Barbie of Swan Lake (2003)

Barbie of Swan Lake (2003)
Rating: ★★½
Mar 7, 2005Animation/Barbie Enacts Fairytale
The third animated film based on the popular girl's doll Barbie. This places Barbie into Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake in an okay telling, if one that suffers from the usual limited animation of Mainframe's early films

Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper (2004)

Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper (2004)
Rating: ★★
Jul 17, 2009Animation/Barbie Fairytale
Here the Barbie films turn to Mark Twain's classic (non-fantasy) tale of rags and riches and spins it as a fairytale This has the same blank, plastic style of the early Barbie films and is otherwise bland

Barbie Mermaidia (2006)

Barbie Mermaidia (2006)
Rating: ★★
Oct 18, 2018Animation/Fairy Barbie Visits the Mermaid Kingdom
Seventh of the animated Barbie films, spinoff of the earlier Barbie Fairytopia, all delivered in sugary upbeat sentiments amid pastel colour schemes that would look eye-poppingly psychedelic if one were high

Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow (2007)

Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow (2007)
Rating: ★★
Sep 9, 2007Animation/Land of Fairies
Sequel to the earlier Barbie animated film Barbie Fairytopia. Extremely colourful but essentially a fantasy version of a teenage girl high school drama that quickly slips into pre-packaged formula

Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007)

Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007)
Rating: ★★½
Mar 7, 2009Immortal Combat/Anime
The Highlander series conducts an anime variant on the franchise, a not uninteresting item set in a post-holocaust future co-directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri of Ninja Scroll fame who adds some highly stylised moves

Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009)

Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009)
Rating:
Feb 27, 2014Animation/Barbie Swashbuckler
Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure story is turned into an animated vehicle for Barbie with genders reversed and an absurdly upbeat Girls Can Do Anything vibe. Being a kid's film, the girl Musketeers are no longer allowed to wield swords

Barbie Presents Thumbelina (2009)

Barbie Presents Thumbelina (2009)
Rating: ★★½
Sep 12, 2009Animation/Barbie Fairytale
Another animated Barbie film, this appropriate the name of the Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale and makes it now about a fairy who preaches conservation. As these films go, this is one of the better made and comes with quite a degree of colour