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I must say, visually it's impressive, a good mix of 2d and 3d, that's a good technique in this case, they did a huge effort in redesigning the ponies in a more smooth and cute aspect, sure it's not the level of a movie by Hayao Miyazaki, and it's far from anything René Laloux could have created.

Now for the scenario I haven't found anything comparable to Francois Truffaut, or Woody Allen's movie, barely a small reference to Tarantino's works and maybe a small, very small Tati influence.

But again it's not at the height of the 1986 movie, a very, very underrated little masterpiece of animation actually, for a long fantasy drama and action cartoon featuring Danny De Vito. You know, "for girls" despite the character design that would repeal any brony, it's excellent to compare both iterations both separated by over thirty years.

The 2017 is not even close to the magic and cuteness, and the actual fun one could re-watch now and realize, with a strange nostalgia about how things have changed. How political correctness changed the discourse and many ways to write roles for characters like this.

The music is absolutely unbearable, and pointless as the ponies tries to dance and party as their country is being annihilated, but obviously helped it reach 1:30 of screen time, I guess. Sia was a terrible choice for this job.

Although the series is very good, and for a long times tried to break with the codes of modern cartoons, with interesting character development instead of bland feminism for kids (some will get what I mean here) this is regrettable that we cannot qualify the pony movie of 2017 with such terms.

I'm going to be indulgent and double my initial score anyways.

I'm usually following the development and things related to this franchise, with all the respect for the cute and sometimes edgy aspects of the TV series, but from what i've seen here, it is not at the height of even the worst episode of the series.

"let's take .fla assets from LPS, take a few minutes to arrange some scenes with ponies... then let's stitch all those sequences together so it fits a whole hour"!

Just like the first, it's commercial, devoid of actual fun, devoid of visual interest, no effort in narrating a coherent story. Why is it even called Rainbow Rocks? It's a try hard from a toymaker to make something around a franchise they want to annihilate. There is one word i think which describes best this cartoon : Uncanny.

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.