Truly Dreadful Film

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

As a fan of Flixster, posting very short movie reviews , I seldom write postings here , although my account here is older , due to the requirements of IMDb to post critics of at least 10 paragraphs My daughter is now 4 years old and as with other young girls she is a fan of Barbie not to mention the dolls and the mini laptop she was 'gifted' from Santa Claus ! Recently a TV magazine offered at low price part of Barbie's series of CDs i.e. for the price of ca 6 Euros .as in result I have bought a part of movies I did not own. Not to mention this movie has been watched twice in one day! This is in contrast to what we persuaded our baby to watch only 1' hour per day .This is what happened also with 3 musketeers three weeks ago ! MY aim here is to add some more interested topics not found from other commenter s:-IN our version (Greek ) all the songs were really operettas . Does it happen to the original movie? This makes an outdated /backwards style of this movie - the after movie 'cut scenes' . it is as like it was performed by real actors . This makes feel even funnier considering tat all these characters are really computer animation !In contrast to other commenter I think that the scene of the 'man' who jailed the princess into the mining factory is a bit more 'R' rated

Another Barbie movie. And guess what? Kelly Sheridan is also in this film. Before I ever ran across the Barbie movies, I would have never heard this name, but that is the miracle for being willing to watch any movie out there.Anyway, its just a Barbie version of the "Prince and the Pauper" that has been done so many times before. Except this is a GGI Barbie version with a twist: somebody is trying to take over the 'Barbie kingdom'. Yes, very exciting.Overall, except for the two couples at the end, the story followed the traditional format. Not much to see here. "D-"

However being a bit of a Barbie cynic where companies will pretty much do any promotions to get their dolls sold, even to make a film about it, i must say rite now i found this film was pretty good quality for straight release DVD and intended for a younger female audience. I'm singing praises for the writers and songwriters and voice talents, both singing and speaking as i found this depiction of this story of 'the prince and the pauper' used many times over the years quite an original perspective piece of work and so amusing as well. This was very well done and has seemed to have amused where Disney has failed in recent years.The main characters, princess Anneliese and Erika were well thought out i think and seem to have science interested princess and more adventurous pauper than maybe more humble one. When Erika collapsed i thot shes having a Bridget Jones moment. Predicitable they were going to marry in the end but what wasn't predictable was sum of the twists in this film. my opinion anyway. and the villain and the two Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dummer sidekicks - funny to watch.the songs were well done and sung beautifully , cud easily think maybe its a catchy Disney song.although this film is intended for little girls - and i think this one well worth having a look at - though i wouldn't really brag bout it to ma friends, might one day :P still think is an okay flick, shame that ppl who sell the toys get the credit not ones behind the flick then again without the toy there would be no flick. ah well

How's this for a commentary on the music in this movie: I sometimes specifically ask my wife if she has it in the car to listen to, pushing out Duran Duran or other music from the golden age of the early 80's. I am skeptical of musicals by nature, so when I heard that the Barbie people had produced a musical, I could only imagine how shallow the music was going to be, seeing that it would be directed towards our 7-year-old daughter's age group. I of course had no choice but to hear it several times after we bought the movie and our daughter and 3-year-old son wanted to listen to the CD in the car. I was surprised beyond anything I could imagine to find that there is some serious quality among the songs that are done here. As for the movie's animation, it may be my imagination that the production skimped a bit in that area to pay for the songwriting. And of course the Barbie series' animation was already nothing to get excited about in this day of Pixar, Dreamworks, and Blue Sky producing top-notch computer-generated material. But the music itself is really a find, and I would recommend it to anyone.