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Barbie and the Diamond Castle | 
 enlarge | Director: Gino Nichele
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 68
Format: Ac-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 79 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 63101989
UPC: 025195015929
EAN: 0025195015929
ASIN: B001A7X0YA
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Barbie™ and Teresa™ tell us the fairy tale story of Liana™ and Alexa™ best friends who shared everything including their love of music. One day their simple lives change when they are given an enchanted mirror and befriend the girl trapped inside! To save their new friend Liana™ and Alexa™ embark on a dangerous journey to the hidden Diamond Castle that will put their friendship to the test. But through the power of song and with the companionship of two adorable puppies the girls face their challenges together and learn that friendship is the true treasure. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating: NR UPC: 025195015929 Manufacturer No: 63101989
Amazon.com
A musical story about the power of friendship and believing in oneself, Barbie and the Diamond Castle opens with Barbie and her friend Teresa singing, playing guitar, and relating a story about friendship to Stacy who's just had a disagreement with her best friend Courtney. In the story, friends Alexa and Liana loose everything but each other in a terrible storm. A chance meeting with an old woman brings them a new friend Melody, who shares their love of music, but is locked inside an enchanted mirror. It turns out that Melody is an apprentice muse who holds the secret key to the diamond castle and embodies the last chance to defeat the selfish muse Lydia and preserve music for the entire world. Alexa and Liana help Melody journey to the diamond castle, overcoming enormous obstacles conjured by Lydia and her serpent Slider as well as rising above a disagreement between themselves. This CGI animated program is colorful and bright, if not particularly realistic, and the pop music is appealing, but oddly out of sink with the renaissance style costuming. While the Barbie versions of classic stories like Barbie of Swan Lake or Barbie Prince and the Pauper generally offer better storylines, young Barbie fans will nonetheless enjoy this quest to save music while getting a sense of the importance of friendship and believing in oneself. (Ages 3 to 9) --Tami Horiuchi
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| Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 Daughter loves this! December 1, 2008
J. Bulmer (IN for now)
My daughter is 2 and fell in love with this movie- she loves all the singing!
Another Great Barbie Movie November 30, 2008
Lamaster (Horn Lake, MS)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie, like all Barbie movies, promotes good morals. There is always a good message behind every Barbie movie. Barbie and the Diamond Castle is a fun and entertaining movie. The songs are very catchy, so don't be surprised when you find yourself humming the tunes later. My 4 year old absolutely loves this movie and I highly recommend it to all Barbie lovers!
looks like a good barbie movie November 17, 2008
L. Milo (New York)
I bought this for my five year old daughter for christmas. We saw a clip online and it looks good. She likes the music and the pets. She wants the dolls that sing too.
Nancy November 16, 2008
Nancy Gouletas (Fremont, Ca)
I bought this item for my 4 year old grand-daughter and she absolutely loved it. I have the items shipped to their home and they love going to the mail box and getting these special packages. This is a wonderful way to send along special packages different times during the year, letting these little ones know they are thought of not just during the holiday but all year long.
 How about NO November 14, 2008
Kabir Davis
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Absolutely disgusting. What do you get when you pair the worlds' most anatomically daring blonde doll with a couple of gooey eyed dogs? Well, its "Barbie and the Diamond Castle", yet another film in the famed Barbie cannon, that will have young girls (and some boys) in their therapists' offices for many many more years to come. Oh glory!
I actually have seen this - truth be told, I got it for free, and thought, "Hey, why not spend an evening gouging my eyes out with audiovisual abuse?". And I went on from there. As Amazon says, "Barbie and the Diamond Castle opens with Barbie and her friend Teresa singing, playing guitar, and relating a story about friendship to Stacy who's just had a disagreement with her best friend Courtney." But oh, dear reader, it is so much more complexthan that. If only you knew!
To cut things short, Barbie tells us a tale about loss in this story. Even though shes not in it much, she makes sure to hog the limelight. That Barb! The music is something off a Miley Cyrus soundtrack, and the two animals really got on my nerves. Seriously, its 2008. Do we still have to reduce cartoon animals to these slithering blobs of cuteness who do nothing except elicit oohs and aahs?
If I was 3, I would probably be eating this up, but since I'm not, I'm gonna go with a negative ranking and a review summary of "Nonsense". AVOID.
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