2012 · family · animation · music
Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar
Directed by Ezekiel Norton1h 26m2012
Tori is a blonde princess who is bored of living her royal life, and has dreams of becoming a popstar. Keira, on the other hand, is a brunette popstar who dreams of being a princess. When the two meet, they magically trade places, but after realising it is best to be themselves.
Our read: Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (2012) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded family · animation · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / animation, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
Watching Barbie tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Barbie feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a sparkly Barbie musical where a princess and popstar swap places and learn self-worth.”
Skip it tonight — You want realistic stories or anything without songs and sparkles.
Eight films that feel like this one.
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Discussion
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