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cak31ssuperi04 · 4 months

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Christmas Carol adaptations amirite. Ft. The Scrooges

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paystery · 5 months

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my top ten actors are barbie in her 2001-2015 movies

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cringelordofchaos · 5 months

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some of you's only experience of engaging with barbie content is the newest movie )instead of the amazing badly written hellholes of 3d animated 2000's barbie movies with a target audience of 6 year old girls) and it SHOWS

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wackypalooza · 6 months

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yes i DO consider barbie in a christmas carol to be one of the best adaptations. MAYBE for nostalgia reasons, but also because it made scrooge a lesbian

#a christmas carol #barbie in a christmas carol #barbie #barbie movies #like the kid ones #the word kid used loosely #i'm saying this as someone who read the book too #so there's that

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stingrayextraordinaire · 4 months

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Barbie Movie Moodboards // Eden Starling

I don't need you to tell me I was brilliant. I know I was brilliant!

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fyeahmovies · 1 year

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BARBIE IN A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2008) dir. William Lau

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sakuraswordly · 5 months

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Source: @dollcinema

barbie in a christmas carol (2008) - official still

#barbie #barbie in a Christmas carol #eden starling #Spirit of Christmas Past

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snowbairdd · 1 year

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♪ Jolly old St Nicholas Lean your ear this way Don't you tell a single soul What I'm going to say Christmas Eve is coming soon Now, you dear old man Whisper what you'll bring to me Tell me if you can ♪

BARBIE IN A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2008) dir. William Lau

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im-here-im-queer-im-full-of-beer · 6 months

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Kenoughgender

A gender related to Ken from the 2023 Barbie Movie, the phrase “I am Kenough”, the Kenough hoodie that Ken wears at the end of the movie, or feeling Kenough.

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muppetgelica · 4 months

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Day 4 and my personal favorite: 2008!! I love her.

#Barbie in a Christmas carol #barbie Christmas carol #Holiday barbie #barbie doll #barbie art #barbie dolls #illustration #art #illustrators on tumblr

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strxwberry-skiess · 1 year

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barbie moodboard — barbie in a christmas carol

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movie-gifs · 5 months

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Barbie in A Christmas Carol (2008) dir. William Lau

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barbielore · 4 months

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I have never seen any of the Barbie animated films before. But it’s Christmas, and even though I don’t really celebrate the holiday, I love the book A Christmas Carol; and I love A Muppet Christmas Carol. So Barbie in A Christmas Carol seemed like the obvious way to dip my toe in.

My notes from watching are below!

In the framing device scenes of Barbie telling the story to Kelly, Barbie is wearing a silver dress that looks like pretty much the same dress as 2008 Holiday Barbie, even though that wasn’t an official tie in doll for the film.

Instead of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman, we have Eden Starling, an opera singing diva. Her childhood friend Catherine seems to play the role of Scrooge’s nephew but given she also works for the theatre there’s a dash of Cratchitt in there too?

Eden tells everyone not to bother coming back if they don’t come in to rehearse for the new show on Christmas. Even Scrooge only told Cratchitt to be there all the earlier the next morning.

Aunt Marie (the stand in for Marley) is draped in chains - but these chains have mirrors on the ends instead of cash boxes and ledgers. I presume to represent her sins of vanity instead of financial greed.

The spirit of Christmas past is really cute, like an excitable little elf.

Little Eden wants to spend time with friends but Aunt Marie makes her rehearse all Christmas instead of seeing other people. Eden sneaks out to go to a party instead of practicing.

I’m sure it’s in the interests of streamlining the story for Barbie audiences, but I’m a little disappointed the spirit of Christmas past only takes Eden to one place.

Christmas Present shows the theatre workers throwing tomatoes at a picture of Eden. That’s pretty funny but it’s not much of a lesson. That’s okay - Christmas Present takes her to a second location, presumably so we can meet our Tiny Tim. In this case it’s the reveal that Catherine is working for another theatre as well; or so Eden thinks. Actually it’s an orphanage putting on a Christmas pageant, and our Tiny Tim is a little girl who walks with a crutch and idealises Eden. Catherine lies to her and says Eden is very sorry she can’t come in person but is so proud of all of them. I don’t know why but I got a little emotional about that!

Anyway the orphanage is about to close due to lack of funds. This doesn’t strike me as quite as resonant because Eden is a diva and selfish but none of her sins we’ve seen so far are related to finances.

Alright, time for Christmas Future. The show is a shambles because she fires all her staff for coming in late and their replacements are rubbish so the show is an embarrassment. This means Eden lives in squalor because she lost her career. Her best friend Catherine is now a famous fashion designer, but has got there by being as selfish as Eden is. The orphanage closed down because Catherine had to go out of town to find new work and she never found out what happened to the children.

Catherine indicates she would have adopted Tammy if she had known, but didn't get the chance. The other kids can just miss out I guess?

We the audience don’t find out what became of Tammy, so we don’t know if she died like Tiny Tim. We can assume it wasn’t a great outcome for her, but it’s left to our imagination.

The red dress Eden is wearing at the end is the one from the tie in dolls!

Eden adopts (by which I assume she means financially support) the whole orphanage which doesn’t seem really like it suits the arc but sure I’ll allow it.

At the end of the movie I finally realise that Catherine was supposed to be Barbie’s friend Nikki. Apparently there was a doll prototype for Catherine, but I don't think she ever got released.

That doll I shared above wasn't the only tie-in doll though! There was also a giftset with Kelly dolls dressed as the spirits. Missed opportunity because the spirits were of different ages. I would have liked to see a doll of the Spirit of Christmas Present as seen in the movie!

I looked up some reviews of the novelisation to see if there were any changes, and only then did I realise I missed something -- Catherine isn't supposed to represent nephew Fred at all. The magician who has a crush on Catherine is Fred, leaving Catherine in just the Cratchitt role. That in hindsight makes a little more sense.

I'm not sure if I'll watch any more of the Barbie movies, but that was a good start. (If you think I should watch more, by all means tell me so, and recommend some!)

#barbie #barbie animated movies #barbie in a christmas carol #a christmas carol #merry christmas

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the-most-beautiful-thing · 7 months

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