My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls is an American- Canadian animated film by Jayson Thiessen from the year 2013, which was created by DHX Media and Hasbro Studios. It is based on the toy line by Hasbro and My Little Pony is a spin -off of the animated series My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic. The premiere of the film took place in the U.S. on 15 June 2013, the Los Angeles Film Festival, from 16 June, he was also shown in the cinemas. The German Original Air Date on August 3 2013 the television channel Nickelodeon.
Action
The plot of the film starts after the end of the third season of My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic, in which it is the unicorn Twilight Sparkle, who lives as a magic student under Princess Celestia in the town of Ponyville in Equestria, succeeded to a Alihorn, a winged unicorn, to become. For this she was recently crowned princess and now occurs, accompanied by her assistant, the baby dragon Spike, and her friends Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity as her first official act, on a journey into the crystal kingdom. During the night, however, is its crown, which includes an element of harmony, a powerful magical artifact, stolen by an unknown unicorn and replaced by a replica. Although Twilight noticed the theft, but can not prevent the thief escapes with the Crown through a magical portal.
Princess Celestia can identify the thief as her former student Sunset Shimmer, which she left many years ago. Her sister, Princess Luna, makes it clear that the portal through which they escaped into another world and only every 30 moons for a short time opens us will close in three days. Celestia insists that Twilight alone go through the portal in order to start looking for her crown, but Spike follows her. On the other side of the portal to Twilight takes place in a human transformed in the human atrium in a high school world again, while Spike is a talking dog. After initial difficulties to find their way in their new bodies, both begin to look at the school for the crown. You notice here is that the place indeed differs significantly from their home, but many ponies have you known a human equivalent at the school. Your friends are there students and the Princesses Celestia and Luna the headmistress and her deputy. Sunset Shimmer has her crown, meanwhile, when passing through the portal lost us was on the crown, with the use made by students of the school princess held shortly autumn ball is to be crowned, why Twilight decides to run against Sunset Shimmer for this position. However, it notes with this is that her friends are not friends from Ponyville in this world together.
While Twilight trying to find out more about the world in which they landed, Sunset Shimmer Snips and Snails sends out, two students who work for them to humiliate Twilight publicly and so are their chances, Princess of autumn ball, destroy to make. Meanwhile, Twilight takes place in a school yearbook, a picture that shows her girlfriends together, and concludes that these were once friends. The next morning, Twilight finds out that her friends only therefore no longer together because Sunset Shimmer has spread misunderstandings between them, so that these important dates missed from each other. It succeeds Twilight educate the misunderstanding and to bring their girlfriends together again, that promise to help her with her candidacy for the Ball Princess. She also wins the friendship of Flash Sentry, Sunset Shimmers former friend. Together they can win the majority of pupils, despite the spread of Snips and Snails humiliation. An attempt Sunset Shimmers, Twilight unlock the autumn ball by them to incite Snips and Snails to devastate the ballroom and Twilight to blame in the shoes, fails because Flash Sentry can debunk the custom built by Snips and Snails evidence photos as fakes.
To prevent that, is postponed because of the damage done by Snips and Snails damage the ball on the next day after the portal between Equestria and the human world closes, Twilight confesses her girlfriends their origins and their actual reason, Princess of the ball to be so that they help her prepare the ballroom in time again. The fact that it is accompanied by a talking dog Spike, convinced her friends that this is the truth.
In fact, Twilight Princess is elected to the ball and receives the crown of Celestia, Snips and Snails, however, kidnap Spike to lure the Twilight Portal to Equestria. Sunset Shimmer threatens to destroy them if Twilight does not give her the crown. However, Twilight is not ready to go into this, because it recognizes that Equestria also can survive without them and their element of harmony, this world would be exposed to significant risk, however, if Sunset Shimmer controls the element. This takes Twilight to it and, after a short battle capture the crown. She uses it to accept a demon-like shape and to control all the students of the school telepathically except Twilights girlfriends. With these they planning to attack Equestria. Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity face towards her. Sunset Shimmer tried to use the element of harmony against this, but does not recognize this is that the Elements of Harmony draw their strength from the magic of friendship. Instead of destroying them, equips Sunset Shimmers spell it out with the forces of the elements of harmony. Thus, they succeed in Sunset Shimmers breaking transformation and telepathic control. Beaten looks Sunset Shimmer an error of their actions and ask for forgiveness. Twilight girlfriends offer Sunset Shimmer, to help her with a fresh start in this world, while Twilight her crown returns with Spike after Equestria, immediately before the portal closes.
Production
Equestria Girls was registered on 18 December 2012 by Hasbro as a protected trademark and first presented in KIDSCREEN Magazine in February 2013, at that time, however, even as a television series. Only in an announcement in the New York Times on May 13, 2013 there was talk of a movie of that name. Directed by Jayson Thiessen, the screenplay was written by Meghan McCarthy. Both were in this position already in the television series My Little Pony - Friendship magic operates. The spokesperson from the series were committed for the film.
To the film right Spielzugfiguren appeared as merchandising. In the U.S., the film was first shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival on July 15, 2013, a day later he also appeared in about 200 theaters in the U.S. and Canada. In Germany the film was not running in the cinema, with its premiere took place on August 3, 2013 on Nickelodeon. In October 2013 was released by IDW Publishing, a 48 - page comic that delivers the prequel to the film, as well as a 240 - page novel to the movie called My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Through the Mirror by GM Berrow, which in some scenes, however, of the movie plot deviates.
In February 2014, a sequel, My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks, scheduled for autumn of the same year.
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Reception
Equestria Girls met with mixed criticism. On The AVClub of The Onion Gwen Ihnat gave the film a B grade -. He criticized the fact that some scenes of the film for an adult audience are uninteresting. Daniel Alvarez of Unleash the Fanboy gave the film four out of five stars and concluded that acts indeed forced the romance, but the bad outweigh the good points and the plot. Luke Y. Thompson of Topless Robot, however, rated the film negative. He misses clever concepts as well as an improvement of the animation compared to the television series, as in The Simpsons - The Movie occurred. Nick Hamden Iowa State Daily gives the film three out of five, praising the moral of the film and that he has not merely one-dimensional antagonist, criticized, however, that it is the primary goal of the film, to promote a new toy line by Hasbro.