![]() Isla, a mermaid we met in Dolphin Magic summons Barbie (and “Brooklyn” Barbie) down under the sea because her fellow mermaids need two more guardians. ![]() They’ve got nothing on Kim Possible and her grappling-hook blow dryer though. A Puppy Chase doesn’t need to be a convoluted three-hour epic, but as is, it’s equivalent to “this could’ve been an email.”īarbie and her best friends go from gymnasts to spy girlies with fashion tech and robot pets. ![]() The plot is literally Barbie and her sisters lose their dogs so both the sisters and the dogs go on a journey to find each other. Barbie & Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase (2016) This is one of three The Prince and the Pauper adaptations Barbie stars in, and each one after Barbie As the Princess and the Pauper just gets progressively blander.ģ5. It’s just that it’s the first movie on this list that made me go, Yeah, they’re out of ideas. There’s nothing extremely wrong with this pearl magic-wielding mermaid. Plus, I’m sorry, but Mariposa’s “friends” Rayna and Rayla are grating. But Barbie: Mariposa is doubly uncomfortable because every character is putting on their best Latina (or probably more España) drag. My bias is showing because first of all, butterflies make me extremely uncomfortable. As the last straight-to-video Barbie movie, it’s hilarious to even think of comparing this to Barbie in the Nutcracker, the first straight-to-video movie. I accept that this is not for me, but absolutely for the iPad kids of today. It’s uncanny valley to the max as Barbie is sucked into a dizzying video game. Gamer-girl rights! As someone who spent hours of their childhood playing Barbie CD-ROM games, the idea of this movie was validating, but its execution as a movie is disturbing to look at. The biggest crime is that the songs are incredibly forgettable. ![]() she’s the best part of this movie ) in New York City for the holidays, Barbie and her sisters Skipper, Kelly, and Chelsea get stranded in a small town in Minnesota where they take Christmas so seriously. While trying to visit their Aunt Millie (innocent! a.k.a. Mattel Entertainment’s first attempt at an original Christmas story is a hard pass. It’s simply jarring and boring to see Barbie veer into Bratz territory. So to whet your appetite for what’s sure to be the splashiest Barbie movie yet, we’ve rewatched and meticulously ranked all the old ones from worst to best.Ī wild change of pace for Barbie at the time, The Barbie Diaries takes our heroine out of the storybooks and into high school to cosplay as a sandal-bootcut-jeans-wearing Y2K teenager. The deal ran for 17 years until Mattel moved into the streaming world, culminating in 41 non– Greta Gerwig Barbie movies in total - some of which are not that bad, actually. After Nutcracker’s success, Nickelodeon formed a broadcasting partnership with Mattel to air its animated films, starting with Barbie As Rapunzel, after physical-media releases. Thus came 2001’s Barbie in the Nutcracker, Mattel Entertainment’s first full-length Barbie feature. ![]() At the same time, television channels like Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel were on the rise as they started to focus on original children’s entertainment. The foray into films was, of course, a Mattel marketing tactic: The company started producing its own Barbie movies to have the doll join the new digital frontier. The tactile CGI animation always made it feel as if you could physically pull Barbie out of the screen and into your dreamhouse. These movies have never reached the animated innovation of Studio Ghibli’s stunners or even the least-beloved Disney titles, but that has always been okay because Barbie movies are just meant to make your mind play. The upcoming Greta Gerwig–directed film isn’t Barbie’s first foray into cinema, of course: Since the turn of the millennium, Barbie has crossed over from kids’ dreamhouses into the televisions of young kids (and nostalgic zillennials), first through straight-to-video movies.įor almost 20 years, Barbie has been a countless number of princesses, ballet dancers, and types of fairies, but she has also been a musketeer, an indentured servant (once), and kind of a bitch (see No. If the marketing for a certain summer blockbuster hasn’t made that clear enough, the bright-blonde, slender-framed, blue-eyed doll is, and she has been able to do anything she (well, Mattel execs) puts her plastic mind to. Photos: Lions Gate Home Entertainmentīarbie is everything. ![]()
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