My Little Pony: The Movie A pleasure from start to finish, Jayson Thiessen's
lush feature adaptation of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic series was never going to get a fair shake due to the brand's toxicity.
While that Best Picture nominee, the first ever animated
feature to be so honored and the only one to do it when there were only five contenders, obviously owed a huge debt to Jean Cocteau's landmark 1946
adaptation of the classic Jeanne - Marie Leprince de Beaumont fairy tale, thanks to
lush characterizations, superb animation, brilliant set pieces and a marvelous soundtrack it instantaneously entered the pantheon of all - time great Disney classics.