Barbie and the Diamond Castle |  | Director: Gino Nichele
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  81 reviews
Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 79 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
MPN: 63101989
UPC: 025195015929
EAN: 0025195015929
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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Product Description
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/09/2008 Rating: Nr
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A musical story about the power of friendship and believing in oneself, Barbie and the Diamond Castle opens with Barbie and her friend Teresa singing, playing guitar, and relating a story about friendship to Stacy who's just had a disagreement with her best friend Courtney. In the story, friends Alexa and Liana loose everything but each other in a terrible storm. A chance meeting with an old woman brings them a new friend Melody, who shares their love of music, but is locked inside an enchanted mirror. It turns out that Melody is an apprentice muse who holds the secret key to the diamond castle and embodies the last chance to defeat the selfish muse Lydia and preserve music for the entire world. Alexa and Liana help Melody journey to the diamond castle, overcoming enormous obstacles conjured by Lydia and her serpent Slider as well as rising above a disagreement between themselves. This CGI animated program is colorful and bright, if not particularly realistic, and the pop music is appealing, but oddly out of sink with the renaissance style costuming. While the Barbie versions of classic stories like Barbie of Swan Lake or Barbie Prince and the Pauper generally offer better storylines, young Barbie fans will nonetheless enjoy this quest to save music while getting a sense of the importance of friendship and believing in oneself. (Ages 3 to 9) --Tami Horiuchi
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 Surprisingly good! February 7, 2010
M. Klock (murrieta, ca)
My 3-year-old daughter has many Barbie DVDs...some are better than others...but this is our favorite by far! I'm actually quite surprised that I am the first to review this particular Barbie movie! The songs are very catchy (believe me, they get stuck in your head), the story is sweet, and the characters are adorable. Every element that is attractive to little girls is in this movie: singing, dancing, best friends, food fights, clothes, guitar playing, puppies, castles, cute boys, and of course the obligatory evil "witch" and her dragon. The "medieval/renaissance" theme is also a winner with my daughter. Her other favorite Barbie franchise movie is Barbie in Rapunzel, which is also excellent!
my 2 year old loves the music and the castle January 18, 2010
Valeri Fagan (OKLAHOMA)
My daughter loves it. She is into the music and really loves castles especially sparkly ones. Great movie!!
My daughter's favorite January 7, 2010
R. Herron
This is my daughter's favorite Barbie movie. It really is cute (and I'm not a Barbie lover).
Great songs, my toddler's favourite Barbie movie January 2, 2010
ilovecalifornia (Connecticut)
My 2 year old watched this movie so many times, she calls it "Connected" because of the title song. I like this movie, it's a great tale of friendship with songs you'll be singing along to. My other daugther's friend watched it when she was 3 1/2 yrs old and was a bit scared by the bad guys (in particular the dragon) but my toddler was never.
 Ah Well, the Kids Love It... December 30, 2009
Lily C. Baker (San Jose, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am astonished at all the adults writing glowing reviews of Barbie movies! I can only think that the adults who rate them highly love them because the kids they love adore the movies. These movies are plasticky drawn animated characters (like Barbie herself, I suppose) that are so without any facial expression that it's creepy, the lyrics and music are painfully sophmoric, and the dialogue and stories are mind-numbingly cliched.
This movie in particular has the added annoyance of the usually wonderful Tim Curry (a real Brit) overacting and actually sounding like he's doing a bad British accent a creepy ogre, and two playah male characters that have jilted lovers in their town. Ick.
That said, my 6 year old and even the 1 1/2 year-old love these movies and they're harmless enough. But you can't call these exceptional for any reason. They're bland time-killers for the kids.
I love to sit down and watch movies with my kids, so I appreciate any movie that's at least watchable. Like the Disney classics as well as the new ones they're making (Disney seems to be undergoing another renaissance), as well as ANYTHING made by Pixar, and SOME of the Dreamworks films. For simpler films, we've enjoyed National Geographic Kids, and some PBS shows on DVD like Jakers.
When Barbie is on however, I leave the room.
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