Barbie: Princess Charm School

A lot of people don't even realize the sheer number of Barbie movies there are out there. Well, I'm usually referring to the ones made in the 2000's. It seems like every direct to video animated movie is traditionally animated. It's nice to see something different. This is ranked as the best Barbie movie ever made, which isn't really saying that much. Barbie plays some woman named Blair.

Odd she'd play someone when she's already a character. She wins a contest to go to a princess school and they actually do set up the story pretty well. It's revealed that she's a missing princess herself and the rightful heir to the throne. There's this rich girl bully who redeems herself by revealing she's only that way because of her parents. That must be a trope. Not the most original idea, but it is pretty good. **1/2

Barbie stars as Blair Willows, a kind-hearted girl who is chosen to attend Princess Charm School: a magical, modern place that teaches dancing, how to have tea parties, and proper princess manners. Blair loves her classes - as well as the helpful magical sprites and her new friends, Princesses Hadley and Isla. But when royal teacher Dame Devin discovers that Blair looks a lot like the kingdom's missing princess, she turns Blair's world upside down to stop her from claiming the throne. Now Blair, Hadley and Delancy must find an enchanted crown to prove Blair s true identity in this charming and magical princess story!

"Every woman is a princess, only some have the most beautiful crown." Beautiful Barbie movie, plastered dolls, but the story is beautifully magical... A little futile, totally predictable, that evil queen vs kidnapped princess/commoner thing, but everything so cute, that it captivated me, and I watched with emotion and interest. ..

The first time I've seen this movie was around when I was 8 and it's my favorite Barbie movie since.I think it's really entertaining.Now I'm 14 and I don't like Barbie movies too much, but the older ones including this are definitely my favorites.Sometimes I even think I would like to see Barbie movies with live actors to see how it would look like.

I'm going to give this a 9, not for its standing in the history of cinema, but for the simple fact that it made my three girls really, really happy - and it has good values without being prissy about it.

For girls under the age of 10 it really is entertaining.

The plot is appealing - a girl, Blair Willows, wins a lottery ticket to the Princess Charm School, and discovers her inner strength.

All I can say is we all watched this as a family movie night, and we adults normally phase out fast, but both my wife and I really enjoyed this thoroughly and the kids just loved it - it's fun, and funny, and exciting and even though you know the tie-ins are there it actually stands up as a good kids film in its own right.

Charming? You betcha.

My mom and I have been rewatching so many iconic Barbie movies from my childhood (I'm 21)!! I remember being stunned by this movie, the crown scene at the end has been engraved in my mind for the past 15 years.

Looking back at it now as a grown-up, here are some thoughts my mom and I had:

We watched "A Mermaid Tale" right before this, and if anyone is reading this please go watch that we found it soo much better! And I say that thinking that this one was good already. The story is pretty enticing, its best part is the final 20 minutes. Of course the dialogue is kind of basic so I'm prob taking a point off for that but what more can you expect from this genre. The characters are phenomenal, so much personality, Portia is genuinely very funny I really like her and love seeing her mentioned in other reviews.

The only stuff we found very hilarious is how badly animated the body movements are lol!! I wonder why they made them all dance so much if it looked that goofy, but honestly it's just a feature of the time and it made me all the more nostalgic :')