The Smooze can move its form as a large mass or break off pieces of itself to act as an attacking force and make use of a wider range of tactics when hunting prey. It seems to have an understanding of language and can be goaded into taking certain actions, like reaching out at Blackjack, despite a live electrical wire nearby which harmed the Smooze and made it retreat.
It was theorized by Nurse Graves that the unique conditions created in the reactor combined with corpses of dead ponies who tried to escape the prison through the reactor were what caused the Smooze to be born. The being can mold parts of itself into attacking appendages like maws or lift itself up and act like a tidal wave. The Smooze as a whole, appears as a large gelatinous mass of slime. While it is not actively seeking targets, the Mayor of Meatlocker has been making arrangements with the Zodiacs to find a way to remove it before it causes an incident. The Smooze (or a quantity of it at least) somehow managed to survive the destruction of Hightower Prison and continues to roam the area. Then the Smooze attacked three flaming ghouls, which seemed to make it ill and caused it to retreat. It was goaded by Blackjack and Rampage to emerge from a toilet on the higher levels of Hightower after the hurled various insults, Rampage switching personalities in-between insults. The mass of Smooze itself could rise up as a whole to attack and pursued Blackjack and her group, harrying them for several floors. Cerberus' energy weapons were found to be particularly effective against the Smooze and its slime pony extensions of itself. Stygius found his sonic scream ability destabilized the slime ponies, causing them to burst, spreading the acidic goop but into small clumps rather than semi-sentient attackers. The slime ponies were found to be acidic, regular bullets would pass through them and shotgun blasts would temporarily destabilize the masses of slime. The creature attacked Blackjack and her group by breaking pieces of itself off, allowing them to form into slime ponies. The sugary cuteness of the Little Ponies masks a corporate greed as cold and sharp as a razor blade.The Smooze was first observed as a large, slimy, gelatinous mass down in the reactor level. But the real theme song of “My Little Pony” is the ring of the cash register, as Hasbro attempts to turn unwitting young viewers into customers. Giving weight, volume and convincing motion to an amorphous character is extremely difficult, and these animators simply aren’t equal to the challenge.Ĭomposer Tommy Goodman and lyricist Barry Harman contributed a number of extraneous, saccharine songs that give new currency to the term doggerel. It’s hard to understand why director Michael Joens accepted a script that featured the Smooze so prominently, as none of the artists can animate it. The film was drawn in Japan and Korea for Sunbow/Marvel, and the animation looks like rewarmed Saturday morning kidvid. But the entire cast whines and camps and overacts so shamelessly that listening to “My Little Pony” is like plugging your headphones into a ham actor. All ends happily for the toys-if not the viewers-as the Ponies move into their new home, Paradise Manor (available at your neighborhood toy store).ĭanny DeVito, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Rhea Pearlman and Tony Randall provide the voices for the Smooze, the witches and an absent-minded elf.
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The witches summon up the Smooze, a lavender monster that resembles a lava flow, and send it out to flood the surrounding landscape.Īfter a meandering series of formula adventures, the Ponies defeat their foes with the help of three drippy human children. George Bloom’s script trots out all the different models-Earth Ponies, Unicorn Ponies, Flutter Ponies, Baby Ponies, Baby Sea Ponies-for the customers’ inspection, even if they have nothing to do with the minimal storyline.Īs the cute Little Ponies celebrate the advent of spring, the witch Hydia and her daughters, Reeka and Draggle, plot to make Ponyland “dank, dark and dreary"-an odd goal for three characters who live in a volcano. (They’re said to be quite popular with little girls.) This one hawks a line of determinedly cute little horsies with long manes and tails, made by Hasbro. “My Little Pony” represents the latest entry in the recent spate of gigantic commercials disguised as animated features for children. Watching “My Little Pony: The Movie” (citywide) is like being immersed in cotton candy for an hour and a half: The sticky-sweet cuteness is piled on so thickly that adults leave the theater checking their teeth for new cavities.