My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (TV Series) A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2 (2012) User Reviews

there's only one word for this: EPIC!!!

[zachattack1285-351-594685 · 10/10 · 22 April 2012]

never thought i would say this about My Little Pony but this episode is surprisingly epic.

*note: this same review is in part 1*

Story: Twilight finds out her brother Shining Armor is engaged to be wed to Celestia's niece, Princess Mi Amore Cadenca, know to Twi as Cadence, her old baby... er, Fole-sitter. however, there's something off with Cadence. something only Twi is seeing but nobody else is and by the time everyone does find out, it'll be too late as a War breaks out, placing the world in danger. for the 3rd time in a row.

Animation: the animation is like as it was for the entire series so not much to say there. what did surprise me is that they put in Violence in My Little Pony. Violence. something nobody saw coming.

Music: as always, the music is awesome and this 2-parter features the only songs i like in the entire show: This Day Aria and Love is in Bloom. This Day Aria is the villains song and is surprisingly dark and epic, like a villain song from a Disney Movie. Love is in Bloom plays at the end and is catchy as heck. i'm still humming it.

final verdict: to be honest, i went in expecting a sappy romance like the Notebook or Titanic(before the iceberg). i did not, however, expect that plot twist and the world being put into danger again. this Season Finale surprised me and will you.

also, this is a good episode to show friends or family and let them see why Grown Men are liking this show. who knows, may turn them into Brony's and Pega-sisters.

Tension and emotion continued

[TheLittleSongbird · 9/10 · 28 May 2020]

Found myself really liking the first part of Season 2's two part finale "A Canterlot Wedding". It wasn't perfect, with how quickly and easily Twilight being turned upon not being completely easy to buy, the cliffhanger being abrupt (though still interesting) and Cadance's true intentions being obvious too early. At the same time, it was very well animated and scored, was exceptionally well written and had some of the season's best characterisation, including Twilight and Celestia being the most interesting they've been in a while.

To me, Part 2 is even better and such a great way to end a mostly good if inconsistent second season. The not so good things are fewer and not as big and the good things being more numerous and even more fantastic. "A Canterlot Wedding Part 2" is darker. It is more emotionally varied. It is more intense. And the storytelling and characterisation is even meatier. From personal opinion, it is one of the best episodes of Season 2 and among 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's' better two part season finales. For any fan of the show it is in my mind a must.

Although the animation is great in Part 1, it is even better in Part 2 as more of it stands out. The more nightmarish scenes are visually stunning and suitably unsettling. The character design for Chrysalis is awesome, her transformation being freaky as heck. Again the songs are memorable, among the best of the season and show, and say a lot about the characters singing them. "This Day Aria" is epic in every sense.

Once again, the writing is affecting and has tension without being all doom and gloom. The taunting is quite unnerving. The story is even more compelling than in the first part, with a good deal of intensity, some subtle dynamics and a touching re-encounter with Twilight and Cadance. Chrysalis to me is easily one of the show's best villains, with her awesomely nightmarish character design and Kathleen Barr's voice acting (who clearly had a ball playing her).

Like with Part 1, Twilight is still fascinating and her arc even more poignant. The action is adrenaline thumping and the story always compels and as intense as 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' has gotten. Tara Strong and Kathleen Barr provide perfectly pitched voice work.

My only issue that struck me on first watch of "A Canterlot Wedding: Part 2" is the rushed climax.

Can see too where one of the reviews is coming from when saying that the episode could have shown as to whether Twilight's friends were sorry for their treatment of her.

Overall, great end to Season 2 and superior to the still very good first part. 9/10

Why are there more negative than positive reviews ?

[floriankaiser-47872 · 10/10 · 25 June 2019]

This Final of a season has done everything right. In this episode. With "A Canterlot Wedding: Part 2" we get here perhaps the best MLP episode and I can not understand, if some do not like this episode.

n this episode, we now see Shinnig Armor and Cadance marry, but before that, Twilight and Candance must stop perhaps the most intriguing villain in the series, the changeling named Chrysalis, which has captured Candace and pretended to be Cadance, is Shining Armor To marry Cadance, then to feed herself and her children (the other changelings) with the love of the ponies. That's one of the most ingenious plot twists in cartoon history. We hear a song (sung by Cadance and Chrysalis) and this one is just excellent, this one really has the feeling of being in a Disney musical.

And to the end, we see an end that makes the episode perfect, an end that is not as epic as the finale of "Avatar - The last Airbender" but gets goose bumps when Candance and Shining Armor with the power of love over Chrysalis and the Changlings win.

This episode is charming, heartwarming, epic and just beautiful. And that's why this episode is the best season finale of MLP so far, as well as one of the best cartoon episodes of all time.

The episode that locked me into the show

[kyzentruth · 10/10 · 29 October 2019]

Very well made. It's just cute, but there's a great story too.

Time had been flying since the S2 ending

[rbn_lrk-1 · 10/10 · 21 July 2019]

Twilight's Big Brother is getting married. That is Shining Armor a youthful stallion. Somewhere the villain is hiding in the meanwhile, and a story twist is coming up. Some of the songs includes the orchestral This Day Aria. A certain DJ pony comes back. The positive message is that love conquers all thanks to the power of love from two ponies.

My least favourite rod FIM

[boymunk10 · 2/10 · 28 August 2015]

This episode is frustrating to sit through and it pains me to watch it for only the second time. I like almost like every episode of this show with the exception of one other. This was written by Megan McCarthy which is a shame since she's my favourite writer and wrote my favourite episode twilights Kingdom. I don't hate how twilight just sudden now has a brother but rather how we're just expected to feel for these ponies we've just met. None of twilights friends care about how she feels even when there's an episode all about taking her feelings more seriously (lesson zero). An episode about how not to judge a book by its cover (bridle gossip) and that's a lesson she needs to learn again but wait it turns out she is evil so thank heavens she was right. Too bad none of her friends dare think to do anything and don't get me started on them not apologizing until the villain points out that they didn't listen to her so applejack apologies but do the rest do? No they do not. Celestia basic says she learned something but clearly Celestia didn't. They have a kinda cool action sequence which in reality was completely pointless and the characters end up exactly where they started the scene earlier. Luna doesn't notice a changeling invasion so clearly she wasn't doing her job well. Two of the songs are extremely bland and forgettable with the exception of this day aria which was okay but is overrated. The episode overall feels Very distant from other episodes in a way I cannot explain but I can tell you it's my least favourite episode from the show. Go and watch the return of harmony or magical mystery cure but not this. If you like it then that's fine but the people who defend this episode say it's the experience that makes it great but a animation affect or two isn't going to change my opinion on a episode. Again if like it fine but it's got too many problems for my liking

Weakest of the bunch

[TobiasTJones · 4/10 · 6 August 2012]

A+ for having a pony using another pony as a machine gun against a horde of evil shape-shifters.

F for having the evil character's main strength being the ability to feed on love, and then having the solution be... love?

Not decently explained and very confusing (and, as I mentioned before, a pony used another pony as a MACHINE GUN)

I guess the lesson is that love will beat even... love? Or... I dunno.

Kudos to the animation and actors as usual though.

Also, the entire storyline in itself wasn't bad, and the use of changelings and many other outside sources of inspiration is always fun and educational, if you will.

Still I feel this two-parter had more downsides than upsides: the rushed inclusion of the brother and babysitter, to name a huge one.

Also; Princess of WHAT?

But yeah.

10 lines yet?

The episode that turned once-good friends into secondary antagonists. (Continued)

[adampkalb · 1/10 · 17 September 2016]

This is the worst episode of the whole series because it destroys the main characters' friendship in a kids' cartoon show about friendship and glosses over the consequences of it when the writer already made a much better episode about this last season called Party of 1, with Pinkie Pie in Twilight Sparkle's place. It also makes nearly all of its characters worthless to the plot because the fight scenes between the Mane 6 and the Changelings pretending to be them was made worthless when they all got captured and taken in by the other Changelings. Princess Luna also misses the whole Changeling invasion and doesn't save Princess Celestia when she gets captured because the episode assumes that Luna shirking her Changeling watch duties that she took so seriously before would be funny. Canterlot would have been destroyed by the Changelings' toxic waste if Twilight Sparkle didn't help Princess Cadence and Shining Armor save the day at the end. The episode also assumed that Applejack giving Twilight 1 little sorry after they left her to get captured and possibly dehydrate or die of starvation in Queen Chrysalis's cave would be good enough because "she fooled every pony", but they're Twilight's closest friends and they should know better than to not trust her. In conclusion, just as many people who hate Lisa Goes Gaga from The Simpsons should also hate this episode because they're both ratings trap season finales in 2012 that ruin our favorite characters. There are technically worse cartoon episodes out there, such as Herpe the Love Sore from Family Guy and Rick Potion #9 from Rick and Morty.

I understand why people would like this episode, but you still can't ignore all of the unnecessary cruelty and character derailment that lies beneath the emotional songs and the action. Rarity was the worst derailed one of all, which is especially apparent at the end. Do we even know if they were really sorry for abandoning Twilight before they found out she was right about Queen Chrysalis? Because the episode didn't show us that. What if she was wrong and they were never sorry because of it? This is just a really miserable episode because following the moral of the story cost Twilight all her best friends except Cadence in Part 1, and the script glosses over that issue in Part 2.

This is the cruelest moment ever in a show ALL ABOUT FRIENDSHIP, no less, and you should care about what happened at the end of Part 1. You thought Putting Your Hoof Down was bad? This goes above and beyond with what that did. Princess Luna was also very wrong to miss the Changeling invasion in Part 2, and even if you say she missed it because she's nocturnal, that's not an excuse. The message about trusting your instincts was hypocritical because Princess Celestia shunned Twilight before when Twilight did trust her instincts, and she was doing the right thing to save Shining Armor from the evil Queen Chrysalis who was pretending to be Princess Cadence. Should we be mad that Twilight trusted her instincts because she ruined her brother's wedding, or should we be glad that Twilight trusted her instincts because that cost Twilight her friends and allowed Queen Chrysalis to capture her so she could find the real Princess Cadence and foil Queen Chrysalis? It's sad that ruining the characters was a necessary evil for this plot. No, I can't excuse what awful friends they became.