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A Brony Tale

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 19m
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
852
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Ashleigh Ball and Donald Rhoades in A Brony Tale (2014)
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Documentary

As voice actor Ashleigh Ball prepares to visit Bronycon, the unusual fandom of My Little Pony: Les amies c'est magique! (2010) is explored.As voice actor Ashleigh Ball prepares to visit Bronycon, the unusual fandom of My Little Pony: Les amies c'est magique! (2010) is explored.As voice actor Ashleigh Ball prepares to visit Bronycon, the unusual fandom of My Little Pony: Les amies c'est magique! (2010) is explored.

  • Director
    • Brent Hodge
  • Writer
    • Brent Hodge
  • Stars
    • Ashleigh Ball
    • David Beckingham
    • Mike Bernstein
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.6/10
    852
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Brent Hodge
    • Writer
      • Brent Hodge
    • Stars
      • Ashleigh Ball
      • David Beckingham
      • Mike Bernstein
    • 14User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

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    A Brony Tale
    Trailer 2:03
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    A Brony Tale: Voice Over Work
    A Brony Tale: Workout Brony
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    A Brony Tale: Pony Rave
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    A Brony Tale: Pony Rave

    Photos6

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    Ashleigh Ball
    Ashleigh Ball
    • Self
    David Beckingham
    • Self
    Mike Bernstein
    • Self
    Phoe Of Equestria Daily
    • Self
    Jordan Downs
    • Self
    Patrick Edwards
    • Self
    Will Edwards
    • Self
    Benjamin Humphrey
    • Self - Interview
    • (as Military Brony)
    Andrea Libman
    Andrea Libman
    • Self
    Meghan McCarthy
    • Self
    Bryan Mischke
    • Self
    Nicole Oliver
    Nicole Oliver
    • Self
    Marsha H. Redden
    • Self
    Donald Rhoades
    • Self
    Shaun Scotellaro
    • Self
    Andy Stein
    Andy Stein
    • Self
    David Vertesi
    • Self
    Kelvin Williams
    • Self
    • Director
      • Brent Hodge
    • Writer
      • Brent Hodge
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    User reviews14

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    5jaxenross

    Quite good

    Being as I'm a brony myself, I went ahead and had a look at this documentary. Managed to endorse the whole thing and best off, it was never boring. I even saw some familiar faces in there! Would be good for the whole family to watch; just has some thematic material so it would've most likely gotten a PG-rating by the MPAA (as the movie's not been given such a rating).

    Like the one Ashleigh Ball said: "As long as My Little Pony exists, there will be Bronies."
    1darkdoomer-163-739368

    Bronies: look at how original I am, I watch a little girl's cartoon!

    Facts to know: I love this cartoon, I love the art community and fanworks around it, being a part of it is really and always a great experience. but then there's bigmouthes with an ego the size of the moon who want to make the fandom a part of their lives, and take everything about it seriously.

    That's not the state of mind of MLPFIM's philosophy to begin with, and from what I watched, it's like the brony doc : awkward teenagers dancing and bragging about their "redefining masculinity" bullshit.

    This is so awkward, one must have courage to still look at a little pony after watching this.

    I'm sorry Ashleigh.
    6redlineamerican

    A well made doc that doesn't tell the full story

    Bronies are weird. Mostly. I found some of their stories interesting, particularly the military guy and the "manly" guy, but other than that the rest are guys in rainbow wigs. On top of that, the fandom is noted online for their creation of hardcore pornography based around the show. That's not touched on at all in the film. The film serves more as a biopic about Ashleigh Ball, and to that it does its job. But it's not a tale about bronies... not as they are in reality.
    10devamkylie

    Pretty Good

    Pretty good doc about a quirky group. I liked it well enough, am only giving it 10/10 because it was way better than the rating it has right now.
    1titus227

    Awful, Awful Documentary

    The title of this film should have been, Ashleigh Ball: Attention Whore and other losers. It seems like the only people that they interviewed for the Bronies were socially inept, in other words, losers. They interviewed a "tough" mechanic and a man from the army in order to show how tough the fans are, however, both men seemed to ill-fit in a 'normal' crowd and both confessed, through their criticisms of what society expects from a boy, that they envy women and even wish they were women. Most of this I found mildly compelling. The interest ended there.

    Most of the scenes in this film are of Ashleigh Ball, a voice actress who voices two of the Ponies in the My little Pony Cartoon. She bursts onto the scene, parading herself in various outfits and plugging her band. She talks about herself extensively and pretends that she thinks the Bronies are weirdos and that she thinks the interest in the show is bizarre, however, due to her poor acting ability, it is overwhelmingly obvious that this is her dream come true. She sees herself as the star of the show even tho all she does is provide the voice of two characters. She is not involved in the writing, or anything else to do with the production of the show, but she seems to feel like the most important person in the room whenever Bronies are mentioned and she reads about her characters and watches video and looks at fan made pictures for hours to feed her inner narcissism. If anything, this was a documentary about how entitled, connected and privileged Ashleigh Ball is.

    I was interested to hear what the psychologists had to say until I realized that they were far from objective. Their own son is a Brony. Terrible work, No focus, hard to watch.

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    • Trivia
      The film was self funded by Hodgee Films.
    • Goofs
      At one point in the film, Mike Bernstein says that the fandom started on 4chan's "/b/" (random) board. While it is true that the fandom did get its start on 4chan, and started to pick up steam on "/b/", the show first started getting noticed on "/co/" (cartoons and comics). Additionally Mike says that the word "brony" comes from "/b/ + pony", when really, this is not entirely true, either. Contrary to what Mike says, "brony" is widely accepted as having come from "bro + pony".
    • Quotes

      Ashleigh Ball: As long as My Little Pony exists there will be Bronies.

    • Crazy credits
      No Ponies or Rainbows Were Hurt During The Production Of This Film
    • Connections
      Features Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island! (2005)
    • Soundtracks
      Big Blue Wave
      by Hey Ocean!

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    • Release date
      • July 8, 2014 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Canada
      • United States
      • New Zealand
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Brony
    • Filming locations
      • Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production company
      • Hodgee Films [ca]
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    • Budget
      • $100,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 19 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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