Barbie: A Fairy Secret
Tags: fantasy

Plot synopsis:
Barbie is at the premiere of her latest movie when her rival and co-star, Raquelle, steps on her dress, ripping it. Her stylists, Carrie and Taylor, use magic to mend it. Crystal, a photographer, greets Carrie and Taylor and, taking one last picture of Ken, leaves to go back to Gloss Angeles. Crystal shows Princess Graciella the pictures she took at the premiere. She gives the Princess a love potion, which, due to the effects, turns her eyes from blue to purple. Crystal then shows the Princess the picture of Ken she took, and Graciella falls in love with him on the spot.
The next day at Wally’s restaurant, Barbie confronts Raquelle about the dress-stepping incident. Princess Graciella, Crystal, and two assistant fairies show up and kidnap Ken. Carrie and Taylor sprout their wings and attempt to stop the Princess from taking Ken, but the portal to Gloss Angeles closes before they can enter it. The stylists attempt to dissuade Raquelle and Barbie of the fact that they just saw fairies, but finally admit their existence. They explain that Ken is in trouble because if a human marries a fairy, the human has to stay in Gloss Angeles forever. Meanwhile, in Gloss Angeles, Ken and the Princess arrive in the royal palace, where they meet Zane, Graciella’s boyfriend. Zane is outraged at Graciella's new love interest and challenges Ken to three duels.
Barbie, Raquelle and the fairies go to a clothing store, where they enter the Flyway (a fairy method of transport), which leads them to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The fairies reveal that Lilianna Roxelle, a fashion critic, is the oldest and wisest fairy living on Earth. After they arrive at Lilianna’s home, she informs them that Princess Graciella is under a love potion spell. She gives Barbie a potion that will turn the Princess back to normal if it rains down on her. It is also revealed that Taylor and Carrie were banished from Gloss Angeles. The girls then take Liliana's portal to continue their journey.
Barbie, Raquelle, Taylor, and Carrie make it to Gloss Angeles and they make a stop to Wings and Things in order to get wings for Barbie and Raquelle where they run into the human owner named Reena and her fairy husband Graylon. They then disguise as cooks to try to reveal Princess Graciella about Crystal's love potion; however, Crystal reveals Taylor and Carrie by recognizing Taylor's shoes, and the princess locks the four in furyspheres. Barbie and Raquelle talk and finally figure out their misunderstanding. The reason Raquelle has always been so mean to Barbie is because she never got the chance to be Barbie's friend. They apologize to each other and become friends. Their reconciliation breaks the furyspheres and their wings become real, and they now realize that forgiveness lets them fly. The two then go to stop the wedding between Graciella and Ken, holding off the attendants and the princess. Finally, Barbie puts the antidote on Graciella, curing her from the love potion. Graciella realizes that it was Crystal who gave her the love potion and apologizes for the misunderstanding. She also explains that the reason she banished Taylor and is because the three of them were once friends but Taylor and Carrie started spending so much time together that she felt left out and betrayed. At the urging of Barbie and Raquelle, she lifts Taylor and Carrie's ban, and the three fairies forgive each other. Graciella then punishes Crystal by having her clean up after the ceremony, and goes to marry Zane.
After the wedding, Graciella tells Barbie and Raquelle that their wings will disappear when they and Ken go back to the human world, and then reappear when they return to Gloss Angeles. Graciella sends them back to Earth with magical dust. The next morning, Barbie wakes up with no recollection of Gloss Angeles or the fairies, thinking it was a dream. However, she and Raquelle are now friends. Carrie and Taylor tell the two that they reconnected with an old friend (Princess Graciella) and are going back to their hometown (Gloss Angeles).

Review: Ugh..
Bring back the old Barbie!.
These movies are getting worse and worse.
Bring back the old style and old Barbie.
They are also not entirely appropriate for a 3-5 year old.
Sad. They have attempted to modernize Barbie and taken away her sweetness and innocence and made her into an annoying teenager with a cell phone.
She doesn't even look like Barbie anymore.
The fantasy is gone.
Barbie is supposed to be hip and modern- it is like the movie producers are ignoring the 3-5 year old genre and targeting 8-10 year olds.
But the main audience is 3-5.
What 10 year old wants to watch this?
That being said my 4 year old enjoyed it, but I am not sure I did and I am not sure I like the new influence.
I think we will stick with old Barbie movies on reruns.
This pales in comparison to Three Musketeers or Princess and the Pauper.
Get those instead..
Weird messages about money & shipping.
I've had the opportunity to see a number of these Barbie flicks and they're uniformly targets at little girls and so portray a fairly formulaic fantasy land of fairies and adventure.
By and large I think that kind of story telling is benign in the long run.
This film stood out to me with the bizarre mixture of shopping and royalty.
Per the film fairies create out of magic all the stuff in the fancy stores and in fairyland life is portrayed as one endless shopping excursion.
For all of the characters their only real 'normal' activity is shopping for stuff (note I didn't say buying as that's never actually a part of the process, just walking around with bags of fashion garments).
The rest of the time the characters are in some sort of interpersonal conflict or peril.
Fantasy and play are part of being a kid and that's a grand way for them to experiment with human roles.
This peculiar shopping fantasy land and it's direct tie to a excessive vanity is pure mental poison.
I don't know that I would recommend the other Barbie movies but their not cognitively poisonous in relating real world situations like this one..
A huge disappointment.
I wanted to like A Fairy Secret, and tried to.
But I just couldn't.
And this is coming from somebody who actually likes the Barbie movies(especially Nutcracker, Diamond Castle, Island Princess and Prince and the Pauper).
But although I haven't yet seen Fashion Fairytale, despite hearing a lot of negative press about that one, I can't imagine until I see it that it will be worse than this.
The only redeeming quality for me of A Fairy Secret was the catchy soundtrack, and even that is nowhere near as good as those for Nutcracker, Rapunzel and Swan Lake.
I disliked the animation here, entries like Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Diamond Castle have beautiful animation that is full of colour and fluidity, but here the colours are lifeless, the backgrounds blocky and the character designs at their most plastic.
The writing focuses far too much on fashion(seemingly fashion is like the most important thing in the world) and behavioural snobbery, and the story instead of being charming with good messages is formulaic and rushed with values of stealing boyfriends and vanity.
The characters are no longer cute, but now act like childish brats, especially Ken. Barbie in another of her as...roles is no longer resourceful and kind but now a stereotypical teenager, the anti-thesis of her persona in the first place, in other words she's at her least likable.
The voice work is stilted, nobody sounds natural as their characters, granted I wasn't expecting any big names to pop up and practically embody their roles like in Nutcracker, Rapunzel, Swan Lake and Three Musketeers but at least the voice actors could've sounded as though they were bringing some kind of life to the proceedings.
Overall, a huge disappointment, I'm expecting little from Fashion Fairytale but I just pray that it isn't worse than this.
2/10 Bethany Cox. A good movie for young girls.
Some of the reviews on this flick are freakin' HARSH-CITY!
Here's a News Flash to some reviewers: THIS MOVIE WAS NOT MADE FOR YOU!!I've got two daughters, ages 6 and 9.
They both enjoyed it, particularly my 6 year old who was jumping up off the couch because she was totally getting into the movie.
The thing I noticed the most was how much they were smiling and giggling throughout the entire film.
(Isn't that what these films are all about?I thought the voice acting was fine, and the computer animation was on par with all the other BARBIE movies we have in our collection.I asked them what their score would be for this, and they both said "It was AWESOME!" So, I give it TEN STARS for its intended audience.The bottom line is that NOTHING IS WRONG WITH THIS MOVIE CONSIDERING THE TARGET AUDIENCE, AND BOTH OF MY DAUGHTERS GREATLY ENJOYED THIS FILM!And that's what really matters the most..
Worse than the worst.
Critical analysis of any Barbie movie is like attempting to extract blood from a turnip.
There is nothing of merit to critically dissect.
It's just pure, less than juvenile garbage.
They are, to the letter, stilted, terribly scripted, amateurish CG animated, middling voice acting (though hardly the worst I've ever heard), with incredibly stupid, improbable stories and plots and manufactured dialog that would never come from a human's mouth.
You feel certain you've dropped 2 or 3 IQ points after watching one of these monstrosities.With these exceptionally low standards for context, the "Fairy Secret" may be the bottom 2 or 3 of these exceptionally terrible cookie-cutter, quasi-formulaic junk piles geared for little girls who think they want to be Barbie and that we parents are in the unfortunate position of occasionally having to watch with our little ones.
The dialog and "plot" (for a story that's mind-numbingly idiotic) are both so awful that one will find oneself groaning constantly throughout the time you've wasted watching it.Whereas some minor merit can occasionally be extracted out of some of the Barbie movies - as in maybe there's a slightly funny joke or at least the plot isn't entirely stupid, little can be said that is positive about this one.
It's like the writer isn't even trying to create believable characters, dialog, or plot, even at the level of the fantastical.
Perhaps the writer is so underpaid that they barely phone it in.
Perhaps they are already angry that they have to have this trash on their resume.
Maybe they will legally change their name after being associated with a movie like this.
Whatever the case, it doesn't make for a good movie.Save your little girls the trouble and rent something vastly better that nearly all kids enjoy - like pretty much any Pixar movie..
Perfect film for Girls ages 2 to 10.
Full of Fashion, Friends and Adventure.
"Barbie: A Fairy Secret" is the story of how Barbie discovers that fairies really do exist.
When a fairy princess captures her boyfriend Ken, Barbie along with her costar, Raquelle, and two of Barbie's stylists, head out to rescue him from Gloss Angeles, a floating town filled with fairies.
I really like the animation in this movie, especially how each of the characters are drawn.
Barbie's eyes glisten like jewels and get me into the fairy mood.
Each scene bursts with color, like their hangout Wally's.
I also love how every piece of clothing has a modern twist.
I wish I could have two fairies as my personal stylists.
The movie also has great music that makes me want to dance.
Barbie is already friends with her two fashion stylists at the beginning of the movie, but is uneasy around her rival Raquelle.
Raquelle is jealous of Barbie, so what will happen when they get twisted up in this magical world together?
When Ken is forced to marry fairy princess Graziella he realizes how much he loves Barbie but lots of trouble stands in their way.
Don't worry, because Barbie will do anything to get Ken back.
Girls ages two to ten will really enjoy this movie filled with friends, fashion and adventure.
Will Raquelle and Barbie ever be friends?
How will they get into the magical world?
Will they rescue Ken?
Find out when you watch "Barbie: a Fairy Secret." Credit: Makai Weber Colvin, Age 9, KIDS FIRST!
Film Critic.
Disappointingly poor effort.
I think I understand the messages they were trying to get across with this film, women can be heroes, forgiveness and that you have to make an effort with friendship, but all they imaged to get across is that the important things in life are shoes, dresses and boyfriends.
Barbie doesn't even care when her two friends leave at the end of the film.The writers just took the storyline and the characters from Mariposa and A Mermaid Tale, added Ken and some inane dialogue to make it sound clever - "ugh, too many apps".
I assume the action figures and merchandising are already available in the foyer??All the things that made the early Barbie thing special - character development, original storyline, catchy songs, emotion, humour etc are missing.
All we're left with is an empty, shallow 70 minutes of bright noise.Avoid.
For your children's sake..
Set the feminist movement back 100 years..
Why did I watch this movie?
Oh yes I was under the impression that it MIGHT be good.
It was really bad!
SPOILERS after this point: This movie is about Barbie, duh.
Some, wait for it, FAIRY literally STEALS her boyfriend, Ken of course.
And Barbie has to rescue him.Throughout this ENTIRE movie was BRAINWASHING PROPAGANDA for girls to be stereotypical girls.
NOT ONE FEMALE IN THIS ENTIRE MOVIE WEARS PANTS!
Wow these days women wear pants more often than skirts, and dresses.
The closest one girl got to wearing pants was the "stuck up" girl naturally!
And they were skin tight leggings UNDER A SKIRT!
You may say "These are the girly girls." So jeans are not girly?
These days women wear dresses/skirts ONLY for special occasions.
When one is seen with one on they are asked why they are all dressed up.Since this movie takes place in the present (one fairy saying "too many apps") they must reflect the present style.
The movie was so sexist!
All women do is figure out what outfit to wear and steal each other's boyfriends?
None of these women have REAL jobs they have all la la land jobs; actor, stylist, fitting room attendant.
Wow talk about telling women to stay barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen!
NONE of these women do jobs that require actual intelligence!
Just repeating lines, and the fairy stylists USE THEIR MAGIC to make outfits!
They don't even have a bachelor in arts or something!
Also the whole "forgiveness sets you free" thing hmm, well the stuck up girl did not really do anything wrong to be forgiven.
It was a MISUNDERSTANDING!
MORE BRAINWASHING to teach girls at an early age to "forgive" TRANSLATION: LET PEOPLE WALK ALL OVER YOU, BE A GOOD LITTLE SLAVE TO MEN, LET MEN CHEAT ON YOU, ETC." WOW!
Should women "forgive" a man who assaulted them.
NO of course not.
THAT is THEIR responsibility not to pointlessly harm a woman!
I am aware I did not put a question mark.
That is because that is not even a QUESTION!
The answer is CLEARLY NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!!!!!
Oh yes and the whole thing that one woman did in a fairy store.
She left her WHOLE LIFE behind for her HUSBAND!
And now can NEVER leave the fairy world!
So she can't ever be a part of her life BEFORE this guy.
What about a compromise?
They live in fairy land for a while and a while in the real world!
WOW!
WOW!
WOW!
HORRIBLE "LESSONS" for little girls!
"Give up your life for men and be their slave." NO DON'T DO THAT!
Barbie shows her true colors here!
And they are sexist!
And they are sexist!
DO NOT SHOW THIS "MOVIE" TO YOUR LITTLE GIRL(S); THEY WILL BE SCARRED FOR LIFE!.
Is this really what little girls want, or need?.
Barbie: A fairy secret is perhaps one of the worst Barbie movies ever made.
Sure, the animation is alright, I like Barbie's new voice actor, and the story isn't the worst in history.
But there are just so many stupid scenes and moments, and even creates plot holes in the process; Such as not giving a set of rules for magic for it to make sense, or letting the audience learn more about the fairy world.I know I just said that the animation is alright, but the animation here does NOT look like it was made in 2011; It still looks like 2008 animation.
And this confuses me actually; Why is it that the most popular franchise associated with little girls, have such mediocre budgets, and technology?Besides the passable animation and terrible writing, the movie is presenting little girls with fashion, shopping, and just being terrible role models.
Even if little girls like this movie, they can be subconsciously influenced by what they see.
If you are creating a message, THINK THROUGH YOUR IMPLICATIONS, or else girls can get the wrong idea of what the movie is trying to convey.
I know I'm not in the demographic for this movie, but A: I grew up with this movie, and B: We are living in a decade where plenty of kids movies prove that they can be enjoyable by the whole family, and not just 5 year old's!
Even if your kids like terrible movies, that doesn't mean that the adults have to pretend to like it; They can offer their own opinions on the movie.
Besides, it is up to parents to decide what movies kids can, and can't see.Those are just my thoughts on the movie.