After great Barbie life in the dreamhouse - a funny fresh successful series- producers decided to cut the line and created a new Barbie version. Much worse, with irritatingly dull characters -by the way, whose idea was to provide Barbie with such an annoying brat lower-class coarse voice?- and apparently addressed to a much less demanding level audience- this series lost what the others had: witty dialogues, interesting plots and funny situations. Here Barbie and her friends act like silly, irritating teenagers brats at their worst: making frivolous plans, converting simple things into foolish acting...and in most situations having their always present mobile phones literally in their hands as glued into them (they even jump over a dangerous hole with them in their hands!). Even the new and previously good idea to introduce Barbie's parents in the plots fade when realize they act like grown-up kids. Also full of clichés. Good family values enhancing? Well, not quite. Let's take the father-daughter activity episode, presented as a frustrating transicional rite to adulthood by choosing one daugher at a time. Why not presenting a whole family activity instead? Although being wrapped in a wonderful friendship, love and family life lessons' envelope this series fail into the most elementary: consider children as if they were silly people and using them to put cartain ideas into their minds. And that is a big mistake: being young does not mean silly and the way family and friends are portrayed here -desguised under a love and friendship family values' appearance- is not a model to follow but a sad example of dull parents, egotist simple-minded teenagers and puppet boyfriends. Better real family & friends values do exist. The fact that this is addressed to children should be a warning to avoid insulting their intelligence by creating such silly roles.
Review of Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures
