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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls

  • 20132013
  • TV-YTV-Y
  • 1h 12m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
5.3K
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)
Join Twilight Sparkle on her adventure to rescue the stolen crown from the Crystal Empire as she pursues the thief into an alternate world where she transforms into a teenage girl who must survive her biggest challenge yetÂ…high school!
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Via a magic mirror, Twilight Sparkle travels into an alternate universe in order to recover a crown that was stolen from the Crystal Empire. Upon her arrival she is horrified to learn that s... Read allVia a magic mirror, Twilight Sparkle travels into an alternate universe in order to recover a crown that was stolen from the Crystal Empire. Upon her arrival she is horrified to learn that she has turned into a human.Via a magic mirror, Twilight Sparkle travels into an alternate universe in order to recover a crown that was stolen from the Crystal Empire. Upon her arrival she is horrified to learn that she has turned into a human.
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
5.3K
YOUR RATING
  • Directors
    • Jayson Thiessen
    • Noelle Benvenuti
  • Writers
    • Meghan McCarthy
    • Lauren Faust(television series: "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic")
    • Bonnie Zacherle(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Tara Strong(voice)
    • Ashleigh Ball(voice)
    • Andrea Libman(voice)
Top credits
  • Directors
    • Jayson Thiessen
    • Noelle Benvenuti
  • Writers
    • Meghan McCarthy
    • Lauren Faust(television series: "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic")
    • Bonnie Zacherle(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Tara Strong(voice)
    • Ashleigh Ball(voice)
    • Andrea Libman(voice)
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 98User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 2 nominations

    Videos1

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    Trailer 1:09
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    Photos100

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    My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)
    Tara Strong, Tabitha St. Germain, Andrea Libman, Ashleigh Ball, and Vincent Tong in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)
    Tara Strong and Cathy Weseluck in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)
    Tara Strong in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)
    Ashleigh Ball in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)
    Andrea Libman in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)
    Ashleigh Ball in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)
    Patrícia Abravanel in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)
    My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)
    My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)

    Top cast

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    Tara Strong
    Tara Strong
    • Twilight Sparkle
    • (voice)
    Ashleigh Ball
    Ashleigh Ball
    • Applejack
    • (voice)
    • …
    Andrea Libman
    Andrea Libman
    • Pinkie Pie
    • (voice)
    • …
    Tabitha St. Germain
    Tabitha St. Germain
    • Rarity
    • (voice)
    • …
    Cathy Weseluck
    Cathy Weseluck
    • Spike
    • (voice)
    Rebecca Shoichet
    Rebecca Shoichet
    • Sunset Shimmer
    • (voice)
    • …
    Lee Tockar
    Lee Tockar
    • Snips
    • (voice)
    Richard Ian Cox
    Richard Ian Cox
    • Snails
    • (voice)
    Nicole Oliver
    Nicole Oliver
    • Princess Celestia
    • (voice)
    • …
    Vincent Tong
    Vincent Tong
    • Flash Sentry
    • (voice)
    Britt McKillip
    Britt McKillip
    • Princess Cadance
    • (voice)
    Shannon Chan-Kent
    Shannon Chan-Kent
    • Pinkie Pie
    • (singing voice)
    Kazumi Evans
    • Rarity
    • (singing voice)
    Kathleen Barr
    Kathleen Barr
    • Trixie Lulamoon
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Claire Margaret Corlett
    Claire Margaret Corlett
    • Sweetie Belle
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Michelle Creber
    Michelle Creber
    • Apple Bloom
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Peter New
    Peter New
    • Big Macintosh
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Madeleine Peters
    • Scootaloo
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Jayson Thiessen
      • Noelle Benvenuti
    • Writers
      • Meghan McCarthy
      • Lauren Faust(television series: "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic")
      • Bonnie Zacherle(uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      When Pinkie Pie uncurls from a ball, the transformation sound from the Transformers 1983 series is heard. Both My Little Pony and Transformers are owned by Hasbro.
    • Goofs
      Vice Principal Luna is confronting Twilight Sparkle about the trashed gymnasium. She goes to a shaded window and uses her finger to bend down one of the slats of the shade making the beam of light hitting her face wider. When she lets go, the slat springs back to its original position yet the beam of light remains as wide as it was when more light was being let through.
    • Quotes

      Trixie: [at the vending machine, Twilight ponders how to get food out of it] Excuse me.

      [bombastically]

      Trixie: The Great and Powerful Trixie!

      [normal tone]

      Trixie: ... needs some peanut butter crackers.

      [she places a coin in, and retrieves the crackers]

      Trixie: Voilà!

    • Crazy credits
      Near the end of the closing credits, a human version of Derpy Hooves (a background pony named by fans of the show) is seen dancing while holding a muffin, and her eyes are derped (pointing in different directions).
    • Connections
      Featured in AniMat's Classic Reviews: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      This Strange World
      Music and lyrics by Daniel Ingram

      Performed by Rebecca Shoichet

    User reviews98

    Review
    Top review
    6/10
    Not Magical. Wasted potential
    For years, fans of the weirdly popular "My Little Pony Friendship is Magic" series have been flooding the Internet with fan art of the main characters in human form. In perhaps the biggest piece of fan service ever, the creators of the original TV series have produced a whole new movie with the very premise of your favorite characters in human form and going to high school. Yes, we all want to see our favorite characters go to high school (or turn human if they aren't already). Greek Legends go to high school in Class of the Titans, Rugrats go to school in All Grown Up,Transformers became humans at one point. Heck there was even a "Gotham High" cartoon series planned which recasts Batman and his villains as high school students..

    Our story follows Twilight Sparkle as she pursues a previously unheard of rival named Sunset Shimmer through a magic portal in order to recover her magic crown that was stolen. Twilight ends up in another world where she is a human, there are human equivalents of every pony she has known in Ponyville and they all go to the same Canterlot High school. Once again the fish out of water, Twilight must start from scratch to try and fit in with this new world and make friends with these familiar characters all over again. Now here comes the stinker. Sunset shimmer has apparently been manipulating students against each other through social media. an embarrassing youtube video, photoshopped pictures and anonymous text messages are enough to break up a group of girls who have been best of friends since grade school. So Twilight would help to mend friendships that were torn because the most gullible girls in the world believed some fake phone messages over actually talking to each other and ascertaining the truth. Heck even the vice principle is fooled by some badly photocropped (as in physically cut and paste) pictures. Is this the most gullible school or what. fine. Now we have the big prom, which is one huge popularity contest. instead of showing twilight winning over the hearts and minds of her school mates through her honesty, sincerity and helpfulness, she wins them over through the magic of song and dance.

    Yes, the synopsis sure does sound shallow. Alas, the movie itself is shallow and that is its main sin here. But before harping on that, one must acknowledge how true to the original series this movie is. Other than cosmetic changes, all your favorite characters are exactly the same as they were when they were ponies. Fluttershy is still the little shrinking violet with an obsession for cute little animals, Applejack is still the country bumpkin, Rarity still the glamor queen, Pinky Pie still the wacko psycho and Rainbow Dash the tomboy sporty one. Their new designs as human beings take bit of getting used to with the whole quasi-Japanese-anime look with their oversized heads, tiny bodies and weird skin colour (including purple, green, pale blue etc) but once you do, they do have a certain adorable quality to them. The animation is smooth and surprisingly good considering it was animated in adobe flash. This pushes the envelope on what can be done with the over-the-counter animation software.

    Now compliments aside, Equestria girls is still a disappointment because it has so much wasted potential. When twilight first steps into high school, her culture shock and the montage that accompanies the inner monologue song she sings seems to paint the premise as a clever metaphor for growing up and transitioning from the magical innocence of early years (ala ponyville where all kinds of wonders exist) to the harsher reality of school politics, competition and boy/girl relationships. That is never developed any further. Also as mentioned before, the story has many lessons to teach but glosses over them in the short 70 odd minutes run time. Trivial lessons at that. If you realise, all she did was bring the 5 main friends back together by showing them how stupid they've been in believing anonymous text messages instead of talking things out like sensible people. Or how Twilight won over Rainbow Dash by stroking her ego and losing in a soccer game.

    A much greater impact would be felt if the main 5 friends were never friends to begin with and Twilight helped bring them together despite their differences (this is hinted in one of the songs where it speaks about how twilight sparkle helped them look deeper and find the qualities that united them instead of those that separated them). If it were not for the top notch voice acting, the characters would come across as bland and just, once again, shallow.

    Thus, wasted potential all around. we get good animation likable characters who are easy to relate to, and catchy tunes by composer Daniel Ingram which hardens back to the best of Disney animated musicals but that's about it. the movie had so much potential yet ended up trivializing many potentially deep themes on growing up, making friends and settling differences. With an all new premise the creators do nothing new with the story.Here we have an opportunity to do something different, to take the franchise one step further. Sadly there is nothing other than the premise to justify a full length feature film. Other movies based on ongoing TV series feature pivotal moments in a character's journey or a irreversible change to the status quo of that show. Nothing changes here. If not for the fact that the ponies are now human, the story would serve well enough as a 3 episode arc in the TV series
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    • Jul 4, 2013

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    • Release date
      • June 15, 2016 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Canada
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Hasbro [United States]
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Pony Bé Nhỏ: Những Cô Gái Equestria
    • Production companies
      • Everyone Can Eat
      • Everyone that sent photos of their Fallen Loved Ones
      • GH Pictures
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $485,232
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 12 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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