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The Barbie Diaries (2006)

After watching and mostly enjoying the recent rash of Barbie movies based on different legends and fairy tales, I was curious to see “The Barbie Diaries.” I’m sorry to say that I was disappointed. To begin with, the animation was odd. Barbie looked nothing like the Barbie we’ve come to expect in the other films, and all the characters looked too real, as though we were trying to break through that Barbie mentality and see them as being real people. But that didn’t work either, because the details were missing. It was more realistic, and yet it wasn’t. The storyline … Continue reading →

Barbie in The Twelve Dancing Princesses (2006)

In this, the most recent release in the Barbie movie series, our golden girl stars as Genevieve, the seventh of twelve daughters born to a loving king and queen. Unfortunately, the queen has passed away, leaving the king alone to raise the children, but he’s done fairly well on his own. Each girl has their own personality and their own talents, and their days are spent developing those talents. Each afternoon they gather together to dance, a tradition their mother began. She loved dancing and even had a pavilion built outside the castle for that purpose. The king begins to … Continue reading →

Barbie in The Magic of Pegasus (2005)

At last, we see Barbie show some temper! Starring as Princess Annika in “The Magic of Pegasus,” she chafes at her parents’ instruction that she is to stay inside the castle. She even throws a tantrum, telling her parents that they are ruining her life. Just an hour or so later, after sneaking out of the castle to go ice skating down in the village, she begins to understand why her parents were keeping such a close eye on her – a wizard named Wenlock swoops down and tries to carry her off. She is saved just in time by … Continue reading →

Barbie in Fairytopia (2005)

In this installment of the Barbie movie series, Elena is a flower fairy who lives deep inside a peony. She drinks nectar, plays with Bibble, her puffball friend, and shares secrets with her friend Dandelion. Only one thing mars this perfect existence: she has no wings. All the other fairies have wings, and some of them even tease her about it. She tries not to mind, but deep inside, she wonders why she’s different. Laverna has a deep and sinister plot to take over Fairyland. Always jealous of her sister, the Enchantress, she has found a way to usurp her … Continue reading →

Barbie in The Princess and the Pauper (2004)

Next in the Barbie movie series is “The Princess and the Pauper.” Anneliese is a princess, used to being pampered and dressed in the finest clothes. Her day is scheduled, she must be perfect at all times, and she is engaged to be married to the king of a nearby kingdom. She longs for her freedom. Every night she dreams about what it would be like to do whatever she wanted to do for just one day, but that chance is never given to her. In the meantime, she has fallen in love with Julian, her tutor, but she knows … Continue reading →

Barbie in Rapunzel (2002)

Second in the Barbie movie series is “Rapunzel.” The damsel with unusually long hair has lived her entire life in an enchanted castle, behind a wall that is so high, only a mighty dragon named Sir Hugo is strong enough to fly up and over. Rapunzel is unaware of the world that lies beyond the wall and has been content to live a quiet life, acting as a servant/daughter to Gothel, a querulous witch voiced by Anjelica Huston. Gothel has her own mysterious reasons for keeping Rapunzel trapped away from the world, but we don’t discover those until the end … Continue reading →

Fairytopia: Mermaidia (2006)

In the movie “Fairytopia,” we met Elina, a wingless fairy who must save the rest of the fairies from the fate prescribed for them by Laverna, an enchantress who is determined to take over the land. Elina is helped along the way by the prince of the merpeople, Prince Nalu, who feeds Elina some magic seaweed which allows her to breathe underwater. He saves Elina’s life and she defeats Laverna. In “Fairytopia: Mermaidia,” it’s Elina’s turn to save Prince Nalu’s life. Laverna is back, more determined than ever to overthrow the kingdom and rule it herself. The Enchantress, Laverna’s sister … Continue reading →