My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jayson Thiessen
Produced by Sarah Wall
Devon Cody
Written by Meghan McCarthy
Based on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
developed for television 
by Lauren Faust, and the
My Little Pony toyline by Bonnie Zacherle
Starring
Music by William Anderson
Edited by Rachel Kenzie
Production
company
Distributed by Screenvision
Release dates
  • September 27, 2014 (2014-09-27)
Running time
 71 minutes[1]
Country Canada
United States
Language English
Box office $347,511 (Finland, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Uruguay)[2]

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks is a 2014 Canadian–American animated fantasy musical-comedy film sequel to 2013's My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, and a spin-off of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic animated television series. Written by Meghan McCarthy and directed by Jayson Thiessen, the film premiered in select movie theaters across the United States and Canada on September 27, 2014, which was followed by broadcast on Discovery Family, a joint venture between Discovery Communications and Hasbro, on October 17, 2014.

Like the first film, Rainbow Rocks re-envisions the main characters of the series, normally ponies, as teenage human characters in a high school setting. Set between the television series' fourth and fifth seasons, the film's plot involves Princess Twilight Sparkle returning to Canterlot High School to compete in a Battle of the Bands alongside her human friends—including a reformed Sunset Shimmer—to save the school from a band of sirens from Equestria. Critical reviews have been positive, with the movie being described as "far superior" to the first installment.[3][4]

A third installment, titled Equestria Girls: Friendship Games, received a theatrical premiere and a television network premiere on Discovery Family on September 26, 2015.

Plot

In the human world, the students of Canterlot High School are preparing for an upcoming musical showcase, where Twilight Sparkle's human friends are to perform in their own band called the Rainbooms. They find that they can transform into their human-pony forms whenever they play their musical instruments, which is caused by the Equestrian magic brought by Twilight's crown. Meanwhile, former school bully Sunset Shimmer is ostracized by the rest of the students despite her efforts to redeem herself, though Twilight's friends still value their newfound friendship with Sunset. Sunset volunteers to show three new students—Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, and Sonata Dusk—around the school. The trio, who form a band called the Dazzlings, perform a song that somehow drives the students to aggression and competition, and they convince the school, even Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna to make the showcase into a Battle of the Bands. Sunset deduces that the Dazzlings are using very powerful Dark Magic from Equestria to do this. However, Thanks to the Magic that Sunset and her friends have, they are unaffected by the Dazzlings' spell, and they contact Equestria for help through a magical book given to Sunset by Princess Celestia.

Twilight receives Sunset's message as she settles and her friends into Twilight's new Castle of Friendship in Equestria. She discovers that the Dazzlings are sirens exiled from Equestria who feed on negative emotions and control others through their singing. Using the book's magic to create a means of activating the portal between worlds, Twilight returns to Canterlot High alongside Spike, her dragon assistant. She and her friends attempt to use the power of friendship to lift the Dazzlings' spell, but they are unable to evoke their magic. Sunset determines that they must use the same type of magic the Dazzlings do, and Twilight agrees. So the girls decide to perform a musical counterspell to stop them. Twilight joins the Rainbooms as lead singer, but her attempts to come up with a spell fall short. Twilight worries that the counterspell won't work, for fear of tipping the Dazzlings off, so to ensure that the spell will work when they play, the Rainbooms compete in the Battle of the Bands to buy themselves some time, but they suffer from infighting due to disagreements on aspects of the band.

Despite the Rainbooms' disastrous performance in the semifinal round against Trixie's band, the sirens' intervene to ensure their advancement, and then guile Trixie into trapping the Rainbooms beneath the stage to take their place. Isolated for hours, the group's tensions erupt and they begin to argue, allowing the sirens to absorb magic from them. Sunset realizes that the Dazzlings knew about their magic from the start and did everything possible to cause the infighting and arguing. She tells the Rainbooms about this and that its what prevented Twilight's counterspell from working, and the group makes amends. The band is rescued by Spike and DJ Pon-3, a student protected from the Dazzlings' singing by her headphones. DJ Pon-3 provides a makeshift stage that the Rainbooms use to fight the Dazzlings in a musical battle. With the help of Sunset, who assumes her own human-pony form, the Rainbooms free the students from the Dazzlings' control and destroy the gems that empower the trio, rendering them tone deaf. Twilight and Spike return to Equestria and Sunset joins the Rainbooms, using Celestia's journal to keep in touch with Twilight.

Cast

The film features minor appearances from Michelle Creber as Apple Bloom; Ingrid Nilson as Maud Pie, Pinkie Pie's sister; Peter New as Big McIntosh; Lee Tockar and Richard Ian Cox as Snips and Snails; Brian Drummond as an unnamed delivery pony in Equestria; and St. Germain as Photo Finish. Shoichet, Evans, and Shannon Chan-Kent also provide the singing voices of Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie, respectively, while Sonata Dusk and Aria Blaze's singing voices are performed by Madeline Merlo and Shylo Sharity. Evans also provides one line of dialogue as Octavia Melody.[5]

Songs

Like in Equestria Girls, the songs were composed by Daniel Ingram with lyric writing shared between Ingram and screenwriter Meghan McCarthy; with the exception of "Rainbow Rocks" and "Shine Like Rainbows" which had lyrics by Ingram; "Bad Counter Spell" and "Under Our Spell" by McCarthy; and "Shake Your Tail" having a first draft by writer Amy Keating Rogers, in which Ingram later revised.[6] Trevor Hoffman provided the arrangements for the songs, and musician Caleb Chan produced the songs as well as played guitar and bass.[7]

Production

The sequel was announced by Hasbro as part of a press kit at the 2014 International Toy Fair.[8] On February 13, 2014, Meghan McCarthy tweeted that she had worked on the film during the summer of 2013.[9] That same day, songwriter Daniel Ingram tweeted that there will be a total of 12 songs in the film, the greatest number of songs featured in a Friendship Is Magic episode or Equestria Girls film thus far;[10] however, only 11 songs made it in the film. The film's opening credits were storyboarded by Tony Cliff.[11] The storybook illustration depictions of the sirens in Equestria were done by Rebecca Dart.[12] The illustrations shown during the ending credits were drawn by Katrina Hadley.[13]

In the audio commentary of the DVD, Equestria Girls, at first, had no intention of becoming a franchise and the thought of a sequel did not cross Meghan McCarthy's mind. Additionally, Sunset did not become a main character until the second draft of the script.[12] The DVD commentary also points out that the midnight snack scene between Twilight and Sunset was actually added late into the film's production, Rarity's line "past...ahem...booboos" was ad-libbed by Germain, and the freestyle rap by Snips and Snails' human counterparts was genuine freestyling courtesy of Lee Tockar and Richard Cox.[12]

Release

The film received a limited theatrical release on September 27, 2014, in the United States[14] and Canada.[15] It also received a "Purple Carpet" premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, which was attended by the cast and crew as well as some celebrities such as Jamie Foxx, Modern Family actress Ariel Winter, and Academy Award nominee Quvenzhané Wallis.[16] On July 24, 2014, a movie clip and a teaser trailer were released on Yahoo! TV.[17] On September 10, 2014, through Equestria Daily, Shout! Factory revealed a 30-second trailer.[18] Two days later on September 12, a 50-second trailer was released on YouTube.[19] Six days later on September 18, a full theatrical trailer was released also via Yahoo! TV;[20] the trailer was then uploaded to Hasbro's YouTube channel four days later on September 22.[21]

International

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks was theatrically released on October 25 and 26, 2014 in the United Kingdom.[22] The film was theatrically released on November 15, 2014, in Australia.[23]

Home media

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Shout! Factory on October 28, 2014, in Region 1.[24] Special features include a new featurette, the eight animated shorts that were previously released online, a sing-along song, and an audio commentary on the film by writer Meghan McCarthy, director Jayson Thiessen, co-director Ishi Rudell, vice president of development at Hasbro Studios Michael Vogel, and Hasbro's executive director Brian Lenard.[25] There are also three store exclusives for the DVD only. The Target edition includes a bracelet, a $4 coupon for one MLP toy, and the original Equestria Girls DVD. The Wal-Mart edition includes a music CD, a digital copy of the film, and the same $4 coupon. The K-Mart edition includes a "backstage pass" and the coupon.[26] The initial production run of the DVD contained an error that caused chapters 5 and 6 to play in reverse order when the film was viewed using the "Play" option on the main menu.[27]

A Region 2 Rainbow Rocks DVD from distributor Primal Screen Entertainment was released on March 23, 2015, for various countries, including France, Germany, Italy, the Middle East region, Netherlands, and United Kingdom.[28]

Alongside Equestria Girls and Friendship Games, this film was released in a box set on October 13, 2015 in Region 1.[29]

Television

Rainbow Rocks made its U.S. cable television premiere on Discovery Family on October 17, 2014.[30] The film premiered on the Family Channel in Canada on November 8, 2014. In the United Kingdom, it premiered on POP on December 24, 2014.

Promotion

Live-action music videos

On February 20, 2014, Hasbro released a live-action music video on its official website depicting the Equestria Girls in a rock band. Like the Magic of Friendship music video released to tie-in with the first movie, the Rainbow Rocks music video uses a rock version of the "Equestria Girls" song and portrays the main characters' human counterparts performing the "EG Stomp".[31] Through the Equestria Girls YouTube channel, another music video was released on August 4, 2014. It depicts four more teenage girls, each one dressed as the characters DJ Pon-3, Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, and Sonata Dusk respectively.[32]

Mini-game

A Rainbow Rocks missile command-type mini-game was added to the Hasbro Arcade mobile app on April 8, 2014. On October 29, 2014, the mini-game was updated to include the Dazzlings with two songs from the movie and one song from one of the live-action music videos.[33]

Novels

Perdita Finn wrote an adaptation of the Rainbow Rocks animated shorts under the same name; it was released on April 8, 2014.[34] A follow-up to the novelization, titled The Mane Event and also penned by Finn, was released on October 7, 2014.[35]

Online

Prelude shorts

On February 13, 2014, Entertainment Weekly released the first trailer;[36] about four months later however, Meghan tweeted that the clips from that trailer "are separate shorts and not scenes in the movie."[37] A series of eight animated shorts was released on Hasbro Studio's YouTube channel in 2014 from March 27 to June 19 to promote the film.[38] The shorts were created by the television series' crew to tie into the film, and are considered "prequels" to the film's events, detailing how each of them discovered that they could awaken Equestrian magic within them by playing their respective instruments.[39]

The first eight shorts made their television debut on Discovery Family on May 30, 2015.[40]

No. Title Directed by Written by Original airdate
1"Music to My Ears"[41]Ishi RudellCindy MorrowMarch 27, 2014
DJ Pon-3 struts to her own beat on her way to Canterlot High, only to have her headphones confiscated by Principal Celestia when she gets there.
2"Guitar Centered"[42]Ishi RudellAmy Keating RogersApril 4, 2014
Rainbow Dash and Trixie get into an argument over an electric guitar in a music store, and face each other in a "shred-off". Though Rainbow wins, she decides to keep the guitar that won her the shred-off and leaves Trixie with an unaffordable guitar as her prize.
3"Hamstocalypse Now"[43]Ishi RudellJosh HaberApril 11, 2014
Fluttershy and Rarity get into trouble when hamsters run loose while they try to clean their home at the animal shelter. Fluttershy manages to corral the hamsters by hypnotizing them with her tambourine music.
4"Pinkie on the One"[44]Ishi RudellJosh HaberApril 25, 2014
Annoyed by Pinkie Pie's constant drumming antics, Rainbow Dash finds an outlet for Pinkie's energy by making her their band's drummer.
5"Player Piano"[45]Ishi RudellAmy Keating RogersMay 9, 2014
Rarity turns to the Diamond Dog boys for help moving her grand piano across campus in time for band practice with her friends. After she arrives late, she agrees to take up playing the more portable keytar instead.
6"A Case for the Bass"[46]Ishi RudellNatasha LevingerMay 23, 2014
Applejack tries to buy back her bass guitar after Granny Smith accidentally sells it to the Flim Flam brothers. When the brothers doubt her ownership and refuse to return it, Applejack proves herself by expertly playing the bass.
7"Shake Your Tail!"[47]Ishi RudellAmy Keating RogersJune 6, 2014
Twilight Sparkle and her friends try to come up with a theme for an upcoming party at Canterlot High.
8"Perfect Day for Fun!"[48]Ishi RudellDaniel Ingram and Amy Keating RogersJune 19, 2014
The six friends hang out at Canterlot High's outdoor carnival together.

Encore shorts

With lyric collaboration between Katrina Hadley, Daniel Ingram, Brian Lenard, Jayson Thiessen and Michael Vogel,[49] and songs composed by Ingram,[50] Hasbro released three Rainbow Rocks music videos on March 31, 2015: "Friendship Through the Ages",[51] "Life is a Runway",[52] and "My Past is Not Today";[53] but were reuploaded two days later on April 2, 2015. These shorts are separate initiatives that lead up to the third Equestria Girls film installment, Friendship Games.[54] On April 6, 2015, Ingram replied in a comment on Facebook that these will likely be on the next Equestria Girls album later this year.[55]

No. Title Directed by Written by Original airdate
1"Friendship Through the Ages"Ishi RudellKatrina Hadley, Daniel Ingram, Brian Lenard,
Jayson Thiessen, and Michael Vogel		April 2, 2015
The Rainbooms sing about their everlasting friendship to Sunset Shimmer.
2"Life is a Runway"Ishi RudellKatrina Hadley, Daniel Ingram, Brian Lenard,
Jayson Thiessen, and Michael Vogel		April 2, 2015
Rarity sings about her fashion philosophy.
3"My Past is Not Today"Ishi RudellKatrina Hadley, Daniel Ingram, Brian Lenard,
Jayson Thiessen, and Michael Vogel		April 2, 2015
Sunset Shimmer sings about leaving her past mistakes behind her.

Games

On June 7, 2014, a Rainbow Rocks game was released on Hasbro's Equestria Girls website titled "Repeat the Beat";[56] almost two months later, two more games have been released on July 31, 2014. One of them being "Equestria Girls: Battle of the Bands"[57] and the other being "Equestria Girls: V.I.F. (Very Important Friend)".[58]

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack was released on September 10, 2014 via the iTunes Music Store.[59] Announced on Ingram's Twitter eight days later on September 18, the soundtrack placed #15 on the Kid Albums Billboard chart;[60] two weeks later on October 2, the soundtrack placed #12;[61] a week later on October 9, it placed #10.[62]

No. TitleWriter(s)Performer(s) Length
1. "Rainbow Rocks"  Daniel IngramThe Rainbooms 1:40
2. "Better Than Ever"  Daniel Ingram & Meghan McCarthyThe Rainbooms 1:35
3. "Under Our Spell"  Daniel Ingram & Meghan McCarthyThe Dazzlings 1:51
4. "Tricks Up My Sleeve"  Daniel Ingram & Meghan McCarthyTrixie and the Illusions 2:06
5. "Shake Your Tail"  Amy Keating Rogers & Daniel IngramThe Rainbooms 1:59
6. "Welcome to the Show"  Daniel Ingram & Meghan McCarthyThe Dazzlings, the Rainbooms, Sunset Shimmer, and Ensemble 4:37
7. "Awesome as I Want to Be"  Daniel Ingram & Meghan McCarthyRainbow Dash and the Rainbooms 1:16
8. "Let's Have a Battle (of the Bands)"  Daniel Ingram & Meghan McCarthyThe Dazzlings and Ensemble 2:52
9. "Shine Like Rainbows"  Daniel IngramThe Rainbooms, Sunset Shimmer, and the Equestria Girls cast 2:35
10. "Music to My Ears (Bonus Track)"  Daniel IngramDJ Pon-3 1:45
Total length:
 22:16

Reception

Box office

In the Hasbro Earnings Report, it was revealed that the box office returns from this film exceeded that of the first film in the first weekend by 37%. On a per theater basis, sales for tickets grew by 19% in the first three weeks of its limited theatrical run.[63] The film grossed $347,511 in it limited time in theaters in the United Kingdom, Finland, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, and Uruguay.[64]

Critical reception

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rainbow Rocks received generally positive reviews from critics and fans alike. Sherilyn Connelly for The Village Voice called Rainbow Rocks "far superior" to the first Equestria Girls film, and that while "the picture is continuity-heavy and not particularly accessible to newcomers", that the film was "up there with the show at its most thoughtful".[3] Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter complimented the film, saying "Though it's strictly for the faithful, the tween-friendly mix of cute and earnest has a forthright sharpness and is never cloying."[4] Shane O'Hare of Geekscape gave the Blu-ray of the film a score of 4 out of 5, praising the soundtrack stating "The show's composer, Daniel Ingram,...killed it. 10 all new original recordings from Daniel really stole the show."[65] Ed Liu of Toon Zone, who gave the first film a negative review, also found this film to be better. He wrote the film "is almost as sweet and charming as the best episodes of the series, finding new and interesting ways to expand on the show’s themes of friendship."[66]

"Gerry O", 12-year-old film critic for The Huffington Post's Kids First! column called the film "a combination of adventure with a crème of comedy and a sprinkle of excitement all rapped [sic] up in a friendship sandwich."[67]

Ratings

Film

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks premiered on Discovery Family on October 17, 2014. It was viewed by approximately 610,000 viewers.[68]

Prelude shorts

The first eight Rainbow Rocks shorts made their television debut on Discovery Family on May 30, 2015. The special was viewed by approximately 299,000 viewers.[69]

Sequel

On December 12, 2014, the third installment was first teased by Rainbow Rocks co-director, Ishi Rudell. Brony Donald "Dusty Katt" Rhoades tweeted wondering about Rudell's silence on Twitter, and Rudell replied that he was "too busy working on #3".[70] On July 1, 2015, it was announced by USA Today that it will be a movie premiere on Discovery Family on September 26, 2015.[71]

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