Barbie: A Fairy Secret (2011 Video) User Reviews

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[RosanaBotafogo · 7/10 · 9 July 2023]

In this incredible adventure, Barbie discovers that there are fairies secretly living among us! And when Ken is kidnapped by a fairy who decides to marry him, Barbie and her friends must enter the amazing world of fairies to rescue him! Will they be able to find him in time, or will Ken be trapped in Gloss Angeles forever? Along the way, Barbie and her friends will discover that true magic is not in the fairy world, but in the power of friendship.

Cute, like the whole Barbie franchise, I thought that whoever was going to be a trashy male scrotum boy, but it's not that he's cute, delicate, silly, generous and polite, as a real Ken should be, waiting for the 2023 movie with all the their versions of Ken and Barbies...

A huge disappointment

[TheLittleSongbird · 2/10 · 30 May 2012]

I wanted to like A Fairy Secret, and tried to. But I just couldn't. And this is coming from somebody who actually likes the Barbie movies(especially Nutcracker, Diamond Castle, Island Princess and Prince and the Pauper). But although I haven't yet seen Fashion Fairytale, despite hearing a lot of negative press about that one, I can't imagine until I see it that it will be worse than this. The only redeeming quality for me of A Fairy Secret was the catchy soundtrack, and even that is nowhere near as good as those for Nutcracker, Rapunzel and Swan Lake. I disliked the animation here, entries like Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Diamond Castle have beautiful animation that is full of colour and fluidity, but here the colours are lifeless, the backgrounds blocky and the character designs at their most plastic. The writing focuses far too much on fashion(seemingly fashion is like the most important thing in the world) and behavioural snobbery, and the story instead of being charming with good messages is formulaic and rushed with values of stealing boyfriends and vanity. The characters are no longer cute, but now act like childish brats, especially Ken. Barbie in another of her as...roles is no longer resourceful and kind but now a stereotypical teenager, the anti-thesis of her persona in the first place, in other words she's at her least likable. The voice work is stilted, nobody sounds natural as their characters, granted I wasn't expecting any big names to pop up and practically embody their roles like in Nutcracker, Rapunzel, Swan Lake and Three Musketeers but at least the voice actors could've sounded as though they were bringing some kind of life to the proceedings. Overall, a huge disappointment, I'm expecting little from Fashion Fairytale but I just pray that it isn't worse than this. 2/10 Bethany Cox

A good movie for young girls

[synthwiz · 14 August 2011]

Wow! Some of the reviews on this flick are freakin' HARSH-CITY! Here's a News Flash to some reviewers: THIS MOVIE WAS NOT MADE FOR YOU!!

I've got two daughters, ages 6 and 9. They both enjoyed it, particularly my 6 year old who was jumping up off the couch because she was totally getting into the movie. The thing I noticed the most was how much they were smiling and giggling throughout the entire film. (Isn't that what these films are all about?

I thought the voice acting was fine, and the computer animation was on par with all the other BARBIE movies we have in our collection.

I asked them what their score would be for this, and they both said "It was AWESOME!" So, I give it TEN STARS for its intended audience.

The bottom line is that NOTHING IS WRONG WITH THIS MOVIE CONSIDERING THE TARGET AUDIENCE, AND BOTH OF MY DAUGHTERS GREATLY ENJOYED THIS FILM!

And that's what really matters the most.

Worse than the worst

[jantoniou · 1/10 · 7 May 2011]

Critical analysis of any Barbie movie is like attempting to extract blood from a turnip. There is nothing of merit to critically dissect. It's just pure, less than juvenile garbage. They are, to the letter, stilted, terribly scripted, amateurish CG animated, middling voice acting (though hardly the worst I've ever heard), with incredibly stupid, improbable stories and plots and manufactured dialog that would never come from a human's mouth. You feel certain you've dropped 2 or 3 IQ points after watching one of these monstrosities.

With these exceptionally low standards for context, the "Fairy Secret" may be the bottom 2 or 3 of these exceptionally terrible cookie-cutter, quasi-formulaic junk piles geared for little girls who think they want to be Barbie and that we parents are in the unfortunate position of occasionally having to watch with our little ones. The dialog and "plot" (for a story that's mind-numbingly idiotic) are both so awful that one will find oneself groaning constantly throughout the time you've wasted watching it.

Whereas some minor merit can occasionally be extracted out of some of the Barbie movies - as in maybe there's a slightly funny joke or at least the plot isn't entirely stupid, little can be said that is positive about this one. It's like the writer isn't even trying to create believable characters, dialog, or plot, even at the level of the fantastical. Perhaps the writer is so underpaid that they barely phone it in. Perhaps they are already angry that they have to have this trash on their resume. Maybe they will legally change their name after being associated with a movie like this. Whatever the case, it doesn't make for a good movie.

Save your little girls the trouble and rent something vastly better that nearly all kids enjoy - like pretty much any Pixar movie.

Good movie

[dianamarinelli · 8/10 · 10 January 2021]

I found this movie better than the sequel. Ken as usual was funny and Barbie and racquelle rivalary was great and the wedding battle scene was epic

Ugh.. Bring back the old Barbie!

[ewingerin · 1/10 · 22 June 2011]

These movies are getting worse and worse. Bring back the old style and old Barbie. They are also not entirely appropriate for a 3-5 year old. Sad. They have attempted to modernize Barbie and taken away her sweetness and innocence and made her into an annoying teenager with a cell phone. She doesn't even look like Barbie anymore. The fantasy is gone. Barbie is supposed to be hip and modern- it is like the movie producers are ignoring the 3-5 year old genre and targeting 8-10 year olds. But the main audience is 3-5. What 10 year old wants to watch this? That being said my 4 year old enjoyed it, but I am not sure I did and I am not sure I like the new influence. I think we will stick with old Barbie movies on reruns. This pales in comparison to Three Musketeers or Princess and the Pauper. Get those instead.

The best Barbie fairy movie!

[brookenichole-98054 · 9/10 · 11 September 2020]

Barbie: A Fairy Secret is great! The story it tells builds well and is a fun adventure from start to finish. The voice acting is terrific along with the music. The animation is gorgeous and the rivalry to friendship relationship between Raquelle and Barbie is honestly my favorite part. Overall, it's an enjoyable film.

Weird messages about money & shipping

[captsodium · 1/10 · 21 October 2011]

I've had the opportunity to see a number of these Barbie flicks and they're uniformly targets at little girls and so portray a fairly formulaic fantasy land of fairies and adventure. By and large I think that kind of story telling is benign in the long run.

This film stood out to me with the bizarre mixture of shopping and royalty. Per the film fairies create out of magic all the stuff in the fancy stores and in fairyland life is portrayed as one endless shopping excursion. For all of the characters their only real 'normal' activity is shopping for stuff (note I didn't say buying as that's never actually a part of the process, just walking around with bags of fashion garments). The rest of the time the characters are in some sort of interpersonal conflict or peril.

Fantasy and play are part of being a kid and that's a grand way for them to experiment with human roles. This peculiar shopping fantasy land and it's direct tie to a excessive vanity is pure mental poison.

I don't know that I would recommend the other Barbie movies but their not cognitively poisonous in relating real world situations like this one.

I mean...

[jonapple · 4/10 · 17 June 2020]

In a vacuum it's a 2/10. But since it's so much fun to mock it while watching it, it gets a boost.

Set the feminist movement back 100 years.

[hthbrr2 · 1/10 · 18 June 2011]

Why did I watch this movie? Oh yes I was under the impression that it MIGHT be good. It was really bad!

SPOILERS after this point:

This movie is about Barbie, duh. Some, wait for it, FAIRY literally STEALS her boyfriend, Ken of course. And Barbie has to rescue him.

Throughout this ENTIRE movie was BRAINWASHING PROPAGANDA for girls to be stereotypical girls. NOT ONE FEMALE IN THIS ENTIRE MOVIE WEARS PANTS! Wow these days women wear pants more often than skirts, and dresses. The closest one girl got to wearing pants was the "stuck up" girl naturally! And they were skin tight leggings UNDER A SKIRT! WOW! You may say "These are the girly girls." So jeans are not girly? These days women wear dresses/skirts ONLY for special occasions. When one is seen with one on they are asked why they are all dressed up.

Since this movie takes place in the present (one fairy saying "too many apps") they must reflect the present style. The movie was so sexist! All women do is figure out what outfit to wear and steal each other's boyfriends? None of these women have REAL jobs they have all la la land jobs; actor, stylist, fitting room attendant. REALLY? Wow talk about telling women to stay barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen! NONE of these women do jobs that require actual intelligence! Just repeating lines, and the fairy stylists USE THEIR MAGIC to make outfits! They don't even have a bachelor in arts or something!

Also the whole "forgiveness sets you free" thing hmm, well the stuck up girl did not really do anything wrong to be forgiven. It was a MISUNDERSTANDING! MORE BRAINWASHING to teach girls at an early age to "forgive" TRANSLATION: LET PEOPLE WALK ALL OVER YOU, BE A GOOD LITTLE SLAVE TO MEN, LET MEN CHEAT ON YOU, ETC." WOW! Should women "forgive" a man who assaulted them. NO of course not. THAT is THEIR responsibility not to pointlessly harm a woman! I am aware I did not put a question mark. That is because that is not even a QUESTION! The answer is CLEARLY NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!!!!! Oh yes and the whole thing that one woman did in a fairy store. She left her WHOLE LIFE behind for her HUSBAND! And now can NEVER leave the fairy world! So she can't ever be a part of her life BEFORE this guy. No, it's all about him! HOW SEXIST!!!! What about a compromise? They live in fairy land for a while and a while in the real world! WOW! HORRIBLE "LESSONS" for little girls! "Give up your life for men and be their slave." NO DON'T DO THAT! Barbie shows her true colors here! And they are sexist!

DO NOT SHOW THIS "MOVIE" TO YOUR LITTLE GIRL(S); THEY WILL BE SCARRED FOR LIFE!

Perfect film for Girls ages 2 to 10. Full of Fashion, Friends and Adventure

[rannynm · 8/10 · 7 July 2011]

"Barbie: A Fairy Secret" is the story of how Barbie discovers that fairies really do exist. When a fairy princess captures her boyfriend Ken, Barbie along with her costar, Raquelle, and two of Barbie's stylists, head out to rescue him from Gloss Angeles, a floating town filled with fairies. I really like the animation in this movie, especially how each of the characters are drawn. Barbie's eyes glisten like jewels and get me into the fairy mood. Each scene bursts with color, like their hangout Wally's.

I also love how every piece of clothing has a modern twist. I wish I could have two fairies as my personal stylists.

The movie also has great music that makes me want to dance.

Barbie is already friends with her two fashion stylists at the beginning of the movie, but is uneasy around her rival Raquelle. Raquelle is jealous of Barbie, so what will happen when they get twisted up in this magical world together?

When Ken is forced to marry fairy princess Graziella he realizes how much he loves Barbie but lots of trouble stands in their way. Don't worry, because Barbie will do anything to get Ken back.

Girls ages two to ten will really enjoy this movie filled with friends, fashion and adventure. Will Raquelle and Barbie ever be friends? How will they get into the magical world? Will they rescue Ken? Find out when you watch "Barbie: a Fairy Secret." Credit: Makai Weber Colvin, Age 9, KIDS FIRST! Film Critic

Is this really what little girls want, or need?

[sporeviews · 1/10 · 4 December 2017]

Barbie: A fairy secret is perhaps one of the worst Barbie movies ever made. Sure, the animation is alright, I like Barbie's new voice actor, and the story isn't the worst in history. But there are just so many stupid scenes and moments, and even creates plot holes in the process; Such as not giving a set of rules for magic for it to make sense, or letting the audience learn more about the fairy world.

I know I just said that the animation is alright, but the animation here does NOT look like it was made in 2011; It still looks like 2008 animation. And this confuses me actually; Why is it that the most popular franchise associated with little girls, have such mediocre budgets, and technology?

Besides the passable animation and terrible writing, the movie is presenting little girls with fashion, shopping, and just being terrible role models. Even if little girls like this movie, they can be subconsciously influenced by what they see. If you are creating a message, THINK THROUGH YOUR IMPLICATIONS, or else girls can get the wrong idea of what the movie is trying to convey.

I know I'm not in the demographic for this movie, but A: I grew up with this movie, and B: We are living in a decade where plenty of kids movies prove that they can be enjoyable by the whole family, and not just 5 year old's! Even if your kids like terrible movies, that doesn't mean that the adults have to pretend to like it; They can offer their own opinions on the movie. Besides, it is up to parents to decide what movies kids can, and can't see.

Those are just my thoughts on the movie.

Great one!

[AnnaPagrati · 8/10 · 22 August 2021]

I love how this movie depicts Barbie's & Raquelle's friendship! It was one of the most heart-felt moments to watch them both grow, from the frenemies they were, to two true, deep, friends!

Disappointingly poor effort

[ashley-397 · 6 August 2011]

I think I understand the messages they were trying to get across with this film, women can be heroes, forgiveness and that you have to make an effort with friendship, but all they imaged to get across is that the important things in life are shoes, dresses and boyfriends. Barbie doesn't even care when her two friends leave at the end of the film.

The writers just took the storyline and the characters from Mariposa and A Mermaid Tale, added Ken and some inane dialogue to make it sound clever - "ugh, too many apps". I assume the action figures and merchandising are already available in the foyer??

All the things that made the early Barbie thing special - character development, original storyline, catchy songs, emotion, humour etc are missing. All we're left with is an empty, shallow 70 minutes of bright noise.

Avoid. For your children's sake.

Shopping And Romance Are The Only Important Things In Life Apparently

[blytheandferb-10967 · 1/10 · 11 August 2022]

This is a movie that seems to want to push simple messages, one about not letting grudges get the better of you and another about the importance of friendship. Instead, we just get a 75 minute ad. These positive messages get overshadowed by a near constant presence of fashion and shopping that doesn't contribute much positively. A lot of the characters are either one dimensional or just plot devices, with any attempts at depth being poorly written. Every character basically has romance or shopping on their mind with no room for anything else. Everything else from the animation to the music to the humor is mediocre at best, but the characters really drag it down. I don't recommend it.

I honestly don't know who would like this

[emc-26269 · 1/10 · 18 July 2020]

The fact that this is a Barbie movie removes any glimmer of hope this film may have had. Continuing the Barbie tradition of pandering to girls everywhere, Having unrealistic expectations of beauty, and stereotyping the ENTIRE female gender. Awful on multiple levels.

Best

[markiahmiller · 10/10 · 27 August 2022]

This movie is my favorite out of all barbie movies I watched this when I was 2 turning 3 and I'm watching as a teen, and I still love it would totally recommend to all little girls around the world. This movie is full adventures and friendship it's so cute the songs are catchy and everything about this movie is just amazing. I don't want to spoil the movie in the reviews so I can't say all the reasons why I find it amazing and all my favorite parts of the movie. If you hate this movie, I'm just going to assume you're an adult or just don't like the barbie franchise in general, but this is by far one of barbie's best movies.

*spits on dvd*

[noahgibbobaker · 1/10 · 11 December 2020]

Second barbie movie I watched with my sister, it might be the worst movie. The production design and animation just made me wanna vomit, it looked so gross and unsettling. The worst part about this was finding out the budget was $17.5 MILLION dollars and it was made in 2011. It honestly looks like it made for $17.5 dollars, this is only a small exaggeration.

Awesome, but not Amazing.

[CrystalDiamondWolf · 9/10 · 23 April 2020]

This is one of the best movies I saw!! It is perfect for kids! It got a little out of hand somehow, but not the complete worst there is!!!!!! This is something to watch, for all of us.

absolute masterpiece

[lillianchevis-97070 · 10/10 · 16 August 2022]

This movie is incredible, it changed my life. About 10 years ago or so, i went to prison for tax evasion (yes, like shakira) and just recently i had gotten out and the first thing my newborn daughter (she was a miracle as i was in prison and my wife still got pregnant 😁) wanted to see was this movie. I fell in love with it. Its the only thing i watch now. I watch every it night before bed and at every meal and every single morning. This movie has influenced my life in a way jail never will. Im a changed 43 year old man now.

wildest barbie movie

[smcdonell-61587 · 10/10 · 24 May 2021]

Legit one of my favorite movies. It has a batshit plot, even more than the other barbie movies. Really funny though and great to watch when ur bored. A childhood favorite of mine.