My Little Pony: The Movie (1986) 5.4
Ponyland comes under attack from a talking blob of purple gunk. Director:Mike JoensWriter:George Arthur Bloom |
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My Little Pony: The Movie (1986) 5.4
Ponyland comes under attack from a talking blob of purple gunk. Director:Mike JoensWriter:George Arthur Bloom |
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| Danny DeVito | ... |
Grundle King
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| Madeline Kahn | ... |
Draggle
(voice)
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| Cloris Leachman | ... |
Hydia
(voice)
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| Rhea Perlman | ... |
Reeka
(voice)
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| Tony Randall | ... |
The Moochick
(voice)
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Tammy Amerson | ... |
Megan
(voice)
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Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman | ... |
The Smooze
(voice) (as Jon Bauman)
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| Alice Playten | ... |
Baby Lickety Split /
Bushwoolie #1
(voice)
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| Charles Adler | ... |
Spike /
Woodland Creature
(voice) (as Charlie Adler)
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| Michael Bell | ... |
Grundle
(voice)
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| Sheryl Bernstein | ... |
Buttons /
Woodland Creature /
Bushwoolie
(voice)
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Susan Blu | ... |
Lofty /
Grundle /
Bushwoolie
(voice)
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| Cathy Cavadini | ... |
North Star
(voice)
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| Nancy Cartwright | ... |
Gusty /
Bushwoolie #4
(voice)
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| Peter Cullen | ... |
Grundle /
Ahgg
(voice)
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At Dream Castle, the Little Ponies are preparing a festival to celebrate the first day of Spring. From the Volcano of Gloom, the evil witch Hydia watches the event via her cauldron and, disgusted by the frivolity, tells her daughters that they must ruin it. Hydia's daughters, Draggle and Reeka, are inexperienced at causing mischief and fail utterly at ruining the festival. They return to the Volcano of Gloom in disgrace, where Witch Hydia presents a better plan - they'll make Smooze. The sisters collect a series of disgusting ingredients, but neglect to obtain the Phlume, the prospect of which terrifies them. The spell seems to work regardless, creating a pool of sentient purple lava that gleefully buries Ponyland. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}
I remember being extremely disappointed with this movie as a child. Comparing it to "Resque at Midnight Castle", one of the very first and obvious things I don't like is the character Baby Lickety-Split. This character is so insanely obnoxious and selfish, yet she is the big focus of this story. To summon up the character, all she does is think about herself and if she doesn't get her way, she will cry like a baby and pout. Much like "A Troll in Central Park", when the main character is such a brat, then the movie becomes a drag.
Thankfully there are some distractions, such as the witches making the evil "ooze" to cover the land in a concrete like goo that makes people angry when they come in contact with it and can't be cleansed. A lovely addition to an already obnoxious cast, isn't it? Sigh...
So some characters goes for a search to get rid of the goo, while Lickety Split is on her own adventure, because she is such a brat she runs away. So the focus shifts between three focuses. The search party, Lickety-Brat and the witches.
The movie I found had some very few enjoyable moments. Most of the movie is quite slow, the characters are mostly annoying and the songs weren't very spectacular either. Even Lickety-Brat gets her own song. (Ugh! And yes, the song is nothing but whining on her part....) In the first release in Sweden, they cut the scary parts out (as well as the spider Agh, who has a one second appearance because of bad editing), so when I watched the movie it didn't make sense to me at all why they suddenly shouted "We made it!" when there wasn't any apparent danger. It wasn't such a treat to watch these cut scenes when I watched the full movie, as the animation is so sloppy that they have the wrong characters in the scene! Not only that, but the characters changes in the scenes. Sometimes even Lickety-Brat is there though she's not supposed to. That's beyond bad... quality control anyone?
I watch this movie very rarely. I think last time I saw it was about five years ago and it doesn't really cross my mind to watch it again.