There is enough of a feel for that era of entertainment that there will be at least some measure of enjoyment to be found for anyone who grew up with shows like this one. So in the end, while I did find some sections of this film to be a chore to sit through, mainly the seemingly unending, pointless songs, it was an entertaining bit of 80’s cartoon nostalgia, even for someone like me who had never seen any of the My Little Pony cartoons growing up. In addition there was also Minnie Mouse herself, Russie Taylor, as well as Danny Devito, Madeline Kahn, Reah Perlman, and a host of other big names in the voice acting community, including Nancy Cartwrite, Scott Menville, and Frank Welker. Number one was Cloris Leachman as the main witch, Hydia, but I also noticed that Spike, the baby dragon was voiced by Charlie Adler, who voiced Buster Bunny, from one of my favorite childhood shows, Tiny Toons.
#The smooze my little pony movie
Putting aside my nitpicks, one thing I did enjoy about this movie was the huge number of recognizable voices it had. I’m not going to spoil any more of the plot for you, but I will say that there’s a fairly good chance that they all live happily ever after. The rest of the ponies go to find the missing baby, and then team up with a band of other magical creatures and three human children to go on a quest to find the Flutter Ponies, who are the land’s only hope for salvation from the Smooze. The driving force of the plot is that one of the baby ponies goes missing at the same time that the land is threatened by the witches and their Smooze. (Mild playful sarcasm) Which is fine, I have no problem with cartoon villains who are evil for the sake of being evil, but the rest of the story needs to hold up, and this one really didn’t. The mother witch is basically your standard movie villain/horrible mother, who manipulates her children with verbal and physical abuse, and is generally a completely heinous person with absolutely no redeeming qualities, because it was the 80’s before nuance had been invented. They spend their days putting on shows and having fun parties, but their idyllic life is threatened by a family of witches who live in a volcano, the matriarch of which hates the Ponies for some reason, and tries to drown them all in a sea of sentient purple slime called Smooze. The basic premise for this film is that the My Little Pony characters all live in harmony in a beautiful castle with adorable woodland creatures. All those movie characteristics that I mentioned as negatives, were pretty much children’s’ entertainment standards for several decades, and for those who grew up with shows and movies like that, this movie is total nostalgia bait. However, for fans of the original My Little Pony toys, or for those looking for a hit of pure 80’s nostalgia, this movie is absolutely perfect. It definitely wasn’t good by today’s standards, it had way too many songs that did not serve the plot at all, most of the dialogue was terribly cliche, and all of the characters felt like standard fantasy kids’ movie character templates, rather than real, relatable characters. Now I will say, right off the bat, that I didn’t love this movie, but I don’t think it was terrible. Like a lot of movies from that era, it had too many songs, weird, over-the-top villains, and annoying, unnecessary audience surrogates, including three human children for some reason. And while parts of it were that, for the most part it was much closer to a stereotypical 80’s animated action adventure movie, which kind of surprised me. I think the main thing I was expecting with this one was a candy colored journey through a land specifically designed to appeal to the marketing standards for what a little girl should want to play with. Most cartoons were marketing vehicles design to sell a line of toys, and this was no different. This movie was straight up strange, but like, you can probably say that about most entertainment of that era. Like I said before, I had no idea what to expect going into this, but whatever it was, I don’t think it was this. So, with all that being said, let’s get into them. I am not biased for or against it, and I had no idea what to expect going into either of these movies. I say all this so you know going into these reviews, that I am coming at this from the point of view of a mostly total outsider to the franchise.
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