My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade
My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade
G | 07 February 2006 (USA)
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Wysteria is beaming with pride; her gardens are in bloom, her little Breezie friends are in town, and it's time for Ponyville's fanciest spring parade, the ultimate celebration of flowers, flowers, flowers! But things don't go according to plan when Wysteria accidentally awakens Spike the Dragon, a sleepy, silly 1,000-year-old dragon. For you see, legend holds that when a dragon is awakened, an new princess is about to be crowned. But who is the Princess of Ponyville?

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theinventorpony

The other reviews are trying to troll you, this movie is horrible. It is genuinely hard to watch. It would be more pleasant to staple your eye lids to the ceiling. You'd get more joy out off bamboo splinters underneath your fingernails. I would be surprised if you finish this movie without losing at least 10 IQ points.from start to finish it vomits an un balanced color pallet of pink and rainbows in your face. All the characters are ether the same as the others or entirely un likable. The story has no solid structure. The moral is phoned in and makes little sense. Quite possibly the worst example of "childrens entertainment" I have ever seen. Heed my words avoid this movie as if it was the plague. watch my little pony friendship is magic instead.

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scarrjaw

Yes, the cancer eating away at my heart - This movie taught me that Nietzche was WRONG! God is not dead, he is a clip-pity clop-pity my little pony, prancing through the sand on life's beach and trampling all over deaths chessboard. Bergman would be so shocked that his film would be so upstaged by a 1000 year old dragon instead of some pasty guy in a robe. I couldn't help but think that maybe Herman Melville would be proud, that the pony's great white whale was such a dragon and the ponies would, if they could fire their chocolate hearts out of their candy coated chests. I wont ruin the riveting ending that had me bite my nails balanced on the edge of my seat.. but rest assured its no third rate sled named rosebud!

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Cinema Buff

William Faulkner once said, "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."When sitting down to watch "My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade", I was forced to reflect upon Faulkner's quote. This movie, which almost does not deserve such a basic term - as if to imply that it could and should be compared with other such "movies" - involves the disruption of flower parade with the awakening of a 1,000-year-old dragon.However, the plot is merely the MacGuffin for the emotional truths that reveal themselves in 50 rapturous minutes."The Princess Promenade" shows the typical Victor Dal Chele touches. The lyrical camera-work, complex story lines and ambitious themes immediately remind us of "Transformers: Go-Bots" and "RoboCop: Alpha Commando", not to mention his predecessor "My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas". However, his previous work now feels like mere preparation for this, his masterwork.Earlier reviews have compared this film to the work of Ozu. Actually, the influence of a number of masters is evident here. He combines the artistic editing of Eisenstein, the visual innovation of Welles, the provocation of Fassbinder, the existential philosophies of Godard, and the frenetic surrealism of Luis Buñuel. These elements are merely jumping off points, though, for a unique style that future film scholars will refer to as "Dal Chele-ism".But as any film-goer will tell you, style only goes so far. The reason "The Princess Promenade" deserves its place next to "Grand Illusion", "La Dolce Vita" and "Rashomon" is the emotional impact it achieves.The story starts off light enough, making the viewer feel at ease. It is funny, often times hilarious. Then, it is revealed that the laughs are masking a deeper, more tragic subtext, and the emotional weight of this revelation induces tears in all who watch.The third act is truly revelatory. I found myself first hating, and then embracing, humanity. And when I had unleashed all of my emotion at the world and society around me, the movie forced me to look within myself. It revealed that I, like everyone else, was ultimately an empty vessel, full of hope and longing but ultimately achieving nothing.As I was ready to hang my hat, and admit defeat at this monster of a film, its denouement landed with a message of hope that would have been manipulative had the previous 47 minutes not laid the groundwork for this, its most logical resolution. As the last image faded, I felt hopeful for myself as a human being and for humanity as a whole.And as the final credits rolled, I wept. I wept not only for the ponies and their plight with the dragon and the flower parade. I wept for myself, as I had not felt such an emotional charge from a work of art. I wept for the cinema, as a new standard has now been established in visual storytelling. I wept for Victor Dal Chele, who now stands tall as the premiere voice of our generation. And most of all, I wept for the world, which will never be able to match the painful honesty, blistering imagination and unending beneficence that Mr. Dal Chele has presented in this, surely the finest film of our generation.

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imdb-ary

To hear about it is to want, to see it to experience heaven. I saw this piece of treasure in my local store and finally I had the chance to experience it for myself.Words cannot express my love for this piece of mind-rending perfection, to see such heroic endeavor, such blissful significance and poignant mastery that the mountains trembled. Rivers changed course and oceans shifted, reshaping the divide of continents, forging the destiny of a thousand generations of evolution. The cherebim, witnessing this beauteous cataclysm, rent their garments and wept tears of gold...At last I was a born again pony.

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