick them as outside of Applejack who is the only one that has a legitimately selfless reason for wanting to go to The Grand Galloping Gala in the first place none of the other characters are shown in a positive light prior to the episodes third act and therefor it does make it seem like that these characters are just selfish characters and while of course the previous episode would make it look like that there all good people this episode doesn't show any of that from the rest of the characters when they really should have done as then Twilight would have an actually understandable struggle when it comes to choosing which of her friends to take with her to The Grand Galloping Gala in the first place but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty really good. With this episode having alot of painfully laugh out loud moments in it with this episode really being worth watching just for it's comedy alone as all of the episodes characters get alot of good jokes in it be it Applejack bringing Twilight a bunch of apple related foods just to try and soften her up or Rainbow Dash quite literally zipping a cloud shut there's plenty of good jokes in this episode however tho this episodes best joke is quite easily when Pinkie Pie throws Twilight up in the air several times and each time you just see Twilight is getting less and less amused by what's going on which is such a simply joke and yet it's one that does get a really big laugh in the episode just because of the fact that it does feel completely in character for both of those characters at that point in time as all Twilight wants to do is have some time to herself to think things through properly and all Pinkie wants to do is just be herself and that is a combination that does result in comic gold and while the running joke of Twilight just not being able to get some lunch while all her friends just bother her which is a cute little joke which is something that could also be said for alot of this episodes jokes as well as all of this episodes jokes are really good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is a solid episode but at the same time tho it's also a really bland and really generic episode of the show as well as it goes to all of the places that you think that it would go to and in the exact same way that you think it would do as well but in fairness tho this episode really does have some saving graces to it tho 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 episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn 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 boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all pf 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 personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The Perfect Pear Review

 

Every so often we all get songs that just pop back into our heads for no reason well the very same thing happend to me just a few short days ago. With that very song leading me to suddenly remember this episode and well I thought that i'd review it for all today as it's meant to be a very popular episode in the My Little Pony fandom and so then join me as I review the episode that as a song so catchy that i'm willing to bet that alot of you are singing it right now with the episode in question being called simply just "The Perfect Pear" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a pony returns of Ponyville the Apple siblings go on a quest to learn more about their parents. Now then interms of  what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty really good as it was a really simple plot and that's what this show does best nice and simple plots and while yes there are episodes that have complicated plots this is an episode that really didn't need a complicated plot at all it just a plot that was nice and simple and that was exactly what we got given to us in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Ashleigh Ball as Applejack , Michelle Creber as Apple Bloom and Peter New as Goldie Delicious and Big Mac. Also starring in this episode is William Shatner as Grand Pear , Felicia Day as Pear Butter , Tabitha St. Germain as Mrs. Cake / Chiffon Swirl and Granny Smith , Bill Mondy as Burnt Oak and A Townspony , Bill Newton as Bright Mac and Cathy Weseluck as Mayor Mare.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty not bad. Which is to be expected as the show had been going on for seven years at this point and it really does help that this episodes cast are a bunch of really talented voice actors who know what kind of performance would suit their respective characters in any given scene and it's also helped by the fact that this episodes script is so good that all the cast have to do is just say the words as they written and a good performance will come out them naturally as that's just how good the script for this episode really is.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Top Draw Animation. Now then interms of what Im personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue as it wasn't all that good either that's not tom say that the animation was bad because it wasn't it was however just OK best with there not really being any standout pieces of animation which is a shame because on paper this episode should have had at least one stand put piece of animation in it.

I think we all now the reason as to why this episode is as loved as it is and that's because it tells a genuinely good love story. With the closest thing that I can think of to compare this love story was that of Romeo & Juliet as the stories of both Romeo & Juliet and this episode are fairly similar with both of the people in love coming from families that absolutely hate each other and while this show for rather obvious reasons couldn't go down the dark route that Romeo & Juliet goes down it's still a rather sweet thing to see as it really a tale that's as old as time and when it's done right like it is in this episode then we end up with something that's not really truly special but also something that people will remember for a long time to come.

Really helping with this episode being a huge fan favorite is it's song which is called "You're In My Head Like A Catchy Song" and is written by the episodes co-writers Joanna Lewis and Kristine Songco. I have t admit that I really do love this song as it's not only a really well written with the song advancing the plot of these two characters but it's also a genuinely really good song that is really sung by actress Felicia Day with this song being just like it says in the songs title a very catchy song that will stay n your head fora long time after finishing this episode and you when add in the fact that the songs matches the visuals perfectly then it's no wonder that this song is just that damned good of song that's perfect for this episode in the first place.

While there are alot of good things to be found in this episode there are some things that I didn't like about the episode like the fact that Grand Pear gets redeemed which to me shouldn't have happened as it would have said to people that sometimes people just don't get over grudges at all. The other thing being the fact that it seems out of character for all of these characters who up until now would have most likely have been saying that lying is bad to suddenly be written as liars and while they do give an in episode reason as to why the characters are acting like that it's still something that shouldn't have happend as the episode still could have told it's story without using the characters that use for the flashbacks by instead creating brand new characters.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and fifty eight seconds. Which is a bit of short running time for this episode to have as this episode would, have been better served if it was a two part episode as then the story could have been allowed to breathe more and it would also allow the episode to really tug at your heartstrings alot more as well but at the same time however as the episode only really has enough plot for this one episode if they did stretch it out to two episodes then they would have been making the plot really weak and really thin and that in the long run would do a huge disservice to both the plot and to the show as a whole and I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it.

So now then as the is some comedy to be found in this episode that means that I gave to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / resented to us in this very episode well ten in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episode some really cute and funny moments. Which is something that I was really surprised by as it would have made sense for them just to focus on the romance aspect of this episode and yet fr all the amount of romance that they give us in this episode they give us these really cute little comedic moments which worked really well in this very episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this was a really fun and a really sweet episode with it being really obvious to see why this episode became such a fan favorite episode as it's an episode that really tug at your heartstrings in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the ad things that are in very episode in this very very review and as such that means that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 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 girl and as well 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 , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being the official My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are featured / up and on the official My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.

My Little Pony: Winter Wishday TV Special Review

 

When you think of the My Little Pony franchise very rarely do you also think of the words Christmas Special. Well that's now what we've just been given since for some strange reason Netflix chose to release this special near the middle of November and not in December and so then join me as I review the special that nobody really asked for or that nobody really needed with the special in question being called simply just "My Little Pony: Winter Wishday" enjoy.

The plot of this special is Sunny wants to spend the holidays with her friends but her friends all have other plans and so then the friends all decide to do everything together. 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 at best since it was a very cute story but it also had no stakes either which is what a goo story should always have in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this special is of course Jenna Warren as Sunny Starscout and Turning Red star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Zipp Storm. Also starring in this special is JJ Gerber as Hitch Trailblazer , My Little Pony: Pony Life star Ana Sani as Izzy Moonbow , AJ Bridel as Pipp Petals , Rob Tinkler as Sparky Sparkeroni , Elley Ray Hennessy as Grandma Figgy , Amanda Martinez as Queen Haven and Andrew Jackson as Alphabittle Blossomforth.

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 about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. With all of this specials cast turning in OK performances however what lets the acting down is the script which gives this specials cast absolutely nothing to work with interms of their characters and their characters personalities apart from the mane five characters that is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Try as I might but I cannot find out who did the actual animation for this special which is a good thing considering what i'm about to say. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation 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 animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty pretty bad with this special looking very nice but all of the characters just look dead on the inside in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

What really made me confused because they never explain why they changed this in the special but they already had there own version of Christmas called Hearth's Warming. So it makes no sense as to why they suddenly created Winter Wishday since both holidays have the exact same purpose and so I have to wonder why they replaced Hearth's Warming with this cheap knock off since it just seems like some really lazy screenwriting to me in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

While this special is sure to please little kids there's nothing really to this special since it's just the same old thing that you could find in literally any other Christmas special. This is a huge red flag for me personally since this franchise has always tried out new things and while yes it has relayed on tried and true story beats in the past those are in the minority and are not the majority and so it's sad to ee the franchise in this state in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

You could just straight up predict that the plane that the friends travel in is going to be a toy even tho narratively it doesn't make sense since more then half of them can fly anyways. Which just made the inclusion of this plane seem even more like obvious product placement since like I said it doesn't make narrative sense for this plane to be there and so I think that the makers of this special should have den a better job of explaining why the friends needs to use this plane 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 thirteen seconds. Which for a kids animated Christmas TV special is a tad bit on the long side since those kids of specials are usually no longer then thirty minuets which would have suited this special alot better since this special doesn't really have alot there interms of either plot or story in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

So now then sine this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy 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 comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. With Izzy once again getting alot of this specials best jokes which is a shame because then all that we are left with is some pretty jokes being told by characters that just really aren't that funny in the first place in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this special is perfectly harmless for it's little kid auidence that doesn't make it a good special since even this specials songs are pretty bad and for a musical comedy that's a pretty bad thing indeed 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 review and as such that means that this very special erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 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 Generation Five fandom wiki page , the official My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the actual images that are actually from this actual freaking episode being the official My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom wiki page this is simply because the official My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom wiki page actually has a wide varitity of images from this actual freaking episode all of which are currently featured / up and on the official My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom wiki page right now / as we speak and plus all of the images that are currently featured / up and on the official My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in freaking definition.

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.

My First Impressions Of My Little Pony: Pony Life

Well then here is something that I wasn't expecting to be doing for a little while but imagine my surprise when I was checking the internet a few hours ago and I found two full episodes of My Little Pony: Pony Life. I was honestly not expecting to see any episodes of this show until at least September but apparently the show has been airing on Treehouse TV and those two episodes found there way online and so here are my first impressions of "My Little Pony: Pony Life" enjoy guys and girls.

From what I can gather this show is taking the same approach as Teen Titans Go! and by that I mean it has no real plot and just follows the main characters in a slice of life type of show. This really isn't a bad direction for the franchise since we've just had nine seasons of a show that had alot of plot and so to see one that's seems to be light on plot is oddly refreshing to see and one that while it was shocking at first it was also something that I got used to pretty quickly.

All of the actors are reprising their roles from Friendship Is Magic which again made this show feel like Teen Titans Go to me since they did the exact same thing. From what I can tell just based of these first two episodes the acting does seem to be pretty good but i'd need to see more episodes to fully judge it and i'll get into why soon but yeah just based of these two episodes the acting in the series seems to be pretty good.

The reason why I can't fully judge the acting is because each eleven minuets episode is split into two five minuet segments which doesn't really leave alot of time to fully judge the acting since your focused on things like the plot and humour. This is something that I can see effecting the rest of the show as well but only time will tell if it does effect the rest of the show or not and because the show is cut down alot it does mean that the actors don't get the chance to leave an impression on you.

The animation for this series is being done by Boulder Media who did the animation for the first season of The Amazing World of Gumball and the reboot of Danger Mouse. If your a fan of Gumball then chances are your going to like the animation in this series since like I said it's by the same studio and while the animation does indeed look good I personally prefer the animation in Friendship Is Magic just because it looked more like a fantasy show then this one does.

One of the things that I don't really like about this series is the backgrounds more specifically the backgrounds in Ponyville. Simply because those backgrounds just look unfinished and uninspired and since this is meant to be set in the same continuity as Friendship is Magic which had good looking backgrounds for this show to use those locations and give them terrible backgrounds just doesn't work well at all.

Now I keep on mentioning Teen Titans Go and that's because Pony Life honestly reminds me so much of that show. Even down to redesigning the characters and giving them more chibi / cutesy designs which I honestly didn't mind yes the new designs will take some getting used to but once you get used to designs hopefully you guys will like them but if not then that's cool as well but for me these new designs look good.

I really cannot say if all of the characters are acting in character here since like I said there's only two episodes released. From what I have seen tho they do seem to be acting in character but only time will tell if that remains true or not I hope it is because if not then I can see this show getting alot of hate from both Pony and non Pony fans alike but if they do then I can see a little less hate coming this shows way.

There is some connective tissue between episodes one and two which is something that I really wasn't expecting from this show whatsoever but it's something that i'm glad was there. Just because I like it when shows continue a plot line started in another episode i'm not going to say what it is but if you've seen the episodes then you'll know what it is and I hope that they keep bringing this plot line back just because it has potential to be really funny.

This is a harmless show and isn't as bad as say Thundercats Roar can be but at the same time given the new direction of the show I can see people going into the show assuming the worst.Which I personally don't think you should do just because if you do that then your going to be looking for things to hate about the show so i'd suggest going into this show with an open mind and be willing to give this show a fair chance.

Like both Teen Titans Go and Thundercats Roar this show seems to have a focus on comedy and that does mean that I have to talk about the jokes in these two episodes. Which without giving anything away I didn't like that much just because they go for the really obvious joke alot of the time which just isn't funny but then again what I didn't find funny you guys might fund to be funny as hell so take that whatever way you want.

Overall so far this show is just OK which I guess works to it's advantage since alot of shows that take the same approach as this one turn out pretty bad. However at the same time this is coming of a show that alot of people myself included loved and so to see a huge decline in quality is going to come as a bit of a shock to people but I will say that if your interested then check out in but if not your not missing out on anything special and since this show has only just started i'm not going to give this show a rating since it could get better or worse as the show goes on and there might be a review coming I just don't know when that will be. 

All images used in this post where gathered from both the My Little Pony fandom wiki page and the Teen Titans Go fandom page if you you want really high quality images I recommend either one of these pages. I would try and make a joke about using these fandom pages to get the images but I honestly cannot think of any and so im sorry but your getting the slandered message saying where they come from instead of one that's fun and hopefully funny.