My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (film)

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJayson Thiessen
Written byMeghan McCarthy
Based onMy Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Series Developed for Television
by Lauren Faust
Produced by
  • Sarah Wall
  • Devon Cody
Starring
Edited byMark Kuehnel
Music byWilliam Anderson
Production
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Distributed by
Release dates
Running time
73 minutes
Countries
  • Canada
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$488,232 (Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and United Kingdom)[1]

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, known simply as Equestria Girls or EQG (sometimes as Through the Mirror),[2][3] is a 2013 animated fantasy musical film which is the first installment of Hasbro's toy line and media franchise of the same name, which is itself an anthropomorphized spin-off of the 2010 relaunch of the My Little Pony franchise. The film was animated in Adobe Flash, directed by Jayson Thiessen and written by Meghan McCarthy, and was produced by DHX Media's 2D animation studio in Vancouver, Canada for Hasbro Studios in the United States. It premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 15, 2013, followed by limited release in the United States and Canada on June 16, 2013, with a home media release on August 6, 2013. It also commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of the original My Little Pony toy line.

The film re-envisions the main characters of the parent franchise, normally ponies, as teenage humanoid characters in a high school setting. Set between the third and fourth seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic television series, the film's plot involves Twilight Sparkle pursuing her stolen crown into an alternate world where she transforms into a humanoid teenage girl. While learning how to behave locally, Twilight encounters the parallel universe counterparts of her pony friends, who help her in her search for her crown.

The film's critical reception was mixed, with most criticism directed towards character design, writing, plot, and characterization. The film was followed by three sequels, Rainbow Rocks (2014), Friendship Games (2015) and Legend of Everfree (2016) – all of which were more positively received.[4][5]

  1. ^ "My Little Pony: Equestria Girls". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on December 4, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  2. ^ Berrow, G. M. (October 2, 2014). Equestria Girls: Through the Mirror. Hachette Children's Group. ISBN 978-1408336625.
  3. ^ QuantumHippologist (July 30, 2022). "A Pretty Dang Good Quadrilogy - Equestria Girls Movies". YouTube. Archived from the original on September 2, 2022. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  4. ^ The Ferret (February 12, 2016). "New Equestria Girls - Legends of the Everfree Coming Fall 2016". Equestria Daily. Archived from the original on February 14, 2016. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  5. ^ Heldman, Breanne (July 22, 2016). "'My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legends of Everfree': Trailer". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 22, 2016.

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