Cringed at Embrace The Magic cus it was a bit random and stuff. Wasn't vibing with how Twilight's love interest was a guy who seems in his late 20's at the least. The first song and Gloriosa's solo slapped. Kinda wish Sunset and Flash got a little more closure than just "Geez, tough love." but go off I guess. Derpy had one line and I am forever betrayed, give best girl more screen time, please, for my sake.

If I were to write down what the plot was, it would be more so a paraphrase of what happened then a general idea of the plot. It's more so events one after another than an actual plot but I don't really mind.

Gloriosa's villain persona wasn't all that impressive besides the transformation. The little "dun dun dun" sound effect that played on her reveal was pretty funny tho. Overall pretty good, I enjoyed it when I was a kid, and I enjoy it now still.

First off, this is one of the better Equestria Girls movies. Probably my favorite of what has been released so far. That being said, this movie is probably the one where I find my aggravation levels caused by Twilight's character to be the highest. The entire series would have been better off not having Twilight at all. Sunset Shimmer is far and away a much more sympathetic protagonist and has the most developed and interesting story of any character related to the series.

What makes a good character is their story, and one of the reasons why characters like Luna and Sunset are so popular is because they have a base story of redemption. They went to the dark side, but have been redeemed and continuously are trying to better themselves and make up for their past. They are constantly moving forward while characters like Twilight are just... stagnant. I am incredibly disappointed at how Sunset was treated in this movie. First off, her "power" comes off as more of an afterthought than anything that makes sense. (I mean, really, the ability to touch someone and see into their mind? Compared to the abilities of everyone else, this is really bad. If anything it was only given to her to help smooth over bucketloads of exposition. Her power might as well be called "Exposition-finder-ex-machina" because that is ALL it's good for.) It's also pretty weak compared to Twilight who is given some pretty OP abilities that, to be honest, she has done nothing to even earn out of all the movies she has been present (and I mean this of her human character, not her pony character since her pony version actually did something to earn her powers). Sunset has worked the hardest to overcome adversity and is the true fighter in it all, but she's always being relegated to a back seat spot in favor of a character whose only contribution to the plot is allowing herself to be overcome with negativity.

Honestly? They should just make Sunset the alicorn of the Equestria Girls series. This is an alternate dimension, after all. Why does everything have to go by the pony universe? If another film is made (and I'm sure there will be so long as there is money to be had) then I hope more focus and ability is given to the characters who actually deserve it rather than just dumping more special snowflake dust on Twilight Sparkle. Forcibly shoving something like Twilight's inept character repeatedly down the throats of viewers is NOT the way to get people to like her more.

Baffled that people like this one? I like the first Equestria Girls movie alright because the fish out of water elements are cute and it parallels nicely with Twilight's discomfort at becoming an alicorn princess but in this one (human) Twilight spends all her time being upset that she briefly turned into a demon monster against her will in the last movie and is terrified she'll turn into that monster again despite no indication or established threat that she might and as such spends the whole movie afraid. She runs off into the woods and sits apart from her friends and becomes convinced she's infecting them and then has to be convinced to use life-saving magic multiple times even when the characters are on the brink of death because she's afraid of something that seems completely irrational as far as we know. The rest of the characters besides Sunset feel flanderized with Rarity being completely absorbed with her fashion show lazing back and watching other people do the work, Applejack apparently is so rough and tough she made her own hammer out of stone rather than grabbing one from a toolbox and Pinkie Pie is such a menace she throws a box of nails at people.

The movie has a weird relationship with The Magic where Twilight is terrified of her own magic because she's debilitatingly afraid of turning back into the monster, Sunset is excited by it to the point of ignoring Twilight's feelings and encourages the rest of the humane 7 developing magic to use it, but the main villain of the film who just wants to keep her camp and presumably home turns into a big evil monster because they needed one I guess and she was using The Magic. It seems like a missed opportunity to not draw a parallel between Twilight being afraid of her own magic and the person who's trying to save her campgrounds turning into a big evil monster

First movie is good and I wanted to like this but it's disappointing. If you want good Equestria Girls try the first movie or the specials Rollercoaster of Friendship and Spring Breakdown, the characters there aren't flanderized and take actions that make sense for them. Review is a 3/10 because the voice work and animation is nice and the film is nice to look at but the story and characterizations make it kind of agonizing.