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A nice return to proper Barbie movies. This is (loosely) based on the fairy sage of the 12 dancing princesses. Rewritten and remodelled for a Barbie-style ballet movie.
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Genivieve is the 7th of 12 princesses. Her father calls for the Duchess Rowena to gaze after them as his wife is tedious. The duchess has plans of her occupy, and with her strong-man servant and her monkey, she works to win over the kingdom and acquire rid of the 12 daughters. She starts by taking all the fun and colour out of their lives, trying to quash their spirit.
Genivieve, however, discovers a secret magical kingdom below the floor of their bedroom where the princesses can sprint at night and dance the night away until morning. They have their dancing shoes from Eric, the Cobbler who also happens to be extremely resplendent and nice - and not a limited in cherish with Genivieve. When Rowena discovers the secret stairwell she seeks to trap the princesses down there forever. But toghether they run, and race to establish their father who Rowena is attempting to end.
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It is a stunning movie, there is lots of dancing which is beautifully done given there are twelve characters it is easy to build nice chorus lines etc. 3 are slight Kelly sized girls, there are 2 teenagers and the other 7 are adult sized. There could be some confusion, luckily they are named alphabetically from A to L according to age - unfortunately many have very un=princessy names like Lacey, Hadley and Courtenay.
The animation is blooming although there is an outlandish part of oddity in the filming. For some reason reach the kill when Genivieve is luring Desmond away from his post she seems to go out of focus slightly, it might be my particular player.
There are some nice extra features, the making of the movie is suited and my children were fascinated by it.
I really like the toning down of colours. The castle and environs looked colourful without the overwhelming brightness of some of the earlier movies.
Overall this is a grand fun movie which my children have enjoyed a number of times and I also enjoyed. It can be watched many times and calm gain something original. I impartial hope that the Barbie makers will be working on another singing movie. the Princess and the Pauper unruffled rates as the top Barbie movie ever - the songs were inspired and fun. My only genuine gripe on this movie is the titanic number of merchandise from this - 12 characters!
Before we first rented one of the Barbie videos for my daughter, I was expecting them to be trite, over-commercialised, and over-sugary. However, I have been pleasantly surprised.
Yes, they do have a lot of commercial spin-offs and a high saccarine count, but the quality of the Barbie films we have subsequently bought or rented, including “12 Dancing Princesses,” was significantly higher than I had expected. They have not unbiased kept my children engrossed for hours - including my son as well as my daughter - but introduced them to some comely stories and truly incredible music. On more than one occasion I have been listening to a CD of a classic such as Beethoven’s pastoral symphony, or The Queen of the Night’s aria from Mozart’s magic flute, and my daughter has recognised and expressed appreciation of the music, and correctly remembered which Barbie film had stale it. (”Magic of Pegasus” and “Mermaidia” respectively.)
The soundtrack to “Twelve Dancing Princesses” is mostly adapted from some of Mendelsohn’s best work, including “A Midsummer night’s dream” and the Scottish and Italian symphonies. It also includes a lullaby sung to the King by the 12 princesses which was based on a 16th century anthem by Byrd, the recording of which was sung beautifully by Melissa Lyons and the Women’s Occidental Glee club.
The fable is loosely based on the children’s epic. “Barbie” plays “Princess Genevieve”, the seventh of 12 daughters of a widowed King (e.g. seven young women, plus a pair of twins who appear to be about 11 and a station of triplets who appear to be about 6.) Like the novel, the chronicle is about 12 princesses who having been banned from dancing, sneak off every night through a magic passage and recall a magic barge to a special island where they can dance all night. However, in this version the killjoy who tries to close them dancing is not the King their father, who loves them very distinguished, but his cousin, Duchess Rowena, who he has brought to the palace to be their tutor. At first even the princesses do not realise quite what a terrible mistake this was …
As with many of the Barbie films, humorous relief is provided by talking animal companions of some of the famous characaters. In this case Princess Genevieve has a pet cat, and the foul Duchess Rowena has an equally irascible pet monkey, Brutus. The hero, who in this version is the royal cobbler, Derek, has a pet parrot, who for some reason talks with a greatly exaggerated Indian accent. (That’s Indian from the subcontinent, not native American.)
Those people who appreciate criticising what the Barbie franchise represents will not have distinguished danger finding things in this production to sneer at. If you, or more importantly your kids, are allergic to an excess of twee sweetness, then this film and the Barbie videos generally may not be for them. And the female characters are all on the thin side of plausibility: I’m not terrified that watching this is going to give my daughter anorexia as she likes food too powerful and has a marvelous sense of the contrast between fantasy and reality, but if you are skittish that your children may be forming an unrealistic thought about how thin a healthy body shape is, that is a effort with this film.
But on the plus side: it is beautifully made, it will bear the attention of most shrimp children for long enough for the typical exhausted parent to definite the mess they have made in several rooms of the house or collapse for an hour’s rest after doing so. Alternatively there are enough more sophisticated jokes thrown in that you won’t be completely bored to death if you choose to examine it with your offspring. And best of all, the soundtrack is almost worth buying the film for on it’s maintain.