My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)

Ponyland comes under attack from a talking blob of purple gunk.

Director:

Mike Joens (as Michael Joens)

Writer:

George Arthur Bloom

Stars:

Danny DeVito, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Danny DeVito	...	Grundle King (voice)
Madeline Kahn	...	Draggle (voice)
Cloris Leachman	...	Hydia (voice)
Rhea Perlman	...	Reeka (voice)
Tony Randall	...	The Moochick (voice)
Tammy Amerson	...	Megan (voice)
Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman	...	The Smooze (voice) (as Jon Bauman)
Alice Playten	...	Baby Lickety Split / Bushwoolie #1 (voice)
Charlie Adler	...	Spike / Woodland Creature (voice)
Michael Bell	...	Grundle (voice)
Sheryl Bernstein	...	Buttons / Woodland Creature / Bushwoolie (voice)
Susan Blu	...	Lofty / Grundle / Bushwoolie (voice)
Cathy Cavadini	...	North Star (voice)
Nancy Cartwright	...	Gusty / Bushwoolie #4 (voice)
Peter Cullen	...	Grundle / Ahgg (voice)

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

female friendship | interspecies friendship | 1980s | pony | witch | 

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Genres:

Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical

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Certificate:

G

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 June 1986 (USA)

Also Known As:

Az én kicsi pónim

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$416,108, 8 June 1986, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$5,958,456

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sunbow Productions, Marvel Productions, Hasbro

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

When a group of ponies go into the human world to get help, scenes were planned featuring the ponies approaching Optimus Prime and Shipwreck from G. I. Joe.

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Goofs

As the group begins to climb up the cliff, you see the group of Ponies and humans, plus Sweet Stuff and Gingerbread, with them. In the next shot Gingerbread and Sweet Stuff have vanished.

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Quotes

Hydia: Why can't you be evil like I taught you? Why won't you misbehave the way you should? You never use the guillotine I bought you! You just aren't bad enough for your own good!

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Connections

Follows My Little Pony (1984)

User Reviews

My first nightmare.

I was sent on this project to supervise the animation very fast,in fact I was so excited to work on my first feature film that I never had time to look at the storyboard;I did only study the storyboard once on the plane going to 'Seoul' Korea.

When I realized how big the amount of flying ponies and running ponies on the screen,I looked at my ex-wife and said to her 'This is suicide......Why did I accept this crazy job?'.............

Well I did go to face my first feature film challenge and it was fun and hard,,,,I trained many people into animation just doing my best as always,and Michael Fallows joined the ranks to help supervise animation because the producers and directors might have had one year or mo0re to prepare their project,,,,but we had only 3 months to do all the production.

And I must give credit to 'Nelson Shin' who forced the producers to give us our credits for supervising the animation,,,they ignored us totally.Thanks 'Nelson'.

So making films is not an easy task,it takes passion or otherwise one cannot survive the experience.

Thank you. Pierre De Celles