This film came out when I was a kid, and I remember the DVD came with this horrible toy I got, a huge plastic figurine of the giant butterfly with a human-like face... ugh (shudders).
Well, guess what I found in my garage last night? The DVD!
Okay, maybe I would have enjoyed this more if I were three years old. As an adult, it's like getting high and falling into some surreal (and rather sexist) world of faeries and trolls.
It's Barbie, so that alone should have warned me right from the get-go that the main character would be a blonde ditz (not that blondes are dumb, most of my friends and I are blondes), and a girly-girl who loves pink, appears so thin she looks anorexic, and lives in a giant pink flower. She has this weird purple and turquoise whatchamacallit as a pet, named - now hang on, this is creativity at its best - Bibble.
...sigh.
Then as usual, the enemies of the nature-embracing, tree-hugging hippie faeries are the evil earth-hating antagonists. Ruled by a witch named Laverna who has knocked out the queen of the faeries, god knows why, there are strange assassins and lackeys with elf ears and bad acne called Fungusses. Not fungi, that would be way too scientific for us dumb girls to grasp! The directors obviously never heard of proper terminology before. Anyway, Elina, the pink girly fairy, notices all the plants are dying and she decides to go on a quest to find the culprit and to seek out a guardian fairy. Why doesn't she just buy some pesticides and spray what is killing the plants? The world may never know.
Along the way, Elina meets that grotesque butterfly I mentioned having a toy of, Hue, who has the creepiest damned voice I've ever heard. This is Barbie, so of course she also meets a prince.
Some people say that this movie is charming, I beg to differ. It's about as charming as someone's toe caught in a mousetrap. Some people say this is a great role model for kids. Well, sure, if you want your kid to grow up to be a 50's-style housewife and fall to the pressure of superficial looks! Some people say this has a deep, environmental message. Let me contemplate that while I litter and pour some bleach on the ground.
This movie has no real deep theme, it is just a really thoughtless, lame kid's movie made to sell Barbie products. If you have any sanity left, watch something else.
Well, guess what I found in my garage last night? The DVD!
Okay, maybe I would have enjoyed this more if I were three years old. As an adult, it's like getting high and falling into some surreal (and rather sexist) world of faeries and trolls.
It's Barbie, so that alone should have warned me right from the get-go that the main character would be a blonde ditz (not that blondes are dumb, most of my friends and I are blondes), and a girly-girl who loves pink, appears so thin she looks anorexic, and lives in a giant pink flower. She has this weird purple and turquoise whatchamacallit as a pet, named - now hang on, this is creativity at its best - Bibble.
...sigh.
Then as usual, the enemies of the nature-embracing, tree-hugging hippie faeries are the evil earth-hating antagonists. Ruled by a witch named Laverna who has knocked out the queen of the faeries, god knows why, there are strange assassins and lackeys with elf ears and bad acne called Fungusses. Not fungi, that would be way too scientific for us dumb girls to grasp! The directors obviously never heard of proper terminology before. Anyway, Elina, the pink girly fairy, notices all the plants are dying and she decides to go on a quest to find the culprit and to seek out a guardian fairy. Why doesn't she just buy some pesticides and spray what is killing the plants? The world may never know.
Along the way, Elina meets that grotesque butterfly I mentioned having a toy of, Hue, who has the creepiest damned voice I've ever heard. This is Barbie, so of course she also meets a prince.
Some people say that this movie is charming, I beg to differ. It's about as charming as someone's toe caught in a mousetrap. Some people say this is a great role model for kids. Well, sure, if you want your kid to grow up to be a 50's-style housewife and fall to the pressure of superficial looks! Some people say this has a deep, environmental message. Let me contemplate that while I litter and pour some bleach on the ground.
This movie has no real deep theme, it is just a really thoughtless, lame kid's movie made to sell Barbie products. If you have any sanity left, watch something else.