![]() In the interest of comparing unlike films: this is kind of like Edward Scissorhands in that it shows that people (or, in this case, ponies) are horrible. ![]() Speaking of Hydia: what's up with her? She has really no concern for her daughters' safety-they're nearly killed several times in this movie, and no one makes any mention of it. Hydia's song at the beginning, encouraging her daughters to be evil witches like the rest of the family is actually kind of fun. They don't inspire me to purchase a soundtrack or anything. The songs aren't great, but they're acceptable. ![]() I think we've mostly gotten away from that lately, but this film is from 1986, so we're stuck with it. But that's not the worst part: the worst sin is that the voices of the characters are mostly the sort of weird inhuman voices that were so common in cartoons a couple of decades ago. ![]() There are times when the animation indicates a character should be saying something with a lot of emotion and force, but the voice actors didn't seem to get the message. But there are quite a few things that just don't work. The animation is mostly reasonably competent, too. Well, the plot's far from complicated, but that's okay for a children's movie. They're some of the good guys in this story. The Grundles are kind of ugly-cute, I guess. Once they succeed, various ponies (and a few humans) go through some troubles seeking help, and they ultimately succeed in driving off the Smooze. The next part of the film is taken up by Hydia and her two incompetent daughters attenmpting to create the Smooze to cover up Dream Valley. Then we are shown that Hydia is not at all pleased by all the cheeriness. My Little Pony: The Movie opens with a fairly Disney-esque scene with some animals playing around in the receding snow, followed by the preparations for the spring festival. Well, I'll say it now: this movie did not live up to my (fairly low) expectations. If, I thought, the new series was so good, surely the older entries in the franchise couldn't be too bad, either. I watched this movie because I had been so pleasantly surprised by the quality of the recent series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. If this is what's going on in Dream Valley, you can understand Hydia's point of view. Nonfiction Monday: Doyle and Fossey, Science Detec.My Little Pony: The Movie tells how the with Hydia creates a monstrous purple ooze called the Smooze, and uses it to attack Dream Valley, where the little ponies live.Curious George Exhibit at The Jewish Museum in NYC.When I read it as a kid, the most distinct memory I have is a vague sense of unease, but when I picked it up to reread it, I couldn't pinpoint exactly what had made me so nervous about it. The other book I want to talk about today is a little harder to explain. (This plot should be a post-apocalyptic YA novel. Now that I think about it, it reminds me of the purple smooze from the My Little Pony Movie. I'm feeling suffocated just thinking about it! And pretty soon everyone's all stuck to everything else and no one can move. Tell me they're not creepy, marching around their cauldron in the bowels of some creepy dungeon place.Īnd then there's the oobleck itself! I understand that the king didn't mean to do so much harm, but it's so green! And sticky! And it starts off tiny and then grows and grows and GROWS. He wants some new, interesting weather.Įnter the first scary thing about this book: the king's magicians. Oh, the book starts out peacefully enough. What? You want to know what scared me about this book? I think the better question is what DIDN'T scare me about this book!
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