Commander Hurricane This documentary does an excellent job describing what the brony community is like. A lot of it is from the view of other bronies, but you get to see or hear a lot of what other people think.There's no shortage of heartwarming moments, and plenty of funny situations as well. The animations made for this documentary are very professional and look like something out of the show itself, not to mention the music that fits so fluidly with the animation.They did a great job capturing the real antics of the bronies who were interviewed during the documentary. It didn't feel like they had a camera crew following around.In all, it's a pretty entertaining documentary and also pretty informative even to bronies, but you certainly don't have to be a brony to enjoy and learn a lot from this film.

velcrohead Right off the bat, I'll let you know that I am NOT a brony. I don't think there's anything wrong with a man watching "My Little Pony." I've seen one episode of "Friendship Is Magic" and the old 80's series. I get the nostalgia. I'm fine with people following it.This documentary, however, was created with the intention of explaining bronies to non-bronies like myself, as though to somehow acquit the fandom of the negative image it has been saddled with, fairly or unfairly. This film utterly fails to meet that objective.One would think, in order to show that bronies are just normal people like you and I, that normal people would be put front and center in this documentary. They are not. The filmmakers seemingly selected some of the most extreme bronies they could find. Basically every person focused on in this documentary is a walking, living, breathing personification of every negative brony stereotype. Without meaning to be cruel or unkind to those who featured in the movie, effeminate, basement-dwelling, autistic, pasty-skinned, doughy manchildren is all this reviewer could see. And that's a shame, because in the group shots at Bronycon there did appear to be some relatively normal-looking people in the crowd. Perhaps in the five minutes wherein the documentary glossed over the military brony luncheon they could've actually found someone to shatter the stereotype, but even in that brief moment, they highlighted the most effete members of the group. For heavens' sake, Tara Strong was standing right there with her boobs practically hanging out and not one eye was on her chest.If the hope was to bring bronies into the norm, perhaps the documentary shouldn't have focused on such outcasts. You have the pilot guy, who spends his days getting his life threatened because he unwisely paints a target on himself by putting pony art on his car. You have the kid who we all gave wedgies to in high school who took his PARENTS to bronycon (oh, the humiliation) and whose father, throughout the movie, looks one step away from sending the kid off to military school for de- programming. You have the agoraphobic, socially-crippled Asperger's guy from England, who, let's just face it, is a blazingly hot mess. You've got people who insist on being called by their internet screen names in real life. The list goes on, and none of them appear to be anything other than social outcasts and maladjusted losers. This is NOT how you show how normal you are.As a non-brony, I approached this documentary hoping it would do something to dispel the overwhelmingly negative stereotype that follows the Brony sub-culture around. I hoped to gain some understanding of it. I watched it along with my wife, who had never even heard of bronies prior to viewing it, and not only did it not represent the fandom well, but it actually caused my wife to think poorly of it.If you're a brony, you probably won't see anything wrong with the film. But be aware, if you recommend it to a non-brony as a way to make your fandom look better, you will be shooting yourself in the hoof, because this will only hurt their opinion. Vote me down if you wish. I have no hate for MLP:FIM fandom, and I think it's great you have your hobbies, but this is the way it looks to people outside the bronyhood.

Ryan Vienneau So, I watched it, the whole thing, and let me say it was really bad. I have nothing but respect for John de Lancie, Lauren Faust and Tara Strong but this did just not work out. There was not one good part of this. Keep in mind I will probably spoiler some stuff about the documentary (But I'm pretty sure you all know how this is going to go) so if you really don't want to know about that stuff: Watch it (Or don't, it might be better that way) then come back and read. Also I'm going to be doing a lot of comparisons between this and Indie Game: The Movie, just because they were both documentaries about a niche culture that were overfunded on kickstarter, so if you haven't seen Indie Game: The Movie (Watch it, it's very good) you may not get some of the references.Anyway, the main point of why this documentary is so bad is its subject matter. It's trying to justify something that shouldn't have to be justified in the first place, it's people watching a show with the target demographic being little girls, but it's also written so that parents can watch the show too and not feel left out by asinine humour. Unfortunately, a lot of "bronies" seem to think that watching a show out of the target demo is risqué, edgy, and pushing barriers. You don't see me acting like a special snowflake for watching Girls or Adventure Time or Gravity Falls, I'm not the target demo for any of those shows. This stuff doesn't need an hour and a half to explain, nor does it need $300 000 to do it. They didn't even touch the terrible parts of the "fandom", all they did was pat bronies on the back and ignore anything bad that ever happened.The film also seems to just be all over the place, you have upwards of five people you're supposed to be following and it just cuts between them saying things about their adventures. Half the time you have no idea whats going on they take an interview with a person and then cut to the next person who is in another continent yet you still think you're at the convention shown in the previous scene because all these conventions look exactly the same. It's a very scatterbrained experience, Lauren Faust talks about something, cut to a brony talking about something completely different, cut to animation that's all in rhyme, cut to someone speaking German with no subtitles because the name is there and then the name fades out and you get a split second to read what they just said. Half the time I don't know what's going on so I just zone out. With Indie Game: The Movie you get two story lines to follow, the production of Super Meat Boy, and the production of Fez, interspersed with Jonathan Blow talking about game design and such. Every time there's a cut you know who's talking, you know what storyline you're now following, and you know what's going on. Another thing is that Indie Game: The Movie really made you care for the people involved, you got to know them and you felt their hardships as they happened to them. When Super Meat Boy isn't showing up on the store you feel disappointed and annoyed with Microsoft just like the developers do, when it finally gets put up and the game is a hit you feel happy and you feel the same way the developers do. In the Brony doc you don't really feel anything for the people, there's just this disconnect. It's like when the kid (I forget his name) is all scared about telling his parents you don't really care because there's nothing to be ashamed of, it's just a goddamn television program (Also I didn't like how everyone almost treated telling people that they were a brony like coming out as being gay, they're not even close to being the same thing so shut up about it). There was no emotional weight attached to any of it. Take away the actual subject matter then you'd think $300 000 could at least make a film that is technically well done, but no, not even close. In the non-animated segments it looked like something local news would do (The animated segments looked like the show so I won't really complain because the animation in the show is brilliant). To make another Indie Game: The Movie comparison, when you look at some of the camera work in that movie it's magnificent, even if you look at the trailer you can see how great the cinematography is, the shots were well placed and they were very unique (Especially the one of the lineup of PAX I still can't get over how great it is). With this it all just looks kinda bland, you've seen every shot in countless other documentaries and so much of the movie is just talking heads staring at the camera saying whatever. But the worst offence comes in the green screen work, it looks very unpolished and in one scene there was actually green outlines around the people talking and it was really distracting. To sum it up, this movie was really bad, I don't think there was one redeeming quality of it (It wasn't even so bad it was funny). If you really want a documentary about a niche culture just watch Indie Game: The Movie. If you want a documentary to pat you on the back because you're a special little snowflake for watching a show outside of the target demographic, then this is the movie for you. Otherwise, don't waste your time.

eturk-135-690080 So I just downloaded the digital copy of this for $12.99 and I'm assuming the reason you're reading this right now is probably because you're wondering if this documentary is worth it. In my opinion, it is if you are a brony yourself.Outsiders will not find anything here that will interest them, or keep them hooked for 90 minutes. This was definitely a love letter to the bronies, from the bronies. This doesn't mean that it's a bad movie, but you should know that going into it. Now unto what did and didn't work for me. My biggest issue was with pacing. The movie seemed to jump from one thing to the other with almost no transition at points. I would sit there wondering to myself "did they really need to include that clip?", but this is only a big problem in the first half hour or so. It's when the movie actually makes it to the conventions that I began to really enjoy it. There were a couple other problems, but that was the one that really stuck out for me. Now unto the good. One great thing that the filmmakers did that I really enjoyed, were the portions at Bronycon. These sections of the movie did a good job at showing off exactly what it is that we do as a fandom. I found myself smiling at a couple things said in interviews that only a brony would understand. I was not in attendance at this particular convention, but this movie made me want to be there. It looked like a fun time. The other conventions weren't handled as well as Bronycon, but I still enjoyed them. Anyways, buy this if you're a brony. Be free to skip right over this is you aren't