Barbie as The Princess & the Pauper
Barbie as The Princess & the Pauper
G | 28 September 2004 (USA)
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In her first animated musical featuring seven original songs, Barbie comes to life in this modern re-telling of a classic tale of mistaken identity and the power of friendship. Based on the story by Mark Twain.

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Matialth

Good concept, poorly executed.

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StyleSk8r

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Bob

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Geraldine

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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dragan_novisad

Hi everybody! I live in city of Novi Sad in Serbia. I purchased the DVD 6 months ago for my small doter. Just recently I started to watch it with her regularly, and I am amazed! So nice, so perfect, what a singing, Barbies together are extraordinary singers, nice melodies, and Preminger on the other side is genius character presenter himself. I read here that he was nominated, no wonder, excellent!! What to say except I will see this movie many more times. I am interested to buy a complete screenplay so that I can understand what are all the words (since English is not my native language and I am missing some words). Does anyone know where one can buy it?... All the best to you all! Again, this screenplay is something this planet needed!!! Great, simple but sublime! I salute you all, Regards, Dragan

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jennyrae928

Being sceptical of Barbie computer animation, I hesitantly agreed to watch this film with my 6 year old daughter. I was wonderfully surprised. The music, the animation, and the story were fluid, artistic, and actually captivating. I found myself WANTING to see what was going to happen next. It wasn't as predictable as I initially thought, and I found myself singing along by the end! Well done to the producers of the film along with everyone else involved. I would highly recommend this film to anyone with children (my 8 year old son even watched it without a moan) and to anyone who is just a hopeless romantic. Very enjoyable viewing. I have since seen the movie several times...sometimes with no children accompanying me.

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fifi_rulz_the_world

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

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jt4

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.

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