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Barbie As Rapunzel

2002, Movie, 85 mins

Barbie As Rapunzel: Review

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The traditional fairy tale gets some girl-power twists in this computer animated retelling featuring Barbie. In the framing story, little Kelly (voice of Chantal Strand) grows frustrated when her painting doesn't come out the way she wants, and Barbie (Kelly Sheridan) tells her the story of Rapunzel. Beautiful, talented and kind, Rapunzel (Sheridan) lives in an isolated castle with the exacting Gothel (Anjelica Houston), who treats the girl as a servant and never allows her to visit the neighboring village. Rapunzel has no idea what became of her parents, and her only friends are a rabbit named Hobie (Ian James Corlett) and a little purple dragon named Penelope (Cree Summer), whose father is in Gothel's employ. One day Rapunzel discovers a secret passage that leads outside, and takes a walk in the village, where she rescues a little girl, Katrina (Strand), who's fallen into a hole. Katrina's brother (Mark Hildreth), is impressed by Rapunzel's bravery and beauty, and tells her that the village belongs to the kingdom of King Frederick (Russell Roberts), which is on the verge of war with the nearby kingdom of King Wilhelm (Christopher Gaze). Rapunzel opines that it would surely be better if the two monarchs could get together and come up with a peaceful solution, then realizes she should hurry home before Gothel notices her absence. She never learns that she's been chatting with King Frederick's son, Prince Stefan, and Prince Stefan fails to learn her name. Gothel's spy, a vicious mink named Otto (Peter Kelamis), rats out Rapunzel and Gothel locks the girl away in a high tower. But with some help from her friends and her own good sense, Barbie escapes, finds Stefan, sets things right in Frederick's kingdom and learns what happened to her parents. Though this feature-length, candy colored commercial for Barbie dolls is relentlessly cheerful and filled with simplistic messages about loyalty, peaceful conflict resolution and believing in yourself, it's also surprisingly watchable and will appeal mightily to Barbie-mad girls. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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