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Sep. 12th, 2009 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anime_babbleSo, earlier in the day, I saw this commercial on TV.
Let's face it, you are a LITTLE intrigued right? I mean, it's BARBIE AND THE MUSKETEERS. For those blissfully unaware, the Mattel Machine has been churning out 3D Barbie movies since I think around the year 2000, starting with Barbie and the Nutcracker (yes I know too much about this...I'm well INFORMED OK?) This was followed by I think a string of fairy tale-ish adaptions.
But this. THIS. I was caught between two conflicting emotions. On the one hand, everyone should know my feelings on sword fighting!girls. On the other hand, BARBIE.
Did I mention the whole thing is up on youtube?
Some brain cells and approx an hour or so later here are my thoughts!
So, Barbie, or whatever movie-alias she has this time, I think Corrine, is the daughter of D'Artagnan (*watch AB groan*), who I think is dead (nice switch on the dead mother thing), but has inspired his daughter to go to Paris to become a Musketeer! So at 17 she leaves for the big city of Paris to join up with the blessing of her mother! She wears pants! And while I am down with that personally, the historian in me is cringing so hard it hurts.
Predictably, the Musketeers laugh at her because she's a girl. She somehow ends up as a maid at the palace, where intrigue is afoot! Seems like Louis (the whatever, it's not mentioned) is about to come of age, and his evil Cousin Reagent would prefer he be dead. Luckily Barbie befriends three other girls who also wanted to be musketeers and ended up as maids! And the old sweeper-servant lady at the palace just happens to be a serkit martial arts master! So they train! to girl-power music!
Everything goes down at a maskerade ball! (Hence the need for ballroom gowned Barbie toys, I mean, yes, totally important to the plot). In a transformation sequence that totally screamed Sailormoon, the long ballrooms rip off to reveal...shorter skirts for fighting! They defeat the bad guys! Get made into Musketeers! And Barbie abandons her sort of love story with Louis to ride off into the sunset with her three friends! Did I mention that Louis is a lovable science nerd. CUS HE WAS.
(I am leaving out the subplot with Barbie's pet kitten who can talk to other animals and wants to be a MusCATeer because I don't think I can go there guys. I don't remember liking these plots even as a child.)
GUYS. GUYS. I am SO TORN ON THIS MOVIE. On the one hand the girls get to kick ass and the wise old mentor is a woman! On the other hand, the CRACK. OH THE CRACK.
Conclusion? 9 year old AB would have been ALL OVER THIS MOVIE.
Let's face it, you are a LITTLE intrigued right? I mean, it's BARBIE AND THE MUSKETEERS. For those blissfully unaware, the Mattel Machine has been churning out 3D Barbie movies since I think around the year 2000, starting with Barbie and the Nutcracker (yes I know too much about this...I'm well INFORMED OK?) This was followed by I think a string of fairy tale-ish adaptions.
But this. THIS. I was caught between two conflicting emotions. On the one hand, everyone should know my feelings on sword fighting!girls. On the other hand, BARBIE.
Did I mention the whole thing is up on youtube?
Some brain cells and approx an hour or so later here are my thoughts!
So, Barbie, or whatever movie-alias she has this time, I think Corrine, is the daughter of D'Artagnan (*watch AB groan*), who I think is dead (nice switch on the dead mother thing), but has inspired his daughter to go to Paris to become a Musketeer! So at 17 she leaves for the big city of Paris to join up with the blessing of her mother! She wears pants! And while I am down with that personally, the historian in me is cringing so hard it hurts.
Predictably, the Musketeers laugh at her because she's a girl. She somehow ends up as a maid at the palace, where intrigue is afoot! Seems like Louis (the whatever, it's not mentioned) is about to come of age, and his evil Cousin Reagent would prefer he be dead. Luckily Barbie befriends three other girls who also wanted to be musketeers and ended up as maids! And the old sweeper-servant lady at the palace just happens to be a serkit martial arts master! So they train! to girl-power music!
Everything goes down at a maskerade ball! (Hence the need for ballroom gowned Barbie toys, I mean, yes, totally important to the plot). In a transformation sequence that totally screamed Sailormoon, the long ballrooms rip off to reveal...shorter skirts for fighting! They defeat the bad guys! Get made into Musketeers! And Barbie abandons her sort of love story with Louis to ride off into the sunset with her three friends! Did I mention that Louis is a lovable science nerd. CUS HE WAS.
(I am leaving out the subplot with Barbie's pet kitten who can talk to other animals and wants to be a MusCATeer because I don't think I can go there guys. I don't remember liking these plots even as a child.)
GUYS. GUYS. I am SO TORN ON THIS MOVIE. On the one hand the girls get to kick ass and the wise old mentor is a woman! On the other hand, the CRACK. OH THE CRACK.
Conclusion? 9 year old AB would have been ALL OVER THIS MOVIE.
