A Very Special Episode: The Barbie Fairytopia Trilogy

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:19] Speaker B: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Odd Trilogies with Sabrina and Kelsey. I'm Sabrina. [00:00:24] Speaker A: I'm Kelsey. [00:00:25] Speaker B: And on Odd Trilogies, we take a trio of films tied by cast and crew, thematic elements or just num order, and we discuss the good, the bad and the weird of each film. On today's episode, we are discussing the highly renowned Barbie Fairytopia series. So excited. For those who do not know, this includes Barbie Fairytopia, which was 2005, and Barbie Mermaidia 2006 and then Barbie Magic of the Rainbow 2007. Yes. [00:00:56] Speaker A: So I think we're gonna just kind of go over each film individually first and then talk about like the holistic trio of movies. Yeah. [00:01:04] Speaker B: One thing that I do want to point out that's really interesting before we dive into each movie is that this was Barbie's first totally original ip. [00:01:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it was originally all of her films had been Barbie as Rapunzel or Barbie in the Nutcracker, Barbie in Swan Lake, all of these different things. This was the first time that there was not like that was dropped from the title. It was just Barbie Fairytopia. [00:01:26] Speaker B: Right before this, they did Barbie in Princess and the Pauper, which is my favorite Barbie film. [00:01:31] Speaker A: My favorite as well. [00:01:32] Speaker B: And that was the first musical one too. But even that was still very loosely based off, you know, the novel the Legend. So this was their first totally, totally Barbie. And the. They had the line of dolls first. [00:01:45] Speaker A: They did, yeah. The dolls were actually, I think the dolls came out in like, what, 2003? [00:01:48] Speaker B: That I do not know. [00:01:50] Speaker A: But it was sometime in the very early 2000s because I remember that I had the Fairytopia dolls before the movie even came out. [00:01:58] Speaker B: Yeah. So they had the dolls and then they said, you know, what fairies? Let's make a movie. [00:02:01] Speaker A: It's actually selling really well. Why don't we go ahead and make just a bunch of movies out of these films? [00:02:07] Speaker B: And so they did. And that's what we're talking about today. [00:02:10] Speaker A: Well, I mean, I can just kind of go ahead and get us started. [00:02:13] Speaker B: Go for it. [00:02:14] Speaker A: So the original movie, actually. So as we previously stated, her name is not Barbie. She is Alina in. In this trilogy. And she is actually a wingless fairy who is living in Fairytopia, which seems to kind of be its own version of Earth, but also like. [00:02:37] Speaker B: But like magic rainbow pastel, Pretty fairy. [00:02:40] Speaker A: Yeah. There it's not. The lore of. That is never really explained. But there's. [00:02:44] Speaker B: She lives in the Magic Meadow. [00:02:45] Speaker A: She does. She lives in the Magic Meadow. There are, however, like there's the bogs, the swamps, all of those. She goes through like several. [00:02:52] Speaker B: And that's one thing, because this movie has a tight run time. It's like an hour and nine minutes, I think. [00:02:58] Speaker A: So. Yeah, something like that. [00:02:59] Speaker B: And we see a ridiculous amount of locations for the amount of time. [00:03:03] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, she. I mean, we start like every single thing in this movie is the filmmakers did this intentionally. Everything is there on purpose. Of course, you know, there is the scene at the beginning where she throws the ball to hit the little pixies and then it comes back at the end when she has to throw the diamond to break, you know. But we're getting ahead of myself. [00:03:23] Speaker B: Barbie's softball skills foreshadowing. [00:03:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm getting a little ahead of myself here. But so anyway, Alina, our wingless fairy, she walks everywhere in a world that is not built for her. There are no ADA accessible. [00:03:38] Speaker B: Like, there's no. You see her like parkouring off of branches and leaves and running while everyone else is like flying and flittering around her. [00:03:47] Speaker A: And she's severely bullied by almost pretty much everybody in fairy society at large. I mean, like, she has her best [00:03:56] Speaker B: friend, she has her best friend, she has her. [00:03:57] Speaker A: She's a crew, of course. But like, you know, the average fairy hates her guests at the beginning who are like, you know, just. They're so mean to her. [00:04:04] Speaker B: What was it? What do you call like a wingless fairy? Oh, yeah. [00:04:07] Speaker A: She says, what do you call a wingless fairy? And she says nothing. Because who would want to call a wingless fairy? [00:04:12] Speaker B: They're so mean. [00:04:13] Speaker A: They're such. [00:04:15] Speaker B: Really captured the middle school spirit of mean teen girls. [00:04:18] Speaker A: I think everybody has felt way at one point or another. [00:04:22] Speaker B: They call her no Fly Zone. That was a great one. That got some laughs at our viewing party, that is. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Yeah. But I mean, you know, in. We obviously get through the first act and come to find out it is the fact that she is a wingless fairy that is going to save the day in the first place. You know, Fairytopia is under attack by Laverna, the twin sister of the Enchantress, [00:04:48] Speaker B: which I really wish we got any more information about because I feel like that would be so interesting. But that's all they tell us. [00:04:54] Speaker A: I would love a spin off like origin story of how these two sisters, [00:04:59] Speaker B: they don't even say really. She mentions to Elina at some point that she was also like ostracized by society. But like, that's it. She's just like, I know what it feels like to be different. [00:05:08] Speaker A: Well, something about like. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:09] Speaker A: And she has dragonfly wings. She does well, whereas the rest of. I mean obviously there's like different species of fairy and Fairytopia, but like the [00:05:17] Speaker B: state Magic Meadow is general run of [00:05:19] Speaker A: the mill fairy is typically has like butterfly wings of some kind. [00:05:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:25] Speaker A: And she is a lot more darker, creepy looking. She's kind of, you know, she's got green hair, she's got those dragonfly wings. She's wearing purple, which is the evil. [00:05:37] Speaker B: The evil color in this film as we discovered. Evil. Purple. Green. [00:05:41] Speaker A: Purple and green. Yeah, she's purple and green. So we obviously know visually, you know, these movies are. These are family films. [00:05:47] Speaker B: So Laverna is big on environmental terrorism and warfare. That's how she terrorizes Fairytopia. [00:05:55] Speaker A: So she is. I guess she's this formerly ostracized twin sister of this enchantress who we will get into later because I have basically the queen about this woman. But she is the twin sister formerly ostracized. And she decides enough is enough. I'm done being exiled to these bogs. I am going to commit biological warfare by releasing this toxin in the environment that takes away the fairies ability to fly. And seemingly to me now this kind of. They kind of seem to waffle back and forth on this. It seems like the fairies are kind of the only ones who are really super affected. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Well, Hugh does. I think the. Doesn't Hugh. See, I don't tired because of the gas. [00:06:42] Speaker A: Honestly, I feel like I would kind of need to go back and rewatch that scene where he talks about it because I don't know if it is the sickness or if it's just the fact that he's got like three other people riding on his back that is making him exhausted. But I, you know, we never see [00:06:56] Speaker B: Bibble affected by it. [00:06:57] Speaker A: Yeah, Bibble has no trouble flying. [00:06:59] Speaker B: I think the general consensus is it's geared towards fairies, but it probably tires the other flying creatures a little faster. But Laverna has her cactus birds that the fire birds that fly just fine. [00:07:13] Speaker A: Yeah. And I mean, I will say also her friend who goes with her at first really only starts to kind of struggle with the sickness when she flies up a little higher in the air when she like. She kind of like hovers near the ground as she's like, all right, bye. Yeah, just leave you here in the middle of this forest. [00:07:29] Speaker B: So of course with talking about Fairytopia. So coming back to our protagonist of Alina, one interesting thing about her too is she is the First Barbie that does not have blonde hair, blue eyes. She still has blonde hair. Let's not get too excited. But she has green eyes. [00:07:43] Speaker A: And she has the rainbow in her eyes. [00:07:45] Speaker B: She does green eyes with sometimes a little hint of a rainbow. The rainbow of destiny. [00:07:51] Speaker A: And every time we saw it, the entire room was just, oh, she's a lesbian queen. [00:07:57] Speaker B: But, yeah, so that was interesting. She's also the, like, I think the only Barbie that has her hair up the entire film. [00:08:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I knew we needed to talk about this. This is a problem. So we should just get this over with now. The fuck Ass Low bunny. We hate it. It's all of the marketing. She has her hair down. It looks beautiful. It's curly, it's blonde. She's beautiful. And then in every single frame in the movie, except for there's one. [00:08:22] Speaker B: There's, like, one short. [00:08:24] Speaker A: She's brushing her hair. In the first one, her hair is in that ugly, low bun that I cannot stand. It's so ugly. I hate it so much. And you'd think that. [00:08:33] Speaker B: Well, I totally get why. From an animation standpoint, they were like, we're not doing hair down. [00:08:38] Speaker A: Let's put her in a bun with the wings. [00:08:40] Speaker B: Yes, Especially those. But yeah, I. For the transformation. I'm so surprised they didn't do hair down for the transport transformation at the end especially. So she's got a bun, she's got green eyes. Because they wanted to differentiate her from the human princess Barbies. And then she's got this sidekick, Bibble. [00:09:00] Speaker A: He is. I think that pretty much everybody knows who Bibble is. Has at least seen. Seen a meme of this guy. [00:09:07] Speaker B: Furry little blue puz. Puffball with purple spot. He kind of looks like a mini Sully. Same color scheme. [00:09:13] Speaker A: Yeah, he does. One of our good friends, Emma, her brother went as Bibble for Halloween. And everybody thought that he was Sully from Monsters, Inc. He was really disappointed. [00:09:23] Speaker B: He sounds Lana Perry. [00:09:27] Speaker A: Excuse me. Sorry, I'm sneezing. Oh, my God. Excuse me. [00:09:31] Speaker B: Yeah, Bibble's great. He's a meme. A lot of times they'll, like, put him in front of, like, flames with him, like, screaming. So this is where it comes from, guys. Barbie Fairytopia is the origin of Bibble. [00:09:42] Speaker A: Yep. And he was just as polarizing then as he is now when you watch the movie. [00:09:48] Speaker B: He's a real cutie, though. I remember I had a stuffed animal of Bibble as a child that I loved. [00:09:53] Speaker A: I had a T shirt that had him on it. [00:09:55] Speaker B: I ha. I still have a T shirt. That has him on it. So the Bibble a day keeps the depression away. [00:10:00] Speaker A: It really does. It really, truly does. I think that his journey that he goes on, especially in the third movie, but we'll get to that later. But his journey that he goes on throughout the first film I think is very static. I don't really think that he has a whole lot of character growth and he gets so much screen time. [00:10:21] Speaker B: He's there because he's there to be the silly, cute thing. [00:10:24] Speaker A: Oh. And I. Yeah, he's the comedic release. [00:10:27] Speaker B: And I do appreciate he's not like, you know, Jar Jar Binks level of, like, destruction. [00:10:34] Speaker A: He doesn't like, you know, wreck plans. He doesn't like, do, you know, intentionally stupid things. [00:10:39] Speaker B: Right. He's just a little silly and provides, you know, some fun comedic relief. And he's a cute thing. [00:10:46] Speaker A: Yeah. I think that, I think that he deserves his own spin off because as somebody pointed out when we watched the movie, though, it seemed. Seems as though Hugh is like a grown up, potentially version of Bibble. And Bibble is just like stuck in this arrested development stage of permanent puffball status. Because Hugh understands Bibble in like a way that other people don't. Obviously people can understand his gestures and maybe what he's talking about and he can speak a few words. Like, a few. [00:11:19] Speaker B: It's kind of Star wars droids. [00:11:21] Speaker A: Rule of. [00:11:22] Speaker B: Like, most people can kind of just generally understand what the droid is trying to purvey. [00:11:27] Speaker A: Yeah. But Hugh, like, literally understood what he was saying. They were like getting into specific conversation details during their. [00:11:33] Speaker B: It's possible. I never. That never occurred to me as a child watching this movie. But, like, as an adult, I'm like, oh, yeah, maybe. [00:11:40] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I, I. That didn't. That had never occurred to me either until somebody pointed it out and I was like, you know what? [00:11:46] Speaker B: Maybe it'll be fun. [00:11:48] Speaker A: I don't really know. [00:11:50] Speaker B: But also be weird then for Bibble to be talking in fully formed sentences. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. He goes from like, literal baby. [00:11:57] Speaker B: Hugh is the butterfly friend that Alina gets. [00:12:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:00] Speaker B: Unnecessarily, like, soothing, sexy voice. [00:12:03] Speaker A: Yeah. He go, definitely going on the wood. [00:12:06] Speaker B: Like, hear me out, Cake. [00:12:07] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. And I actually looked up. So somebody mentioned they were like, well, you know, it's like Rule 34. If it exists, there's obviously porn of it. So I looked this up because I was curious. [00:12:19] Speaker B: Sure. [00:12:20] Speaker A: And there is apparently just like a Rule 34 website site. So I like clicked the first result and I did not do a super in depth search. I probably could have looked a little longer. It was more of a cursory glance. There was only one dang image. And they. He didn't have wings. His head was significantly smaller. And I was like, cowards, right? I'm like, look, if you're gonna get into monster, you need to accept this for what it is. You can't do any half measures, you know. So there's Hugh anyways. And then who else is sexy in this film? [00:12:55] Speaker B: That's a big one, Nalu. Oh yes, we have. Oh yeah. So, so funny. So this movie came out originally. Barbie was producing one movie about March a year and Fairytopia broke that mold because that came out in September. Yes. And then they already had like Barbie Mermaidia lined up for March of the next year. Yes. Super short turnaround. I remember getting the DVD of Barbie Fairytopia and one of the bonus features was the trailer for Mermaid. Yeah, so they already had that ready to go. So in this movie they kind of tease Mermaidia. [00:13:26] Speaker A: Yeah, well you, I mean you get the plot device too with the, the seaweed that lets you breathe underwater that he gives them. [00:13:31] Speaker B: And you meet the mermaid prince. Nalu. [00:13:33] Speaker A: Nalu. And you get to go through Mermaid Coast. [00:13:37] Speaker B: Super brief. Not the main town, but you get a short underwater sequence. [00:13:41] Speaker A: Well, yeah, it's more like a. Like they're just taking passage through media to get to where they need to go. But it does set us up then for the second film. But we only spend a very, very short amount of time there. [00:13:54] Speaker B: Again, she travels through a ridiculous amount of locations for how short this film is. And one thing too that people in our group pointed out when we watched this, the backdrops are stunning. Yeah, there's so many pretty like painted backdrops in this film. [00:14:09] Speaker A: A lot of them, like the hand painted animation, they're really, really pretty. [00:14:12] Speaker B: So those are gorgeous. I have like wallpapers on my iPad that are just different Fairytopia locales because they're so pretty. [00:14:19] Speaker A: Because I. In the meadow, obviously with her sentient house that she. [00:14:25] Speaker B: I love the house. [00:14:26] Speaker A: And then she travels through like six or seven different Fairytopia biomes. Like there's like a tulip forest. There's Azura's cottage, Azora's cottage, which is in. Oh, what's the name of the city? I think it's like literally just like Fairytown maybe. [00:14:41] Speaker B: That sounds right. I think so. [00:14:42] Speaker A: And she like, you know, goes to talk to like the maester there and like is like very. And she's accepted. I'm trying to save all of Fairytopia. Here, let me come talk to this chick. And Azora gives her the necklace. Good thing, because she is then kidnapped by Laverna's fungus guys. And we have not yet met Fungus Maximus. He's in the second film. But we have. They all have the same missing toe on their shoe. [00:15:10] Speaker B: They copy and pasted that. [00:15:13] Speaker A: One of our friends, Adam, pointed this out. Their noses were given, like, bounce physics. [00:15:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:19] Speaker A: When they move their heads around, their noses like, bounce. [00:15:22] Speaker B: I had never noticed that, but now I won't unsee it. Yeah. [00:15:25] Speaker A: In their ears. Same thing. It's like, you know, they put a lot of. They put a lot of effort into making those look realistic. [00:15:33] Speaker B: They're similarly silly goons. Kind of standard, like, villain, kid villain sidekick vibes, I feel. [00:15:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:41] Speaker B: Not really anything profound to say about it. They're appropriately. They do have, like, some kind of kid jump scares. Like when Azura opens the door and fungus is like, there. Yeah. [00:15:52] Speaker A: That kind of scared the crap out of me as a kid. I remember. And it scared me when we were watching it the other day. I was like, oh, gosh, I forgot how kind of, like, freaky they look. Yeah. And then they take her away, take Azura. [00:16:05] Speaker B: And then people think Alina did it. [00:16:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:07] Speaker B: Because they're like this strange woman. It's just in Wingles. [00:16:12] Speaker A: It's just xenophobia all over the place. Place. [00:16:14] Speaker B: Truly. [00:16:15] Speaker A: They are so prejudiced against her. And she meanwhile, just constantly endures. She just, you know, she never, ever gives up. It's. She's doing it for. And this is kind of Azura's one who introduces kind of the core message of all three movies, which is that you're doing this for the friends that you have and the friends that you also have not met yet. [00:16:35] Speaker B: Yeah. It's such a cute moment. Elena comes to the cottage and Azura's giving her tea, and it's like a whole dining room set up. And Elena's like, oh, are you expecting other people? And. And Azura's like, oh, no, those are just set out for the friends I haven't met yet. [00:16:47] Speaker A: I haven't met yet. [00:16:48] Speaker B: It's such, you know, it's a great, just kind of simple, but, like, appropriate message for these kids of introducing that concept of, you know, selflessness and, like, doing things for the greater good and, you know, contributing to your community. [00:17:01] Speaker A: No, absolutely. And I think it does also a really good job of, like, she. Because even at the end of the movie, they never apologize to her. They never really give her a Proper. Thanks. They just kind of like start acting like everything's good now. [00:17:15] Speaker B: Nothing like, yeah, they all love her. [00:17:16] Speaker A: Treat you like, you know, you were a leper for the first, you know, however many years old you are of your life. [00:17:22] Speaker B: Which brings me to my main thing, which is the first Barbie film especially, really just gives Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer vibe. [00:17:30] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. [00:17:31] Speaker B: It's such a, like, similar story of, you know. Yeah. Someone being ostracized for something that makes them different until that difference is useful to the society and then they're accepted and celebrated for that difference. [00:17:44] Speaker A: No, yeah, absolutely. And I. I would totally agree with that analysis of it. I would also say that, you know, you can take it one step deeper and say that, like, you know, Rudolph's gift and ability was kind of like latent until it was needed. And then Elena had already been like, you know, putting in the work to be a good member of her community and try to, you know, participate in things as normally as she could, despite the fact that this world is not built for her. Yeah. [00:18:10] Speaker B: And it's, you know, originally she has another fairy friend that goes with her on this journey, but she has to turn back because she is. Her wings stop working. And at first she's like, well, I'll just walk like you, Alina. And Alina's like, I don't think you can, actually. And yeah, one of our friends joked, like, what does she have, like, muscle atrophy? And it's like. Yeah, it's like a point is that all the fairies have only. It's like the people in Wall E, they've never used their legs. They've only flying. [00:18:38] Speaker A: They can't even hold their heads up. Yeah. [00:18:40] Speaker B: You know. Yeah. They are useless. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Yeah. So I. Yeah, no, I think that also. I mean, we get to the end of the first movie then, and she has kidnapped all of Laverna, has kidnapped all of the Guardians, and she is going to then use their magic to take over Fairytopia and, you know, as she says, make things, you know, better. [00:19:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Not a lot of detail is really given with her plans. [00:19:06] Speaker A: Right. Like, like we. Like we said at the beginning, this. These movies are very, very short. We don't have a whole lot of time to get into her deeper plans, I guess, for how she's going to create this. [00:19:16] Speaker B: You know what I appreciate, though, that Barbie was not afraid. Like, Barbie said, no, we're not doing a sympathetic villain. This is just a bad person. [00:19:24] Speaker A: Like back when villains were allowed to be villains because, you know, and I was also thinking that as we watched the movie where, like, I. I also thought this as a child when I watched movies, not just this kind of film, but like, any movie with, like, a villain who is a villain. As I'm like, why would you choose to. Like, you're saying the words, I'm evil. I am going to take over this society for the power of evil. And I'm like, see, at least the sympathetic villains have a twisted sense of motivation. And I feel like Laverna kind of does in the first two movies, but then by the third movie, there is so much going on that that kind of falls to the wayside. I think that in the first movie, she kind of has, like, a pretty decent. I mean, not justification, but at least a reason why to her she is doing what she is doing where she, you know, her sister. I think it is implied that although they are twins, Laverna is technically, like a little bit, like a couple minutes [00:20:19] Speaker B: older than I would think. [00:20:20] Speaker A: So the Enchantress. Because she does mention something about how she was supposed to be the one to, I guess, rule Fairytopia, which leads me to believe it's some kind of a, you know, like, hereditary monarchy or something like that. That's never really explained a whole lot, but it leads me to believe that at least. But it was something about her differences or maybe her, I guess, inherent evil that she has that, you know, caused the people or, you know, the powers that be to kind of cast her sorry aside and choose her sister to become the Enchantress. Because we never learn the Enchantress's first name. [00:21:02] Speaker B: Nope, just the Enchantress. [00:21:04] Speaker A: And you know what? The Enchantress has blood on her hands, quite frankly. [00:21:06] Speaker B: She also has, like, three minutes of screen time across the entire three movies. [00:21:10] Speaker A: Yeah, good freaking thing. Because she is so unsympathetic, she could easily help Alina, the whole time, very clearly chooses not to. [00:21:21] Speaker B: I think it's more that she. I mean, if she. Because we see a lot of biodomes, as we mentioned, so I think. I don't think it was a purposeful neglect. I think the Enchantress just didn't know what was happening because if. Because Laverna didn't know that there was a wingless Fairy. Because she has that revelation of, like, oh, no, there's a wingless fairy. This ruins my gas plan. So I don't think outside of the magic, and Alina says she's never left the Magic Meadow before. So I think outside of the Magic Meadow, people just didn't know that she existed. [00:21:51] Speaker A: That's. I mean, you know, that's a good point actually. [00:21:54] Speaker B: So I'm gonna. I mean, believe what you want. I'm gonna choose to believe that the Enchantress was not like willfully ignoring Elena. She just like straight up didn't know she existed. [00:22:03] Speaker A: No. And that's okay. And that's a valid point to make about the first movie. And I can talk about this a little more once we get into the second one though. But like, I mean, short of get. She gets kidnapped in the first movie, obviously by Laverna. She's like being held in some kind of like stasis. Yeah. Like the whole time. But she doesn't really lift a finger to do anything to help in the second movie. And I mean, to be honest, like, it's Remedia's problems that Elena kind of just gets roped into. But yeah, for the most part, you know, she kind of is like just like a useless. It seems like the Guardians kind of do a lot more to keep the day to day operations of Fairytopia, like running and. Enchantress. [00:22:44] Speaker B: Enchantress on top. And then there's like the council of the Primary Color Fairies. Yeah. [00:22:48] Speaker A: I mean, yeah. Like there's like the Blue Fairy, the Red, like Azora, obviously there's Ruby. [00:22:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. There's Topaz, who sounds like Mickey Mouse. [00:22:55] Speaker A: Oh my gosh. Insane. And people thought Topaz was Daffodil's mom. That was really funny. [00:23:02] Speaker B: She's not. [00:23:02] Speaker A: No, we looked. We did look that up because. [00:23:05] Speaker B: Debunked. You heard it here. [00:23:07] Speaker A: Debunked. So. But yeah, she obviously kidnaps her in the first movie, so she's not doing anything to help. But like, you know, even in the third movie, I feel like, you know. [00:23:18] Speaker B: Yeah. She's kind of just there as the like deus ex machina, if needed of the like all powerful. [00:23:24] Speaker A: Yeah. I. [00:23:25] Speaker B: Kind of hairy figure. Queen Clarissa from Tinkerbell Vibes. [00:23:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:29] Speaker B: But even less caring. Yeah. Less involved. [00:23:32] Speaker A: At least involved in the day to day runnings of Pixie Hollow. But the Enchantress is so far removed, you know, from. She's. She's privileged. [00:23:42] Speaker B: I want could argue too that it's, you know, I mean, she can't get too involved because then we don't have these films. [00:23:48] Speaker A: Right. [00:23:49] Speaker B: It's Alina's journey. So for a narrative purpose. [00:23:51] Speaker A: Of course. Of course. [00:23:52] Speaker B: Elena's got to do something from like, [00:23:54] Speaker A: you know, like a. A governmental standpoint who would stand for this in ways, you know, One could argue that Laverna is a liberator of sorts. I think that, you know, well, at least in the first two. But, you know, like I said, we can. We can talk about it more when we get there. But she. Her motivations kind of take a big shift in the second and third movies. But, you know, I mean, in the end, she is banished to the bogs, right? Like the sulfur bogs or whatever. [00:24:23] Speaker B: So. Yeah. So she starts out in this cool cactus palace. [00:24:26] Speaker A: Yeah, very. It was. It's very cool design area. It's like a desert with, like, fire birds and, like, all of her fungus have, like, cactus clothing. [00:24:34] Speaker B: Yeah. And then at the big, you know, final act end of the film, too, she offers Alina in exchange for the butterfly necklace. That will be the last thing Laverna needs to grant her her power. She offers Elena what she's always wanted, Wings. And they're pretty sick looking. I mean, yeah, they're very glowing dragonfly wings. [00:24:55] Speaker A: They're like these bright green, glowing, dragonfly shaped very clearly. But I think that they look really cool. But they're very clearly, obviously meant to be. Like, this is. They're the same color as, like, the gas, so it's like, very clear. It's like a sickness. This is like, you know, not. This is not what you want. This is not how you want to get. How you want to achieve this. [00:25:18] Speaker B: But, you know, very nice moment for, like, as a kid, I was appropriately like, oh, no, Alina, don't do it. Don't give up. The butterfly necklace for the wings. And I think they bring it back one more time where Alina's, like, for the friends I haven't met yet. And then, like, softballs. [00:25:39] Speaker A: And then. Yeah. She throws the. Yeah. And then we get the callback to the beginning of the movie. I say, as if it wasn't like, 40 minutes, right. [00:25:47] Speaker B: 45 minutes ago. [00:25:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Throws it into the diamond glass, the Union point. What they call it the Union Point. She throws it into the Union Point, it breaks, and Laverna is banished to the sulfur bogs with a couple of her fungi and. [00:26:06] Speaker B: And then Alina just goes home. [00:26:08] Speaker A: Yeah. She straight up, like, no reward after that? No. Like, can I find you a place to stay for the night? Can I help you? No, she's just sent back to the Magic Meadow to go and, you know, do even more thankless, backbreaking work for other people. Except she gets there and, like I said, everyone is just acting like, oh, wow, we've loved you the whole time. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Good job, Alina. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Good job, Alina. They're, like, waving at her as they fly by and, like, smiling and giggling and like, you know, asking her to participate in their. Their reindeer games. And it's like, bullshit. What the hell is going on here? You owe her an apology. Quite frankly, you should be groveling. You owe her an apology. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Elena's too nice, though, right? [00:26:55] Speaker A: Well, that's, that's, you know, that's where I get into, like. She has a level of selflessness that you only see in Jesus Christ. And I, I mean that. I genuinely mean that. [00:27:04] Speaker B: But fear not, viewers, because the enchantress does pop up at the very end of the film and gives her her own butterfly necklace, which I have a rep. I wear it all the time and I get compliments on it all the time. [00:27:14] Speaker A: It's very pretty. It's a very pretty piece of jewelry. [00:27:16] Speaker B: And she gets her wings, right? [00:27:19] Speaker A: Which I do have a question. And maybe it is because, like, the necklace has to belong to the certain person. But my question was always, well, why didn't her putting on Azora's necklace. [00:27:30] Speaker B: Because it wasn't her necklace. [00:27:32] Speaker A: And see, that was kind of like. That's kind of what I was always thinking, too. It's never like, explicitly explained, which it doesn't have to be. It like, you know, is pretty impressive implied. But she also. No, actually, wait, I was going to say she takes the necklace off in the second movie, but she doesn't. [00:27:44] Speaker B: She does not. [00:27:45] Speaker A: So I also. I was watching like a few people talk about this movie. Like, I watched like a couple videos. I saw this movie on YouTube. [00:27:51] Speaker B: There are a few animation errors where she's supposed to have the necklace on and she's shown bare chested, but. [00:27:57] Speaker A: But she still has. [00:27:58] Speaker B: She has it on. [00:27:58] Speaker A: I did see somebody argue that her wings that she gets because of the necklace are not like, for lack of a better word, biological. They are more like a prosthetic. And that is why she is able to lose them and why they are attached to the ownership of the necklace. The necklace. So, you know, she doesn't. She's not like, quote unquote, cured of this disability. Because I know that, like, you know, and that obviously is probably a good thing because, you know, I know that that is a thing that a lot of people take issue with is those kinds of narratives in movies. And again, this is a kids film, so we're not getting super deep into the nuances of that sort of thing here, right? [00:28:42] Speaker B: The little film, little girl wants to see the pretty Barbie get her wings, right? [00:28:46] Speaker A: Exactly. And she's given a lovely pair of. [00:28:48] Speaker B: I love the first design. [00:28:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I think her first design is great. Again, I wish they would take her hair down at least for like the ending transformation. Right. Which, which, you know, all of the fairies in Fairytopia kind of wear their hair up or have short hair. [00:29:03] Speaker B: This is true. I don't think we see any fairy with long hair. [00:29:06] Speaker A: No, I don't think so either. [00:29:07] Speaker B: The longest is like shoulder length if it's down. [00:29:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:10] Speaker B: Probably because of the wings, like you said. [00:29:12] Speaker A: Even most of the mermaids have their hair braided back. They don't really wear their hair like loose down. But yeah, I mean, I think that it would just get like knotted and tangled in your wings. Honestly, if you had hair that was like really long down your back and wings. Yeah, it would just be valid. More of a pain in the butt than it's worth. [00:29:29] Speaker B: But love the first costume. I love to. Throughout the movie, like her little. The detail on the costumes are really pretty too because the skirts are all like layered petals of different flowers. So like, Alina is like a pink rose, I think. [00:29:43] Speaker A: Something like that. She's like a couple of different pink flowers. And she has like. It kind of changes throughout the three movies too. She has like different motifs. [00:29:50] Speaker B: Her shoes are so pretty. They're green and they have like. Like vines that ripe around the legs. [00:29:56] Speaker A: They're so pretty. I love the. I love the costume design in the first. Most of the first three movies except for the. We can get into it at the end of the third one. But. All right. I really do like the costume design at the end of the first movie that she carries over well into the second one. The second movie. All right. [00:30:16] Speaker B: Do we have anything else to say about the first one before we. [00:30:18] Speaker A: I mean, honestly, not really, other than like, you know, my boned pit, which with the enchantress and the complete lack of accountability for the citizens of Fairytopia. But that kind of carries over movies. [00:30:31] Speaker B: And again, it's part two of just. It being such an insanely short run time. It's like they don't have two minutes to spare to have fairies apologize. [00:30:40] Speaker A: Part of me thinks that this movie could actually benefit from being like 15 minutes longer. But part of me is also like, well, this again, this is a movie for little girls. This is like, you know, not supposed to be. Be a super long. And it does have a decent three act structure too. Like it's not. They. They don't skip. No. [00:30:57] Speaker B: Super important because watching it, like, it doesn't Even feel like it's rushing you necessarily. [00:31:02] Speaker A: No, everything. [00:31:02] Speaker B: Like, I feel you're just like, oh, [00:31:04] Speaker A: we're like, moving scene economy is really, really well paced. [00:31:06] Speaker B: Which is insane because, like, that's an episode of TV now. That takes, you know, two years. [00:31:10] Speaker A: No, literally. And you get the first episode of Survivor 50. Well, like, the airtime time was three hours. The actual show, like, the actual episode itself only ended up being like an hour 40. But, like, that is longer than that movie. [00:31:22] Speaker B: Barbie said, here's a whole movie structure complete with introducing a universe and lore and characters in an hour and five, [00:31:33] Speaker A: like six minutes or something. So. But yeah, that. I mean, I think that that kind of. They kind of wrap the first one up in a decent enough bow, in my opinion, to where that is the one that you watch. You will be okay. But it does. [00:31:47] Speaker B: But they knew that Mermaidia was coming. [00:31:49] Speaker A: Yeah, they knew Mermaidia was coming. And like you said earlier, the trailer for Mermaidia was at the end of the Fairytopia. Like DVHS tape. Dvd, VHS tape. Yeah, whatever it was. And I actually went back and watched the trailer and I noticed something really weird. And I looked this up. The. There are two mermaids that are shown in the trailer that you never see. See that People think that Nori is just kind of a composite character of those two, which she looks nothing like. I mean, either. [00:32:22] Speaker B: I love Nori's design way more than the mermaids that were cut. [00:32:26] Speaker A: I mean, don't get me wrong, I would have loved for those two to actually just be other characters because I really do like their designs. Like, her purple hair is really pretty. The other one, I think, has pink hair. [00:32:33] Speaker B: They're very pastel, though, and I feel like the bright color works a lot better. [00:32:37] Speaker A: Yeah. With the aesthetics of the second movie, for sure. Because the second movie is kind of like a major aesthetic departure from the first film, in my opinion, because it's underwater, obviously. So. But it's. I think it's done intentionally because, you know, she is, I guess, you know, ironically gonna use this phrase. She's kind of a fish out of water. [00:32:56] Speaker B: Obviously. [00:32:56] Speaker A: She's a fairy now with wings of her own. And she is going underwater because the sea butterfly comes to get her. And. [00:33:06] Speaker B: Yeah. So Mermaidia, we're introduced to different styles, too, of, like, the dolls, because the sea butterfly, she has, like, she. [00:33:15] Speaker A: Her legs, big head to a tail, [00:33:17] Speaker B: tiny, tiny little, like almost a toddler doll. [00:33:21] Speaker A: Yeah. I think it's like. Yeah, they look very childlike with enormous heads. [00:33:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:26] Speaker A: And she. Her body transforms I think when she gets in the water, she has a tail. [00:33:31] Speaker B: Right. [00:33:31] Speaker A: But, like, she also is in. Like, she's set up to kind of, like, seem like she's gonna be there the whole time. You know, you see her, like, at the beginning, you follow her for, like, a solid couple of minutes. And you see her. You see her watching Alina. You see, like, Alina from her point of view. And then, like, she takes her to the COVID and she just goes, like, all right, peace out. Bye. [00:33:49] Speaker B: Good evening. [00:33:50] Speaker A: Never see her again. Don't learn her name. You don't learn, like, anything about her or you don't see any more of her species. You see her. [00:33:57] Speaker B: No. Isn't the oracle the same species? [00:34:00] Speaker A: Is she. You might be right. [00:34:01] Speaker B: The one in the place. [00:34:02] Speaker A: Does she have wings? I can't remember. [00:34:04] Speaker B: I don't remember. [00:34:05] Speaker A: I would need to look it up. [00:34:06] Speaker B: But it's the same style of doll, though. I do like the big head. [00:34:10] Speaker A: Big head, teeny, tiny little body. [00:34:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:12] Speaker A: Yeah. So, I mean. Yeah. So we're set up. We are off to the races pretty much immediately with the second film because, again, this run time is a little longer than the first one by like, [00:34:21] Speaker B: it's like an hour 15 now. Yeah. [00:34:24] Speaker A: It's not that much longer than the first one. [00:34:27] Speaker B: So we start out. It shows us Elena with her new wings. She's flying around with her fairy friends, [00:34:31] Speaker A: having a great fun, participating in the Reindeer Games. [00:34:34] Speaker B: Yep. The sea butterfly finds her and very kind of adorkably tells Elena, hey, Nalu has been captured. Which love. Love that. Okay, here's my big thing with Barbie. Anyone that says Barbie is not a feminist icon has never seen a Barbie cartoon movie. [00:34:52] Speaker A: And it shows. [00:34:52] Speaker B: Shows, because we're gonna. We're about to spend the next hour and 10 minutes rescuing a man. [00:34:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:58] Speaker B: The entire time. Two girls rescuing a man who also [00:35:02] Speaker A: do not immediately like each other. [00:35:04] Speaker B: No, they're kind of. [00:35:05] Speaker A: They are every film a little bit. And admittedly, so it does not really pass the Bechdel test. It is over a man, however. [00:35:14] Speaker B: But they do have conversations that aren't about Nalu. So it does. Because, you know, they talk about the oracle or things. [00:35:20] Speaker A: Right. And you know what? Also. Also, like, if I was Nori, like, I would be like, who the hell is this girl coming in, trying to get with my man that I have put in the work? He's not allowed to marry a commoner, but he's gonna get with this fairy chick? Are you kidding me? [00:35:35] Speaker B: It's so funny. I remembered distinctly one of the dialogue lines when Nori meets Elena and she's like, you're Elena. I mean, you're beautiful and all, but you're not that beautiful. So like they don't like each. Well, Elena again, being the kindest person alive is like, why are you being mean to me? I'm just trying to help. But Nori does not like her ass and in fact tries to lose her in an epic, like, underwater chase. Yeah. [00:36:02] Speaker A: She straight up tries to like abandon her in this. [00:36:06] Speaker B: Like, I think she's like, if you [00:36:07] Speaker A: can keep up, if you can keep up and like swim super fast. At this point, Alina does not have a tail. She still has her wings, which she kind of can use to swim through the water in like a really interesting way that we see Hugh do in the first movie. [00:36:20] Speaker B: I like that they make the wings almost look like manta rays. [00:36:23] Speaker A: Yeah, they're like the little. They. They did a really cool. I think they made a really cool decision with that. But she kind of tried. She tries to lose her after she's like eaten the seaweed. Because the creepy turtle is the one. [00:36:36] Speaker B: Oh, gosh. [00:36:37] Speaker A: Which, yeah, people, people had opinions about that turtle. She's fabulous in my opinion. Opinion. [00:36:42] Speaker B: She kind of looks like a pink Voldemort though. [00:36:44] Speaker A: No, she absolutely does look like a pink Voldemort. She really, she's. [00:36:48] Speaker B: She's got no nose. [00:36:49] Speaker A: Yeah, no nose. Bald headed pearl necklace. I think she has like a little handbag thing that she carries probably. And then. Yeah. So she goes, she gets the seaweed, they go underwater. She tracks Nori down, tries to chase her. The fungus have also eaten the seaweed. And we cut to Nalu to find out kind of what's going on with, with that plot line there where he is being. He's tied up, he's being forced to watch these fungus pour this poison. [00:37:21] Speaker B: Yeah. We go back to Laverna's environmental terrorism as her go to terrorism and she creates a concoction of green goop that is gonna destroy Mermania. Yeah. [00:37:31] Speaker A: It takes all of the oxygen out of the water. [00:37:34] Speaker B: That's right. [00:37:35] Speaker A: Which if you sit and think about that for a second, is genuinely crazy. Horrifying. [00:37:40] Speaker B: Crazy that they thought of that for a kid's movie. [00:37:42] Speaker A: That's. [00:37:42] Speaker B: They didn't need to give an explanation. They could have just said, this is magic goo that's going to kill Mermania. And they said, no, we're going to steal. We're going to take your oxygen, take [00:37:51] Speaker A: the air you breathe out of the water. I guess it's not air, but you know what I mean. [00:37:56] Speaker B: All because Laverna wants something called the immunity berry. Protect her from the effects of all magic, past, present, and future. [00:38:05] Speaker A: Yes. So she wants this immunity berry because she has been banished. I believe she has wings, right? She still has her wings. [00:38:15] Speaker B: Yeah, she's still Laverna. [00:38:16] Speaker A: Okay, so she still has all her wings and her magic, but she can't leave the bogs. The Bogs. Because she's not a frog yet, though, is she? No, not since that's not until the end of this one. So she is trying to escape the bogs, but I feel like there is something that prevents her from being able to do that. I think she's gonna leave. [00:38:34] Speaker B: The Enchantress. Yeah. [00:38:35] Speaker A: Has a spell on her that causes her to not. [00:38:38] Speaker B: But the fungus can leave the bog, which was a mistake on whoever organized this. Exile. I feel like you gotta exile her and the henchmen. Yeah, that feels pretty common sense. [00:38:49] Speaker A: The bureaucracy kind of fell through on that one. [00:38:51] Speaker B: But. So, yeah. So the fungus are like, you gotta tell us where this Berry is, Nalu, or we're gonna poison the Mermaid Cove. [00:38:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:01] Speaker B: And so he does. Or so you think he has a plan. He takes them to the Carousel of Confusion. [00:39:07] Speaker A: Yes. Which is literally just open water that. [00:39:12] Speaker B: But there's like a reef, like a singular coral thing in the middle. [00:39:17] Speaker A: And there's like, whirlpool. There's like a whirlpool that causes you to get. You forget why you're there. And so they're fighting. [00:39:23] Speaker B: That's the other big Barbie meme that I've seen come out of these films, is the lefty leftaroo by fungi. So that's where that comes out. Oh, this is also where we meet fungus. [00:39:33] Speaker A: Maximus. Maximus. Because she has somehow managed to create a fungus that is bigger and better and smarter. [00:39:43] Speaker B: And also has a. Has a crush on Laverna. [00:39:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:46] Speaker B: Very down. Bad for liver. [00:39:48] Speaker A: He is, like, into that green hair that she has. Rocking. [00:39:51] Speaker B: I think that's because he's green. [00:39:53] Speaker A: Well, yeah. I mean, you know, they would have beautiful green children, I guess. So, you know, Nalu is leading them around this carousel of confusion. They go around in circles several times and eventually realize what is happening and decide, you know what, we're going to take you to a secondary location. If you won't tell us where the berry is, we are going to, you [00:40:14] Speaker B: know, hold your feet, hang you out to dry. [00:40:16] Speaker A: Literally hang you out to dry. Which, you know. So he is now once again, tied up, useless. Tied up and it is up to our two ladies in Bibble, of course, to save the day. So we venture on and they hear about this oracle who is going to be able to help them, and they manage to find her. They make it through the. You know, they get to where she's at and then she is gifted a necklace that is five pearls, I believe. [00:40:49] Speaker B: Well, we gotta. If we talk about the oracle, we gotta mention the other iconic part, which is where they're like, will you open your. Because the first they're trying to figure out, like, what. Where the oracle is. And they realize that it's this giant pink super cunty snail that is like boating them across the lake. And so Alina's like, can you open your shell for us? And she goes, open my shell? [00:41:12] Speaker A: But of course. And obviously opens her shell and out comes this other little potential sea butterfly. We need to double check the species on that one. But she essentially speaks in riddles and Alina figures out this is not the oracle. This cunty snail is in fact the oracle. [00:41:31] Speaker B: Also one of. I think the series does a good job overall of not seeming like this. But that was one of the few moments when the snail opens where you go, oh, that's a playset. [00:41:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's a toy. I had that toy. It was a bath toy, I believe, because, like, you know, it came with the Little Mermaid Girl and it floated, I think, in the water maybe. [00:41:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I had that play. And again, I do appreciate that. Like, it didn't. Most of these films do not feel like you're being marketed at. You're enjoying a great fairy adventure. But that was the one time that you were like, that's a toy. That's a toy that you are selling. [00:42:01] Speaker A: Yeah. So, you know, she gifts her the pearl necklace that has the five. The five pearls. And she says, well, you have the choice here. You are not going to be able to accomplish this task. [00:42:13] Speaker B: What is the depths of despair? That's what they're called, despair. [00:42:16] Speaker A: They had to make it through to the depths of depths of despair to speak with or to get the magic mirror. The mirror of. I forget what the official title. [00:42:25] Speaker B: Whatever it's gonna. They can ask it a question. They're gonna ask where. [00:42:28] Speaker A: Nalu is asking a question. So she tells her, you know, you are going to have to give up your wings for a tail. If you want to save Nalu, save Mermaidia, do this. And she's like, I'm not. I, like, I just got my wings. I don't want to do that. [00:42:42] Speaker B: I'm not which I love. We finally have a limit to Alina's selflessness. [00:42:46] Speaker A: Right, Exactly. She's like, I can't do that. [00:42:48] Speaker B: I just caught them. Worked so hard. No, thanks. [00:42:52] Speaker A: Right, exactly. So, you know, I think that that does something really interesting to her character because up to this point, she's kind of just been like. I mean, not perfect and, like, flawless completely. But she doesn't really have any major faults up to this point. And one could argue this isn't. [00:43:08] Speaker B: This is not a fault. It's a very valid. [00:43:09] Speaker A: This is not a fault. This is a completely valid boundary for a person. Person to have to not want to have their body physically altered in order to, you know. [00:43:20] Speaker B: But just in case. She's like. In case you change your mind, here's this necklace with some pearls. And you can wish for it. [00:43:26] Speaker A: Make the wish. And the pearls will turn blue, and you have until the last pearl turns back to white. You must be out of the water [00:43:33] Speaker B: when that happens, and you'll get your wings back. So, you know, no harm, no fault. [00:43:36] Speaker A: Simple enough. We've got a shot clock. [00:43:38] Speaker B: If you are in the water when the last pearl turns black, back mermaid forever foreshadowing. [00:43:45] Speaker A: Yep. So eventually they get to the despair. They're trying to swim down. Elena is not strong enough. Nori gets kidnapped or, well, not kidnapped, I guess so much. She's trapped by this very. [00:43:59] Speaker B: In a very tentacle fashion. [00:44:01] Speaker A: Very. Yeah, very like, you know, somewhat kind of hentai. You sideways mattel with this one. She gets trapped by these, like, little seaweed arm things. And then Alina has to give her wings for tail. Beautiful transformation animation. [00:44:15] Speaker B: So pretty. [00:44:16] Speaker A: It's really well done. The sparkles are gorgeous. And then her new look is so beautiful. And they could have given her her hair down, but they didn't. [00:44:24] Speaker B: Yeah, she's still got the bun, but [00:44:26] Speaker A: she does have a pretty. [00:44:28] Speaker B: And she goes from. So in her fairy form, she's a light pink. Now that she's mermaid, she's hot pink again, kind of matching just the brighter underwater colors. [00:44:36] Speaker A: Yes, absolutely. [00:44:37] Speaker B: One thing, too. Nori, by the way, has bright blue hair, which as a child, I think that's exactly what started my obsession with colored hair is I saw that. I said blue hair is an option, and then I dyed my hair for all of my teenage years. [00:44:53] Speaker A: So I do. I also agree that her new look fits in better with the palette of the second movie. And, you know, the. The aesthetic purists of the film will try be like, oh, this is a huge deviation from the visual Language of the first movie. And I completely disagree with that. I think that it is absolutely intentional. [00:45:11] Speaker B: I think so too. Well, because even her tail too kind of has the same butterfly motifs that her, you know, wings. [00:45:19] Speaker A: No. And she has the same flowers on her top. [00:45:21] Speaker B: Yep. They've still got the rose petals off [00:45:23] Speaker A: the shoulder thing that she's got going on. [00:45:26] Speaker B: A good distinction. And that's one thing with going back to those pastel mermaids that got booted. They did not have nearly as much of a distinction from the fairy looks. Whereas Nori is like very, very distinctly, like all bright blues, all mermaid separate, you know, accents and stuff. So then when you see Elena did her fairy stuff and joined the mermaid team, it's cool to see kind of the merger of that because you still look at her and you're like, that's not, you know, she doesn't match the rest of the mermaid people. She still has that more flowery. [00:45:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:58] Speaker B: Stuff that the fairies normally rock. [00:45:59] Speaker A: Well, because, you know, I would also. I would also just argue that like, you know, she is not a mermaid. And whatever magic it is that is, you know, at work here that is giving her this oracle magic is, you know, it knows that she is not of this world. She is, like I said, a fish out of water. But she is a mermaid too. [00:46:18] Speaker B: When she's talking to the oracle again, is that when she gets another magic rainbow in the eye? Yeah. There's some point in this movie where that comes back and I think she. [00:46:25] Speaker A: See it's when they're out of the, like when they go and see her like in the COVID before they go back down underwater. [00:46:30] Speaker B: So this is also where Nori and Alina really become friends. [00:46:34] Speaker A: They. Yeah, they've. I mean, over their near death experience that they have had together. [00:46:39] Speaker B: Trauma bond. [00:46:40] Speaker A: Yeah. And finally now we have their. You know, they're. They're slaying. They're maximizing their joint slay. So. [00:46:46] Speaker B: And they get matching tattoos. [00:46:47] Speaker A: They do. They get their matching, like true besties. [00:46:50] Speaker B: The crests, the of. [00:46:51] Speaker A: Of courage. The crest of courage that they get. They are able to see where Nalu is being kept through the magic mirror. And they're like, great, we're just gonna. We're gonna go there. And this is a scene I have thought about literally years and I'm no closer to answers where Nori looks at the mirror and she's like, I don't think he's being kept out of water at all. I know a really bright place where he's probably being kept. So they Go. And they go through these geysers. And yes, they did have to go through the geysers only to find out that, yeah, he's being kept out of water. [00:47:22] Speaker B: Yeah. It's not like. [00:47:24] Speaker A: It's very obvious to me. Like, you see the surface of the water that he's dangling over, and she's just like, oh, I think he's still underwater. [00:47:31] Speaker B: I think it's just that it's like a separate mermaid cove. Like, it's not just. Cause what they were debating is, do they just swim straight up to the surface and look for him there, or do they go more underwater and then expect to find him in his. So I think it's like a separate. Like, underwater. Maybe it was like a cove that could only be accessed through underwater. [00:47:53] Speaker A: I do, I do. [00:47:54] Speaker B: As opposed to, like, if you're straight about the surface, you're looking for, like, an island or something. [00:47:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:58] Speaker B: And that's not a thing that's happening. [00:48:00] Speaker A: And I mean, the scene where they go through the geysers is arguably the most intense scene of the movie. It's like I. You know, I remember watching that movie. [00:48:07] Speaker B: True video game level. [00:48:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it would be a really great level for a video game. And especially when Nori has to go back and save Bibble, who has, like, five of these things pointed at him at once, about to blast off. And he's. [00:48:18] Speaker B: He's not moving at all. Yeah. He's just embracing, waiting for death. [00:48:23] Speaker A: He longs for death, I think. [00:48:25] Speaker B: The sweet release. [00:48:26] Speaker A: Yeah. He longs to be released from his flesh prison. [00:48:29] Speaker B: But already, you know, showing a good moment in their friendship growth. You know, Elena's sacrificed her wings to save Nori. And so then now Nori's. They still show Nori's a better swimmer than her, which makes sense because she's a mermaid. So she's like, you wait here, I'll go back and get your puffball. [00:48:47] Speaker A: Yeah. And he's in shock for a moment, and then, you know, comes to and is, you know, ready to tackle the rest of the mission. And on they go. [00:48:56] Speaker B: And then we have a great moment where they find berries. [00:48:59] Speaker A: Yes, they do. They go through this magical, beautiful, really pretty animated underwater garden that has all of these different fruits that do things. They see, obviously, the immunity berry that Laverna is after. They see a very similar true self berry where if you eat it, it reveals Chekhov's berry. Your true self. Yeah, Chekhov's berry. And then they run into a Bibble, find. Well, yes, our good boy Bibble here. He Finds a tree of different colored fruits that just starts munching. Yeah. Starts eating them. And they do different things to his voice. [00:49:37] Speaker B: Yeah, he goes high. He's. He sings some beautiful opera. [00:49:40] Speaker A: Beautiful, operatic. You know, he is a beautiful sprint. [00:49:43] Speaker B: Then he has a very jazzy, low, Barrett bass voice. [00:49:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Bibble. Sexy voice. Yeah, it's. Yeah. I wonder who the. I feel like we should have looked up who the voice actor was for that, which I don't. [00:49:57] Speaker B: I don't know that they'll tell us. Believe it or not, audience, it was kind of hard to find information about these films. [00:50:02] Speaker A: Yeah, the. Yeah. These movies are kind of difficult, I can tell you. [00:50:06] Speaker B: Barbie, Mermaidia was the highest grossing of the trilogy. [00:50:09] Speaker A: Well, that makes sense. [00:50:11] Speaker B: It earned a little. I think it was about 20.7 million. [00:50:14] Speaker A: Wow. I mean. [00:50:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:15] Speaker A: No, that makes sense. This is the most ambitious of the three, just in terms of like. [00:50:18] Speaker B: And, like, you have fairies and mermaids [00:50:21] Speaker A: that they're trying to. To do here. [00:50:24] Speaker B: So what more would you want? [00:50:25] Speaker A: Right? Exactly. It. It definitely is the densest in terms [00:50:28] Speaker B: of plot and lore. Yeah. [00:50:30] Speaker A: And, you know, I don't know, it's the difficult middle chapter of any trilogy I liken it to. [00:50:35] Speaker B: But I think this back here, it's going for it. [00:50:39] Speaker A: I think so, too. [00:50:40] Speaker B: I think Mermaidia is the best. [00:50:41] Speaker A: It's definitely my favorite of the three here. [00:50:44] Speaker B: Same for sure. [00:50:46] Speaker A: But so we get to, obviously, the COVID that our boy is being killed. [00:50:52] Speaker B: Great action sequence follows. [00:50:53] Speaker A: Great action sequence. The girls cut them down with, you know, little seashells. And then they do like a little, now you see me card trick straight [00:51:02] Speaker B: up with the berry. [00:51:03] Speaker A: They're doing the berry back and forth because that's what Laverna is after. They take the true self berry and paint a stripe on it. Off screen, of course. And then they do a little heisty maneuver to have the fungus escape with the true self berry. [00:51:21] Speaker B: No. [00:51:22] Speaker A: And keep the immunity berry for themselves. But, you know, before they escape, Elena makes it out of the water as her last pearl is about to turn white. [00:51:33] Speaker B: But then Maxim, is it fungus Maximus? I think it's a maximus move. He finds Elena and he threatens the environmental terrorism again. He has the goo still, and he's like, you got to give me this berry or I'm gonna dump the goo. And so Elena gives him the berry, which at the time, we're like, no, but it's the fake berry. Come to find out. So it's the true self. No risk. But this fungus Maximus is a dick, and he, like, Villains should does not keep his word. [00:52:08] Speaker A: Right. [00:52:09] Speaker B: And so he proceeds. I know the worst. And so in a true villain move, he says no bye and then takes the cow dumps. [00:52:18] Speaker A: It is about like it's her. [00:52:19] Speaker B: He doesn't dump it, but he, yeah, he like takes his cap off and throws the evil oxygen goo into the down. They're at a top. The top of a waterfall when this is happening. [00:52:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And then so she. She swims up the waterfall, by the way, like she swims up the waterfall as it's running to get like on this rock that she's a salmon. Yeah, like a salmon. And then she. So she dives after this bottle and she catches it and lands in the water just as the last pearl turns white and. [00:52:52] Speaker B: Beautiful moment. [00:52:53] Speaker A: Yeah. She is left with her tail seemingly permanently. [00:52:58] Speaker B: And I remember even as a kid, like just. I don't know what it was about it, but I think it's because the first film like, yeah, the self sacrifice of her, you know, giving up the evil wings to save Furitopia. Yeah, that's, you know, that's still good and hits hard as a child. But in the second movie it being. It just felt so much further because it's. She's not giving up something she never had. Now she got what you just saw her work a whole movie towards and she still, without even flinching or thinking, jumps off of the top of that waterfall to launch herself into the water to save Mermania. And that as a kid, I remember, like just really stuck with me. And even as an adult now too, it's again, Barbie is like truly a Jesus level of selflessness. [00:53:44] Speaker A: Yeah, it's truly like the second movie is kind of where I really argue that there is a Jesus Christ the Redeemer narrative that could be we've evolved from Rudolph. There genuinely is because she, like we said, her one flawless moment that she has is not even a legitimate flaw. [00:54:02] Speaker B: And you know what? Garden of Gethsemane, you know, Jesus had his moment before the cross where he was like, hey, can I not? [00:54:08] Speaker A: And you know, went through with it anyway. And so. And she does as well. She believes that having a tail now is her crossed bear. And she has to have a conversation with Bibble. She's like, no, Bibble, you can't live underwater forever. [00:54:22] Speaker B: It's so sad. It's truly heartbreaking. [00:54:24] Speaker A: It really is. It's genuinely very sad moment. And that is when, you know, they get the idea. [00:54:29] Speaker B: They're like, wait a minute, Nori is the one. [00:54:31] Speaker A: Nori is the one who Thinks, you know. Cause she has gone, you know, again, this is a very feminist. [00:54:39] Speaker B: Disney could never. [00:54:40] Speaker A: She is like, I have been with you, alongside you on this journey. I know who your true self is. I know that, you know, whatever happens when you eat this berry is going to be okay. [00:54:52] Speaker B: And. Yeah. And there's a moment, Elena says, well, what if my true self doesn't have wings? [00:54:56] Speaker A: And she said, would that really be so bad? Bad? [00:54:58] Speaker B: Like you would still be you. You'd still be. [00:55:01] Speaker A: You'll still be you. And so she eats the berry, shoots up out of the water into the sky, and is once again transformed for now. The third time. [00:55:12] Speaker B: Yes. [00:55:13] Speaker A: This trilogy. At the end of the second movie, she has new dress, new wings. They're a lot more butter. [00:55:19] Speaker B: Bigger. They're bigger and very butterfly. [00:55:22] Speaker A: Right. So, yeah, this was where I saw another person talk about. And I don't really remember who this person was that talked about it, so sorry. But she's mentioned that, like the wings she gets at the end of the first movie could be viewed as like a prosthetic. And then this. These wings she gets at the end of the second movie are actually like biologically hers. Like, she is now like a winged creature as opposed to just being. [00:55:46] Speaker B: I thought you were gonna. Cause it's a very. Butterfly. Her second set of wings much more closely resembles what the Mariposa. [00:55:54] Speaker A: Yes. [00:55:54] Speaker B: Fairies have to. I know. I saw a theory that like Barbie was meant to be a. Like she's from the Mariposa kingdom. [00:56:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:01] Speaker B: Elena is. And that's why she doesn't fit in into Magic Meadow. Yeah. But. Yeah, so hot. Pink wings now. But again, the same like motifs that were on the tail are now on her wings. [00:56:13] Speaker A: I really love this dress. I think the most. [00:56:16] Speaker B: So great. And it was a great toy too, because you could have transforming Barbie. [00:56:20] Speaker A: Yeah. They had the one toy where there was like a part of it that slid up and down for her wings where it would create the tail with like the wings. Like it would put them down her back and stick out the bottom of the tail. [00:56:32] Speaker B: Shocked that, you know, that had not been done yet, honestly. [00:56:37] Speaker A: And I have never. I mean, obviously I don't play with Barbies anymore. I'm a 28 year old woman. But like, I have not seen a toy like that ever since. [00:56:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm trying to think too, even. Cause like, you know, obviously Disney has a Little Mermaid as their Big Mermaid line. [00:56:51] Speaker A: Yes. [00:56:51] Speaker B: But even that, like, I don't really remember many. Any like transforming area. [00:56:56] Speaker A: I have like a pocket where you could put the tail on her. Like a rubber. Yeah, you know, kind of like. [00:57:01] Speaker B: Yeah, you could have a rubber tail that you slide on and off. But the Barbie was like a true. Like you can make her have wings or like they can fold down into her tail. [00:57:10] Speaker A: Yeah. And so, Yeah, I mean, she. Oh. [00:57:13] Speaker B: And then like, you could splash water on her and the crest, give her [00:57:16] Speaker A: the crust courage on the side and it would make the pearls on the necklace blue. I remember. [00:57:20] Speaker B: So great. Really? Toy designers popped off, dude. [00:57:23] Speaker A: Yeah, they had a lot. They had a lot to work with, you know, now you just have. What is it? Like troll dolls? Yeah, Hoppers. How could you make a toy out of hoppers? [00:57:31] Speaker B: That beaver's pretty cute, though. Yeah, I did like hoppers a lot. That's fair enough. You know, another environmental terrorism. [00:57:38] Speaker A: Exactly. So, yeah, I mean. So we then get a ending scene with Laverna, who is given the fake immunity Berry. And she eats it, thinking it is. That it is in fact the true self Berry. And she is transformed into a quite fabulous, honestly looking toad. Yeah, or like a frog. Some kind of an amphibious creature. [00:58:09] Speaker B: Yeah, she's got like hot pink nails on. [00:58:11] Speaker A: Yeah, she's got like, hot nails. She has her cloak, the same hair, the cloak, the drag makeup. She looks, you know. [00:58:17] Speaker B: But she is a toad. [00:58:18] Speaker A: She's serving in the bog as much as she can, but she is very obviously a toad and no longer really seems to have access to her magic as least as much as she did before. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, obviously. Like, it's a capacity problem there. [00:58:34] Speaker B: One thing too, before we leave, Mermaidia is in our kind of ending scene moments, Nori, you know, Nori and Nalu get reunited. [00:58:43] Speaker A: We do get a conclusion on that. [00:58:45] Speaker B: And I forget who brings it up first. [00:58:48] Speaker A: I think that Alina kind of encourages her to talk to Nalu about it. [00:58:54] Speaker B: And anyway, I think Nalu, like, reaches for her hand or something and Nori's like, I thought you had a crush on Alina. And Elena's like, me? No, we're just friends again. Unheard of. We had two girls. We spent the entire movie a man. And then at the end, and the female protagonist does not even end up with him. He ends up with. In a Harry Potter esque mood. It's Ron and her. You know, the protagonist is left without the trio. [00:59:20] Speaker A: It's quite rare that little girls are given a movie with like, you know, this obviously isn't a Disney princess movie, but it exists within it. [00:59:28] Speaker B: It's kind of hard to not compare. Right. [00:59:30] Speaker A: Well, I mean, Just mean it exists in the same ecosystem of, like, movies for little girls and stuff. It's very rare, I think, to have a movie like that where she doesn't end up with the love interest and she doesn't get one at the end of the third movie either. I know that they kind of flirt with the idea of it a little bit, which we'll get into, but they don't really ever go for it. [00:59:45] Speaker B: And you know what? This is one of the only Barbie films that doesn't have Ken. Yeah, I saw that point out, too. There's no Ken in Barbie. Fairytopia. Maybe that's why they wanted to keep Barbie single, because they were still at that point doing the idea of Barbie's only going to end up with iterations of Ken. Yeah, and we have all brunette boys in this one. [01:00:02] Speaker A: Right. And they're very secondary characters. I remember as we were watching it, a lot of the men in the room were like, the men are getting a lot of screen time. [01:00:09] Speaker B: Like, these are welcome to our world. [01:00:10] Speaker A: These are movies for little girls. [01:00:12] Speaker B: This is how it feels. But, yeah, like. And that's why, you know, people who on Barbie dolls and say that they're bad for girls. I understand, you know, the things that they're worried about. But as a girl who, like, watch these films, when I'm playing with these dolls, I, as a child was never thinking, like, I need to look like this Barbie. I was thinking, hey, Alina's gonna go save this rescued prince and, like, do all this stuff. And that's such a, like, common theme throughout Barbie movies is selflessness and girl bossing. Yeah, she's such a good role model continually. Yeah. [01:00:46] Speaker A: And I mean, I think one thing that I will say, too, is I do think that although we did kind of discuss how she doesn't really have a whole lot of character flaws, I do think that she goes through arguably the most growth in this movie than she does in either of the other two movies. I think that she actually is the most similar to Laverna in this movie, Ironically, more so than the first one because she at least grew up in Fairytopia. You know, she is, like, ostracized by most of her peers, for sure, but she's not, like, you know, completely exiled in the way that, like, a lot of. I mean, the mermaids are nice to her initially, obviously, but it's very clear that she's an outsider, you know, So, I mean, I think that she is also. She's also similar to Laverna as well in the Sense that she's kind of like operating outside of the official systems. Because it's like we said in the. You know, it's like we said when we were discussing the first one. The Enchantress doesn't lift a finger in this film. [01:01:45] Speaker B: But it's also not her business. No. [01:01:47] Speaker A: And absolutely. [01:01:48] Speaker B: And that is Nalu. Nalu is the royal prince. Right. [01:01:53] Speaker A: That's definitely a good point. I just mean to say, like, she doesn't give anybody like a heads up other than her friends. She's like, hey, I'm gonna go save this other, you know, side quest. Be the savior of nations again, I guess, and go save these other people. [01:02:05] Speaker B: And crazy. Because this. This whole movie really is just like a side quest for Elena. [01:02:09] Speaker A: It really is. Like, it is not her business. It is only because she ran into this guy in the first movie and [01:02:16] Speaker B: they became friends and they do. In the first movie. Nalu does have kind of a flirty interaction. [01:02:21] Speaker A: Absolutely flirt. [01:02:22] Speaker B: They. [01:02:23] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:02:23] Speaker B: But I love that they. In the second movie we're like, back a little. Yeah. They're like, no, actually, we're gonna just have them be friends. [01:02:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Which, you know, not. Bellow's hot. [01:02:31] Speaker B: I mean, he is like, you know, objectively. Yeah. [01:02:34] Speaker A: Yeah. He looks good. Well, animated, I will say so. But I mean. Yeah. [01:02:39] Speaker B: He has no nipples, though. Animated men are not allowed to have nipples in children's films. [01:02:43] Speaker A: At least at the. At this era of time, in the early 2000s, they were not. But. But yeah, I mean, like I said, I think this is the most similar that Alina gets to Laverna. You know, I think that Mermaidia asks us to sit with that for a little bit with that. Because again, in the end she's transformed into the toad. And we kind of don't really get any, in my opinion, setup for what the third movie is even gonna be about. Like, it ends off with her getting transformed into the frog. And I guess that's kind of like the hook for what the third movie is gonna be is like her trying to get her powers back, but we don't really get anything with Alina herself that is like. Like left feels open ended enough in my opinion that like, needed. [01:03:29] Speaker B: Yeah, well, because again, the first one they had remedia lined up already, but I don't think they had the third one lined up. [01:03:34] Speaker A: No, I agree. And then they were like, well, what if we just made Barbie Fairytopia 3? Welcome to college. [01:03:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Which. So this one too, we got a little bit of a gap because in between Mermaidia and Magic of the rainbow. We had the Barbie diaries. We had 12 dancing princesses. [01:03:48] Speaker A: Yes. [01:03:48] Speaker B: And so then it was a full year later, which, at this point, insane. Mattel was putting out three Barbie movies a year. [01:03:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:03:54] Speaker B: Two to three movies. [01:03:55] Speaker A: They were working those people like pack mules. [01:03:57] Speaker B: And. And then we circle back to match up the rainbow. I will say this is by far the movie I remembered the least. [01:04:03] Speaker A: Yeah. No, I remembered next to nothing about the actual plot of this movie, except for how much I hate her. Look at the. [01:04:09] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what we remembered. I remember that Final Transformation sucks. [01:04:13] Speaker A: Right. I also remembered sexy female Bibble. [01:04:15] Speaker B: Yes. [01:04:16] Speaker A: That we get. But other than that, I did not really remember a whole lot about this movie. And after watching them again, it is still definitely my least favorite of the three. It's. I think it's the longest. Or it's. [01:04:28] Speaker B: It's maybe by like a minute of Mermaidia. It's very, very close. Yeah. [01:04:33] Speaker A: But it. I mean, you know, when you're talking, like, movies that are this short, it's. Yeah. They're all basically the same length. [01:04:39] Speaker B: So, I mean, you summed it up pretty well. The third movie is Barbie Goes to Fairy College. [01:04:43] Speaker A: Basically. Yeah. She goes. She is approached by Azura. [01:04:48] Speaker B: Yes. Which I do love that Azura popped up. Up in, like. I do. [01:04:51] Speaker A: I do love that. Yeah. Because, I mean, she's in the second one for, like, a little bit. [01:04:54] Speaker B: Just a cameo at the end of. [01:04:56] Speaker A: Just a cameo. But she is like, I have to send an apprentice to the Crystal Castle. [01:05:02] Speaker B: Which makes sense. [01:05:03] Speaker A: Right. And I choose, you know, Pikachu. I choose you. Go ahead. And so she is like, all right. Goodbye, friends. Goodbye, sentient house that I live in. [01:05:13] Speaker B: Right. Which. Not Sentient before this movie. [01:05:16] Speaker A: Well, no, I mean, she does mention. [01:05:18] Speaker B: She does. She has, like, thoughts. She can say that she's not feeling well because she loses her color. [01:05:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:22] Speaker B: But she. The house is straight up singing. [01:05:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:25] Speaker B: In this final, which I love. [01:05:27] Speaker A: Which I really like as a detail. So she's like, all right. Goodbye, sentient house. Goodbye, a couple of friends that I have. Goodbye, people who still haven't apologized to me, even though you owe me one. I'm gonna go off and I'm gonna learn this dance, Spring. And save a third world. The human world, I guess. And also Fairytopia. [01:05:43] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't think it's the hue. I think it's just all of Fairytopia. I don't think they mentioned the humans. [01:05:47] Speaker A: That's kind of what I thought when I mentioned it, like, the very Very beginning was I was like, I don't know if it is attached to the human world or not. [01:05:53] Speaker B: I don't think so. I think Fairytopia exists separately. [01:05:56] Speaker A: Yeah. And so I mean we get. They have to go. Do they have to go learn the dance of spring? And the basic lore of this is it is an annual thing never heard about. That we conveniently haven't heard of until now. That brings spring because it's the first blush, the first bloom of spring. It's like this pink little flower that they have to help bloom that creates the first rainbow of the year. And if they fail, it brings about 10 years of winter. [01:06:24] Speaker B: Stupid. [01:06:25] Speaker A: Which is such a messed up ratio. I would be like. [01:06:27] Speaker B: Like you have to do it every year. But if you mess up 10 years bad. Oh, that's crazy. [01:06:31] Speaker A: I don't know if it is every year because like how many times are they sending apprentices to this castle? [01:06:38] Speaker B: Well, it might just be that then it's like you only have to send a new apprentice once every like five. You know how. I mean, I think it's. The Guardians each have an apprentice. [01:06:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:48] Speaker B: And so once the. Once they learn the dance, they don't gotta like relearn it every year. They just know it. [01:06:54] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know if that's fully explained. But either way, if they fail, it brings about 10 years of winter to Fairytopia, which obviously not good considering they all live in plants. [01:07:04] Speaker B: Yeah. So this is Fairytopia, Magic of the rainbow. Winter is coming. [01:07:10] Speaker A: Yeah, winter is coming. So you know, I think that now [01:07:14] Speaker B: we do get, I think the most colorful cast of characters in this film. That is the one thing I'll say about this one because they go ham with the character designs and as they should. [01:07:23] Speaker A: It's the third and final installation element in the trilogy other than the poster spin offs. [01:07:28] Speaker B: But you have. You have a moon fairy whose wings are literally like crescent which was dividing. [01:07:35] Speaker A: Yeah. That was polarizing. [01:07:36] Speaker B: Watch party. [01:07:36] Speaker A: In our watch group you've got Sunburst who she is also a. Yeah. Huge raging who eventually comes every Barbie [01:07:44] Speaker B: movie she makes a friend that's a yeah. And then by the end they're friends. [01:07:47] Speaker A: She has to. But I really like Sunburst First's design. I think that her. It's very fun. She has the same kind of hair as another character, but it's decidedly less up because the other character. Her braids are her wings like her hair. [01:08:03] Speaker B: Yeah, she's. So she kind of matches the sea butterfly doll design where she's like much [01:08:07] Speaker A: More childlike, tiny little body. [01:08:09] Speaker B: And so being much smaller, just. She has giant braids. And those are her wings. [01:08:14] Speaker A: Her wings. And then you have. [01:08:15] Speaker B: Very dividing. [01:08:16] Speaker A: And then you have. Have the boy. I forget. [01:08:19] Speaker B: We get boy fairies. [01:08:20] Speaker A: We get boy fairy. We get a couple of them. One of them is like Narcissus. He's just. He constantly looking d. Blowing kisses at himself. Very obsessive. [01:08:28] Speaker B: It's great to see me. Isn't it? [01:08:30] Speaker A: Great to see me? And then you have potential love interests that they kind of just like, shy, animal fairy, boy. Will they? Won't they? [01:08:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:39] Speaker A: But they never go for it now, in my opinion. And the movie truly does not have [01:08:45] Speaker B: the realism for it. [01:08:47] Speaker A: So they, you know, he mostly just helped her out a couple of times. [01:08:50] Speaker B: Oh, there's the purple fairy, too. I don't remember her name, but that was everyone's favorite design. [01:08:54] Speaker A: Yes. She's fun. I liked her a lot. [01:08:56] Speaker B: She's purple and green. She has, like, flowers all over her. That was. Yeah, that was really pretty. You also see the Guardians again. Yes. [01:09:04] Speaker A: You. [01:09:05] Speaker B: Which you have not since, like, the first film. [01:09:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Azora was in the second. The second one, she made the cameo, but none of the other ones were. And Topaz still has the same crazy voice. [01:09:16] Speaker B: But I do like that they kind of brought them back. [01:09:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So we. That is kind of the plot Alina is going through is she's, like, you know, trying to fit in at her noose. [01:09:28] Speaker B: Everyone hates her again. [01:09:29] Speaker A: Everyone hates her again. Except for a couple of them. [01:09:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Well. So one thing that's interesting is Sunburst is like. I guess there was a miscommunication across Fairytopia because apparently Sunburst thinks Elena, like, thinks that she's above everyone because she saved Fairytopia. She's like, I don't buy your whole I'm Fairytopia savior thing. I'm not gonna, like, bow down and grovel at you. [01:09:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:09:51] Speaker B: And Elena's like, I never said any of those things. [01:09:54] Speaker A: Right. Like, I didn't even demand the apology that I was owed that drum until the end of this episode. [01:10:00] Speaker B: Do it. [01:10:01] Speaker A: So I. Yeah, so we get that. That's kind of Elena's plot is she's learning this dance of spring, fitting in her new school doing this, that and [01:10:09] Speaker B: the third, which I think the Dance of Spring is because they wanted to include their ballet mocap. [01:10:16] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:10:17] Speaker B: Because that's one thing that the Barbie [01:10:18] Speaker A: films do great well. Yeah. Because they had mastered it at that point because they had released Swan Lake and they released the 12 dancing princesses too. [01:10:24] Speaker B: Magic of Peggy Pegasus. So you had some ice skating too. [01:10:28] Speaker A: So they really. Yeah, I mean, they were like, hey, we have this really good technology. Let's go ahead and just put it in this movie too. [01:10:35] Speaker B: Which is one of my favorite parts about re watching those Barbie movies because it's kind of a jarring like. Like the animation is fine. [01:10:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:10:42] Speaker B: Is for, you know, the time it came out and all that. But then whenever you get to a dance sequence, all of a sudden you're like, oh, those are very specific. And actual ballet moves happening on this screen. And you see it here, like people are like arabesqueing across the sky. [01:10:55] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. [01:10:56] Speaker B: What do they call it? The flans. [01:10:57] Speaker A: The flan. Yeah. They're flancing. They're fly dancing. They're flancing. I'm gonna learn how to flounce. [01:11:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Fly dancing. [01:11:03] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, they do some legitimate ballet steps. You know, as a former ballerina myself, I could critique their technique a little bit, but it is what it is. [01:11:12] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot less too than any of the other Barbie movies. [01:11:16] Speaker A: Yeah, no, for sure. [01:11:17] Speaker B: But it's there now. [01:11:18] Speaker A: They. So they are learning this. And then Laverna's plot line is obviously she's trying to escape the bog. So she is like, well, I'm going to leave because I, you know, I'm going to get my powers back. So she goes and she body snatches Sunburst. [01:11:38] Speaker B: Well, at first she. She appears to Elena and the animal fairy. [01:11:42] Speaker A: Yes. [01:11:42] Speaker B: As a toad. And because she left the bog, they said that she turns into a real toad. So she loses her ability to. [01:11:48] Speaker A: And Alina had just heard, but she [01:11:50] Speaker B: has an animal fairy who can talk to animals. [01:11:52] Speaker A: And Alina just had witnessed another fairy do some kind of like spell breaking ritual or something. So she is able to then help what she thinks is this cursed frog because like, you know, she's a nice person. Yeah. Because that's what, you know, Laverna tells this animal speaking fairy boy. And. And so she thinks that this frog has been cursed by Laverna. And she performs the spell and accidentally re releases Laverna into Fairytopia. [01:12:22] Speaker B: Oopsie. [01:12:23] Speaker A: And then she goes and she body snatches Sunburst. [01:12:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Just full on very again throwing to Little Mermaid. Very like Ursula Vanessa. [01:12:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:12:34] Speaker B: Of like and even. Cause that's how you find out is Sunburst is in her room and she looks in her mirror and it's Laverna's reflection. [01:12:40] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a very common motif, I think. [01:12:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Which I love. I have no problems with it. [01:12:45] Speaker A: But the. Yeah. So, I mean, you know, we've been set up to kind of hate Sunburst up to this point, or at least think she's a brat. And so they. So they're learning the dance of spring and it comes time to now perform this ritual. And in my opinion, the plot has been pretty simplistic in the third movie, at least compared to the second one. [01:13:06] Speaker B: Well, it's also. It's because it's a lot more like lore heavy and they have a much wider cast of characters than they did in the others. [01:13:13] Speaker A: It's more like. [01:13:14] Speaker B: So you have less time on the plot because you're spending time with these characters instead and with the magic. And like. Like, we learned that shimmer fairies can't touch water or they die. [01:13:25] Speaker A: Right. [01:13:25] Speaker B: Well. Or they lose their magic. [01:13:26] Speaker A: They lose their magic temporarily. Which. That never really becomes important because she literally has to drag her through water at the end. [01:13:33] Speaker B: So it's just. They can't do magic when they're touching water. [01:13:36] Speaker A: Yeah. So we learn that. We learn a whole bunch of other information about the other. [01:13:40] Speaker B: Bibble get. Gets a girlfriend. [01:13:42] Speaker A: Sexy female Bibet. Yeah. Babette or whatever. [01:13:45] Speaker B: I don't think she ever actually. No, her. [01:13:47] Speaker A: She has a name. I forget what it is, though. [01:13:49] Speaker B: There's also a really weird thing with, like, the Bibbles and the tooth fairy where, like, Bibble has a loose tooth and it's just his whole mission, this film, is to just, like, catch the tooth fairy, I guess because he's having this little tooth pouch with him and keeps, like, looking to see if she's coming. Yeah. [01:14:06] Speaker A: Her name is Dizzle, by the way. [01:14:08] Speaker B: Dizzle. Bibble and Dizzle. [01:14:09] Speaker A: Bibble and Dizzle. And so, yeah, I mean, the tooth fairy is confirmed as real at the end of the movie because he put. [01:14:14] Speaker B: It's just such a random plot. [01:14:16] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, you know, maybe they were trying to set up another spin off [01:14:20] Speaker B: a tooth fairy spin off. [01:14:21] Speaker A: Get enough bites at the studio. Who knows? Mattel just didn't, you know, they weren't gonna go for it. [01:14:26] Speaker B: I guess they said no tooth fairy, but. Yeah. So Bibble gets a cute little pink and purple puffball girlfriend. [01:14:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:14:33] Speaker B: And they. [01:14:34] Speaker A: They don't do the full Lilo stitch or they make angel have little. No alien titties, but they do make her a little curvy. [01:14:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And she's got hair, like, real, real, real pretty. She's cute. [01:14:47] Speaker A: She's cute. I think she's cute. [01:14:50] Speaker B: They have a really cute moment where they're saying good night, and they're like, good night, Biblip. [01:14:54] Speaker A: Good night, Diesel. Boo. Good night, Bibble. Poo. [01:14:57] Speaker B: And it just, like, keeps going. And then Sunburst yells, shut up. We're trying to sleep. [01:15:04] Speaker A: Yeah. I really. I like Dizzle a lot, though. I think she is a good. It also helps to kind of give [01:15:11] Speaker B: Bibble something to do. [01:15:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Gives him something to do in this movie because up to this point, he kind of is just like the outlet for the physical comedy. [01:15:19] Speaker B: We love a man that yearns, and people do be yearning for Dizzle. [01:15:22] Speaker A: He really does. He really does yearn for her. [01:15:24] Speaker B: It's. [01:15:25] Speaker A: It's quite. [01:15:25] Speaker B: That's love at first sight. Very cute. [01:15:27] Speaker A: It's quite precious, but, you know, so we get to now the first day of spring. The first blush of spring is about to bloom. They're doing this little dance, and Elena discovers. Oh, you know, Sunburst is not Sunburst. She is Laverna. So, you know, what are we gonna do? She is now having to save the day again. [01:15:51] Speaker B: So. Yeah. So she flies out. Just. Just quits mid dance. Flies away. [01:15:55] Speaker A: Right. Yeah. [01:15:56] Speaker B: So I guess they really don't need. Says anything like, they just need all fairies for the very end of the dance. Because it doesn't throw off the dance that she's not there for most of it. [01:16:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:16:04] Speaker B: Somehow. [01:16:05] Speaker A: Somehow. So. [01:16:06] Speaker B: So she leaves, and then very quickly is like, where would. If I'm Averna, where am I gonna hide a shimmer fairy? Oh, in the water, right. [01:16:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:16:16] Speaker B: And then she does a quick flyby. [01:16:18] Speaker A: She does a quick little flyby. She sees her down there, goes and pulls her out, rescues her. They fly to where the dance is being. [01:16:27] Speaker B: Crystal Palace. [01:16:27] Speaker A: The Crystal Pallet, like. Yeah. [01:16:29] Speaker B: Which the Enchantress, we finally see her again. She's over this dance, I guess. [01:16:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Once again, just delegating. Not doing any of the work herself. [01:16:36] Speaker B: Nope. And they get back to the dance [01:16:39] Speaker A: and, you know, chaos obviously ensues. And the bud looks like it is dying. [01:16:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Laverna reveals herself to be. [01:16:48] Speaker A: Reveals her true form. [01:16:51] Speaker B: She threatens to, like, let the flower wilt and die unless the enchantress basically, like, gives over her throne to Laverna. And the Enchantress, in a really dumb move, does that. Yeah. [01:17:04] Speaker A: It's like we've seen. We have spent two films now with this. This villain character who even her lackeys don't keep their promises. What makes you think that this. You know, chick is. [01:17:15] Speaker B: But that similarly, it's a. You know, we were saying Alina is just an unreal level of selflessness. The Enchantress, too, is meant to be like. Like, it's because she's doesn't come across as naive, but it's like her sister is her blind spot. Yeah. And so she's like. Because that's what it is, too. Because Laverna says in the first movie that how she got the Enchantress in the coma is the Enchantress believed her when she said, I want to meet for peace talks, basically. Like, I want to make nice again. [01:17:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:43] Speaker B: So, yeah. So the Enchantress just signs over her crown and her throne to Laverna. [01:17:48] Speaker A: And, you know, that looks like. Like it's going to be that. And then. [01:17:51] Speaker B: And Laverna blasts the tulip anyways. [01:17:53] Speaker A: Of course she does. And it's starting to die. And that is when they, you know, she flies off. And that is when they notice, oh, wait a minute. Maybe we can save the day after all. [01:18:04] Speaker B: Oh, well, it's because Laverna, as she's blasting, she's turning to blast the tulip. And Alina gets in the way. [01:18:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, yes. [01:18:11] Speaker B: She, like, flies into. Yeah. I was like, what are we missing? [01:18:14] Speaker A: She flies in the way. She, you know, gets, I think, obviously blasted. [01:18:20] Speaker B: She gets bodied by this. [01:18:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:22] Speaker B: She Magic just takes full. [01:18:24] Speaker A: She kind of. Yeah, she kind of really takes a beating. And then it is. Somehow I forget how exactly. Blasted back towards. [01:18:31] Speaker B: Because all the fairies are like, we're gonna help you. And then a Care Bear sequence follows. [01:18:36] Speaker A: Yes, you're right. They cast their magic into Alina and then she is able to super massive blast Laverne. [01:18:46] Speaker B: That's not unheard of, like, thing in magic fantasy stuff. Like, I'm replaying Dragon Age Inquisition, and that's a thing of, like, all the mages are gonna get behind you and, like, channel their magic into your mage character. [01:18:58] Speaker A: Yeah, That's a very common thing. They do that in Sailor Moon. [01:19:00] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's not unheard of. But I just think of Care Bears every time. Because it was especially because it was like, a rainbow. Because it was each of the fairies. Yeah. [01:19:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:19:08] Speaker B: And so, yeah, the fairies are behind Elena and they, like, blast her magic into her, which then allows her to blast a rainbow back at Laverna and [01:19:17] Speaker A: she is blasted into sparkle and dust. And that is when she is transformed into the worst look of literally all of the options. [01:19:30] Speaker B: Yeah. All of the borderline, I think, is just one of my least favorite Barbie designs ever of any of the movies. [01:19:37] Speaker A: Ugly. I like it pisses me off to think about it. They nerf her. They completely nerf her. [01:19:45] Speaker B: But still keep her in that ass low bun. [01:19:48] Speaker A: They keep the fuck ass low bun. The wings are ugly. Like their stripes. [01:19:54] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's. I understand their thought of, like, oh, it's gonna be. Let's make her rainbow for the final one. Right. [01:19:59] Speaker A: Because do like a fun. [01:20:01] Speaker B: All the fairies combined power. [01:20:03] Speaker A: But like, there's better ways to do it. There's way better ways to do that. [01:20:08] Speaker B: They still wanted to keep her main thing pink because she's Barbie. So it's like her top is rainbow. Her top is rainbow, but the skirt is hot pink. [01:20:14] Speaker A: Well, like. [01:20:15] Speaker B: And then she has rainbow wings. [01:20:16] Speaker A: Yeah. And then like, her wings, though, also have pink. Like pink trim and like a pink stripe. Like, one of the stripes is pink. The biggest one is pink. Yeah. [01:20:23] Speaker B: I think it's just. Is the fact that it's so stripes. Like, if it had been a pretty gradient or something. [01:20:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I like a gradient. Give me, like, you know, even. Even, like tie dye would have looked better than the stripes that they gave her. [01:20:37] Speaker B: It's not great. And it's disappointing because that's the last movie. Yeah. [01:20:40] Speaker A: And the skirt is also ugly too. It's not. It doesn't look. [01:20:43] Speaker B: It's not the pretty flowered petal. [01:20:44] Speaker A: It's just bad. It's just ugly. It's just ugly. [01:20:47] Speaker B: So sad. [01:20:48] Speaker A: I hate it. I hate it so much. [01:20:50] Speaker B: Big downgrade. Like, the first and second looks are pretty equal for me. [01:20:54] Speaker A: Yeah. And I like the mermaid. [01:20:55] Speaker B: And the mermaid looks great. [01:20:56] Speaker A: Look more than. Well, actually, I like the mermaid look more than I like her. Look at the first movie. [01:21:00] Speaker B: That's fair. But, like, I feel like all of her looks up until then were of similar status. [01:21:04] Speaker A: Yeah, they were. [01:21:05] Speaker B: And then it's like here and then [01:21:07] Speaker A: this was F tier. It's so bad. [01:21:11] Speaker B: But. Yeah. So we complete. And then they like. Yeah, they fix the flower. [01:21:16] Speaker A: Yeah, they. She notices they, you know, they bloom spring. They chase the winter away. She returns to Fairytopia. [01:21:24] Speaker B: The Magic meadow enchantress gets her crown back. [01:21:27] Speaker A: The enchantress gets her crown back, even though she doesn't deserve it. A lot on her hands. And the problems are all seemingly solved. [01:21:36] Speaker B: And that's kind of the end of. [01:21:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:21:38] Speaker B: And that's Barbie Fairytopia. [01:21:39] Speaker A: That's kind of the end of the trilogy there. [01:21:42] Speaker B: Now this is not technically in Barbie Cannon. The last time we see Alina because she does make a cameo in Barbie Mariposa. [01:21:50] Speaker A: She does the spin off movies. [01:21:52] Speaker B: Yeah. So Barbie realized fairies were too good to not do again, like, well, maybe [01:21:58] Speaker A: we can do a little something different with this one. [01:22:00] Speaker B: And they did, to their credit, like the Mariposa. But fairies do feel and look very different. It's a lot of Spanish influence. Yes. In that movie. And, like, the royal family is very Spanish, from what I remember. [01:22:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:22:14] Speaker B: And Mariposa, too, is the first Barbie animated film to not have Kelly Sheridan as Barbie. [01:22:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:22:21] Speaker B: To have the different Barbie voice actress. But it's because in the beginning, Alina is, like, telling this story to Bibble, the story of Mariposa harkening back to, like, Barbie Swan Lake or Nutcracker, where Barbie. Those movies happen because Barbie is telling the story to her little sister Kelly. [01:22:37] Speaker A: Yes. Which I really liked that format. [01:22:39] Speaker B: I do, too. [01:22:40] Speaker A: I think it's really cute. [01:22:42] Speaker B: And it also makes sense then as to why it's like Barbie as Barbie in Barbie. [01:22:47] Speaker A: Yeah, this and that. Yeah. [01:22:48] Speaker B: So you do see Elena one more time in that cameo as she kind of sets up the Barbie Mariposa stories for Bibble and then Barb and then there's two Mariposa movies, I think. [01:22:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:23:00] Speaker B: But this is. I pretty sure this is the only Barbie animated series, like, trilogy, I think so. A lot of movies have sequels, but this is the only trilogy. [01:23:09] Speaker A: I want to say the Population Pop [01:23:11] Speaker B: Star Academy, but that's just a sequel because, I mean, if anything, Princess and the Pop Star is a remake of Princess and the Popper. [01:23:18] Speaker A: It is. [01:23:19] Speaker B: And that's separate from, like, Princess Charm School. So. [01:23:22] Speaker A: No, those are two different. [01:23:23] Speaker B: Two very different films. [01:23:25] Speaker A: Yeah, those are very different. [01:23:27] Speaker B: But, yeah, I love the Fairytopia series. I mean, you got fairies, mermaids, pretty designs, cute animals. [01:23:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:23:36] Speaker B: What more could you want? [01:23:37] Speaker A: I think that there's also enough to chew on there where, like, you know, I feel like I could talk for, like, three hours about how, like, Laverna and Alina are parallels and, like, two different answers to the same question of, like, what do you do when you exist in this world? [01:23:54] Speaker B: How do you feel about the fact that we have Laverna as the villain for all three films? [01:23:58] Speaker A: I like that they maintain that consistency. [01:24:00] Speaker B: And we do get a bit of a break in Mermaidia because we focus more on Maximus and the fun guys. [01:24:05] Speaker A: Yeah, he's kind of activists or practice Roxy. But I think that, you know, I. It's like I said, though, at the beginning, I think that her motivation as a villain kind of Falls flat in the third movie because I feel like. [01:24:18] Speaker B: Because then you're also like, why. I guess she has to bide her time until the spring dance. And that's why she's preventing. But it's like, if I was Laverna, as soon as the dance starts, I'm blasting this flower. We're not. [01:24:28] Speaker A: I'm not like, going through these motions. You know, it's the classic. The villain goes on a super long monologue and tells the. [01:24:35] Speaker B: But this time it's a ballad dance. [01:24:36] Speaker A: That gives them just enough time. Yeah. That gives them just enough time for the hero to get there. But. Yeah, I don't know. I think that Laverna and Alina are kind of parallels in the, like, two different answers to the same question of, like, this is a world where they are both ostracized from. And so how do you make your way in this world? And I think that the more adult reading of that is that, like, Alina's answer to that is comply and be rewarded. And Laverna's answer to that is don't comply and literally be destroyed. [01:25:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:09] Speaker A: So, you know, I don't know. I think that there is something really interesting there to think about with Laverna that I think really does fall off in the third movie because, you know, she is frog for 60% of the runtime and then she is in Sunburst's body for 30% of the rest of the film. [01:25:29] Speaker B: Yeah. And I mean, that's the reason, I think, why neither of us remembered the third movie at all is because it just. It fell a little flatter. It wasn't really a profound message. Like I mentioned already, both the first and second movies. You know, watching this as a kid had a hard hitting moment for me of like, oh, my gosh, Elise's made. Elena has made this sacrifice. There's no sacrifice in the third film. She's just vibing at fairy college. [01:25:50] Speaker A: No, I mean, I think that, you know, Fairytopia kind of indicts itself in the things it's discussing with how it treats Elena because, you know, it never fully reckons with the fact that you need to have Laverna be the way that she is in the first two movies, and it loses sight of that in the third because she is no longer trying to right this wrong in her misguided way as much as she is now just kind of. [01:26:16] Speaker B: It's now just like a revenge plot. Which makes sense. [01:26:19] Speaker A: Which. Yeah, I mean, you know, she's been, you know, I think she's sympathetic she's been pushed around her entirely. She obviously does horrific things, morally reprehensible things, try to, like, kill biological terrorism, ecological terrorism, to name a few. [01:26:34] Speaker B: But she's pretty mean to her fungi. [01:26:36] Speaker A: Yeah, she regularly abuses them, too. She's pretty abusive boss. Toxic workplace. For sure. Would not want to be a part of that. But yeah, I mean, I think I would love a spin off prequel about the Enchantress and Yeah. Laverna, to see what that story is, because I think, you know, there's. [01:26:57] Speaker B: But you know what, again, Little Mermaid. It, like, Little Mermaid just casually drops that, like, Ursula and Triton are like, siblings and they, like, never expound on that. You know, kind of same level there. [01:27:08] Speaker A: Well, it's. And that gets deeper into, like, the very basic question of, like, how much of the author's, like, what they're saying about their own canon after they've already published it. Can we accept as fact and how much of it is supposed to be removed from our understanding, at least of the original text? So it's like, you know, with Little Mermaid especially, those are not fucking siblings. They've done, like, they just hate each other, you know, like, that is not part of the plot. [01:27:32] Speaker B: Well, it is, but is it? Because doesn't she say in the movie that it's like her aunt. [01:27:38] Speaker A: No, she's just a sea witch. [01:27:40] Speaker B: Yeah, she just knows. Maybe. Never mind. [01:27:41] Speaker A: To see what drisa. Because she has a sister, Morgana, that is in the second one. [01:27:45] Speaker B: Yes. [01:27:45] Speaker A: Return to the melody. She has her sister Morgana, who are so, like. I don't know. Why are they octopus people? [01:27:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:27:55] Speaker A: Is not. [01:27:56] Speaker B: Yeah. The third movie definitely, like, the first two are honestly solid movies. [01:28:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:28:03] Speaker B: And then the third one is like, here's a bunch of pretty fairies and, [01:28:06] Speaker A: yeah, here's a bunch of toys we want to dancing. [01:28:09] Speaker B: But you know what? The fact that most of the movies are not. That is a huge win. [01:28:14] Speaker A: Yeah, genuinely. Mattel really exercised a lot of restraint there with that. I think that they truly went pretty hard in the paint in the second movie, like, aesthetically, because you get a little bit of the Fairytopia at the beginning, but then you go. And you are plunged into this underwater world that is so much brighter and like, also a lot more like, like Cthulhuan and creepy too, like we said, [01:28:36] Speaker B: with the, like, the depth of despair. [01:28:40] Speaker A: The, like all of the other harrowing [01:28:42] Speaker B: sequence to witness as a child. [01:28:43] Speaker A: Yeah. All the other freaky stuff they go through, like, people getting tied up. Like, you know, it's. You know, it's kids movie. But it's good. Some good in there. [01:28:52] Speaker B: Yeah. One crazy fun fact for y' all is this series was in fact popular enough for Barbie that it then prompted a musical. Yes. A stage musical that was about. I looked it up. The runtime was also about like an hour 15. [01:29:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:29:07] Speaker B: So same length as the movies, but they added songs. So they somehow condensed the plot even more to add songs. [01:29:14] Speaker A: You can add a lot of exposition. [01:29:16] Speaker B: This is true in the songs, but. Yeah. And it toured the U.S. including the town I lived in at the time of Fort Worth, Texas. And you best bet I saw that musical as a child. [01:29:25] Speaker A: I never saw the music musical, but I have seen. [01:29:28] Speaker B: And it's almost a lost media now. [01:29:30] Speaker A: It is. It's very difficult to find. There are only clips of, like, a [01:29:33] Speaker B: song and it's real blurry. Or there's like, a bad quality trailer. [01:29:38] Speaker A: Yeah. There's the handful of clips. There's a really crappy trailer that looks like it was a potato. [01:29:43] Speaker B: Soundtracks. [01:29:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:29:45] Speaker B: Like, I know there's a song called Going to Azura's Cottage. Yes. [01:29:48] Speaker A: There's also one that's called on the Way to Fairytown. I have seen also pictures of, like, the costumes. And the costumes so pretty. [01:29:58] Speaker B: So they. It's fairies. They have fairies, like, on fly harnesses throughout the show. They have a ridiculous amount of Swarborski crystals on Barbie's costumes. [01:30:07] Speaker A: Yeah. They're very glittery. It's very, very. Like a girl threw up. Yeah. [01:30:12] Speaker B: So it's kind of ironic because Barbie has musical movies and this is the only one that spawned an actual musical. [01:30:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:30:17] Speaker B: I've been saying for ages, listen, producers out there, please make Barbie Princess and the Pauper a full musical. It would do so. [01:30:25] Speaker A: It would genuinely do very well. The songs are already good. You would need to add a few. [01:30:29] Speaker B: But, like, songs are already well beyond the right to be good that they are. [01:30:34] Speaker A: At the bcu, the Barbie cinematic universe is a very lush ecosystem that is ripe for the picking. And I think that. [01:30:44] Speaker B: Yeah. So there you go. You can look up that lost media of the Barbie Fairytopia. A touring stage musical. [01:30:50] Speaker A: Yeah. See if you can find some. Maybe someone has a VHS recording that they can. They can ship us our usual studio. [01:30:56] Speaker B: I would love that. [01:30:58] Speaker A: Yeah. But I don't know. I mean, I. You know, I think that we've kind of tackled pretty much everything that there is to say. [01:31:07] Speaker B: I mean, trilogy as a whole. Great. I mean, I rewatch Barbie movies all the. A very nostalgic, heavy thing for me, [01:31:15] Speaker A: because, you know, we rewatched these movies. [01:31:17] Speaker B: I really wasn't a Disney princess girl growing up. Like, I watched all the movies, but the ones that I had on VHS or DVD and rewatched over and over again were always Barbie. [01:31:25] Speaker A: Yeah. I had. I was a big Barbie as Rapunzel. Barbie Love Rapunzel, Barbie Princess and the Popper. I also had the Game Boy Advance. [01:31:36] Speaker B: Wow. [01:31:36] Speaker A: Game for both Barbie Princess and Popper and Barbie Swan Lake. [01:31:41] Speaker B: Like, nice. [01:31:42] Speaker A: So those were, those were quite. You know, those went triple platinum in my household. [01:31:46] Speaker B: Yeah. But yeah, probably Fairytopia. [01:31:50] Speaker A: Great, great trilogy. I honestly, great. [01:31:53] Speaker B: You know, at least the first two. Great morals and messages for kiddos. [01:31:56] Speaker A: Yeah. And I think that the third one, you know, it's kind of like a fun little we need to sell some toys. The plot is there. It's not really doing a whole lot to most move anything forward. It's more of like a lore dump. [01:32:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:32:09] Speaker A: That kind of just exists. But I don't know. I also, I. We get like, like I said, we get sexy female Bibble. [01:32:17] Speaker B: So, you know, do I think if I could add anything to the furrytopia series, I would like to bring Q back. I want him to have a cameo. [01:32:24] Speaker A: I absolutely would too. I think that he would have made an excellent cameo in the third movie because it has so much to do with. With like the Flight of Spring. [01:32:33] Speaker B: Exactly. [01:32:34] Speaker A: Stuff. So I think that he could have made a great flancing and structure. [01:32:38] Speaker B: Yes. I want to see Hugh Flans. [01:32:40] Speaker A: Yeah. So. Well, I mean, I think that I've pretty much said my piece about this trilogy of films now that we've, you know, talked for almost two hours. [01:32:50] Speaker B: Yeah. So as always, been a pleasure. Stay tuned. Next up for Kelsey and I, we're going to be reviewing the. [01:32:59] Speaker A: The Cinderella trilogy. The original Disney Cinderella trilogy. The original film Cinderella 2 and then Cinderella 3, which is. [01:33:08] Speaker B: We'll give it. Give Disney a chance to match Barbie's feminist. [01:33:11] Speaker A: Exactly. And I don't wanna, I don't wanna spoil anything, but it is arguably one of the most airtight time travel movies. [01:33:17] Speaker B: It's great. So good. [01:33:18] Speaker A: I think I've ever seen. It stands. It holds a candle to Back to the Future. [01:33:21] Speaker B: That's pretty great, guys. [01:33:22] Speaker A: So we're very excited for that. [01:33:24] Speaker B: All right, well, thanks for joining us on this flitterific journey today as. As we flounced our way through Barbie Fairytopia. [01:33:31] Speaker A: Barbie Fairytopia trilogy. Yeah. Have a glitterific day, everybody. [01:33:36] Speaker B: Thanks for joining us on Odd trilogies. [01:33:38] Speaker A: Yep. Bye. I'm Kelsey. [01:33:40] Speaker B: I'm Sabrina. [01:33:40] Speaker A: Goodbye.