Review of My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021) by Amaris — 14 Oct 2021

WARNING: There may be spoilers for anyone who hasn’t seen the movie and wishes to discuss it.

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Firstly, I love the animation style. This is brought to us by Boulder Media Ltd., an animation house in Dublin, Ireland. The look and feel of the film is top notch. It seems Hasbro has gone all out to give us a really fun, engaging story with all of the proper touches we want in a fantasy film about magical ponies.

Sunny Starscout, our earth pony protagonist.

Izzy Moonbow, our unicorn friend.

Hitch Trailblazer, the Sheriff of Maretime Bay, the earth pony settlement.

Pipp Petals, a pegasus princess of Zephyr Heights, the pegasus city, and social media influencer.

Zipp Storm, the second princess of Zephyr Heights who would much rather be flying.

There are plenty of other characters we get to meet, but these 5 are how we start our journey, and I just feel they meshed so well together. Watching them, I kind of felt they all exhibited some of the traits of the original Mane 6 from MLP: FIM. For example, Sunny has the questioning curiosity of Twilight, along with Applejack’s honesty, Izzy is very much pronkish and random like Pinkie Pie, Hitch has Fluttershy’s ability to soothe animals who fall in love with him, Pipp is Rarity’s fashion and socialite status on fleek, and Zipp definitely possesses Rainbow Dash’s competitive, stubborn nature.

I mean, they may not have meant it that way, but I picked up on it. The locations were neat, I like how Maretime Bay was laid back and rural, Zephyr Heights was modern and technologically advanced, and Bridlewood was mystical and quiet. Each one seemed to fit the personalities of its ponies.

I like how some of what I expected to happen didn’t happen, I love the self-awareness of some of the ponies, and even the movie itself pokes at some tropes, the music was terrific, with Izzy’s song “Fit Right” being my favorite of them all.

I think this film is a great start to what I hope is a wonderful series (slated to start October of 2022), and I am so willing to see where they go with this generation.

Also, lots of crying moments, anyone else see it and have crying moments? Wistful moments? Just me? Yeah, well done on the part of everyone: the voice actors, the writers, the animators, everyone involved did a bang up job, IMO.