Legend of Everfree

Rating: 4 2 4

YO, Twi got the two-monitor gaming rig!?

We start with Twi waking up realizing she overslept and her friends flood into her room with Sunset stating it's unlike her to oversleep suggesting her biological clock is fucked up. I also find it amusing how Flutters just goes straight to Spike to pet him. They help her pack before the bus leaves in ten minutes and then as Twi's looking in the mirror, she's confronted by her shadow self Midnight Sparkle who begins dissolving reality along with her friends. This sequence is genuinely pretty cool with it being one of those darker scenes you wouldn't expect in a movie like this.

Twi wakes up on a bus screaming revealing it was just a PTSD dream. After some explanation stuff about them going to Camp Everfree, the intro song and animation thing starts. It's fine but I prefer the Rainbow Rocks and Friendship Games ones. They also spaced Applejack's name to be Apple Jack.

They arrive and reveal their plans for the trip and there's a point where Rainbow Dash walks in front of the camera very femininely which caught me off guard considering her character. Look at this screenshot, this looks way too girly of a motion for Rainbow Dash to make.

Pinkie brings up how Sunset and Twi were demons which makes Twi feel like shit. Glad to see the girls are still cunts about that. We also see Octavia and Trixie are still friends. I really do wonder what they talk about. Then Flash Sentry just appears out of nowhere. Fuck you Flash Sentry. He's sad because this Twi isn't the Twilight that likes him. Get cucked, nerd.

So next, the students go to the camp initiation thing or whatever it's called and we meet the new characters Gloriosa Daisy and Timber Spruce. It's then hinted that Twi and Timber have a thing for each other. Timber is a much better option that Flash Sentry. The students recommend activities to do and crap while Gloriosa and Timber bicker to each other and we get a Derpy sighting. God, why is she so cute?

Celestia tells Gloriosa to mention the "camp gifts" to which she explains how campers each year would build something for the camp. When Celestia and Luna were kids, their gift was a sundial and Luna casts some shade to Celestia about how it can't be used at night. Luna's salty.

When the introduction thing is done, it's time for tent assignments and while the girls get theirs from Timber, Twi spergs out about Sapphires not always being blue prompting Timber to also sperg out mentioning how they're still mostly blue which is why they're named after the Latin word sapphirus meaning blue but blue in Latin is caeruleus if an adjective and caeruleum if a noun in default declension while sapphirus only really refers to blue gems, not the color blue itself. The subtitles also spell it in English, not Latin and the way Timber says it is just fucked and sounds like he's saying "sphirus" very Germanically. Twi then states she already knew this which at first made me think maybe Twi knows Latin but then I realized, if she did, she'd be throwing a fit about his pronunciation, going into a rant about how the classical pronunciation of Latin is superior.

Considering Latin exists in Equestria Girls, this suggests they are actually speaking English in-universe. And since ponies and humans can understand each other, either one of two things are happening. Either Ponish is literally English but ponified, or going through the portal makes you able to speak and understand the language on the other side. I'm kinda leaning towards the second option since Twilight never expressed any trouble with reading in human world even though it's implied the writing systems are different between the two worlds. Ponies also completely lack the etymology stuff and the contexts for vocabulary we have in our languages so it's more logical this language transplanting theory is true. I also wonder if this theory is true, do you now know both languages at the same time or do you only know the one of the universe you're in at the time? And if ponies do speak a different language, what do you think Ponish is like? I imagine it as a Germanic-sounding language that's a little more isolating than English but lacks the bloat it has.

Anyways, unlike Flash Sentry who's a complete loser, Timber gets smooth with Twi and knows how to flirt. After this, we see the other girls saw this whole thing transpire and are snickering among themselves. I'm kinda reminded of back when I was allowed in school, sometimes girls would giggle as I walked by and I could never tell if they were laughing at me or if one of them liked me or something. Rainbow Dash still has very feminine posture.

Filthy Rich then arrives in a limo with a smug, rich attitude only to be kicked out by Gloriosa before he can do anything. Everyone goes to their tents while Rarity and Applejack are yapping about some crap but we see Pinkie holding Rainbow Dash's feet down so she can do sit-ups in the background. I found this pretty cute.

Sunset and Twi are having girl talk, Sunset has to quell Twi's depressive tendencies, and Twi then levitates a bunch of stuff prompting her to freak out thinking it's Midnight Sparkle doing it. Sunset then has an auditory hallucination.

Next scene, we're at the docks and Twi steps through one of the planks and almost falls but Timber catches her and pulls another sly line. Flash Sentry watches this from a distance. Fuck you Flash Sentry. Get cucked, nerd.

Sunset has to comfort him to keep him from going into an incel rage but still reminds him he's nothing and how the Twilight he knows is a princess in another world and he doesn't have a chance.

The dock's deemed unsafe to use so Applejack suggests building a new one as their camp gift. They're then having the artsy student draw the dock they're going to build. Does she know woodwork engineering? Just because you can draw something, doesn't mean you know how to make blueprints for building it.

So Timber reveals he's a crafty little bugger that knows how to tinker. He also mentions Picasso to Twi suggesting at least some real life people exist in Equestria Girls. Later, they're all telling scary stories. Rarity's fucking sucks and Derpy is not impressed.

Timber then tells his story about a spirit named Gaia Everfree and how she's scary or something and how she leaves a trail of gem dust which is the only detail important for later. The girls then discuss the possibility of Gaia being another Equestrian being and Applejack's a cunt, bringing up how Sunset and Twi turned into demons yet again. Sunset's hardened to this while Twi again, is sent into a depressive episode at the memory. Next morning, Twi has another PTSD dream along with levitating a bunch of shit again and Sunset wants her to talk about her feelings and crap but Twi is too traumatized to.

Sunset is still trying to counsel Twi and the boat just fucking zooms and crashes, destroying the dock that was just built. The students theorize about Gaia doing it and the gem dust trail then appears in the water. Twi thinks she's the one that did it since she can't control her magic surges and she runs away into the forest where we get the first song of the movie other than the intro animation 25 minutes in. It took over one third of the movie to get a song. It kinda sounds cliche, like exactly the kind of song you'd expect in a movie like this if you weren't familiar with MLP or Equestria Girls. Parts of it also kinda sound like Snowfall's song from A Hearth's Warming Tail.

Sunset can't find Twi so she gets Spike to track her down to make sure she hasn't killed herself in the woods or something. Meanwhile in the woods with Twi, she comes across Timber who tells a story from his past, telling Twi he's never told anyone the story in an obvious attempt at flirtation. Flash Sentry could never even imagine to be as cool as Timber. Sunset also turns out to be a creep and was watching this happen. Since Twi isn't trying to kill herself, Sunset leaves her alone.

Derpy and Bulk Biceps. That is all.

At rock climbing, there's an earthquake but Twi states they aren't near any fault lines. Assuming they're in the US or at least, where the US is geographically in our world, this doesn't really narrow down anywhere in the country they may be but looking at fault line maps, they definitely aren't near the San Andreas Fault, the New Madrid seismic zone, or the east coast. Coming back from the audio commentaries, I noticed mountains in the background in the beginning and they mention how they had someone use their outside surroundings to get references to make the intro sequence cards which they stated were in either Washington or Oregon. This suggests Camp Everfree is somewhere around the Cascade Range. And considering they took buses to the camp, the city isn't far. Equestria Girls takes place in the Pacific Northwest.

Then the gem dust appears. Applejack then suddenly gets super strength and almost kills Rarity. Rarity then almost kills Applejack by generating a shield thing that throws Applejack back. Twi decides to get Applejack some stuff and Sunset joins her. At 29:57, the framerate just tanks and I laughed when I noticed this. And it's just part of the movie as both my Blu-ray and the YouTube download have this.

They then hear Flutters scream and arrive to find out Pinkie can make shit explode. Then Flutters gets her animal talking ability. Then Rarity and Applejack just walk in and what is going on with Pinkie?

Rainbow Dash has super speed and she dies after running into a wall at a speed higher than terminal velocity. They all figure out their abilities are geographically linked to the camp. Gloriosa arrives with the shit for Applejack and then more students come to her complaining about their problems. One is complaining about kicking his bean bag into the lake, and the other is Derpy whining about broken arrows. This part was pretty funny.

Timber then comes to get Gloriosa to come deal with Filthy Rich who's returned and Sunset has another auditory hallucination.

Next scene, they're all doing some gay lantern thing and Twi continues to struggle with her guilt. Timber is also there and tries to talk to her but she's too depressed. Later than night, Twi runs off again this time with Spike so at least Sunset knows she's not gonna kill herself. Sunset catches up with her and after grabbing her, sees her memories from the third person somehow.

Herobrine sighting #40

Turns out it's Sunset's magic thing. She can see people's memories and understand them. In one of the Comic-Con panel bonus features, someone asked what Sunset's Element would be if she had one and Meghan McCarthy responded saying something like she thought it would be empathy and this fits that. During this scene, there's a shot where Sunset walks towards Twi and her animation has another framerate drop. Sunset successfully womansplains Twi into staying or whatever and then Timber appears again, this time with an axe. Sunset finds out Timber's been spreading the gem dust. Sunset comes up with a theory that Timber's trying to run everyone out of camp so Gloriosa will sell it. I think. It's explained kinda confusingly and I didn't fully understand what was happening in this subplot.

The girls are repairing the dock and Applejack runs out of nails prompting Pinkie to toss her a box of some, almost turning it into a nail bomb considering she can make stuff explode now. Sunset arrives, explains shit, and uses her ability on Pinkie and sees her mind's on an entirely different plane of existence.

Herobrine Sighting #41

Then Sunset song. Not into it.

Afterwards, Sunset goes to find Twi who's fucked off somewhere, again. Sunset on the way there, comes across Timber and Gloriosa arguing and then bumps into Flash Sentry out of absolutely fucking nowhere. Fuck you Flash Sentry. Flash decides he wants to get back with Sunset but she brushes him off like the loser he is. Derpy consoles him again.

Sunset sees Timber go into some cave and some mysterious light flashes from it. She pulls out her phone and at this point I thought maybe someone finally got the idea to record shit happening but no, she calls Twi to get her to come help with the shit. They enter the cave and Sunset can feel there's Equestrian magic in the place and then Gloriosa reveals herself and has a manic episode. Sunset uses her empathy magic on her.

Herobrine sighting #42

In Gloriosa's memories we see a dickhead Filthy Rich talking about how she's behind on payments for the camp and now he owns the land. Payments to fucking whom though? Her and Timber's grandparents founded the camp and presumably owned the land. The only thing I can think of her failing to pay that results in the loss of the land is the property taxes leading to the state selling the land to Filthy Rich. Isn't it great that even if you own property, you're still just renting it from the government? You already own nothing and are happy.

This Filthy Rich is actually pretty jarring considering pony version of him is actually really nice and respectful and it's just his cunt of a wife and daughter that are problematic.

In the memory, Gloriosa finds seven stones that give her magical powers and crap. She was also the one behind the incidents at the camp. Sunset and Twi try womansplaining to Gloriosa but you can't womansplain to a womansplainer and she takes all the magical geodes. With them, she transforms into evil form and traps Sunset and Twi in plant roots.

She arrives at the camp to fuck shit up or something and her voice acting sucks as evil form. Her song's pretty good though. The girls use their powers to fight her in a lame-ass fight sequence with no dialogue. Spike chews through the roots confining Sunset and Twi and they run back to the camp and skipping to the only interesting part, Twi embraces her magic and confronts Midnight Sparkle inside her psyche with the help of her friends like it's a damn Persona game. However, unlike a Persona game, she completely rejects Midnight Sparkle as a part of her. Day is saved, the girls get the seven magical geodes and have permanent magic powers, whatever. Ending song's really good.

At the dance thing at the end, Twi and Timber are about to kiss only for Gloriosa to cuck both of them and make Timber go meet some donors or something. Younger me would've loved this. I fucking hated it when movies ended with a kiss as a child. Children don't want stupid romance stories. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy should totally kiss though. FlutterDash for life!

Then Sunset wonders where the magic in the cave came from and we see the statue portal at Canterlot High has a crack at the top with magic pouring out. Ok, so returning to the theory that MLP is Equestria Girls in the far future. What if the seven geodes are actually the first incarnation of the Elements and the calcite thing they were being stored on is the Tree of Harmony and this is the same cave it's located in in MLP and the camp eventually became the actual Everfree Forest? Now if this were true and there originally was a seventh element, what happened to it? I can't provide any possibilities but this does open up shit for fan works. The time paradox aspect of this theory could be explained as Equestria Girls to MLP being a causal time loop. Both the future and the past affect each other simultaneously. The ponies all being counterparts of their Equestria Girls selves is either some coincidence or they are somehow linked in a way that synchronises everyone's existence. Considering the supercontinent stuff, Equestria would have to be about 100 million years in the future. Now, I realize there's the problem of the lengths of days and lunar cycles changing and in MLP, it's stated days are 24 hours but this could be explained away as ponies simply having 24 hours relative to them but to us, a pony hour could be longer than our hours. Again, I don't actually believe MLP is Equestria Girls in the far future; I just came up with these theories in regard to that theory.

Anyways, Pinkie blows up the dock at the end.

Here's the thing, the movie was really strong in its first half with it being consistently funny and Twi's inner conflict genuinely engaging but it dropped off in the second half, losing a lot of its funniness, the plot getting kinda confusing, and I believe they fumbled Twi's stuff. The music also isn't as good as Rainbow Rocks or Friendship Games. Ultimately, I still think it's a good movie worthy of 4 EV, being saved by having such a strong first half. I give it 2 VB because of how they resolved Twi's inner conflict. As a Persona player, I simply cannot accept Twi completely rejecting Midnight Sparkle as a good choice. Midnight Sparkle should represent real feelings she has, feelings that she will always have. She struggles with guilt, awkwardness, maybe even internalised anger. One can never truly rid themselves of what they suppress. Instead of rejecting Midnight Sparkle, I believe Twi should've accepted she has these feelings and with her friends supporting her, can contend with these feelings and be strong enough not to reject Midnight Sparkle, but transform her into a positive force, not suppressing her feelings but using them as fuel to better herself and support her friends. I know, ponies and Persona; might as well call me Brandon. 4 DV because Camp Everfree is pretty interesting and the girls get their powers.

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Written 2025-2-14 Published 2025-3-1