James Sodium I've had the opportunity to see a number of these Barbie flicks and they're uniformly targets at little girls and so portray a fairly formulaic fantasy land of fairies and adventure. By and large I think that kind of story telling is benign in the long run. This film stood out to me with the bizarre mixture of shopping and royalty. Per the film fairies create out of magic all the stuff in the fancy stores and in fairyland life is portrayed as one endless shopping excursion. For all of the characters their only real 'normal' activity is shopping for stuff (note I didn't say buying as that's never actually a part of the process, just walking around with bags of fashion garments). The rest of the time the characters are in some sort of interpersonal conflict or peril. Fantasy and play are part of being a kid and that's a grand way for them to experiment with human roles. This peculiar shopping fantasy land and it's direct tie to a excessive vanity is pure mental poison. I don't know that I would recommend the other Barbie movies but their not cognitively poisonous in relating real world situations like this one.

synthwiz Wow! Some of the reviews on this flick are freakin' HARSH-CITY! Here's a News Flash to some reviewers: THIS MOVIE WAS NOT MADE FOR YOU!!I've got two daughters, ages 6 and 9. They both enjoyed it, particularly my 6 year old who was jumping up off the couch because she was totally getting into the movie. The thing I noticed the most was how much they were smiling and giggling throughout the entire film. (Isn't that what these films are all about?I thought the voice acting was fine, and the computer animation was on par with all the other BARBIE movies we have in our collection.I asked them what their score would be for this, and they both said "It was AWESOME!" So, I give it TEN STARS for its intended audience.The bottom line is that NOTHING IS WRONG WITH THIS MOVIE CONSIDERING THE TARGET AUDIENCE, AND BOTH OF MY DAUGHTERS GREATLY ENJOYED THIS FILM!And that's what really matters the most.

ashley-397 I think I understand the messages they were trying to get across with this film, women can be heroes, forgiveness and that you have to make an effort with friendship, but all they imaged to get across is that the important things in life are shoes, dresses and boyfriends. Barbie doesn't even care when her two friends leave at the end of the film.The writers just took the storyline and the characters from Mariposa and A Mermaid Tale, added Ken and some inane dialogue to make it sound clever - "ugh, too many apps". I assume the action figures and merchandising are already available in the foyer??All the things that made the early Barbie thing special - character development, original storyline, catchy songs, emotion, humour etc are missing. All we're left with is an empty, shallow 70 minutes of bright noise.Avoid. For your children's sake.

hthbrr2 Why did I watch this movie? Oh yes I was under the impression that it MIGHT be good. It was really bad! SPOILERS after this point: This movie is about Barbie, duh. Some, wait for it, FAIRY literally STEALS her boyfriend, Ken of course. And Barbie has to rescue him.Throughout this ENTIRE movie was BRAINWASHING PROPAGANDA for girls to be stereotypical girls. NOT ONE FEMALE IN THIS ENTIRE MOVIE WEARS PANTS! Wow these days women wear pants more often than skirts, and dresses. The closest one girl got to wearing pants was the "stuck up" girl naturally! And they were skin tight leggings UNDER A SKIRT! WOW! You may say "These are the girly girls." So jeans are not girly? These days women wear dresses/skirts ONLY for special occasions. When one is seen with one on they are asked why they are all dressed up.Since this movie takes place in the present (one fairy saying "too many apps") they must reflect the present style. The movie was so sexist! All women do is figure out what outfit to wear and steal each other's boyfriends? None of these women have REAL jobs they have all la la land jobs; actor, stylist, fitting room attendant. REALLY? Wow talk about telling women to stay barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen! NONE of these women do jobs that require actual intelligence! Just repeating lines, and the fairy stylists USE THEIR MAGIC to make outfits! They don't even have a bachelor in arts or something! Also the whole "forgiveness sets you free" thing hmm, well the stuck up girl did not really do anything wrong to be forgiven. It was a MISUNDERSTANDING! MORE BRAINWASHING to teach girls at an early age to "forgive" TRANSLATION: LET PEOPLE WALK ALL OVER YOU, BE A GOOD LITTLE SLAVE TO MEN, LET MEN CHEAT ON YOU, ETC." WOW! Should women "forgive" a man who assaulted them. NO of course not. THAT is THEIR responsibility not to pointlessly harm a woman! I am aware I did not put a question mark. That is because that is not even a QUESTION! The answer is CLEARLY NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!!!!! Oh yes and the whole thing that one woman did in a fairy store. She left her WHOLE LIFE behind for her HUSBAND! And now can NEVER leave the fairy world! So she can't ever be a part of her life BEFORE this guy. No, it's all about him! HOW SEXIST!!!! What about a compromise? They live in fairy land for a while and a while in the real world! WOW! HORRIBLE "LESSONS" for little girls! "Give up your life for men and be their slave." NO DON'T DO THAT! Barbie shows her true colors here! And they are sexist! DO NOT SHOW THIS "MOVIE" TO YOUR LITTLE GIRL(S); THEY WILL BE SCARRED FOR LIFE!