My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas | |
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Directed by | Vic Dal Chele |
Written by | Jennie Romano |
Based on | My Little Pony by Bonnie Zacherle |
Produced by | Robert Wintrop |
Starring | Tabitha St. Germain Janyse Jaud Venus Terzo Lenore Zann |
Edited by | Derek Iversen |
Music by | Mark Watters |
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Distributed by | Paramount Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 66 min. (Feature: 44 min.) |
Countries | United States Canada |
Language | English |
My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas is a 2005 animated Christmas film produced by SD Entertainment, and released on October 25, 2005 by Paramount Home Entertainment.[1] It marks the first film appearance of the titular toy franchise since their big-screen debut in 1986. The DVD includes a bonus episode, Dancing in the Clouds, which is first released on video bundled with Star Catcher in 2004.
A Very Minty Christmas was made available on hubworld.com (a successor of Hasbro's MonkeyBarTV website), alongside My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade and My Little Pony Crystal Princess: The Runaway Rainbow but were later removed from the site.
The popularity of Friendship Is Magic has increased demand for reissues of the original My Little Pony titles. Shout! Factory has now begun to produce DVD reissues of some of these titles, including A Very Minty Christmas.[2]
The film made its television debut on Playhouse Disney's Movie Time Monday on December 25, 2006, and on Toon Disney's Big Movie Show on December 29. It finally premiered on Discovery Family on December 13, 2014.[3]
Minty accidentally breaks the "Here Comes Christmas Candy Cane", which apparently guides Santa Claus to Ponyville. To try to make up for doing this, Minty gives each pony one of her socks (she hangs them like stockings on the other ponies' fireplaces). When Pinkie Pie finds out what Minty has done, Minty states that the sock giving is a bad idea, and then decides she should go to the North Pole herself to set things right. Minty is terrible at balloon flying, so the chase is on to save her in the process of saving Christmas.
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The DVD includes a second animated feature, Dancing in the Clouds. It was originally issued on a VHS with a Pegasus pony toy, Star Catcher. Chronologically taking place after A Charming Birthday and before Friends are Never Far Away, it shows Star Catcher's first encounter with Skywishes.
A comic adaption was published by Tokyopop in 2005.
The special received positive reviews. Mike Long of DVDtalk stated that "The translation from toy to screen and back again seems to be the norm and the obligatory Christmas special is a staple of this phenomenon.[4] My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas doesn't come close to matching the holiday magic of the classic Christmas specials, but some youngsters will love the bright colors and the gentle story of a pony who just wants to give her friends a merry Christmas."