@Mike
Well At least the Emoji Movie doesn’t have 7 season of a beloved TV show resting on its shoulder. If it fails, its just a missed shot, if the MLP movie fails as it did for me. It makes me wonder what the hell happened.
I went in with 0 expectation for the MLP movie after watching the trailer, because the trailer was so predictable. I didn’t even needed to watch the movie. Structurally the story is the same. You have a hero going from set pieces to set pieces and the focus is put on where they are instead of the character and the story.
And not only did I knew from the trailer how it was going to go, Mane 6 drop down, explore the world, come back with help and win, but it even managed to surprise me with even dumber thing. Like the whole useless Twilight splitting from her friends for 5 minute max. Having Twilight go out of character just so that “Plot” point happen.
Honestly. After watching this Movie. I rushed to watch the rest of season 7 because it legit made me question why I even like MLP and I was happy that Season 7’s end of season showed me why. Because I could have honestly drop it because of the very blend uninspired story that the movie gave me. Not only was it a boring story but it also made no sense without counting that once again Celestia and Luna were useless. Discord was for some reason not there, same for Starlight… The movie is in my opinion a train wreck that fails to do a compelling story with what the show brought to the table. Even with 0 expectation I ended up being disappointed.
The songs were meh, every moment that the Mane 6 were in trouble was forced because of Main characters being stupid. I love Cia and the song that they used from her. I had to listen to it at least 5 time to even understand what the lyrics were. The only redeeming quality the movie has is visuals.
I can go into further detail.