Talk:My Little Pony The Movie/@comment-33425320-20180304194639/@comment-31973912-20180907130006

I wouldn't call it terrible, but it wasn't quite to my taste. There were obviously a lot of talented people involved, and many parts of the story look and work great.

But I agree that the tone was a definite shift away from what we've seen with MLP on the TV show... maybe toward a more "Disney" flavor, if that makes sense. We had the wisecracking cool-cat character in the shady slumtown, we had the hyper seapony princess defying her mom, we had a main villain who was making self-aware asides (think of Hades in the Disney "Hercules" movie), even a popstar cameo as a guest character who shows up to sing once. They're all valid characters in any Disney movie, but they don't fit so well in MLP. The bird pirates were great, though--once you get past the question of why birds would need an airship, that is.

Not that the actors didn't do a great job! They made all the new characters come alive in a memorable way. But it still felt more like a generic Disney movie to me. Good stuff, and very well made, but not one of my favorites.