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

today's twins of the day are:

max and marie from barbie & her sisters in a pony tale

Barbie Movies Tournament: Preliminaries

Hello! Just for fun I thought I'd see what tumblr's favorite Barbie movie is. However, there are not quite the right number of Barbie movies to neatly fit into a tournament, so I've arbitrarily decided that the most recent 16 movies will have to earn their place in the showdown.

Preliminaries will start on Monday at noon EST and polls will be open for one week. The lineup is as follows:

Barbie: Spy Squad VS Barbie: Starlight Adventure

Barbie: Mariposa and the Fairy Princess VS Barbie: Mermaid Power

Barbie in Princess Power VS Barbie Dolphin Magic

Barbie and the Secret Door VS Barbie Princess Adventure

Barbie and Her Sisters in The Great Puppy Adventure VS Barbie and Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase

Barbie and Her Sisters in a Pony Tale VS Barbie: Big City Big Dreams

Barbie in Rock 'N Royals VS Barbie Video Game Hero

Barbie: The Pearl Princess VS Barbie & Chelsea: The Lost Birthday

The 8 winners will enter into the official bracket. I might be persuaded to do a consolation bracket for the 8 movies that lose the preliminaries.

The official bracket will be released after these preliminaries are over. This is my first time doing a tournament so any and all feedback is appreciated. Hope you all enjoy and consider following if you want to participate in all of the polls. Thanks!

EVERYONE SHUT UP! Princess & the Popstar, A Mermaid tale, A Pony tale, and Rock ‘n’ Royals are coming to Netflix. This is not a drill.

The first two will be up on TUESDAY

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Genuinely impressed by how realistic Barbie and Her Sisters in a Pony Tale (God that's an unnecessarily long title) is when it comes to horse etiquette, especially when it comes to Stacie

I rode for a good couple of years, so this is probably the first hobby~ movie I've seen from Barbie so far where I actually like,,, know a thing or two about the main subject (pretty much all of the others before it are ballet ones I think, and I never got very far when it came to my dancing lessons lol)

It's really cool watching Stacie fumble her mounting, brushing, and riding (mostly due to poor communication with her horse) and being able to actually SEE what she's doing wrong rather than just being told by the story she is, like! Sure, it's all pretty basic stuff, but it's also clear because of it that the people working on this movie were passionate enough about it to learn how to portray all of that in such a clear way, and that makes it really fun to watch!

Stacie getting up on her horse again after a bad, scary fall is a relatively minor plot-point, but it's still one I personally appreciated a lot- falling from a beast that can crush you in a second is REALLY scary, and getting back up again isn't to be taken for granted! She's shown to be really scared and a bit traumatized by the jump that she fell during, and I like that! It's more than understandable, and I admire her for giving it another shot and learning how to make it work together with her horse! It can be very easy to start to resent your horse after something like that, and she definitely starts off down that route where fear is about to get the better of her, so I'm genuinely happy for her that Barbie helped her past that hurdle. Your first big fall is the scariest and it can very easily cause people to quit altogether, but it's definitely a fear that can be conquered and overcome! I had a real big fall pretty early after I started riding, and it's to date probably one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had in my life, but I had the instructors and other kids there with me in the aftermath, so I got back on and kept riding for years after that! And I still for sure fell again after that, and eventually I did stop riding because for some reason I became scared over time, which honestly, is probably had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't have my own horse and had to switch horses a lot, and it's exhausting when you're constantly having to learn how to handle a new horse... And also that one horse I was paired with for A WHILE that was honestly probably way too small for me because I kept falling forward on her mane (which was highly unpleasant for both of us). Like, fr, horseriding truly is a rich person sport lol, it's so much easier when you just have your own horse that you can form a proper connection with!!! Anywayyy

I love that you can really feel both the stable camaraderie AND the underlying animosity born out of jealousy that, in my experience, at least, was a staple of my horseriding days, like! Everyone is there to have a good time with horses, but at the same time there's a lot of envy towards "the good riders", the ones who participate in all the competitions and are treated a bit like celebrities (and sometimes act like ones because of it), like!! Yeah this Barbie movie 100% nailed the vibe it was going for!! Financial troubles? Horses running away? Those are the sort of things that make everyone band together because ultimately, most everyone just wants these horses to be as safe and comfortable as possible!

I was also really scared they were going to make Etienne the villain so I'm glad he wasn't, even though his fat, scheming, ALSO french brother being the villain is not a much better look, but like... Good for Etienne, I like him, he seems like a good coach who has to deal with a lot of shit and takes it all with grace because he loves his job! I was really happy with the way they showed that Philippe was the outlier in terms of poor sportsmanship and desire to just profit off of horses, and that even his coworkers and family disapprove of his behavior. Like! You can win all the races, but that won't matter to anyone if you're also a nasty person to be around... Those kinds of people are very much still present in the horseriding circuits, but they suck and that kind of behavior is really not acceptable

This movie just?? Really brought me back to those days in the best way possible, it's so much fun and genuinely a good film, and like! For something with that kind of name I was expecting it to be either really boring or really lame (Perfect Christmas is the perfect example, god that one sucked), so it was a really nice treat for it to be especially good! All the sisters got their own neat plots that worked well too, I feel like I was about equally invested in all of them which was great! God, please let the other Barbie&co films be just as good!!

The little meow meow himself

Just look at this man and tell me he's not perfect (you would be lying) ❤️

I love his cutesy smile in this screenshot, it melts my heart 💓💕💗

BARBIE SEXYMAN TOURNAMENT

ROUND ONE

Barbie as fairy and mermaid

Preliminaries

Barbie villains aesthetic

Barbie, Skipper, Stacie, Chelsea and Barnaby in Barbie & Her Sisters in A Pony Tale Adventure

Barbie, Skipper, Stacie, Chelsea e Barnaby em Barbie & Suas Irmãs em Uma Aventura de Cavalos