Actually, this is a review to say I can't review anything yet. This was written a month before the movie comes out, and other than a few promo images and a minute-long trailer, at this point, I know next to nothing.
Yes, the design is a bit off-putting to me and to plenty others as well. Sure, it does seem like yet another high school-based movie to go with the approximately 17.3 billion high school-based shows and movies that came before it.
Then again, one of my favorite cartoons was based in high school. Clearly, I don't expect Equestria Girls to be anything like Daria, but if nothing else, that means that something less hackneyed can be made of the setting.
Further, a lot of the people behind Friendship Is Magic worked on Equestria Girls. If they made a group of rainbow-colored ponies that would have been anathema three years ago not only watchable, but entertaining and engaging, I think I can trust them to make a high school theme work.
If nothing else, they've earned more than enough cachet with me to see the damn movie first before saying it's ruined the franchise.
OMG! Ponies Ruined FOREVER!!!!11!onehundredeleven
Actually, this is a review to say I can't review anything yet. This was written a month before the movie comes out, and other than a few promo images and a minute-long trailer, at this point, I know next to nothing.
Yes, the design is a bit off-putting to me and to plenty others as well. Sure, it does seem like yet another high school-based movie to go with the approximately 17.3 billion high school-based shows and movies that came before it.
Then again, one of my favorite cartoons was based in high school. Clearly, I don't expect Equestria Girls to be anything like Daria, but if nothing else, that means that something less hackneyed can be made of the setting.
Further, a lot of the people behind Friendship Is Magic worked on Equestria Girls. If they made a group of rainbow-colored ponies that would have been anathema three years ago not only watchable, but entertaining and engaging, I think I can trust them to make a high school theme work.
If nothing else, they've earned more than enough cachet with me to see the damn movie first before saying it's ruined the franchise.