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My Little Pony: The Movie
Directed by	Michael Joens
Produced by	Joe Bacal Tom Griffin
Written by	George Arthur Bloom
Starring	Danny DeVito Rhea Perlman Madeline Kahn Cloris Leachman Charlie Adler Russi Taylor Tammy Amerson Tony Randall Nancy Cartwright Cathy Cavadini Frank Welker
Music by	Robert J. Walsh (score), Tommy Goodman and Barry Herman (songs)
Distributed by	DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group (USA - theatrical) Paramount Pictures (Canada) Rhino Entertainment (DVD)
Release date(s)	June 20, 1986 (USA)
Running time	89 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

Ratings
Argentina:	Atp
Australia:	G
Sweden:	Btl
United Kingdom:	U
United States:	G

My Little Pony: The Movie is a 1986 animated film based on the popular My Little Pony toy line. The movie features the voice acting talents of Danny Devito, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Rhea Perlman, and Tony Randall. The movie was succeeded by a television series which ran in late 1986. A 10-part episode from that series, The End of Flutter Valley, was a sequel to the movie.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Voice Cast 3 Musical Numbers 4 Inconsistencies and errors 5 See also 6 External links

At Dream Castle, the My Little Ponies are preparing a festival to celebrate the first day of Spring. From the Volcano of Gloom, the witch Hydia watches the event via her cauldron and, disgusted by the frivolity, tells her daughters that they must ruin it.

Baby Lickety-Split, one of the Baby Pony Dancers, tries to gain attention by inventing an elaborate new dance step, but only succeeds in tripping up the others and ruining the whole performance. When she is scolded by Buttons and the other Baby Ponies, a tearful Lickety-Split runs to the Lullabye Nursery where she packs her things to run away. Spike the baby dragon is unable to persuade her to stay, so he compromises by going with her to keep an eye on her, and leaves behind a note for the other My Little Ponies.

Hydia's daughters, Draggle and Reeka, are inexperienced at causing mischief and fail utterly at ruining the festival. They return to the Volcano of Gloom in disgrace, where Witch Hydia presents a better plan - they'll make Smooze. The sisters collect a series of disgusting ingredients, but neglect to obtain the Phlume, the prospect of which terrifies them. The spell seems to work regardless, creating a pool of sentient purple lava that gleefully buries Ponyland.

After discovering Spike's note, Magic Star, Shady and Gusty set off to search for him and Baby Lickety-Split. They go straight past a chasm that the pair have fallen into, but fail to hear their cries over the roar of a nearby waterfall. They next search the area near the home of the Bushwoolies, when a wave of Smooze rushes towards them. They make a hasty retreat, but Gusty and two Bushwoolies are splattered with Smooze, which refuses to come off and makes them highly irritable and pessimistic. The group returns to Dream Castle, apart from Shady and a purple Bushwoolie, who continue the search for Baby Lickety-Split and Spike.

The Smooze meanwhile reaches the chasm where Lickety-Split and Spike are trapped, forcing them to retreat down an underground tunnel.

Seeing Gusty's predicament, Wind Whistler and North Star fly off to retrieve the Rainbow of Light, a magical object that is kept safe by a child named Megan since their previous adventure. Megan hands it over, but insists on coming with them, as do her younger siblings Danny and Molly. By the time they return, Dream Castle has already been buried by Smooze, and its inhabitants are being forced uphill. Megan releases the Rainbow, which initially succeeds in halting the Smooze but is then gobbled up by it. The stalled Smooze then hardens, making it impossible for the Ponies to retrieve their home or their weapon.

Hydia realises that the reason the Smooze hardened was because the Phlume was not included in the ingredients. She sends her daughters to collect it, revealing that the source of the Phlume is a massive, putrid monster which becomes angered at their attempts to milk it, beating them with its many tentacles.

Leaving Dream Valley to get help, Megan, Fizzy and Wind Whistler arrive at the home of the Moochick, the little wizard who previously gave them the Rainbow of Light. Hearing their predicament, he offers to conjure them a new home, but all of his suggested designs are ridiculously outlandish. It's his rabbit, Habbit, that provides the answer - Paradise Estate, which the Ponies agree suits them perfectly. Habbit then produces a map to the home of the Flutter Ponies, whom the Moochick explains has the power to defeat the Smooze - but, he warns, they might not be welcome to the idea of visitors. He then magics them and the Paradise Estate back to Dream Valley, where the rest of the Little Ponies take delight in their new home. Megan, accompanied by Wind Whister, Magic Star, Fizzy, Danny and Molly, begin the journey to Flutter Valley.

Spike and Lickety-Split's underground explorations lead them to the Grundles, goblin-like creatures whose native Grundleland was also destroyed by Smooze. Though frightening in appearance, the Grundles are quite friendly, and offer to help the pair find their way home.

Meanwhile, Draggle and Reeka return with the Phlume, which Hydia uses to awaken the Smooze, causing it to become more powerful. Although she is satisfied with the apparent strength of the Smooze, Hydia sends her daughters on once last errand to contact a monster named Ahgg, whom they bribe into helping them stop Megan's group from reaching Flutter Valley.

The strengthened Smooze reaches Lickety-Split's party, who escape across a river into a field with a wishing well surrounded by beautiful flowers. They are shocked to hear a voice from inside the well, and when they wheel up the bucket they discover Morning Glory, a Flutter Pony. She thanks them for freeing her and explains that she could not fly out with soaked wings. In return, she leads the way to her home in Flutter Valley, assuring them she'll help them against the Smooze.

As for Megan's group, they are travelling through a field of giant sunflowers when the Smooze catches up with them as well. After a few close calls they manage to escape, but once then are startled when a purple ball bounces towards them - but instead of the Smooze it's the purple Bushwoolie. Shady follows, and together they cross the Shadow Forest, dodging the attacks of sentient trees.

They enter a valley filled with flowers, signifying that they are closer to Flutter Valley. But as they are crossing a canyon, they are blocked by the giant eight-legged monster Ahgg, who has been waiting for them. He seems impossible to defeat until Molly has the idea to tickle him, which renders the beast helpless in seconds.

Finally arriving at Flutter Valley, Megan pleads with Rosedust, Queen of the Flutter Ponies, to help them defeat the Smooze. She claims sympathy for their cause, but refuses to get involved, wanting to protect her own people first. Morning Glory arrives and tells of her rescue from the well, insisting that the Flutter Ponies must show kindness to the Little Ponies. Rosedust relents, and assembles her army.

Back in Dream Valley, the Witches sail on the ocean of Smooze as it approaches the Paradise Estate. It comes so close that the Little Ponies are forced to take refuge on the roof. As Buttons tells the others not to give up hope, the sky becomes filled with Flutter Ponies. At Rosedust's command, they blast the Smooze with Utter Flutter, forcing it back towards the Volcano of Gloom, in process successfully uncovering both Dream Castle and the Rainbow of Light. The freed Rainbow attacks the Witches, carrying them into the sky and dropping them into the Smooze-filled Volcano from a great height. With the danger gone, the Flutter Ponies remove the last remnants of the Smooze from Gusty and the others. Now that the Little Ponies have the Paradise Estate, Magic Star offers Dream Castle to the Grundles to help rebuild their kingdom. Megan returns the Rainbow of Light to the Little Ponies, and Wind Whistler and North Star fly the children into the sunset.

• Charles Adler as Spike/Woodland Creature
• Tammy Amerson as Megan
• Michael Bell as Grundle
• Sheryl Bernstein as Buttons, Bushwoolie
• Susan Blu as Lofty/Grundle, Bushwoolie
• Nancy Cartwright as Gusty, Bushwoolie #4
• Cathy Cavadini as North Star
• Peter Cullen as Grundle, Ahgg
• Laura Dean as Sundance, Bushwoolie #2
• Danny DeVito as Grundle King
• Ellen Gerstell as Magic Star
• Keri Houlihan as Molly
• Madeline Kahn as Draggle
• Cloris Leachman as Hydia
• Laurel Page as Sweet Stuff
• Rhea Perlman as Reeka
• Alice Playten as Baby Lickety-Split, Bushwoolie #1
• Tony Randall as The Moochick
• Russi Taylor as Morning Glory, Rosedust, Bushwoolie, Skunk
• Jill Wayne as Shady, Baby Lofty
• Frank Welker as Bushwoolie #3, Grundle

• "My Little Pony Opening Chorus"
• "We're Witches" - Hydia
• "I'll Go It Alone" - Baby Lickety-Split, Spike
• "I'll do the Dirty Work" - Draggle, Reeka
• "Nothing Can Stop The Smooze" - Hydia, Draggle, Reeka, Smooze
• "There's Always Another Rainbow" - Megan
• "Home" - The Moochick
• "Grundles Good" - The Grundles
• "What Good Could Wishing Do?" - Baby Lickety-Split, Morning Glory
• "My Little Pony Ending Chorus"

• When Baby Lickety-Split runs to the waterfall she is only carrying her backpack. In the close-up she appears to be wearing a headband as well, but in the next long shot the headband disappears again.
• When the Ponies return to the Castle after searching for Baby Lickety-Split, all the Spring Festival decorations are gone.
• There is no explanation to the fate of the Sea Ponies when the Smooze covers Ponyland.
• When Hydia gives the Phlume to the Smooze, the Smooze initially spits it out on to Hydia's dress. In the next shot, the Phlume stain is gone.
• When Gusty, Sweet Stuff and the bushwoolies are Smoozed their personalities change completely. When Spike is Smoozed, he remains the same.
• At the beginning of the movie when the Rainbow is released, the locket opens horizontally. At the end of the movie, when the Rainbow returns to the locket, it opens vertically.
• At many points during the movie there are multiple copies of the same pony, ponies there that shouldn't be, or ponies that are colored or drawn wrongly, such as:
  • When Hydia looks through the looking pool to watch the Ponies prepare for the Spring Festival, she sees four identical ponies with Posey's coloring circling the maypole.
  • When Magic Star returns to Dream Castle to announce that the Smooze is coming, Shady appears and shouts, "What's Smooze?" when Shady is supposed to still be out looking for Baby Lickety-Split. Shady is also seen inside Dream Castle when the Smooze covers it.
  • When Wind Whistler and North Star arrive back in Ponyland with Megan and gang, for a few seconds North Star is colored like Magic Star.
  • Shady is still among the Little Ponies during the fight between the Rainbow of Light and the Smooze.
  • During the escape from Ahgg, Wind Whistler, Magic Star and Shady are momentarily replaced by North Star, Gingerbread and Lickety-Split. Lickety-Split is herself replaced by Sweet Stuff as the Ponies climb the rockface, before the three original Ponies reappear.
  • When Buttons orders everyone to take refuge on the roof of Paradise Estate, Magic Star is among the Ponies there. Later, when they are on the roof itself, there is a unicorn version of Baby Lofty.

• My Little Pony
• My Little Pony (TV series)
• My Little Pony Tales
• My Little Pony DVD releases

• My Little Pony: The Movie at the Internet Movie Database
• My Little Pony: The Movie at Rotten Tomatoes