2006 · animation · family
Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
Directed by Greg Richardson1h 23m2006
King Randolph sends for his cousin, Duchess Rowena, to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her eleven sisters, into royal material. But the Duchess strips the sisters of their fun, including their favorite pastime: dancing. When all hope may be lost, the sisters discover a secret passageway to a magical land where they can dance the night away.
Our read: Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive animation · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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