Barbie and the Diamond Castle
Director: Gino NicheleStudio: Universal Studios
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect-Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release: September 9th 2008
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DVD Review
Barbie™ and Teresa™ tell us the fairy tale story of Liana™ and Alexa™, best friends who shared everything including their love of music. One day their simple lives change when they are given an enchanted mirror and befriend the girl trapped inside! To save their new friend, Liana™ and Alexa™ embark on a dangerous journey to the hidden Diamond Castle that will put their friendship to the test. But through the power of song and with the companionship of two adorable puppies, the girls face their challenges together and learn that friendship is the true treasure.
A musical story about the power of friendship and believing in oneself, Barbie and the Diamond Castle opens with Barbie and her friend Teresa singing, playing guitar, and relating a story about friendship to Stacy who's just had a disagreement with her best friend Courtney. In the story, friends Alexa and Liana loose everything but each other in a terrible storm. A chance meeting with an old woman brings them a new friend Melody, who shares their love of music, but is locked inside an enchanted mirror. It turns out that Melody is an apprentice muse who holds the secret key to the diamond castle and embodies the last chance to defeat the selfish muse Lydia and preserve music for the entire world. Alexa and Liana help Melody journey to the diamond castle, overcoming enormous obstacles conjured by Lydia and her serpent Slider as well as rising above a disagreement between themselves. This CGI animated program is colorful and bright, if not particularly realistic, and the pop music is appealing, but oddly out of sink with the renaissance style costuming. While the Barbie versions of classic stories like Barbie of Swan Lake or Barbie Prince and the Pauper generally offer better storylines, young Barbie fans will nonetheless enjoy this quest to save music while getting a sense of the importance of friendship and believing in oneself. (Ages 3 to 9) --Tami Horiuchi
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User Reviews
Annoying - Rating: 1/5
This is about the worse barabie movie ever!!! I've seen all of the movies and they're all better than this junk! Too many annoying high-pitched songs in whih Barbie and Teresa think they sin soooooooo beautifully. They really do NOT!!! And what was with that stupid doll in a mirror. That was just stupid! To sum the whole movie up, it's just STUPID! I'm 10.
Mom of many
This is a special movie to us - Rating: 5/5
This story has really resonated with my two daughters. It is a story of friendship and it has strengthened the relationship between my daughters. They are 9 and 3 years old. They both just love this story. The music is really wonderful. There are cute pets, amazing costumes, trials, triumphs, and magical moments -- what else can you ask for? There is a line in the movie, "Best friends today, tomorrow, and always" which my daughers have adopted as the motto of their sisterhood and still say it to each other every day, with a special handshake they created. I love this movie because of how it has brought them together despite their age difference and different interests. They hold hands and dance and sing to "Connected", the theme song, and my older daughter even performed it at her school talent show. It is such a feel good movie for all of us, the one Barbie movie they want to see again and again.
J. Elsis
3 year old likes it. - Rating: 5/5
My 3 year old likes the music and watched the entire movie. It's decent enough that I was able to sit through it with her and not feel bored. The movie is pretty much about bestfriends. I would buy this for a family or friends child.
Michigan Mom
Better than I expected - Rating: 5/5
These Barbie movies honestly look they are going to be terrible, but after watching a whole bunch of them with my 2 and 4 year olds, I realized they're actually pretty good. This one is the best, if you like songs added into kids movies, which we do. My girls love them all!
Lifetime Bookworm
Oh, my........ - Rating: 1/5
A is for atrocious. This is THE most dreadful movie, verging on beastly. A predictable, sorry story of weak, faltering friendship. The kids I babysat found it quite boring, other than the dragon with the long, white hair, who they found funny.
Do not waste your precious time or money on this inferior film. Trust me.
