![]() There’s the usual picaresque quest and parade of colorful supporting characters-a duplicitous cat played by Taye Diggs, a band of aerial pirates led by Zoe Saldana-on the way to the kingdom of the hippogriffs, who have fled the Storm King and relocated underwater. The Storm King captures three of the kingdom of Equestria’s four princesses (he needs to complete the set to gain control over the weather, for reasons that happily are not explained even a little), and the series’ “Mane Six”-Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy-escape and seek help. With their arrival, the movie shifts into epic mode, where it will remain until the closing credits. (Planning and attending parties is a frequent preoccupation in Ponyville.) But the celebration is interrupted by the arrival of jackbooted alien thugs under the command of the Storm King (Liev Schreiber) and his aide-de-camp, a broken-horned pony named Tempest Shadow (Emily Blunt). The film opens in a domestic register, with Princess Twilight Sparkle-the bookish, resourceful unicorn who serves as the series’ perennial audience stand-in-preparing for the Friendship Festival. ![]() ![]() Twilight Sparkle is at once unicorn, Pegasus, mermaid, and princess-a quadruple whammy for some audience members. ![]()
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