My Little Pony: Equestria Girls

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Movie
German title My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
Original title My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
Country of production United States , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 73 minutes
Age rating FSK / JMK 0
Rod
Director Jayson Thiessen
script Meghan McCarthy
production Sarah Wall
Devon Cody
music William Anderson
Daniel Ingram
cut Mark Kuehnel
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic

Successor  →
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls is an American - Canadian animated film directed by Jayson Thiessen from 2013 and produced by DHX Media and Hasbro Studios . It is based on the toy line My Little Pony by Hasbro and is a spin-off of the animated series My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic . The premiere of the film took place in the USA on June 15, 2013 at the Los Angeles Film Festival , from June 16 it was also shown in cinemas. The German-language first broadcast took place on August 3, 2013 on the television station Nickelodeon .

action

The plot of the film begins after the end of the third season of My Little Pony , in which the unicorn Twilight Sparkle, who lives as a magic student under Princess Celestia in the town of Ponyville in Equestria, managed to become an alihorn, a winged unicorn, to become. For this she was recently crowned princess and now, accompanied by her assistant, the baby dragon Spike, and her friends Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity, her first official act is a journey to the Crystal Kingdom . At night, however, her crown , which contains an element of harmony , a powerful magical artifact, is stolen by an unknown unicorn and replaced with a replica. Twilight notices the theft, but cannot prevent the thief with the crown from escaping through a magical portal.

Princess Celestia can identify the thief as her former student Sunset Shimmer, who she left many years ago. Her sister, Princess Luna, makes it clear that the portal she escaped through leads to another world and only opens for a short time every 30 moons and will close in three days. Celestia insists that Twilight enter the portal alone to begin the search for her crown, but Spike follows her. On the other side of the portal is Twilight takes place in a man of the people in the court of turned into the world high school again, while Spike to a talking dog is. After initial difficulties in finding their way around their new bodies, both start looking for the crown in school. They find out that the place differs significantly from their homeland, but that many of the ponies they know have a human equivalent at the school. Her friends are students there and the princesses Celestia and Luna are the headmistress and their deputy. Sunset Shimmer, meanwhile, has lost her crown while traversing the portal and it has become the crown with which to crown the princess chosen by the students of the school for the upcoming fall ball, which is why Twilight decides to run against Sunset Shimmer for that position. However, she realizes that her friends from Ponyville are not friends in this world.

While Twilight tries to find out more about the world she ended up in, Sunset Shimmer sends out Snips and Snails, two students who work for her to publicly humiliate Twilight and ruin her chances of becoming the Princess of the Fall Ball . Meanwhile, Twilight finds a picture in a school yearbook showing her friends together and concludes that they used to be friends. The next morning, Twilight finds out that the only reason their friends are no longer together is because Sunset Shimmer spread misunderstandings between them and they missed important dates from each other. Twilight manages to clear up the misunderstandings and bring her friends back together, who promise to help her with her candidacy for the ball princess. She also becomes friends with Flash Sentry, Sunset Shimmer's former friend. Together they can win over the majority of the students despite the humiliations spread by Snips and Snails. An attempt by Sunset Shimmers to exclude Twilight from the Fall Ball by inciting Snips and Snails to devastate the ballroom and blaming Twilight fails because Flash Sentry is able to expose the evidence photos taken by Snips and Snails as fakes.

In order to prevent the ball from being postponed until the next day because of the damage caused by Snips and Snails, after the portal between Equestria and the human world closes, Twilight admits to her friends her origin and her real reason, Princess of the Ball so that they help her get the ballroom back in good time. The fact that she is accompanied by the talking dog Spike convinces her friends that this is the truth.

In fact, Twilight is chosen as the Princess of the Ball and receives the crown from Celestia, but Snips and Snails kidnap Spike to lure Twilight to the portal in Equestria. Sunset Shimmer threatens to destroy it if Twilight doesn't hand over the crown to her. However, Twilight is unwilling to enter into this, realizing that Equestria can survive without her and her Element of Harmony, but that this world would be in considerable danger if Sunset Shimmer controlled the Element. This attacks Twilight and after a short fight can capture the crown. She uses it to take on a demonic form and telepathically control all the students in the school except Twilight's friends. With these she plans to attack Equestria. Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity face her. Sunset Shimmer tries to use the element of harmony against them, but does not recognize that the elements of harmony draw their strength from the magic of friendship . Instead of destroying them, Sunset Shimmers magic equips them with the powers of the elements of harmony. With this they manage to break Sunset Shimmer's transformation and telepathic control. Defeated, Sunset Shimmer sees the mistakes of her actions and asks for forgiveness. Twilight's friends offer Sunset Shimmer to help her start over in this world, while Twilight and Spike bring her crown back to Equestria just before the portal closes.

production

Equestria Girls was registered as a registered trademark by Hasbro on December 18, 2012 and was first featured in Kidscreen Magazine in February 2013, but was still a TV series at the time. Only in an announcement in the New York Times on May 13, 2013 was there talk of a film with this name. Directed by Jayson Thiessen, the script was written by Meghan McCarthy. Both were already in this position in the TV series My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic . The speakers from the series were also hired for the film.

Matching toy figures appeared as merchandising for the film . In the USA, the film was shown for the first time at the Los Angeles Film Festival on July 15, 2013, and one day later it also appeared in around 200 cinemas in the USA and Canada. The film did not go to cinemas in Germany; it premiered on August 3, 2013 on Nickelodeon. In October 2013 IDW Publishing published a 48-page comic that provides the background to the film, as well as a 240-page novel for the film called My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Through the Mirror by GM Berrow, which, however, was based on the Film plot differs.

On September 27, 2014, the sequel to this film was released under the title My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rainbow Rocks . In it, Twilight returns to the human world to assist her friends there in the fight against the dazzlings, sirens who threaten the school in a competition between bands.

synchronization

Role name Original speaker German speaker
Twilight Sparkle Tara Strong
Rebecca Shoichet (vocals) 		Julia Meynen
Saskia Tanfal (vocals)
Applejack Ashleigh Ball Lydia Morgenstern
Rarity Tabitha St. Germain
Kazumi Evans (vocals) 		Rubina Kuraoka
Fluttershy Andrea Libman Julia Stoepel
Pinkie Pie Andrea Libman
Shannon Chan-Kent (vocals) 		Jennifer Weiß
Magdalena Turba (vocals)
Rainbow Dash Ashleigh Ball Giuliana Jakobeit
Spike Cathy Weseluck Hannes Maurer
Sunset Shimmer Rebecca Shoichet Carmen Katt
Flash Sentry Vincent Tong Jeffrey Wipprecht
Princess / Rector Celestia Nicole Oliver Silvia Missbach
Luna Tabitha St. Germain Heike Schroetter
Snips Lee Tockar Dirk Petrick
Snails Richard Ian Cox Karlo Hackenberger

reception

Equestria Girls received mixed reviews. On The Onion's The AVClub , Gwen Ihnat gave the film a B-. He criticized that some scenes in the film are uninteresting for an adult audience. Daniel Alvarez of Unleash the Fanboy gave the film four out of five stars and concluded that the romance seems forced, but the good points and the plot outweigh the bad. Luke Y. Thompson from Topless Robot, however, rates the film negatively. He misses clever concepts and an improvement in animation compared to the television series, such as appeared in The Simpsons: The Movie . Iowa State Daily’s Nick Hamden gives the film a three out of five, praising the film’s morale and the fact that it has no one-dimensional antagonist, but criticizes that the film’s primary goal is to promote a new Hasbro line of toys.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trademark / Service Mark Application, Principal Register. USPTO TSDR Case Viewer, December 18, 2012, accessed January 9, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Brendan Christie: Hasbro Hits its Stride. (PDF) Kidscreen Magazine, February 22, 2013, p. 34 , accessed January 9, 2014 .
  3. ^ Gregory Schmidt: A New Direction for a Hasbro Stalwart. The New York Times , May 12, 2013, accessed January 9, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Gwen Ihnat: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. The AVClub, June 16, 2013, accessed January 9, 2014 .
  5. ^ Daniel Alvarez: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Review. Unleash the Fanboy, June 16, 2013, accessed January 9, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Luke Y. Thompson: LAFF Review: My Little Pony Equestria Girls. Topless Robot, June 17, 2013, accessed January 9, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Nick Hamden: Movie Review: 'My Little Pony: Equestria Girls'. Iowa State Daily, June 26, 2013, accessed January 9, 2014 .