My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (also known as My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Magical Movie Night on home media release and as Equestria Girls: Tales of Canterlot High on Netflix) is a series of Canadian-American animated television specials based on Hasbro's toyline and film series of the same name, and a spin-off of the 2010 re-launch of My Little Pony. The series focuses on the main characters from the television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, re-envisioned as teenage humans in a high school setting. A total of three 22-minute specials aired in the United States on Discovery Family from June 24 to July 8, 2017.
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Premise
The series follows the daily lives and adventures of Canterlot High School's students - Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity - following the events of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Legend of Everfree.
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Cast
Main cast
- Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
- Rebecca Shoichet as Twilight Sparkle's singing voice
- Ashleigh Ball as Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and additional voices
- Andrea Libman as Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and additional voices
- Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity and additional voices
- Kazumi Evans as Rarity's singing voice
- Cathy Weseluck as Spike
- Rebecca Shoichet as Sunset Shimmer and additional voices
Supporting cast
Episodes
Other media
International release
The three specials had a weekly release in Poland on Teletoon+ from May 14 through May 28, 2017.
DVD release
The miniseries was released on a one-disc Region 1 DVD on August 8, 2017, entitled My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Magical Movie Night and distributed by Shout! Factory.
Online streaming
Under the title Equestria Girls: Tales of Canterlot High, the specials were made available on Netflix in the United States as of October 1, 2017.
Reception
The Magical Movie Night compilation DVD received mixed to positive reviews, with criticism directed towards the DVD's lower visual and sound quality compared to previous films, as well as a lack of extra content. Brett Nolan of NoReruns.net praised the DVD's presentation of the specials as a single film, saying it gave the specials "a much more cohesive and cinematic feel, lending itself beautifully to watching it straight through in one go." Inside Pulse's Joe Corey gave the specials an overall score of 4 out of 5, including his daughter's input that she "wasn't bothered that this wasn't one narrative such as the previous four movies". ToonZone's Classic Speedy called "Dance Magic" a "slight but fun story", while considering "Mirror Magic" to be the best of the three stories as a direct follow-up of the second special, and for its "unexpected" inclusion of Starlight Glimmer as a character. DVD Talk's Francis Rizzo III, who gave the story content three out of five stars, drew unfavorable comparisons to Friendship Is Magic as he felt it contrasted the previous films' "sense of identity built around music and a quasi-magical backstory", considering the specials to be "more like a standard earthbound teen cartoon that eventually remembers that there are superpowers involved come the third episode".
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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