Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper: Queen Cinema

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Melanie & Melvin travel back to the wonderful world of 2004 and summarize Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper. While it isn’t the first Barbie-animated film, it is the first Barbie-animated musical! From it’s bouncing musical numbers to its surprisingly complicated plot, the gang have fun explaining this childhood gem!

Topics:

• (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 32-minutes discussing tabletop boardgames (important!) and then whether or not arriving-late or leaving-early is destroying the modern-day church (less important!) because of that viral mega-church pastor blaming his congregation for what may, actually, be his problem, *shrugs*. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
• Melvin is taking notes this time and the second Barbie and The Princess and the Pauper started he sighed and realized; he has a lot of notes to take.
• As each song is introduced, Melvin will first explain what happens in the song, then the two will discuss whether they liked the song or not.
• From the start, Barbie and The Princess and the Pauper asserts a maturity in how it trusts people (specifically kids) to keep up with the oddly complicated material within the film, including the tension between personal interests and cultural responsibility.
• Although the animation is like that of an early Resident Evil pre-rendered cutscene, it also looks like toy-dolls so we both feel it gets a pass.
• Melanie, “It’s a very cute film. There were just several things I just found to be very unmemorable.”
• Erika’s song to her cat Wolfie is just perfect.
• The credits has bloopers!

Recommendations:

• The Swan Princess (1994) (Movie)
• Bee Movie (2007) (Movie)

Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper is Not Rated. It features Jelly Sheridan, Melissa Lyons, Julie Stevens, Mark Hildreth, Mark Luna, Alessandro Juliani, Martin Short, Kathleen Barr, Ian James Corlett, Ellen KEnnedy, Pam Hyatt, and Brian Drummond. Directed by William Lau. Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper is available here.

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