10 Upcoming Movies You Couldn’t Make Me Watch With A Gun To My Head

5. My Little Pony: The Movie

The Film

At the risk of triggering the millions of "Bronies" around the world, My Little Pony: The Movie does not need to exist. Well, maybe it does, but certainly not on the big screen. It's the kind of thing that should be kept to Cartoon Network for the kids, rather than making parents take them to the cineplex.

But it's not even the film that's the issue here - as pointless as it is - it's the very idea of the audience.

Why Not Watch It?

What you'd expect from My Little Pony audiences is youthfulness, bright-eyed innocence and an average age of about 8. It's no longer fair to say it would just be girls, but the demographic is probably still skewed that way because of how it's marketed). What you wouldn't expect is a group of college age, social outcast, male adults partially dressed as furries obscuring the screen with their home-made unicorns and making everything extremely uncomfortable for everyone.

No, it's not shaming either, because a lot of the growth of the "Brony" movement is ironic, and has only happened because of the propagation of the show as a meme. Because, fundamentally, the show isn't even very good: it's a middling cartoon at best, with nothing like the appeal of the original.

And in diluting the innocence of the show with NSFW fan fiction (do not Google this, PLEASE), they've ruined something for the kids it was originally made for. They could at least have the decency to appreciate the show for what it is, rather than making all the character f*ck each other and them. Forgive me, but I don't want that to bleed into the cinema.