Barbie Complete Series

Barbie dvd is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler (1916-2002) is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.
Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for fifty years and has been the subject of numerous controversies and lawsuits often involving parody of the doll and her lifestyle. In recent years Barbie has faced increasing competition from the Bratz range of dolls.
Now I've reviewed quite a few these straight-to-DVD Barbie? movies, and Barbie?: Princess Charm School is an adequate addition to the line. As I wrote in another review, I don't like to go too deep into these as I would with a regular movie...because who the hell is expecting an in-depth analysis of Barbie?: Princess Charm School? As I watched this one with my 9 and 5-year-old daughters, pretty much the same questions came up from previous viewings. My youngest didn't understand that Blair was Barbie?, a reasonable confusion that frankly I never understand with these movies, either. In the two previous outings, Barbie? was an actress, so it makes sense, her playing the part of another girl. Is she playing a part here, too, or is Blair a new character, or...oh, who cares: Blair, Barbie?, whatever. A couple of times my 9-year-old asked where Gardenia was, and why the movie didn't show the kingdom, or who ruled it, or where all those princesses were coming from, or where they went once they graduated (are their principalities of Gardenia?), and quite frankly, I didn't have an answer for her on any of that (I suppose we could have discussed the story's weird inequalities and how they're strangely resolved...but who wants to discuss gender and socio-economic politics with a five-year-old?). Barbie season dvd boxset ?: Princess Charm School is a little light on logic when it comes to its paper-thin retelling of the Anastasia story, with a little Cinderella thrown in for familiarity.