Given the relatively simple nature of the drawings, you could probably watch this on your phone and not lose much visual detail, if any. And for a TV cartoon turned movie (think of how Simpsons did it, or Beavis and Butt-head), there was no extra expenditure to make things look better on the big screen. Whatever clever concepts the show may have – and I cannot claim to be especially familiar with it – the movie does not do very much with (there is a funny parody of political attack ads, but that’s about it). But when it comes to Bronies, the adult male fans of the cartoon who insist it’s a well-written show…I predict there may be some gnashing of teeth. Considering the zeal with which the little-girl audience responded to the film’s musical numbers with well-prompted clapping led by festival volunteers, I suspect the official target audience won’t mind too much. When the lights came up at the end of the world premiere of My Little Pony Equestria Girls, following a brief in-credits easter egg for fans, my screening companion (whom regular commenters will know as Kyle “SlyDante” LeClair) turned to me and said, “On behalf of all Friendship is Magic fans, I would like to apologize to you for the preceding movie” (this was what he meant by taking a bullet yesterday).

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