Too much of everything

Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent but underrated film

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

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.

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.

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.

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.