A Brony Tale: A Review Post

It's been a long-time coming, but Horse-News finally pirated purchased a copy of this year's brony documentary (we seriously have one of these once a year anymore). We have watched it in its entirety, and have gathered opinions from the only place that matters to us; /mlp/.

Let's hop right into it.

Right off the bat, the biggest real complaint that people have with the film, which is a documentary about the origins of bronies (and Ashleigh Ball's experiences with them), is the error of the origin of the word brony in the first place. Told by everyone's favorite venue authority Final Draft of Everfree Network, the film claims that the word "brony" originated on /b/, and outright denies the accepted origins of the word being a combination of "bro" and "pony" (we provided screencaps of the word's first usage on /co/ in another post).

While this may seem to be a minor detail, the fact that Final Draft's assessment was trusted, even after he declares on-camera that he was not present for the beginning of the fandom, and joined when it was already a "movement", binge-watching numerous episodes, is a lapse in judgement that many consider critical to the core of the film. This sentiment is especially noticeable on 4chan, where it all began.

This error was brought to the Director's attention when it was noticed by the board, but was brushed off during an AMA (likely because it is far too late to address the problem). In addition, some nor/mlp/eople took issue with some of the representatives appearing in the film, including several with whom they have previously feuded.

Some viewers were also upset to discover that the section titled "Brony Escorts" had absolutely nothing to do with prostitution, and demanded a refund.

Beyond those complaints, the majority of the viewers agreed that it is a decent film, and easily one of the best "brony" documentaries made to date.

The documentary is loosely framed around Ashleigh Ball's decision to attend Bronycon, and her first real encounters with bronies en-masse. She mentions how she assumed that they were all perverted beforehand (and that her opinion was presumably changed in the end), and gives a history of her performing career leading up to her work on My Little Pony as Rainbow Dash and Applejack. We get to see some #horsefamous musicians, some EQD staffmember, some interviews with Hey Ocean! (the men in the band are NOT fans of the bronies), some psychologists, some charity work, and of even a whole "Brony Family".

Other things that the documentary features include:

Mandopony demonstrating his "O" face.

A furry cramming meat in his mouth.

Neil Degrasse Tyson

Saberspark after eating a lemon

An Associate Producer temporarily removing the stick from his ass

An amateur proctologist who wants you to smell his finger, after having just examined the Associate Producer.

A house full of betas

The 11th Street Crips

Ashleigh looking cute

Ashleigh looking less cute

Ashleigh looking...uhh...good

Ashleigh looking for a soulmate

And Ashleigh Ball eating something that will most assuredly be Photoshopped into something else, and then into a Subway sandwich.

7/10 its was okay. If you have to explain to somebody what a brownie is, use this documentary, THEN use the others, it will probably work better for you.

A Brony Tale is available on Apple stuff and Amazon.