@CORDZ2000
The first time I watched Rainbow Rocks, I didn’t like it. I thought the dialogue was too childish, the villains weren’t too interesting (three villains doing a jab at each other is not an interesting scenario), the songs were too pop-music for my taste (which is ironic in a movie called Rainbow ROCKS), the context of the film was too inconsistent and Rainbow Dash was a jerk during the entire film, which also doesn’t make sense after apoligizing to her friends in the first film.
The only thing I liked in the entire film was Sunset Shimmer, not because of what it is, but because
what I wished it was. You have a character confronting the consequences of her previous actions. Everyone hates her. She knows she made a huge mistake. She wants to fix this problem. She wants to make friends after all the disaster she did in the first movie. It could have felt like a very relatable continuation of the 2013 film. But not only there’s not enough development, she’s also used as a tool, a character that we can make the same joke about her previous actions four or five times (something that they would repeat again in the third and fourth EG films).
It’s a pity, because I think
it’s a really good idea for a story.
That said, I’ll watch it again and give it a second chance. I used to hate that film many years ago, but now that I have the 2017 MLP film, it could be fun to rewatch the second and third EG films from a different angle. Judging for what it is instead of what it isn’t.
EDIT: About Flash Sentry, like everyone else, I think he’s a very basic character, with three lines in each EG film and not much more than that. That said, what makes less sense than Flash Sentry as a character is Twilight Sparkle suddenly falling in love with him in a blink of an eye. I still think it’s the first of many signs that the MLP writers don’t know how to write an interesting story.
I’m not sure if people don’t mention that and instead they used Flash Sentry as a punchline for every criticism of the EG films because they love Twilight Sparkle so much, but I think people should think of that detail.