Barbie und das Geheimnis von Oceana 2

In this new adventure, Merliah enjoys her life as a surfer on the waves of Australia, while enjoying the seabed as a mermaid. Until a fiercely competitive rival threatens Ocean's safety by unleashing the evil Eris. Merliah will need the help of her friends and the mermaid ambassadors to try to save the ocean and win the surfing competition. Will she make it? Merliah, the surf girl and enchanting mermaid princess, gets her ticket to success in the ultimate surfing tournament, however, when her magical necklace is stolen, Aquellia is in danger.

Cute, like every Barbie movie, super colorful, that always unnecessary female rivalry, but with a cute message at the end, of sisterhood, respect, and healthy competition... Cute... Cute...

I heard from someone that the second movie is better than the first, so I thought I'd give this one a go, and it certainly is. The problem I had with the first movie was how annoying I found Kayla and Xylie, but in this one we are met with an Australian sufer, Kylie. I enjoyed her character, and she played a good role in this film.

Not only that, but I thought it had a stronger storyline too. I didn't have a problem with the first movie's story, but this one is more engaging.

All I can say is this has a better story, better characters, and better music.

The story is great and I love the new character's development. It may not be as great as the older Barbie movie classics, but it still one I'd watch over again.

KIDS FIRST! Film Critic, Cheyenne Nguyen (age 8) shares her review below: video review here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQQjts4wb9g This movie is great for surfers, skate boarders and Barbie fans. Malia is half human and half mermaid. She enjoys both her water world and human world. There are times that she has to choose which world is more important to her. She's very competitive in her human world and sometimes forgets her obligations to her water world.¬¬¬¬ Malia is in surfing competition in her human world and does not want to go to her water world for an important ceremony. Her mom is very sad because she choose the human world over the water world on this important day. Malia has an evil aunt who was put into the wind tunnel because she's bad. The evil aunt somehow tricks her competitor, "Kylie" to help her out of the wind tunnel. This puts the water world into harm's way. The aunt then traps Kylie in the wind tunnel. Malia senses that there is something bad happening to the water world. She swims into the ocean to look for her mom. While she's looking for her mom, she sees that Kylie is trapped in the wind tunnel. Malia helps Kylie out of the wind tunnel and gives up her secret to save Kylie. After this rescue, Malia and Kylie join forces to help the water world from the evil aunt. There is a lot of excitement with all the twists and turns, Malia and Kylie have a hard time fighting her evil aunt and her electric fish. At the end, Malia has to make a decision to be a human or mermaid to save the water world from evil. There are a lot of funny lines from the sea animals and I laughed a lot. This movie shows us how competition is good and bad. If we focus too much on winning, we tend to do the wrong thing to win. This is why we need to look into our skills and what we can do to improve what we have, rather than focus on our competitor and what they have. If you have a good heart and follow what your heart tells you to do, you will do the right thing. The music is very upbeat and the story line is very easy to follow. The surfing tricks are awesome. I give this movie 4 star out of 5 and recommend this for kids ages four to ten.

Fell short of expectations. This movie follows Merliah's journey as a half mermaid half human princess, however, it doesn't even really follow her journey. It more so follows Kylie's poor decisions and her lack of sportsmanship. It is nice to see her evolve in the film, however no one cares! She was not interesting, and she was quite particularly an ass. The whole movie sucked and just went on and on and on and on, and it lacked purpose. A sequel was not necessary to the first film, and i hardly consider this film it's "successor". It lacks substance, diversity, etc. It doesn't evolve the formula of the first, and just sticks too closely to it's roots. The first film had me on the brisk of excitement. This one had me on the brisk of falling asleep.