My Little Pony: The Movie is an animated big screen version of the TV series My Little Pony, which is based on girls’ toys of the same name.

With an overdose of every imaginable shade of the colour pink, the movie is a celebration of female empowerment and the candy-hued heroines pack a lot of punch. This animated movie is strictly for very young kids, who will enjoy the fun ride it takes them on.

The clear message kids take away from My Little Pony: The Movie is that friends may quarrel, but they get back together and need each other to succeed.

The movie shows Princess Twilight Sparkle (Tara Strong) and her friends in Canterlot — known as the Mane 6 — trying to save their home of Equestria from the evil Storm King (Liev Schreiber).

Princess Twilight Sparkle — the bookish, resourceful unicorn, mermaid princess — is preparing for the Friendship Festival. But things are disrupted by the arrival of the Storm King’s (Liev Schreiber)gang and his second-in-command, Tempest Shadow (Emily Blunt), a pony who’s determined to make somebody pay for her broken horn. The Storm King manages to capture three of Equestria’s four princesses. He is desperate to capture the fourth in order to gain control over the weather.

Princess Twilight escapes with some of her friends to an underwater world to seek the help of the Hippogriffs, but their queen doesn’t want to help with their secret powers. Twilight now resorts to some clever, yet unfair ways to accomplish her mission at any cost.

The underwater world is fascinating and the effects are impressive as is the voice cast, including Emily Blunt, Uzo Aduba and Liev Schreiber. There’s also a song by Sia, who appears briefly as pony pop star Songbird Serenade. This PG rated should satisfy most young one, but may put the adults accompanying them to sleep.

Published in Dawn, Young World, March 10th, 2018